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11/1/19 Trevor Timm on Julian Assange and the Threat to Press Freedom Everywhere

by Scott Horton | Nov 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Trevor Timm talks about the inhumane and potentially life-threatening conditions Julian Assange is being held in as he awaits trial for violations of the Espionage Act. Apart from his treatment, which a UN representative has said is akin to psychological torture, the...

Cops Torture Lady

by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2019 | Blog

For smoking outside.

I Wouldn’t Put Much Stock In It

by Scott Horton | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog

But the NYT says the Barr-Durham investigation into the origins of Russiagate has turned into a criminal investigation. It is already apparent that the FBI and CIA framed up the entire scam in the first place and that Brennan and Comey and friends belong in prison for...

Ron and Dan: ‘Truth Is Treason’ – The Torture of Julian Assange

by Scott Horton | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange appeared before a UK judge to request more time to prepare his case against the US extradition request. Acting more like a Soviet triubunal, the judge went on to deny his every request. He is not allowed to prepare to fight his...

Julian Assange Breaks Into Tears as He Is Denied Delay in Extradition Trial

by Dave DeCamp | Oct 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in court today in London in hopes of delaying his US extradition case. The judge told Assange he will not have any extra time to gather evidence to help his case, and the hearing will start in February as planned. Reports of...

If Joker Met Jordan Peterson: What separates a monster from a hero?

by Dan Sanchez | Oct 20, 2019 | Featured Articles

What does it take to turn an ordinary person into a monster? To create a mass shooter, a terrorist, a Joker? According to Joker himself, “One bad day.” That’s how he tells his own story in Batman: The Killing Joke, a 1988 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland....

American Cops Are Like Israel

by Scott Horton | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog

They can torture and murder whoever they want and no one can do a thing about it.

10/14/19 Ramzy Baroud on Israel’s Torture and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians

by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Ramzy Baroud joins the show for an update on Israel and Palestine. He wants to dispel some common misconceptions about Israel, starting with the fact that the country didn't even exist before 1948, while Palestine has a history that goes back thousands of years....

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The US Navy Does the Right Thing: At Last

This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with...

If Wishes Were Buses

Like a major air disaster that leaves blackened wreckage scattered far and wide, Zohran Mamdani’s New York collision with reality hurtles ahead. The mayor-elect has once again put on display a key reason that catastrophe is inevitable. It is worse than just...

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."...

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