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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/14/24 Connor Freeman on Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza
Scott was joined by Connor Freeman to discuss what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. They start with a quick discussion of the violence in the West Bank before reviewing the scale of destruction that the IDF is raining down on the people of Gaza. They also talk about U.S. complicity, the war’s effect on the 2024 presidential election and the likelihood the war will soon spread to Lebanon.
Discussed on the show:
- “Biden’s Unpopular Wars Reap Mass Death and Nuclear Brinkmanship” (Libertarian Institute)
- “When Israel Becomes Like Hamas” (Haaretz)
- “Israeli rabbi says women, children should be killed in Gaza” (The New Arab)
Connor Freeman is the Assistant Editor of the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on Conflicts of Interest. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com and Counterpunch, as well as the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. You can follow him on Twitter @FreemansMind96
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10/27/17 Matthew Hoh reflects on Afghanistan then and now
Whistleblower Matthew Hoh returns to the show to discuss the Afghanistan War, what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. Hoh recalls how he challenged the U.S. war party by speaking out against the Afghan War during Obama’s surge, why Obama’s—and every other president’s—Afghan policy has failed, and how the failings were obvious from the outset. Hoh then touches on the reportedly expanded role of the CIA in tracking the Taliban and the United States’s disastrous partnership with the Afghan National Army.
Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Hoh is a member of the Board of Directors for Council for a Livable World and is an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts. He writes on issues of war, peace and post-traumatic stress disorder recovery at matthewhoh.com.
Discussed on the show:
- Karl Eikenberry
- “Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning,” by Ray McGovern (Consortium News)
- “Triage: The Next 12 Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan” (Center for a New American Security)
- “Resignation Letter of Matthew Hoh” (Washington Post)
- “U.S. official resigns over Afghan war,” by Karen DeYoung (Washington Post)
- “Ambassador Eikenberry’s Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan” (New York Times)
- Afghan National Army
- Ahmad Shah Massoud
- Anand Gopal
- James Mattis
- “‘Ghost Soldiers’: Too Many U.S.-Trained Afghans Are Going AWOL” (ForeignPolicy.com)
- “Afghan Soldiers Went AWOL in America for Years,” by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (The American Conservative)
- “A Newly Assertive C.I.A. Expands Its Taliban Hunt in Afghanistan” (New York Times)
- John Negroponte
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
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10/26/17 Kate Kizer on H.Con.Res.81 and how to end the war in Yemen
Kate Kizer, the Director of Policy and Advocacy at The Yemen Peace Project joins Scott to discuss H.Con.Res.81 which is attempting to “remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen.” The resolution may be voted on as soon as Friday, November 3rd despite the efforts of some members, including Paul Ryan, to prevent the bill from coming to the floor. Kizer explains why she’s optimistic that the bill will pass as momentum continues to grow as it’s been delayed—but that every day it waits more innocent Yemeni people die. Scott then explains what the War Powers Act actually says versus how it’s been interpreted. Finally, Kizer shares what you can do to help end the war in Yemen and why people’s activism is both important and effective.
Kate Kizer is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at Yemen Peace Project. Follow Kate on Twitter @KateKizer and the Yemen Peace Project @YemenPeaceNews.
Discussed on the show:
- H.Con.Res.81
- War Powers Resolution
- “US Officials Risk Complicity in War Crimes in Yemen” (Human Rights Watch)
- “Senate Vote on Saudi Arms Deal Fails, But Momentum Against Saudi Alliance Growing,” by Ed Krayewski (Reason)
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- “Iran Tried To Stop Houthi Rebels In Yemen, Obama Says” (Huffington Post)
- “What Yemen Can Learn From the Historical Experience of Cholera” (The Independent)
- Walter Jones
- Thomas Massie
- Capitol Switchboard
Quote of the show: “Once [H.Con.Res.81] gets to the House Floor this could be the most exciting episode of C-SPAN 2 in a long, long time.” -Scott Horton
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
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10/26/17 Trita Parsi on the recently decertified Iran Deal
Trita Parsi returns to the show to discuss the Trump administration’s decision to decertify the Iran Deal and what comes next. Parsi outlines how the Trump administration is going to follow the path of the Iraq War by cooking intelligence and making claims of ties between the Iranians and al Qaeda. Ultimately Parsi believes this will come down to whether the American people believe the lies the White House is peddling.
