Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America's foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization to the escalation of the war on drugs in the 1990s, when SWAT raids...
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9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI's dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involved in the "boogaloo" movement, who were approached by FBI agents...
9/23/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 12 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 23, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange's mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. The defense has argued that this, combined with...
9/18/20 Muhammad Sahimi on Pompeo’s Dangerous Iran Failures
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi discusses Mike Pompeo's continual efforts to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran, or to incite regime change from within. His "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign is part of the quest to attain one of these outcomes, a policy that Sahimi thinks is...
9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America
by Scott Horton | Sep 21, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind American support for Israel, a popular notion ever since George Bush Sr....
9/18/20 Tana Ganeva on the Death of Holly Barlow-Austin
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tana Ganeva about her recent article detailing the death of a woman due to medical neglect in one of America's worst private jails. Holly Barlow-Austin, an HIV patient, was detained for violating probation starting in April, and within a few short...
9/15/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Six of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Sep 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back for an update on Julian Assange's extradition hearing. He describes the great line-up of witnesses being summoned by Assange's defense team and how easily, for the most part, they've been able to dismantle the arguments from the prosecution....
9/11/20 Arthur Bloom on the Fake Opinion Columnists Pushing War With Iran
by Scott Horton | Sep 15, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Arthur Bloom talks about a recent piece from The American Conservative, which exposes the case of a prolific and well-known anti-Iran opinion columnist who turned out not to be a real person. "Amir Basiri," who wrote dozens of pieces for mostly right-leaning...
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War is the Health of the Stock Exchange
Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been...
Decent Fight Scene Outrages the Memers
The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being...
The Greatest Threat to Free Speech
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Royal Navy Carrier Deployment: Failure is in the Cards
HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on...
“The Bisexuals of Politics”
In a recent debate on the Joe Rogan Experience, between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, Murray accused libertarians as being the “bisexuals of politics.” An interesting claim, one that assumes politics is in itself is a binary. Or that those in the ‘liberty’ spectrum,...
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