Iona Craig discusses her recent report for the Intercept on a Saudi airstrike in Yemen and civilian casualties in the ongoing 3 1/2 year U.S.-Saudi-UAE war there. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash; The War State, by Mike...
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The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll
“I think that when Americans talk about the Vietnam War … we tend to talk only about ourselves. But if we really want to understand it … or try to answer the fundamental question, ‘What happened?’ You’ve got to triangulate,” says filmmaker Ken Burns of his celebrated...
New Snowden NSA Documents Released
From The Intercept: SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency’s spies...
6/12/17 Peter van Buren on Reality Winner’s dubious arrest
Peter van Buren is on the show to talk about the arrest of the latest leaker or whistleblower to be arrested, Reality Winner. The dubious circumstances and questions surrounding the arrest and leaking of the document are discussed at length. van Buren also discusses...
5/3/17 Trevor Aaronson on terrorism-related trials, FBI entrapment, and criminal justice since 9/11
Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept, discusses his 4-part series on the nearly 800 people prosecuted by the US government on terrorism-related charges since 9/11, supposedly for serious crimes endangering the lives of Americans. However, most of...
Formerly Imprisoned Journalist Barrett Brown Taken Back into Custody Before PBS Interview
Award-winning journalist Barrett Brown was re-arrested and taken into custody Thursday, the day before he was scheduled to be interviewed for a PBS documentary. Brown quickly became a symbol of the attack on press freedom after he was arrested in 2012 for reporting he...
3/26/17 Iona Craig on the truth about Trump’s ‘Highly Successful’ January SEAL raid in Yemen
Iona Craig, a British-Irish independent journalist, discusses the result of President Trump's first authorized counterterrorism operation - a SEAL raid on the Yemeni village of al Ghayil that left many civilians dead, including 10 children under 13 years old. The...
3/10/17 Zaid Jilani on Trump’s selection of Russia-hawk Richard Grennell for NATO ambassador
Zaid Jilani, a writer for The Intercept, discusses President Trump's apparent concessions to critics accusing him of being soft on Russia, including his selection of Richard Grennell (who is in favor of arming Ukraine and leaving direct military confrontation with...
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