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3/21/24 Ted Snider on the Western Troops in Ukraine and Putin’s Re-Election

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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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04/19/17 – Daniel McAdams on how the Mojahedin-e Khalq bribed its way off the US terrorism list – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discusses the bipartisan coalition of top US politicians, including John McCain, who accepted money from the MEK to lobby for their removal from the State Department’s terrorism list; and Rand Paul’s assertion that the US should stay out of the Syrian civil war, in direct contradiction to warmongers McCain and Lindsey Graham.

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04/17/17 – James Bovard on the far-reaching negative consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s war, 100 years later – The Scott Horton Show

James Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses how Woodrow Wilson got America into WWI, directly and indirectly causing the rise of Hitler, Stalin, WWII, and the redrawing of the Middle East. At home, Wilson gave rise to a government crackdown on free speech, the draft, prohibition, espionage laws, and the Spanish Flu.

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04/17/17 – Ted Galen Carpenter on Trump’s schoolyard strategy for dealing with North Korea – The Scott Horton Show

Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, discusses Trump’s strategy of pressuring Kim Jong-un by leveraging China’s influence; how the Trump administration’s middle-school mentality on North Korea makes for a disastrous foreign policy; and why the US’s peacekeeping/regional hegemony role in Asia isn’t nearly as essential as some commentators think.

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04/14/17 – Gareth Porter on the new evidence against the Trump administration’s Syrian gas attack assertions – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and historian writing on US national security policy, discusses two new revelations that contradict the Trump administration’s certainty that a Syrian airstrike using sarin gas deliberately targeted civilians in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4th. First, a former US official claims that the Russians informed their US counterparts of plans to strike a warehouse in Khan Sheikhoun 24 hours in advance, and advised that toxic chemicals were held there. Second, MIT Professor Theodore Postol says that the weapon casing alleged to have held the sarin gas was an improvised dispersal device detonated on the ground, and was not air-delivered.

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04/10/17 – Conn Hallinan on Turkish President Erdogan’s move toward totalitarianism – The Scott Horton Show

Conn Hallinan, a Foreign Policy in Focus columnist, discusses Turkey’s nationwide voter referendum on centralizing more authority in the presidency while reducing checks and balances within the government; how Erdogan’s paramilitary supporters could thwart a popular repudiation of his rule; and Turkey’s schizophrenic foreign policy, particularly regarding Syria.

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04/10/17 – Reese Erlich on the Syrian gas attack and Trump’s missile launch response – The Scott Horton Show

Reese Erlich, author of Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect, discusses the deadly chemical gas attack/release in Syria’s Idlib province – which has been widely blamed on Assad’s forces – and Trump’s decision to launch dozens of missiles in response; and the similar chemical attack in Ghouta in 2013 that nearly prompted a major escalation from Obama.

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