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7/1/21 Bjartmar Alexandersson on the Lies of America’s Star Witness Against Julian Assange

by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Journalist Bjartmar Alexandersson explains the outright lies of America's major witness against Wikileaks' Julian Assange. Discussed on the show: "Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment" (Stundin) This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored...

6/24/21 Nasser Arrabyee: Roadblocks to Peace in Yemen

by Scott Horton | Jun 28, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Nasser Arrabyee comes on the show for an update about Yemen. There seems to be some promise of a real peace negotiation, Arrabyee says, though it's hard to get both sides to see eye to eye on the realities of the situation. The Houthis, as Arrabyee explains, feel they...

6/24/21 Ben Suitt on the Alarming Suicide Rate Among Post-9/11 War Vets

by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University's Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America's terror wars have taken their own lives, a truly astonishing number. This side of modern...

6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War

by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...

6/23/21 Doug Bandow on America’s Dangerous Alliance with Ukraine

by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the U.S. relationship to Ukraine, perhaps the perfect case study in America's foreign policy arrogance. Ukraine, of course, has very little direct strategic relevance to daily life in America—and yet the U.S. government considers...

6/22/21 William Hartung on the Pork Barrel Politics Behind America’s H-Bomb Policy

by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to William Hartung about America's nuclear policy and the shocking profit motives that end up determining it. Hartung draws particular attention to land-based ICBMs, which, he explains, aren't nearly as effective, since they're fixed in one place, and for...

6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government

by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and...

6/17/21 Ray McGovern: Baby Steps at the Biden-Putin Summit

by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Ray McGovern about the Biden-Putin summit. It was not exactly a groundbreaking meeting, says McGovern, though Biden and Putin did agree on at least one crucial point: America and Russia must never fight a nuclear war, since the results would be beyond...

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Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy

New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...

Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters

Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...

What Inequality?

According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...