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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/21/24 Ted Snider on the Western Troops in Ukraine and Putin’s Re-Election
Ted Snider returns to the show to discuss some developments related to the war in Ukraine. Scott and Snider start with the sudden admissions from a number of high-level officials that various Western countries have troops on the ground in Ukraine. They also discuss the fall of Avdiivka, the leadership change in Ukraine’s military and Putin’s win in the latest election.
Discussed on the show:
- “Why is the West Suddenly Revealing That It Has Troops in Ukraine?” (Antiwar.com)
- “How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” (New York Times)
- “Selecting Syrsky: The Untold Half of the Zaluzhny Story” (Antiwar.com)
Ted Snider has a graduate degree in philosophy and writes on analyzing patterns in U.S. foreign policy and history. He is a regular writer for Truthout, MondoWeiss and antiwar.com. To support Ted’s work, you can make a PayPal contribution at tedsnider14@gmail.com.
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1/24/18 Kelley B. Vlahos on Trump’s neocons
Kelley B. Vlahos, executive editor of the American Conservative Magazine, returns to the show to discuss her latest article, “Neoconning the Trump White House.” Vlahos details her research into the neocon creep into the Trump administration and does a deep dive into the state of neoconservative politics and institutions in Washington. Vlahos also explains why, despite Donald Trump’s lip service, the anti-war right and the realists are fighting an uphill battle for influence in Washington.
Kelley B. Vlahos is the executive editor of The American Conservative. Follow her on Twitter @KelleyBVlahos.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Return of the Stinger Missile,” by Jason Ditz (The American Conservative)
- National Security Strategy (White House)
- “Meet Nadia Schadlow, Dina Powell’s likely successor” (Axios)
- Smith Richardson Foundation
- Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
- “Donald Trump’s CIA director nominee Mike Pompeo is open to waterboarding” (The Independent)
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash, The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; and ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.
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1/23/18 Reese Erlich on the brewing conflict in Northeast Syria
Reese Erlich joins Scott to discuss the latest developments in Iraq and Eastern Syria. Erlich details the growing tension between Turkey, a NATO country, and the United States and the Kurds who are getting caught in between. Erlich and Scott discuss the recent history of U.S. interventionism in Syria, how the Trump policy divulges from Obama’s, and the current status of the Islamic State.
Reese Erlich is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect. Erlich’s revised edition of his book ”The Iran Agenda” will be published in 2018. In the meantime read his work at his website and follow him on Twitter.
Discussed on the show:
- Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
- “Trump to Arm Syrian Kurds, Even as Turkey Strongly Objects” (New York Times)
- “Remarks on the Way Forward for the United States Regarding Syria” (State Department)
- “Lebanese prime minister stays silent as Donald Trump mistakenly says he is fighting Hezbollah” (The Independent)
- Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, by Gareth Porter
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Israel’s role in the Iran–Iraq war
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Zen Cash, The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; and ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.
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1/21/18 Gareth Porter on Donald Trump’s Bluff Towards North Korea
Gareth Porter returns to the show to discuss his latest article “Why Trump’s North Korea Bloody Nose Campaign Is A Big Bluff.” Porter examines the Trump administration’s approach to North Korea and explains why he thinks Trump’s posturing about carrying out a preventative strike against North Korea is just that—posturing.
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.
Today’s show is sponsored by: NoDev, NoOps, NotIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; 3tediting.com; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Darrin’s Coffee.
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1/12/18 James Carden on the popularity of non-interventionism and the new Cold War
James Carden returns to the show to discuss his latest article “A New Poll Shows the Public Is Overwhelmingly Opposed to Endless US Military Interventions.” Carden breaks down the different findings of the poll, including that a vast majority of people think military intervention should be used only as a last resort, that a preponderance of people think that military aid to foreign countries is counterproductive, and that there’s particular antipathy directed at support for Saudi Arabia. Scott and Carden then discuss how the failed strategies of the Hillary Clinton campaign have been adopted by the “Resistance” movement during Trump’s presidency. Carden says that the question people need to ask is: Is the world better off if the U.S. and Russia can find a way to cooperate or if they are enemies? He then reviews the history of NATO expansion toward Russia and the lies and broken promises that have accompanied it. Lastly Scott asks—what level of crisis do we have with Russia right now?
