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Roger Waters returns to the show to discuss what’s happening in Gaza. Waters is horrified by what the Israeli government is doing. He explains why, presents how he thinks this needs to end and debuts his new song about the atrocities the people of Gaza are experiencing called Under the Rubble. 

Discussed on the show:

• “My Heart is Heavy: To Whom It May Concern, Please STOP” (Palestine Chronicle)
• The General’s Son by Miko Peled
• “Hamas Committed Documented Atrocities. But a Few False Stories Feed the Deniers” (Haaretz)
• Glenn Greenwald interviews Roger Water

Roger Waters co-founded the band Pink Floyd. Waters has been very active in antiwar and other activism for many years. He has been outspoken against Western involvement in the war in Ukraine, a defender of Palestinian rights, and one of the leading advocates of freedom for Julian Assange. 

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Rajan Menon talks with Scott about his article: “US Military Intervention Can’t Save Syria”. He gives a detailed discussion about the dynamics at play in Syria and Yemen. What are Turkey’s goals, and how are they related to Syria? Can the US militarily intervene in Syria without coming into conflict with Russia? Can a “no fly” zone, as advocated by Hillary Clinton, be established without suppressing Syria’s air defense systems first? Answers to all of these questions and more on this edition of the Scott Horton Show.

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Brian Sonenstein, of shadowproof.com, talks about the ongoing national prison strike, a very under the radar news story, and about resistance and riots in US prisons. The prison strike is very undercover in the media, and Brian details why, and also why he thinks news outfits like MSNBC have a duty to report on it. Brian also details a lot of the common misconceptions that allow the prison industrial complex to thrive. All of this and more on another episode of the Scott Horton show.

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“Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan Weapons”, Kenneth Vogel’s new article about Mark Turi, an arms dealer that was the target of a DOJ case with alleged links to the Clinton State Department and the CIA. Turn was a well known arms dealer, who had worked with the US government before the Libyan crisis. The case against Turi is alleged to have been dropped right at the point where sensitive disclosures about Clinton’s role in the transfer of weapons from Libya to Syria would have been revealed. Clinton is placed at risk in part because of her questioning by Sen. Rand Paul, who asked Clinton specifically about the transfers in a Senate hearing, which she denied knowledge of. All of this, and other great things are discussed in this episode of the Scott Horton show.

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“US Diplomacy, a Dangerous Proposal”, by Conn Hallinan from Foreign Policy in Focus is discussed on this episode of the Scott Horton Show. The United States’s so called “Responsibility to Protect” and the Doctrine of Humanitarian intervention, which has been hijacked by Samantha Powers, is talked about at length. Powers’s word destruction, and the ability to find the US “National Interest” in every conflicts is also reviewed.  The doctrine’s spread and use in Latin America is also detailed, with Venezuela and Honduras being examined in particular. Additional topics include China and Russia, on another great value of information for the Scott Horton Show.

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Andrew Bacevich talks about his new article for tomdispatch.com,  “The National Security Void”. During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump’s answer regarding the concept of first use of nuclear weapons revealed lack of depth of knowledge on the issue. Hillary Clinton’s answer was equally unrevealing, and didn’t answer the question directly. Bacevich talks about Hilary Clinton’s static thinking regarding nuclear weapons, despite her mastery of binders full of wars. Do we need the trillion dollar modernization of the nuclear triad that the Obama administration wants? Does Hillary have a Cold War mindset, a post Cold War mindset, or both simultaneously? Jump into the hypocrisy with another great interview on the Scott Horton Show.

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“The Return of Torture: the CIA and Congress oppose Trump’s push but the public may not.” is a new The American Conservative article by Kelley Vlahos, Scott’s guest on today’s episode. The Senate’s report on torture, the CIA’s response, and why it’s still an issue is reviewed plus, the conservative rush to be fooled 100% of the time by their various leaders is analyzed in detail on the episode of the Scott Horton show.

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Veteran journalist and UN correspondent Joe Lauria updates Scott on the latest from Syria and Iraq. The attack on Mosul is likely to begin in mid October, and Islamic state may have deserted large portions of the city. If true, it could mean less civilian casualties due to US aerial bombardment of the city during the Iraqi and Peshmerga operation. Lauria discusses the possibility that the ISIL fighters from Mosul may have left and gone to Syria, where they are fighting the Assad regime. Russia and the Assad regime are increasingly frustrated with and at odds with the Americans and their allies, and they’ve begun to attack Aleppo without restraint after the collapse of the cease fire. The Americans have responded by charging that the Russians are committing war crimes at the UN.  Get all of the updates in this interview.

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Daniel Lazare at consortiumnews.com and author of “The Frozen Republic” talks about Hillary Clinton’s new ISIS fighting scheme with Scott. Daniel talks about Clinton’s nondescript and undefined “intelligence surge” and her desire to kill al-Baghdadi in the new plan.  Daniel talks about what could happen to ISIS and it’s organizational direction after al-Baghdadi’s death, including a renewed focus on Persian Gulf terrorism, especially with regard to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi role in Syria and in Middle Eastern instability is also discussed at length.

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