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Ted Snider joins the show to run through some of the latest developments in Ukraine. They discuss the ever-expanding willingness to arm the Ukrainians with weapons that, until recently, were considered too provocative to supply. They also talk about some possible consequences of the drone strike at the Kremlin as well as the U.S. position on Crimea. 

Discussed on the show:

• “How Death Outlives War” (Cost of War Project)
• “Yemeni Civil War Unleashes a Plague of Locusts” (Antiwar.com)

Stephanie Savell is the co-director of the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute. Savell is an anthropologist who studies security, militarized policing, and civic engagement in relation to the United States post-9/11 wars and policing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the co-author of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life.

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Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker, discusses his article “What We Should Really Be Talking About With the Bowe Bergdahl Controversy;” why Obama is getting flak for releasing Taliban officials from Guantanamo (who are POW’s, not terrorists); and the fate of the remaining prisoners.

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Flynt Leverett, author of Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran, discusses Obama’s doubling down on his failed Syria policy; the bipartisan agreement on helping al-Qaeda overthrow Assad’s government; and how to resolve the bloody Syrian conflict (if sane people were in charge).

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Will Grigg, keeper of the Pro Libertate blog, discusses why the war on drugs is essentially a war on the American people; local law enforcement agencies using weapons of war on civilians; equating drug dealers with domestic terrorists; and why drug task forces should be dismantled immediately – for a start.

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Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses how Congress’s NSA “reform” bill is actually enabling the NSA to spy even more broadly than before.

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06.03.14 — Marcy Wheeler

Alright y’all welcome back to the show here, I’m Scott Horton this is my show, The Scott Horton Show. Our first guest on the show, maybe our only guest on the show, I’m still waiting to hear back from a couple of people. Anyways, it’s the meticulous Marcy Wheeler from www.emptywheel.net, that’s her blog -some other great writers over there, Jim White and Bmaz, (I think that’s it?). Anyway, they writer great stuff, especially Marcy.

As Snowden Leak Anniversary Approaches the Intelligence Community Prepares to Declare Victory. Oh man, I don’t like your headline at all Marcy – welcome back to the show.

MW: Sorry to piss everyone off!

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Reza Marashi, Research Director at the National Iranian American Council, discusses the concessions that need to be made by Iran and the US before a successful nuclear deal can be finalized.

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Hi ya’ll welcome back to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I’m Scott Horton. scotthorton.org. Now we go to our friend Reza Marashi. He’s at the national Iranian American Council, that’s niacouncil.org and what they do is they push for peace between the US and Iran and I’m down with that, welcome back to the show Reza, how are you doing?

RM: I’m doing well, thanks for having me

SH: And by the way I never get this right in your introduction could you please tell us what was the name of your job when you worked in the US State Department.

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Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the limited resources the US government ought to be using in the war on terrorism; Hamid Karzai’s increasingly tenuous grip on power in Afghanistan as US troops withdraw; and Obama’s responsibility for the Al Qaeda-affiliated rebels fighting in Syria.

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06.02.14 — Phil Giraldi

Hi y’all welcome to the show, The Scott Horton Show, I’m Scott Horton and next up is our friend Phil Giraldi, he is formerly CIA and DIA and now he’s the director of the Council for the National Interest www.councilforthenationalinterest.org, they’ve got an America first foreign policy they push over there, you might want to find out all about it. Of course also he writes for the American Conservative Magazine www.unz.com and you can find some at Al Jazeera America as well. Welcome back to the show, how are you doing Phil?

PG: I’m fine Scott, how are you?

SH: I’m doing good, appreciate you joining us on the show again. Hey, listen so, lately I’ve been getting paranoid, and we talked about this recently too, in fact there was the new State Department report that came out, there was some analysis by Jonathan Landay, McClatchy and all that, and the administration are really wishy washy on all of this stuff because they are backing the terrorists in a lot of these instances and so they’re not being completely honest and so it seems like, y’know, you’ve been saying on this show for years that look, ‘the real number of actual dangerous terrorists in the world is somewhere around a couple of thousand, so don’t panic’, but now I’m wondering if that number is quite a bit higher because of the Bush Administrations foreign policy in Iraq and the Obama Administrations foreign policy in Libya and especially in Syria.

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Ramzy Baroud, editor of The Palestine Chronicle, discusses General Khalifa Haftar’s coup in Libya; his close relationship with the CIA and adoption of US anti-terrorism rhetoric, and his suspicious war on the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood.

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Ed Krayewski, an associate editor at Reason.com, discusses the baby critically injured by a flash bang grenade thrown by a Habersham County sheriff deputy during a drug raid; and why many Americans would rather have a police state than the burden of personal responsibility.

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