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Legalize Ivory
The commie "War on Ivory" is, of course, killing the elephants it's supposed to save. Doug Bandow breaks it down. "Failure is not for wont of conservation efforts. Reported the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora...
David Enders: US effort to undercut Islamist rebels in Syria fails
Poor Barack Obama: How to support an al Qaeda war against the Ba'athists (What, those guys don't get along?) in Syria while pretending to regret that that is exactly what you're doing? Well, they set up some new sock puppets, but it looks like it didn't take. "A...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
2/24/23 Ray McGovern Dissects the Official Reaction to Hersh’s Nord Stream Revelations
Ray McGovern is back to discuss his testimony at the UN about Nord Stream. They discuss Seymour Hersh’s reporting and the reaction from the White House and CIA. McGovern draws parallels between the official reaction to these revelations and some similar episodes from the past. They also examine the current situation in Ukraine, consider the risk of nuclear war and question Washington’s goals for the conflict.
Discussed on the show:
- “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline” (Substack)
- Video of McGovern testifying at the UN
- “Washington Post Lets Hersh’s Dangerous Cat Out of the Bag” (Antiwar.com)
- The Day After (IMDb)
- “Why War Pledges for Ukraine Fell Flat in Munich” (Defense One)
Ray McGovern is the co-creator of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the former chief of the CIA’s Soviet analysts division. Read all of his work at his website: raymcgovern.com.
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03/18/14 – Jack Matlock – The Scott Horton Show
Jack Matlock, a former US ambassador to the Soviet Union, discusses some diplomatic lessons Obama should learn from Ronald Reagan in the Cold War era; why the US continues to pick a fight with Russia when there’s no need for hostility; and resisting calls that “something ought to be done” about conflicts in foreign countries.
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03/18/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.
This is the third part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. This interview focuses on the US political origins of the Iranian nuclear scare; how the post-Cold War peace dividend was thwarted by the military-industrial complex; and why Martin Indyk’s dual-containment policy on Iraq and Iran served only to benefit Israel.
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03/17/14 – Nicolas J.S. Davies – The Scott Horton Show
Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, discusses the 35 countries where the US has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists; the quest for global hegemony over all nations from Afghanistan to Zaire; and why the big three state sponsors of terrorism (Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) are all US allies.
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03/17/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.
This is the second part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses Iran’s unknown internal politics, the post-1979 Islamic government’s fatwa on WMD; common-sense reasons that oil-rich Iran would want nuclear power; and Iran’s latent deterrent effect.
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03/16/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.
This is the first part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Topics of discussion include US support for Iran’s early nuclear program under the Shah, why Iran went to nuclear weapons proliferater A.Q. Khan for civilian uranium enrichment equipment, and the false narrative on Iran’s program as told by David Sanger and other biased commentators.
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03/14/14 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, professor of Chemical Engineering at USC, discusses why a compromise with Iran is possible if it is not asked to surrender; the misrepresentation of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s opinion on a deal with the West; and the chance of a finalized agreement happening within a few months.
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03/14/14 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how Americans can help Ukrainians; the ratio of crazy/stupidity in neoconservatives picking a fight with Russia; and the imperialist core of American exceptionalism, dating to the country’s earliest days.
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03/13/14 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses the treacherous road between Damascus and Tartous in Syria; why nobody really knows the composition of Syria’s many rebel groups, or how great their numbers; the Gulf monarchies backing radical Sunni groups throughout the region; and why the Syria-Iraq border no longer matters as suicide bombers roam freely on both sides.
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