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Jeremy Hammond speaks out from solitary confinement
Jeremy Hammond is the accused Anonymous hacker facing life in prison for hacking Stratfor. Life. Though the presiding judge's husband was compromised in the hack, she refuses to recuse herself from the case. Also, Hammond has released a statement from solitary...
When solitude is torture By George F. Will
'Zero Dark Thirty,' a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar for Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects [tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans were...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/3/23 Jim Bovard on the 1993 WTC Bombing and Global Engagement Center
Scott is joined by Jim Bovard to discuss two articles he recently published. The first marked the 30-year anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Scott and Bovard talk about what the FBI knew before the attack. Next they discuss Bovard’s article on the Global Engagement Center, an Obama-era internet censorship mission center operating out of the State Department.
Discussed on the show:
- “30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’” (Libertarian Institute)
- “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast” (New York Times)
- “Why did this cop turn up dead?” (CNN)
- 1000 Years for Revenge by Peter Lance
- “How the feds spend $74M a year to try to censor Americans” (New York Post)
- “Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists” (Racket News [formerly TK News])
Jim Bovard is a columnist for USA Today and the author of Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott.
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04/17/14 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning contributor to The Independent, discusses his 5-part series on Al-Qa’Ida’s resurgence despite the ongoing war on terror; the buyer’s remorse suffered by the US and Gulf monarchies backing Syria’s rebels; and the government’s perverse incentives to make war instead of peace.
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04/17/14 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses CIA Director John Brennan’s secretive visit to Kiev; the failed unleashing of Ukraine’s army against separatists; the frenzied (and false) stories on “Jew registration” in eastern Ukraine; John Kerry’s foreign policy disasters; and Israel’s contentment with the status quo in Syria’s bloody civil war.
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04/16/14 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses the legislative “cluster-bombs” exploding under unsuspecting Americans; the IRS’s seizure of tax refunds from individuals who allegedly were overpaid by Social Security decades ago; how government theft is legalized through civil asset forfeiture laws; evidence that the war on drugs is finally winding down; and Americans’ increasing awareness of police brutality.
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04/14/14 – John Glaser – The Scott Horton Show
John Glaser, editor of Antiwar.com, discusses John Kerry’s surprising admission that Israel is to blame for sabotaging Israel-Palestine peace talks; how Jewish settlements in the West Bank hurt Israel’s security and make a Palestinian state untenable; and the Likud Party’s commitment to “the realization of Zionist values.”
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04/14/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, an award-winning syndicated columnist, discusses how Ukraine war-fever resembles pre-WWI militarism; the American and British banks that benefit from an IMF bailout; Israel’s connection to Ukraine’s large Jewish population and ruling class; Russia’s ability to cause supply-chain problems for US troops in Afghanistan; and why the top Afghan presidential candidates all look like CIA assets.
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04/11/14 – Jonathan Landay – The Scott Horton Show
Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the Senate report exposing the CIA’s lies about the effectiveness and severity of their enhanced interrogation techniques (EIT) program; the shaky foundations of Justice Department legal opinions authorizing torture; the neoconservative group that pushed the Saddam-9/11 theory, leading to false confessions of prisoners under torture; and the Senate report’s controversial declassification process.
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04/10/14 – Jason Leopold – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Leopold, author of News Junkie, discusses what the Senate Intelligence Committee report says about CIA black sites; the secret CIA prisons in Poland, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia and Afghanistan; the experimental torture on Abu Zubaydah conducted before John Yoo’s infamous torture memos; and the huge increase in FOIA requests since the Snowden leaks.
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04/10/14 – Daniel Larison – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Larison, a senior editor at The American Conservative, discusses the pro-Russian protests in eastern Ukraine; the thousands of Russian troops gathered at Ukraine’s border, poised for invasion; US benevolent global hegemony vs. the real world; and NATO’s mission of “keeping the Germans down, the Russians out, and the Americans in.”
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