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Matthew Hoh joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week. They discussed Hoh’s experience waking up to the true nature of war while serving in the military. And they talk about his attempt to get Obama and the Democrats to end the wars in the Middle East just as they had promised to.

Discussed on the show:

• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
• A Bright Shining Lie by David Halberstam 

Matthew Hoh is associate director at the Eisenhower Media Network and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @MatthewPHoh 

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Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee discusses why Saudi Arabia has failed to win the war in Yemen despite killing and injuring 50,000 Yemeni civilians.

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Philip Weiss, founder of Mondoweiss.net, discusses how Trump’s election has driven a political wedge between the Democrats and Republicans who previously showed equal devotion to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu; and how the fear of anti-Semitism creates a reason for the Jewish State’s continued existence.

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses how president-elect Trump’s political appointments could derail what is shaping up to be an improvement in Russia relations and in Middle East policy – particularly in Syria; and Trump’s negatives, including his approval of torture as an interrogation practice, which is now generally accepted by Americans brainwashed by Jack Bauer.

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Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses Israel’s attempt to ban the Islamic call to prayer in Palestinian communities, on the grounds that the 1400-year old tradition creates “noise pollution.”

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Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning writer with The Independent, discusses the imminent battles for Tal Afar and Mosul in Iraq – as senior Isis leaders leave for Syria, Turkey threatens to intervene on behalf of Sunni Turkmen, and Donald Trump is confronted with his first foreign policy crisis before he even takes office.

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Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses what president-elect Donald Trump’s economic and monetary policies are likely to be, considering his Reagan-like promises to increase government spending on the military and infrastructure, cut taxes, and raise interest rates.

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Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses his article “The New Red Scare: Reviving the art of threat inflation;” and how the military-industrial-congressional complex is likely to derail Trump’s efforts to deescalate tensions with Russia.

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Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the similarities between the Russian/Syrian bombing of Aleppo, the 2003 US bombing of Iraq, and Israel’s 2014 bombing of Gaza; and Obama’s apparent change in Syria policy as he targets Jabhat al-Nusra – a formidable opponent of Assad.

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