Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange's mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. The defense has argued that this, combined with...
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9/18/20 Tom Secker: How Homeland Security Controls Hollywood
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott inverviews Tom Secker about the immense influence that the police, the military, the intelligence agencies and, especially, the Department of Homeland Security wield in Hollywood. Secker describes the complicated process required for a writer or producer to...
9/18/20 Peter Van Buren on ‘Election Meddling’ and the Shameful State of American Journalism
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren discusses yet another development in the "Russiagate" story, one that he says exposes the whole thing for what it really is. He describes the way "media watchdog" groups will discover small, insignificant websites, come up with an excuse for why they...
9/18/20 Dave Smith on the 2020 Election and the Death of RBG
by Scott Horton | Sep 22, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming election and the role of the Libertarian Party in presidential politics. Both agree that the right move for the Party, given that it has essentially no chance of winning the presidency in the near future, is simply to...
9/18/20 Gareth Porter: Another Blow for ‘Russiagate’ Truthers
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the slow death of the "Russiagate" narrative, which has been allowed to live on mainly because of deliberate obfuscation by democrats and the mainstream media. Rarely do they lie outright about the facts, says Porter—instead they will...
9/18/20 Muhammad Sahimi on Pompeo’s Dangerous Iran Failures
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi discusses Mike Pompeo's continual efforts to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran, or to incite regime change from within. His "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign is part of the quest to attain one of these outcomes, a policy that Sahimi thinks is...
9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind American support for Israel, a popular notion ever since George Bush Sr....
9/18/20 Tana Ganeva on the Death of Holly Barlow-Austin
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tana Ganeva about her recent article detailing the death of a woman due to medical neglect in one of America's worst private jails. Holly Barlow-Austin, an HIV patient, was detained for violating probation starting in April, and within a few short...
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War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as...
The Logic of Eradicating Hamas
Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and...
Yes, UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is Legally Binding on Israel
Contrary to the claim made by ‘Destiny’ in a recent debate with Norman Finkelstein, UN Resolution 242 is legally binding on Israel.
The Israel Lobby Ain’t Shy
They are lots of things, but not that. Members of Congress’ far-left “Squad” who have championed Palestinians in the Middle East conflict are in danger of losing their seats in Democratic primaries. The efforts to remove Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman...
And Another Thing
One reason I object to Israel's behavior is that it brings anti-Semitic creeps out of the woodwork. Thanks a lot, Israel.
Production Precedes Distribution
The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. It is because we have become increasingly wealthy as a nation that we have been able to virtually eliminate child labor, to remove the necessity of work for many of the aged and to...
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