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Dave Decamp returned to Antiwar Radio this week to review the news coming out of Gaza. He talks with Scott about Israel’s current operation in Rafah, Biden’s pause in providing Israel certain kinds of bombs in response, the unrest in the West Bank and the Washington establishment’s panic that young people aren’t fully on board with what Israel is doing.

Discussed on the show:

• “Biden Says He Will Stop Sending Israel Heavy Bombs If It Attacks ‘Population Centers’ in Rafah” (Antiwar.com)
• “Mark Milley throws US military under the bus for Israel” (Responsible Statecraft)

Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com and the host of Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp. Follow him on Twitter @decampdave

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Scott interviews Gareth Porter on his latest article for Middle East Eye, in which he explains that there’s enough pressure now, following the death of Jamal Khashoggi, for the United States to back down a little in our relationship with Saudi Arabia. Porter doesn’t imagine a drastic cutting of ties, but he is confident something will have to change. Unfortunately, too much of our foreign policy is controlled by interests in the arms industry, particularly drone bombers these days, for a little bit of public backlash to completely upend our presence in the Middle East.

Discussed on the show:

• “A chance for the US to distance itself from Saudi Arabia” (Middle East Eye)
• Jamal Khashoggi
• “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” (CorpWatch)
• Khobar Towers bombing
• “10/28/18 Lecture for the Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy” (Libertarian Institute)
• “The Crown Prince of Riyadh vs. The Crown Prince of Jihad” (War on the Rocks)
• “The Khashoggi Affair and the Future of Saudi Arabia” (Consortium News)

Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state, and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Listen to Scott’s lecture at a recent Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy event, where he discusses his book and the background of the war on terror.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Major Danny Sjursen comes back on the show to discuss the killing of General Raziq in a recent “green-on-blue” attack. Sjursen explains that these killings are not new—there have been dozens throughout the war in Afghanistan—but they should be a wake-up call. If American and allied troops aren’t even safe from each other, after all, how can the U.S. hope to win a war against its enemies? Sjursen is adamant that we’ve already lost the war and we should just pull out as soon as possible without wasting any more lives.

Discussed on the show:

• “Quagmire: What the Attack on General Miller in Afghanistan Tells Us” (AntiWar.com)
• “Saudi Arabia Financed the Killers of American Troops I Commanded” (TruthDig)
• Abdul Raziq Achakzai
• “The Master of Spin Boldak” (Harpers)
• Haqqani network
• “The Afghanistan War Is Over. We Lost.” (Weekly Standard)
• “The Redirection” (New Yorker)
• “Preparing the Battlefield” (New Yorker)
• Collateral Murder
• “NEW SURVEY: Seventeen Years On, Americans—Including Veterans—Want Out of Afghanistan” (Koch Institute)

Danny Sjursen is a major in the U.S. army and former history instructor at West Point. He writes regularly for TomDispatch.com and he’s the author of “Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge.” Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Martha Mundy talks about the ongoing war in Yemen, with a particular focus on some of the more barbaric Coalition tactics, including the deliberate bombing of humanitarian and agricultural targets. Scott explains some of the United States and IMF policies that led to Yemen replacing many food crops with cash crops, which they could sell to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the U.S., which of course is a sensible policy until those countries start deliberately blockading you. These and dozens of other policies have contributed to the current crisis, all of which the American media seems bent on not mentioning.

Discussed on the show:

• Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War
• Yemen Data Project
• Security Council Resolution 2216
• Jamie McGoldrick
• OCHA

Martha Mundy is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the London School of Economics and the author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Sheldon Richman talks about his latest TGIF article, “The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence: Trump, Bin Salman, and Netanyahu”. Scott and Sheldon bemoan the fact that the killing of Khashoggi has received far more outrage from journalists, politicians, and the public than the outrageous war in Yemen has. Although not exactly surprising, it’s still disturbing. Sheldon maintains that Saudi Arabia is probably the worst possible regime for the United States to count among its allies.

Discussed on the show:

• “TGIF: The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence: Trump, Bin Salman, and Netanyahu” (Libertarian Institute)
• Center for a Stateless Society
• The Future of Freedom Foundation
• Jamal Khashoggi
• “Praying for Jamal Khashoggi” (New York Times)
• Khashoggi And The Jewish Question
• Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
• “10/17/18 Ben Freeman on the Saudi Lobby” (Libertarian Institute)
• “Trump’s Patron-in-Chief” (ProPublica)

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of the Libertarian Institute and the author of America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited. Follow him on Twitter @SheldonRichman.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Journalist Justin Elliott comes on the show to talk about casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who has become one of President Trump’s biggest donors. Although Trump derided him early in his campaign, the two have formed a close partnership with Adelson providing tens of millions in funding so long as Trump continues the correct policies with respect to Israel, Palestine, and Iran. Elliott and others have also speculated that Trump is trying to get Adelson approval to open a casino in Japan, helping him to expand his gambling empire in Asia.

Discussed on the show:

• “Trump’s Patron-in-Chief” (ProPublica)
• Trump: Rubio a ‘perfect little puppet’
• Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
• Zionist Organization of America
• “Adelson expresses support for ZOA efforts to depose McMaster” (Times of Israel)

Justin Elliott is a reporter for ProPublica. He has produced stories for The New York Times and National Public Radio, and his reporting with NPR on the Red Cross’ troubled post-earthquake reconstruction efforts in Haiti won a 2015 Investigative Reporters and Editors award. Follow him on Twitter @JustinElliott.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Ben Freeman explains why and how Saudi Arabia has so much influence in U.S. politics. Even though it’s illegal for foreigners to donate to American political campaigns, he explains that it is perfectly legal for them to hire a lobbying firm in Washington, which can then turn around and immediately donate on their behalf. This type of payoff—which also extends to members of the press and even to some professors—puts Saudi influence on par with Israel’s. Freeman and Scott also discuss the disappearance and probable murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and what that will mean for American relations with Saudi Arabia.

Discussed on the show:

• “Tomgram: Ben Freeman, The Saudi Lobby Juggernaut” (TomDispatch.com)
• Jamal Khashoggi
• “The Washington Post, as It Shames Others, Continues to Pay and Publish Undisclosed Saudi Lobbyists and Other Regime Propagandists” (The Intercept)
• “Will you work for a murderer? That’s the question a host of ex-generals, diplomats and spies may soon face.” (Washington Post)
• H.Con.Res.138

Ben Freeman is director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative with the Center for International Policy. Read his work at Antiwar.com and follow him on Twitter @BenFreemanDC.

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.; Zen Cash; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and LibertyStickers.com.

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