Trita Parsi is the president of the National Iranian American Council and the author of “Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy.” Parsi is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Follow him on Twitter: @tparsi.
Discussed on the show:
- “White House ‘pressuring’ intelligence officials to find Iran in violation of nuclear deal,” by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Mike Pompeo
- Nikki Haley
- “Trump’s Top General Says Iran Honoring Nuke Deal” (ForeignPolicy.com)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- “Ron Paul Vs. Rick Santorum on Iran, Santorum Self destructs (8/11/11)” (YouTube)
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
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10/25/17 Nasser Arrabyee updates the U.S.-Saudi War in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee returns to the show and updates the fighting in Yemen where Saudi airstrikes continue throughout the country, including in Sana’a. Arrabyee explains how Yemen has devolved into a mess of conflicting tribal and national interests. Scott introduces H.Con.Res.81 and explains what you can do to help stop the U.S. war in Yemen, which has, among other things led to nearly a million cases of cholera infections in the country. There are two different kinds of people being killed every day in Yemen according to Arrabyee: those who are killed in the continual airstrikes and those who are killed by starvation. Finally, Scott asks whether there’s a potential diplomatic solution to the conflict in Yemen.
Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twiiter @narrabyee.
Discussed on the show:
- Sana’a
- Aden
- Riyadh
- Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
- Muslim Brotherhood
- “America’s role in Yemen war must end, US lawmakers demand” (Fox News)
- H.Con.Res.81
- Ali Abdullah Saleh
- Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)
- “8/28/17 MSF’s Clair Manera on the cholera epidemic in Yemen” (Scott Horton Show)
- “What Yemen Can Learn From the Historical Experience of Cholera” (The Independent)
- “UN relief chief makes first visit to Yemen” (The Daily Mail)
- Jamie McGoldrick (OCHA)
- “Quiet Support for Saudis Entangles U.S. in Yemen” (New York Times)
- “Yemen’s Hidden War,” by Matthieu Aikins (Rolling Stone)
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10/13/17 Robert Freeman reviews Ken Burns’s Vietnam War
Robert Freeman joins Scott to discuss his article “Why the US Lost the Vietnam War.” Freeman outlines the history of U.S. intervention in Vietnam dating back to the end of World War 2, details the political context in the United States immediately preceding and during the Vietnam War, and explains why Ken Burns’s Vietnam War is historical fiction.
Robert Freeman writes about economics and education. He is the author of The Best One-Hour History series which includes World War I, The Vietnam War, The Cold War, and other titles.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Vietnam War” by Ken Burns (PBS)
- World War II casualties of the Soviet Union
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- Geneva Conference (1954)
- War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, by Norman Solomon
- Josip Broz Tito
- Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, by Nick Turse
- NSC-68
- Cable 243
- Khmer Rouge
- Pol Pot
- Cambodian Genocide
- Free-fire zone
- “The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People” (The New Yorker)
- Tet Offensive
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10/13/17 Reza Marashi on the likelihood of Trump decertifying the Iran Deal
Research director of the National Iranian American Council Reza Marashi returns to the show to discuss Donald Trump’s likely decision to decertify the Iran Deal. Scott puts the question to Marashi: What’s so good about the Iran Deal? Marashi says it ensures that Iran can’t attempt to build a nuclear weapon without being caught, it helps avoid war between the United States and Iran by resolving one point of contention, and, at least until the Trump administration came to power, it created sustained dialogue between the United States and Iran on a number of different issues. Marashi then explains the context of the Trump administration’s decision on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Scott then details all of the lies that have been spread about Iran that have created the manufactured nuclear crisis. Lastly, Marashi explains how the U.S. threatened Iran with war as recently as February.
Marashi is formerly worked for the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Follow him on Twitter @rezamarashi.
