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Social Costs of the War on Drugs
Radley Balko, now at the Washington Post, ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS Michael Gerson's evil conservative argument for the Drug War.
D.C. Man on Trial for One Shotgun Shell
America: Mr. Witaschek, a successful financial adviser with no criminal history, is the first known case of a citizen being prosecuted in D.C. for inoperable ammunition. Washington police and prosecutors have spent a year and a half trying to nail him for the...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
6/8/23 Ben Freeman on the Think Tanks Helping Weapons Companies Make Sales
Ben Freeman of the Quincy Institute joins the show to discuss his latest research on cronyism in American foreign policy. Freeman examined the top Think Tanks working to influence lawmakers in Washington and American public opinion through media. He found a lot of undisclosed funding coming from weapons companies. On top of that, many experts at these organizations were publicly for the purchase of the explicit weapons that their funders produced. Freeman lays out what he found and names some of the top organizations and companies taking part in this racket.
Discussed on the show:
- “How weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate” (Responsible Statecraft)
- “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” (Corpwatch.com [formerly published at Playboy])
Ben Freeman is a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. He previously served as Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative with the Center for International Policy. Read his work at Antiwar.com and Responsible Statecraft. Follow him on Twitter @BenFreemanDC.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.
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Recommended reading
03/02/15 – John Mueller – The Scott Horton Show
John Mueller, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the overblown threats to the American people since WWII – from a supposedly imminent Japanese land invasion after Pearl Harbor, to the current “existential” threat of terrorism.
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03/02/15 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article “The War of 1812 was the Health of the State;” the origins of American empire; and why libertarians often wear rose-colored glasses when they look back at the nation’s founding.
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02/27/15 – Michael Schwartz – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology and author of War Without End, discusses his TomDispatch article “The Great Game in the Holy Land: How Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of An International Power Struggle.”
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02/27/15 – David Hardy – The Scott Horton Show
David Hardy, author of This Is Not An Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the Waco Incident, discusses the passing of Mike McNulty, who doggedly pursued the truth about Waco and disproved the government’s official narratives.
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02/27/15 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and a former CIA officer, discusses how Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly-contentious speech before Congress on March 3rd could put the US-Israel “special relationship” to the test; and Phil’s joint discussion titled “The Courage to Speak Out: How Can the US get AIPAC out of US Politics,” at 7:00 pm, March 1st, at Busboys and Poets at 5th and K in Washington DC.
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02/26/15 – Daniel Haqiqatjou – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Haqiqatjou, a writer and lecturer on Muslims and modernity, discusses why Graeme Wood’s attention-grabbing article in The Atlantic, “What ISIS Really Wants,” is dangerously flawed about Islam and conveniently ignores the role of US foreign policy in creating ISIS to begin with.
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02/26/15 – Eli Clifton – The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, discusses how the MEK successfully lobbied its way off the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization list in 2012; and the group’s continuing efforts to regime-change Iran’s government.
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02/26/15 – Musa al-Gharbi – The Scott Horton Show
Musa al-Gharbi, a research fellow with the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflicts, discusses his article “ISIL’s barbaric acts are highly effective propaganda,” and why a US ground invasion would be playing right into the Islamic State’s hands.
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