Daniel Lazare discusses the problems facing Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is dealing with a troubled economy, declining political popularity at home, and failing military excursions abroad. Lazare and Scott also talk about the failure of President Trump to...
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2/19/20 Trita Parsi on Making a Restrained Foreign Policy the Status Quo
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Trita Parsi about an event being hosted next week by Parsi's organization, the Quincy Institute, which will pit advocates of a restrained foreign policy against war hawks in a series of panel discussions. The event is Wednesday, February 26 in...
2/17/20 Gareth Porter on the History of the Iran Crisis
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter comes on the show to promote his new book, The CIA Insider's Guide to the Iran Crisis: From CIA Coup to the Brink of War, cowritten with John Kiriakou. Porter and Scott recap the entire modern history of U.S. relations with Iran, focusing on the inflated...
2/14/20 Cliff Maloney on the Defend the Guard Movement
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Cliff Maloney of Young Americans for Liberty joins the show to talk about the "Defend the Guard" movement popping up in state legislatures around the country. The legislation on which the movement is based calls for an end to the calling up of states' national guard...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on America’s Coming Battle for Eurasia
by Scott Horton | Feb 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Danny Sjursen is back for part two of his conversation with Scott about America's foreign policy disasters, this time focusing on what Sjursen calls "the coming battle for Eurasia." According to an old theory of geopolitics, the power that controls central...
2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on Middle East Politics and the Missing Antiwar Left
by Scott Horton | Feb 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the many catastrophic failures of American foreign policy, and most recently the proposed plan to carve out an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, which the U.S. could use to help control the Middle East and prevent Iranian...
2/7/20 Suadad al-Salhy on the Insane Plan to Divide Iraq in Two
by Scott Horton | Feb 9, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Suadad al-Salhy about her recent piece on the proposed U.S. plan to create an autonomous Sunni state in western Iraq. This would theoretically allow the U.S. to continue to exert control in the country, preventing the dreaded "land bridge" connecting...
2/7/20 Peter Van Buren on Impeachment, Iowa, and Chelsea Manning
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about impeachment and the fiasco at the Iowa Caucuses, and what they mean for the Democrats' political prospects heading into the election. Van Buren says that although President Trump's behavior with respect to Ukraine seems a little...
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CFR President Richard Haass Admits the UniParty is Real
It used to be—think about it, until recently it didn’t really matter all that much who won an election at the presidential level. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there were differences between the parties. But if I can use a sports metaphor, the differences between...
Getting Money Out of Politics: Abolish the IRS
[I]f you don't get money out of politics, then yes in the long term it's hopeless. But we must, we must get money out of politics. - Cenk Uygur, creator of The Young Turks Progressive Cenk Uygur said these words without realizing the fact that the primary source of...
Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
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