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12/6/19 Tom Collina: America’s Dangerous “Nuclear Sponge”

by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show

Tom Collina tells Scott about the "nuclear sponge", a collection of land-based nuclear weapons in America's upper midwest, whose real purpose is just to absorb the strikes of a nuclear attack by a hostile power rather than to actually be used in an attack of their...

12/6/19 Kelley B. Vlahos on the Apathy Toward Hero Whistleblowers Manning and Assange

by Scott Horton | Dec 7, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Kelley Vlahos discusses the latest with Julian Assange, who now will be testifying in a spying case involving the Spanish company UC Global, and which may implicate America's CIA and even top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Assange is being held in a London jail for...

11/22/19 Aaron Maté on the Dangerous Precedent of ‘Russiagate’

by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Aaron Maté about the role John Brennan and the CIA might have played in the investigation into Trump's ties to Russia during the 2016 election. Although Maté is a progressive, he understands how dangerous it is to have intelligence agencies with the...

11/22/19 Doug Bandow on Making Peace with the Rest of the World

by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in...

11/22/19 Danny Sjursen on the Failures of America’s War in Iraq

by Scott Horton | Nov 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Danny Sjursen talks about the ways his experience in Iraq convinced him of the futility of that war, allowing him to see things that the generals and the war planners often could not. Sjursen says that not all officers paid attention to the local situation or to the...

11/22/19 Philip Weiss on Israel-Palestine and Zionist Politics in America

by Scott Horton | Nov 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Philip Weiss discusses the latest in Israeli politics, where incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently been indicted on corruption charges. Neither Netanyahu nor his main opponent, Benny Gantz, have yet been able to form a government, and Weiss thinks...

11/22/19 Donald Bolduc on Limiting US Military Intervention

by Scott Horton | Nov 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Donald Bolduc shares some of his experience from his time overseas with the U.S. army during the terror wars. He spells out the fact that although America's mission is ostensibly to suppress groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS, we often end up supporting the very same...

11/15/19 Jimmy Dore on the Moral Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party

by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to comedian Jimmy Dore about all the problems with the foreign policy positions of the Democratic presidential candidates. He and Scott agree that the only one with a halfway decent antiwar stance is Tulsi Gabbard, who the media has been trying their...

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