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Tim Shorrock joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss North Korea. Although the news has been dominated by Israel and Ukraine, tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula as well — especially as Biden has worked towards remilitarizing Japan. Shorrock and Scott discuss what’s happening, look at how close we got to a deal under Trump and revisit why this is all George W. Bush’s fault.

Discussed on the show:

• “An Open Letter to Independent Lens about ‘Beyond Utopia’” (Medium)

Tim Shorrock is the author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing and a regular contributor to The Nation and the Korea Center for Investigative Reporting. Follow him on Twitter @TimothyS.

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Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why the $38 billion US military aid package to Israel marks the end of both Washington’s role in an Israel-Palestinian peace process and any hope for a two-state solution.

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Martha Mundy, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria, discusses how decades of neoliberal/IMF/World Bank economic policy degraded Yemen’s agricultural production, making the country especially vulnerable to famine from the Saudi-led blockade and bombing campaign – which are clearly war crimes.

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Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood, and could easily lead to a shooting war – especially if Hillary Clinton is serious about imposing a no fly zone in Syria.

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“As Saudis bombed Yemen, US Worried About Legal Blowback”, Jonathan Landay’s new article with Warren Strobel for Reuters, talks about US exposure to the war in Yemen, and the legal risk the US government is taking by supporting the Saudi’s war on Yemen.

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“Sandra Bland died one year ago Today: And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail” Ryan Reilly discusses dying in police custody. “Deaths inside American jails frequently go unnoticed, sometimes even unrecorded.” Reilly gives all the details to Scott, including the attempt by prison officials across the country to conceal the true numbers of deaths, and how you’re far more likely to die in jail if you have any kind of medical condition. All of that and more on today’s episode of the Scott Horton Show.

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Veteran UN beat and consortiumnews.com reporter Joe Lauria updates Scott on the latest about the upcoming battle for Mosul. Have over 9,000 ISIS fighters already left the city, which is what the Russians claim? Joe talks about his sources inside Mosul and what they’re saying about the battle. How are the Turks involved in the latest news from Mosul in Iraq? Find out now on this episode of the Scott Horton Show.

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Catherine Lutz, from the Cost of War Project at Brown University, talks to Scott about all of the balance of account information from the wars. The jaw dropping total figure of the war is revealed, as well as the human costs of the war, the unquantifiable costs on the home front, and the ongoing and unacknowledged health costs to the troops is all discussed. All of this and more on another great episode of the Scott Horton Show.

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Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee updates Scott about the ongoing and growing conflict in Yemen. The Saudi war crimes, the recent bombing of a funeral that killed more than 140 people, and Yemen’s 9/11 are all discussed. Saudi Arabia’s blank check, Iran, the Houthis and the US’s role in Yemen are also detailed on another episode of the Scott Horton Show.

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