Interview #5,500! Scott talks to Gareth Porter about a range of U.S. foreign policy issues, beginning with the Biden administration's announcement that it will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. To some extent, this is good news, but it obscures...
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4/9/21 Jesselyn Radack on the Latest Victim of America’s Draconian Espionage Act
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews national security attorney Jesselyn Radack about her work in the protection of whistleblowers. Daniel Hale, the man who leaked the so-called "drone papers" to the Intercept in 2014, has just pleaded guilty to violations of the Espionage Act in what...
4/2/21 Grant Smith on Israeli Apartheid and the False Promise of a Two-State Solution
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Grant Smith discusses the Israeli government's occupation of Palestine and its treatment of the Palestinians. There seems to be growing recognition that Israel is presiding over a form of apartheid, including a 2017 UN report attesting to that fact, and a small...
3/12/21 Danny Sjursen on the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan Plan
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the leaked Biden administration plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The document evidently represents the Biden administration's new take on the deal reached with the Taliban during the Trump administration, which laid...
2/19/21 Ben Wizner on the Dangerous Precedent of the Assange Prosecution
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Ben Wizner of the ACLU about the ongoing Julian Assange saga. Assange's attempted prosecution under the Espionage Act is practically unprecedented, says Wizner. While it's true that many leakers of government secrets have been charged for violations of...
In a first, Yemenis seek redress for U.S. drone strikes at Inter-American rights body
by Steven Woskow | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog
“How come they can target official military personnel who were on a military mission?” asked Ahmed al-Helou, another Yemeni colonel who worked with Abdullah al-Taisy. “They seem not to understand the difference between the local community and the militants.” Read More...
1/7/21 Kelley Vlahos on America’s Endless War Against Iraq
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Kelley Vlahos about America's 30-year nonstop bombing campaign of Iraq, and the prospects for ending it. The destruction of Iraq, says Vlahos, has followed a familiar trend: American politicians sell the public on the need to get involved in some...
William Ruger and Rajon Menan: It’s Time To Withdraw from Afghanistan
by Steven Woskow | Nov 18, 2020 | Blog
William Ruger and Rajon Menan make the case for leaving Afghanistan in the Washington Post. Whatever you think of Trump, you have to admit he forces people to take a side. His threats of pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Syria has exposed the pro-war uniparty in...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Israel Ramps Up Push to Annex West Bank
A ceasefire that looks good on paper means little when people are living under lockdowns and raids. We open with the West Bank, where daily operations near schools and reports of soldiers quartering in homes reshape civilian life and hollow out the promise of...
What’s Wrong with Young People?
A former Obama speechwriter faulted young people for having the faculty of abstraction when thinking about the Holocaust, genocide, Israel, and the Palestinians.
Abdicating Responsibility: Education
I discuss how sending children to public school is abdication of responsibility and read the seven purposes of school from Dumbing us Down.
Orwell on Socialists
"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ’we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ’them’, the Lower Orders."...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Larry Johnson – The US is Now in War Time Footing
What happens when slogans hit hard limits—terrain, production lines, and the law? We sit down with Larry Johnson, former CIA officer and counterterror veteran, to strip the varnish off three volatile fronts: Venezuela, Ukraine, and U.S. dealings with extremist...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Reading Common Sense and looking at modern parallels.
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