James Carden is the executive editor for the American Committee for East-West Accord and former adviser on Russia policy at the US State Department. He is a contributing writer at The Nation.
Discussed on the show:
- Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy
- “What Progressives Miss About Arms Sales,” by Andrew Exum (The Atlantic)
- Victoria Nuland
- Center for a New American Security
- “New Study: The Communities Most Affected by War Turned to Trump in 2016,” by James Carden (The Nation)
- “Journalists Described Hillary Clinton’s Speech as ‘Muscular’—Because Her Team Blackmailed Them” (Reason)
- Robert Kagan
- “NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard” (National Security Archive)
- “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” by Richard Cummings (CorpWatch)
- “The Birth of the Global Nation,” by Strobe Talbott (World Beyond Borders)
- Alexei Navalny
- Strobe Talbott
- “Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X,” by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times)
- George F. Kenan
- The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy, by Strobe Talbott
- “A Fateful Error,” by George Kenan (New York Times)
- “A Stark Nuclear Warning,” by Jerry Brown (The New York Review of Books)
Today’s show is sponsored by: NoDev, NoOps, NotIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; 3tediting.com; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Darrin’s Coffee.
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1/12/18 Dan Gifford on the truth and lies of Waco
Documentary film maker Dan Gifford joins Scott to discuss the new television show documenting the Waco massacre, recalls how he became interested in revealing the truth of what happened at Waco, and says if there’s one thing people take away from the interview it’s this: never talk to the police without a lawyer present. Gifford then explains the role that gun control and religion played in the standoff negotiations and raid and the subsequent destruction and corruption of evidence in the aftermath. Finally Gifford describes the setting of the final day of the standoff and the actions of the government forces during the raid and the setting of the fire—and then the cover ups that followed. Gifford’s latest article is “Will ABC really tell us what happened at Waco in 1993?”
Dan Gifford is the Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer of Waco: The Rules of Engagement and a former investigative reporter for CNN, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and other news outlets.
Discussed on the show:
- Waco: The Rules of Engagement (documentary)
- Waco: A New Revelation
- The FLIR Project
- Cliven Bundy
- “Judge dismisses charges against Cliven Bundy, orders him freed from prison” (The Hill)
- “Conviction: This Decade’s Most Important Film,” by Dan Gifford (Brentwood Patch)
- Kalief Browder
- Homer Cummings
- Good ‘Ol Boys Roundup
- ATF officers displaying confederate flag
- Janet Reno
- Ashes of Waco, by Dick Reavis
- “Andrew Breitbart’s Death: Some Uncomfortable Reality,” by Dan Gifford (Brentwood Patch)
- Church Committee
Today’s show is sponsored by: NoDev, NoOps, NotIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; 3tediting.com; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Darrin’s Coffee.
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1/5/18 JP Sottile on the welfare/warfare state and Trump’s presidency
JP Sottile, editor of NewsVandal.com , returns to the show to discuss his latest article, “The US Military is the biggest Big Government” entitlement program on the planet.” Sottile argues that the U.S. military has developed constituencies throughout the country by employing millions of Americans and that Donald Trump’s presidential victory was the result of paradoxically promising to grow the military and reducing U.S. intervention around the globe. (Guess which promise he kept.) Sottile then looks at American prospects for the future—whether the fall of the dollar may not come sooner than people expect, Michael Wolff’s new book and the Trump phenomenon, and whether the United States’ hard power approach to the world is being overtaken by the soft power approach of China. Finally Sottile looks forward to the coming 2018 and 2020 elections and explains why he’s optimistic that a true third party might be on the horizon.
