Q & A Shows
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
The Stress Blog
The Antiwar Comic: The First Fox
It's amazing when you look back in history and see things repeat. It's like humans never really learn their lesson...or study history. For more comics, check out:
Progress Report
All right, yall, welcome back to the show to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It's been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show's important milestones, as well...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/31/23 Josh Rushing on the Persecution of Julian Assange
Journalist Josh Rushing joins Scott to discuss a documentary he produced for Al Jazeera about Julian Assange. Rushing talks about his experience making the documentary, what they focused on and why they produced it now. They run through the many myths people still believe about Assange before getting into the multiple ways he has been targeted by the government and betrayed by many of his fellow journalists.
Discussed on the show:
- The imprisonment of Julian Assange
- Scott’s interview with Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange’s brother
- The Julian Assange Indictment
- WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)
- The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
- README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
- “An open letter from editors and publishers: Publishing is not a Crime” (The Guardian)
- “Alternative Facts: How the media failed Julian Assange” (Harper’s Magazine)
- “Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks” (Yahoo News)
- “How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks’ immunity deal” (The Hill)
- ‘I Sold The Iraq War And Regret It’
- Mission Al-Jazeera by Josh Rushing
Josh Rushing is an American broadcast journalist and photographer. He is a correspondent for the Emmy-winning documentary series, Fault Lines, on Al Jazeera English. He is also a former officer of the United States Marine Corps. Follow him on Twitter @joshrushing
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.
Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack.
Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY
Recommended reading
08/14/14 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist at The Independent, discusses ISIS’s advances in Syria and Iraq; the poor performance of the Kurdish Peshmerga; and why the Yazidi humanitarian crisis looks to be another propaganda stunt to restart US intervention in Iraq.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/13/14 – Ted Snider – The Scott Horton Show
Ted Snider, a writer on US foreign policy and history, discusses the US’s hands-off approach to ISIS as long as the fighting is against Iran-allied Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/13/14 – Sandy Tolan – The Scott Horton Show
Sandy Tolan, a TomDispatch regular, discusses how Israel and the US blew many chances to avoid war in Gaza.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/12/14 – Mitchell Prothero – The Scott Horton Show
McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist Mitchell Prothero discusses the imminent replacement of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; US intervention to help the Kurds and Yazidi refugees; and why the Islamic State crisis wouldn’t have happened if Saddam Hussein was still running Iraq.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/12/14 – Daniel McAdams – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discusses why the US isn’t going to solve the Iraq mess by dropping more bombs; how the US helped create ISIS in the first place; and the politicians poised to profit from the spoils of war.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/12/14 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and the militarized police response to protesters.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/11/14 – Brendan O’Neill – The Scott Horton Show
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked-online, discusses the anti-Israel activists who act as the attack dogs of a new Western imperialism.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
08/11/14 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses why the US should stay out of Iraq and leave the fight to other capable regional powers like Turkey and Jordan.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download