Discussed on the show:
- “GOP clashes over Iran deal makeover” (Politico)
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
- “Trump decertifies Iran nuclear deal (full)” (CNN)
- Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, by Gareth Porter
- People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)
- Bagram Air Base
- “Obama to Iran and Israel: ‘As President of the United States, I Don’t Bluff’,” by Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
- “Avoiding War With Iran,” New York Times Editorial Board (New York Times)
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10/13/17 Andy Worthington on the latest hunger strikes at Guantanamo
Author and director Andy Worthington returns to the show to discuss his latest article, “New York Times Finally Reports on Trump’s Policy of Letting Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Die; Rest of Media Still Silent.” Worthington details the legacy of hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and explains that the U.S. is facing the awful decision whether they should they let prisoners starve themselves to death or use grotesque measures to force feed them to keep them alive. According to Worthington the Supreme Court has abdicated any responsibility lately to address prisoners at Guantanamo Bay while the drone program has made the capture program close to obsolete. Ultimately Worthington believes that the United States has been totally incapable of identifying threats and responding appropriately, let alone justly.
Andy Worthington is the author of “Guantanamo Files” and the director of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo.” Read his work at the Future Freedom Foundation and AndyWorthington.co.uk and follow him on Twitter @GuantanamoAndy.
Discussed on the show:
- “Guantánamo Bay hunger strike: quarter of inmates now being force-fed” (The Guardian)
- “Trump’s Disturbing New Guantánamo Policy: Allowing Hunger Strikers to Starve to Death,” by Andy Worthington (AndyWorthington.co.uk)
- “The Forever Prisoners of Guantanamo” (CommonDreams.org)
- Guantanamo Review Task Force
- “The Forgotten Prisoners of Guantánamo,” by Andy Worthington (AndyWorthington.co.uk)
- Geneva Conventions
- “The Memo: How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.” (The New Yorker)
- “New Guantánamo intelligence upends old ‘worst of the worst’ assumptions,” by Carol Rosenberg (Miami Herald)
- “Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay – prisoners now close to death” (Reprieve)
- “A Pakistani man is starving to death in Guantanamo. We have a duty to stop it.” (Washington Post)
- “Supreme Court turns down Guantanamo detainee’s appeal” (Washington Post)
- Habeas Corpus
- “The Drone Papers: The Assassination Complex,” by Jeremy Scahill (The Intercept)
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10/13/17 Jason Ditz Updates the Situation in Syria
Managing news editor of Antiwar.com Jason Ditz returns to the show to discuss the war in Syria where two separate wars are taking place—against ISIS in the East and al Qaeda in the east. Ditz details all of what we don’t know thanks to increased secrecy from the Trump administration, explains what we do know about the continued fight against ISIS in Raqqa, where the U.S. air war has created lots of civilian casualties, and how the Kurds in Syria factor into the U.S. future plans. Scott and Jason then discuss how the same story seems to play out in the Middle East and why, even though the fight against ISIS appears to be drawing to a close, it portends future blowback.
Jason Ditz is the news editor of Antiwar.com. Read all of his work at news.antiwar.com and follow him on Twitter @jasonditz.
Discussed on the show:
- “After victory in Raqqa over IS, Kurds face tricky peace” (Reuters)
- Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
- Deir ez-Zor
- Mayadin
- Map of Syria
- People’s Protection Units (YPG)
- Syrian Army (SAA)
- Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Al-Nusra Front
- Astana Peace Talks
- Hama Province
- Abu Mohammad al-Julani
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- “Trump Says He Won’t Recertify Iran Nuclear Deal And Tells Congress To Take Next Steps” (NPR)
- “Trump doesn’t understand Iran. He’s making policy based on a caricature.” (Washington Post)
- Scooter Libby
- “McCain sneaks across Turkey-Syria border, meets with rebels” (CBS News)
- “In Brussels, the first of the Syrian jihadis comes home to roost” (Times of Israel)
- “Clinton: Arming Syrian Rebels could help al Qaeda” (CBS News)
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