JP Sottile is a freelance journalist, published historian, radio co-host and documentary filmmaker. He runs the site NewsVandal.com. Follow him on Twitter @newsvandal and sign up for his email list.
Discussed on the show:
- Revolution in Military Affairs
- The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, by Nick Turse
- “The American Way of War Is a Budget-Breaker,” by William Hartung (TomDispatch.com)
- “US Soldiers Are Relying on Millions of Dollars in Food Stamps to Survive” (Truth-Out.org)
- “Give Up Your Domestic Empire or Live Under It,” by Dan Sanchez (Antiwar.com)
- “Myth-busting: Fleischer referring to “Operation Iraqi Liberation” (YouTube)
- Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff
- “More Bombs, More Boots, More Casualties: Trump’s First Year as Commander-in-Chief” (Vice News)
- Celinda Lake
- “A foreign leader — Netanyahu — set Trump’s agenda in Middle East, Michael Wolff book says,” by Phillip Weiss (Mondoweiss.com)
Today’s show is sponsored by: NoDev, NoOps, NotIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; 3tediting.com; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Darrin’s Coffee.
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1/5/18 The UN’s Jamie McGoldrick on the state of affairs in Yemen
Jamie McGoldrick of the United Nations joins Scott to discuss the latest developments in Yemen. McGoldrick gives an overview of the Yemeni political, sociological, and economic situation, explains why the official death count is certainly too low, and outlines what needs to be done to alleviate the suffering of the people of Yemen.
McGoldrick is the United Nations Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative for the Republic of Yemen. Follow him on Twitter @jamiemcgoldric8.
Discussed on the show:
- “Yemen critically short of food, fuel imports as war cuts supply lines” (Reuters)
- “Yemen death toll has reached 10,000, UN says” (The Guardian)
- “Yemen cholera cases reach one million – ICRC” (BBC)
- “Yemen hospitals on the brink of closure as health system collapses leaving 8 million children without access to healthcare” (Relief Web)
- “Suspected diphtheria cases in Yemen near 500: WHO” (Reuters)
- “11/16/17 Scott Paul on the latest devastating Saudi blockade in Yemen” (The Scott Horton Show)
- “Yemen’s Hidden War,” by Matthieu Aikins (Rolling Stone)
- “Trump is ‘fired up’ about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen” (CNN)
Today’s show is sponsored by: NoDev, NoOps, NotIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Inc.; LibertyStickers.com; TheBumperSticker.com; 3tediting.com; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Darrin’s Coffee.
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1/5/18 Elijah Magnier on U.S. occupation of eastern Syria following fight against ISIS
Middle east correspondent Elijah Magnier returns to the show to discuss the U.S. presence in eastern Syria. Magnier explains what the United States’ goals are, why they won’t leave without guaranteeing a political transition and how they’ve, for the time being, partitioned the country along the Euphrates river. Magnier then details how the United States is essentially acting as the undeclared protector of the Islamic State for the time being as they’ve stopped bombing the Northeastern region of the country and barred other forces from doing so. Magnier also details the history of Iranian-Syrian diplomacy and the Iranian-Hezbollah presence that has been long established in Syria. Scott then asks about the al-Nusra Front and whether the CIA’s role in aiding the so-called moderate rebels is truly over. Finally Magnier explains why the al-Qaeda in Syria is as formidable a fighting group as he’s seen in the region.
Elijah Magnier is the chief international correspondent at Al Rai and a political and terrorism/counterterrorism analyst. Find all his work at elijahjm.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter @ejmalrai.
Discussed on the show:
- Kurdish YPG
- Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
- Syrian Arab Army (SAA)
- Al Hasakah
- “Report: Israel Treating al-Qaida Fighters Wounded in Syria Civil War” (The Jerusalem Post)
- Abu Mohammad al-Julani
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