Nasser Arrabyee discusses the war in Yemen, where the Trump administration is now approaching four years of continued support for Saudi Arabia in their war of genocide against the Yemeni population. The UN estimates that close to a quarter of a million civilians have...
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9/18/20 Joe Lauria: Day Nine of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria comments on the last few days of Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He notes a movement on the part of the prosecution away from their previous tack, which was to argue that Assange was not really a journalist, but actually engaging in hacking and...
9/17/20 Ted Snider on the Bahrain ‘Peace’ Agreement
by Scott Horton | Sep 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Snider comes back for an update on the recent round of "peace deals" conducted by President Trump over the last few weeks. Now Bahrain has joined the normalization agreement between the U.S., Israel and the UAE, a move that Trump and his allies are hailing as...
9/15/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Six of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He describes the great line-up of witnesses being summoned by Assange's defense team and how easily, for the most part, they've been able to dismantle the arguments from the prosecution....
9/11/20 Gareth Porter: More on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott and Gareth Porter continue their ongoing conversation about President Trump's foreign policy so far. Porter focuses first on Iran, which has become the ultimate excuse for just about every foreign policy decision over the last decade. In reality, of course, Iran...
9/11/20 Arthur Bloom on the Fake Opinion Columnists Pushing War With Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Arthur Bloom talks about a recent piece from The American Conservative, which exposes the case of a prolific and well-known anti-Iran opinion columnist who turned out not to be a real person. "Amir Basiri," who wrote dozens of pieces for mostly right-leaning...
9/11/20 Ford Fischer on the Unified Activism the Media Doesn’t Want You to See
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Journalist Ford Fischer discusses his coverage of the various armed factions taking to the streets in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, and amid broader calls for police reform. The mainstream media typically paints a black-and-white narrative: on one side are...
9/11/20 Josiah Lippincott: the Wholesale Slaughter of Japanese Civilians in WWII
by Scott Horton | Sep 14, 2020 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Josiah Lippincott about the conventional narrative surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The common argument, says Lippincott, is that the U.S. had no real choice but to drop the bombs, since the alternative would have...
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But Hamas…
When Israel's defenders bring up Hamas's execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948 self-declared founding of Israel, Zionist leaders and settlers had talked about reclaiming and sanctifying the "Promised...
‘Netanyahu Wants the World to Accuse Israel of Genocide, Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing’
How this for irresponsible political leadership?: Veteran Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston: "He wants the world to accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid, violent occupation and ethnic cleansing" so that Israelis believe "the world hates us, and he is the only one...
Trump: The American Empire Personified
That's why they hate him. He's just saying what they're all thinking, but you're not supposed to do that. Dave DeCamp: Former President Trump said in an interview with Israel Hayom over the weekend that Israel made a “big mistake” by broadcasting images and videos of...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...
Netanyahu as Haman
The fable of Purim ends with the slaughter of over 75,000 non-Jewish Persians by the Jewish Persians after one official's (Haman's) plot to kill the Jews is exposed when the king is alerted by his Jewish wife. That's a mighty big conspiracy! God makes no appearance....
Beware: The Government Is People
Nearly everyone complains about capitalism's defects, or market failures. In fact, those are social failures, not specifically market failures, which show up when many rational individual actions create a social situation that displeases everyone. This means that...
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