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Scott brings Danial McAdams back to talk about the US lifting its ban on arming the Azov Battalion and the recent Ukrainian enemies list that included various libertarian organizations and figures, including McAdams and Scott. They also discuss the State Department’s obsession with Georgia, changes to American conscription laws and more.

Discussed on the show:

• “Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists. The forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it” (Texty)

Daniel McAdams is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and the co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLMcAdams and read all of his work over at Antiwar.com.

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Frida Berrigan was five years old at the time of the Three Mile Island disaster, which marks her first memory of a life centered around anti-nuclear activism, as both of her parents, renowned Catholic nuclear activists Liz McAllister and Phil Berrigan, spent most of her childhood in and out of prison for their acts of civil disobedience. Berrigan joins the show to share her story.

Discussed on the show:

• “Nuclear weapons ruined my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way” (Waging Nonviolence)
• Plowshares movement
• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
• The Nuns, The Priests, and The Bombs
• “The Day After” (IMDb)
• Religious Freedom Restoration Act
• Kings Bay Plowshares

Frida Berrigan is a columnist for Waging Nonviolence and the author of It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood. Find her work at Waging Nonviolence.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Conn Hallinan joins the show to explain the political situation in Turkey, where President Recep Erdogan has been consolidating power away from the parliament and into a strong executive. The problem, explains Hallinan, is that a groundswell of Kurdish voters has wrested local control from Erdogan in lots of municipal elections, and after having campaigned partially on an anti-Kurdish nationalist platform, Erdogan might now have to make nice with them in order to get anything done.

Discussed on the show:

• ““Revenge of the Kurds”: Erdogan’s Missteps Are Piling Up” (FPIF)

Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus. Hallinan is a recipient of a Project Censored “Real News Award” and formerly headed the University of Santa Cruz’s journalism program.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Stephen Zunes talks about democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s shameful record on foreign policy—the real reason he shouldn’t be president. In the senate, Biden was a champion of deposing Saddam Hussein all along, explains Zunes, and his claims of merely wanting weapons inspections in Iraq should be disregarded. Setting aside the disturbing evidence of Biden’s inappropriate touching of young girls, his record on U.S. foreign policy should disqualify him from our approval.

Discussed on the show:

• “The Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Run” (Progressive.org)
• “A Debate on Sen. Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Record Between Steve Clemons and Stephen Zunes” (Democracy Now!)
• “Nuland-Pyatt leaked phone conversation _COMPLETE with SUBTITLES” (YouTube)
• “Report: Biden Got Prosecutor Investigating His Son’s Firm Fired” (Law & Crime)

Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution and Civil Resistance Against Coups: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Find him on Twitter @SZunes. 

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Scott talks to Independent Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn about ISIS, who, despite claims of their defeat, are back waging a guerrilla campaign in Iraq.

Discussed on the show:

• We Can Finish ISIS – but Only if the West Winds Down Its Proxy Wars (Independent)
• How the Islamic State’s Brutal Project Was Finally Overthrown (Independent)
• “Undefeated, ISIS Is Back in Iraq” (New York Review of Books)

Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the author of The Age of Jihad and Chaos & Caliphate.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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David Stockman offers his take on the end of the Russia investigation. He points out that the Mueller report categorically denies just about every allegation made by President Trump’s opponents, including the surveillance of his campaign based on false information about Carter Page, and the ever-popular “Trump Tower meeting.” Scott and Stockman both worry that too many American democrats have the attitude, “even if Russiagate is made up, anything is justified in bringing Trump down.”

Discussed on the show:

• “No Joy In Never-Trumpville: Mighty Mueller Has Struck Out” (Antiwar.com)
• “PEAK TRUMP, IMPENDING CRISES, ESSENTIAL INFO & ACTION” (Contra Corner)
• Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp And The Fantasy Of MAGA
• “Russiagate Skeptics” (Foreign Policy Follies)
• Colour revolution
• “US-Funded Neo-Nazis in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists” (Consortiumnews)
• Tulsi Gabbard on Twitter: “Trump/Pence continue to try to hide the truth from their Christian supporters…”

David Stockman is the ultimate Washington insider turned iconoclast. He began his career in Washington as a young man and quickly rose through the ranks of the Republican Party to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street. He is the author of Trumped!, The Triumph of Politics, and his history of the financial crisis, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Peter Van Buren joins the show for an update on the aftermath of the Mueller report. Although some commentators are claiming that the report’s findings are inconclusive with respect to President Trump’s conduct during the campaign, Van Buren reminds us that the question was, all along, whether Trump or members of his team colluded with Russians to swing the election in his favor. The report concludes that there’s no evidence of this, nor for obstruction of justice. So Van Buren wants to know: when exactly did Mueller know that there was no evidence of collusion, and why didn’t he say so as soon as he knew?

Discussed on the show:

• “Mueller Time is Finally Over” (The American Conservative)
• “Mueller is Investigating Trump as a Russian Asset” (NY Mag)
• “The 25 subplots to watch in the Mueller Investigation” (Politico)
• “Warren Commission Report: Table of Contents” (National Archives)
• Starr Report
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Peter Van Buren worked for 24 years at the Department of State including a year in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and the novel Hooper’s War. He is now a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Max Blumenthal talks whistleblowers, the middle east, and regime change in Venezuela. In particular, he and Scott lament all the journalists who are critical of Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, in which case their mentality must be “if the government doesn’t want me to know this, I don’t have any right to”—not the proper role of a journalist, needless to say. Blumenthal also describes the region-wide catastrophe that could result if the U.S. intervenes in Venezuela, and is shocked that anyone seriously considers that a good idea.

Discussed on the show:

• Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
• The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
• Killing Gaza
• The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
• “INA Papers: The Corruption Case Against Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno” (teleSUR English)
• “Behind the Omar Outrage: Suppressed History of 9/11” (Consortium News)
• “What the Media Won’t Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup” (Antiwar.com Original)

Director and writer of “Killing Gaza,” Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project and the author Goliath, Republican Gomorrah, and The 51 Day War. Follow Max on Twitter @MaxBlumenthal.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Scott talks to Matt Taibbi about his new book, Hate Inc, written in the aftermath of the media malfeasence around Russiagate. But the media’s problems go much deeper, explains Taibbi. Mainstream discussion used to take place in a tightly controlled middle ground between two “extremes”, which were actually both very moderate and centrist. Today, internet and cable journalism allows the opposite: a specific set of views highly catered to what each of us wants to see on TV, on our Twitter feeds, and from our favorite writers. This has created an atomized and unpersuadable America of people who would rather retreat to their bubble than confront any opposing views.

Discussed on the show:

• The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion
• Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
• Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
• “New project: Untitledgate” (taibbi.substack.com)
• Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
• “It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD” (taibbi.substack.com)
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
• “Hillary Clinton Mannequin Challenge – Hillary Clinton Election Day 2016 – Jon Bon Jovi Mannequin” (YouTube)
• ““Yanks to the rescue”: Time’s not-so secret story of how Americans helped Yeltsin win 1996 presidential election” (OffGuardian)
• “Spinning Boris (2003)” (IMDb)
• “Foreign Policy Follies: Russiagate Skeptics” (Foreign Policy Follies)

Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. He is the author of numerous books, including I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street and Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus. Follow him at taibbi.substack.com or on Twitter @mtaibbi.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Kesslyn Runs, by Charles Featherstone; NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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