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DOJ White Paper on Assassinations of U.S. Citizens
Okay, so I just read this "white paper"Â [pdf] by the Justice Department explaining the reasoning behind presidential assassinations of American citizens. Tomorrow The Other Scott Horton will be on the show to really explain, but best I can tell they claim that if a...
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...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
3/17/23 Nasser Arrabyee on the Major Progress Towards Peace in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee is back to discuss the improving situation on the ground in Yemen. They talk about two huge developments, first that the Saudis have agreed to most of the Houthis’ requests in their negotiations to end the war, and second that the UAE is planning to start talks with the Houthis. Scott and Arrabyee dig into the implications of this progress, weigh the possibility that the U.S. will switch sides again to restart the drone war against Al-Qaeda and discuss the lingering effects of famine and disease on the Yemeni population.
Discussed on the show:
- “Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Three Alleged al-Qaeda Members in Yemen” (Antiwar.com)
Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of Yemen-Now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee.
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03/26/14 – Nathanael Ferguson – The Scott Horton Show
Nathanael Ferguson, executive director of Texas Public Policy Action, discusses the criminal justice reforms coming from the political right; the detrimental and cascading effects of too many laws and the war on drugs; and former NYPD boss Bernie Kerik’s change of heart after his stint in federal prison.
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03/25/14 – Catherine Crump – The Scott Horton Show
Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the ACLU, discusses her Tomdispatch article “Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything.”
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03/25/14 – Trevor Timm – The Scott Horton Show
Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses the fake reforms in Congress’ NSA bills; the millions of innocent people caught in the NSA’s practice of collecting phone records two or three “hops” away from the suspect; and why Rep James Sensenbrenner’s NSA reform bill is the best of the lot.
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03/24/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the 528 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death by an Egyptian judge; continuing US financial support for Egypt despite army chief al-Sisi’s purge of political dissidents; the possibility of an armed uprising by Egyptian army defectors; and whether or not Israel will join the war in Syria.
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03/24/14 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the belligerent Americans itching for conflict with Russia and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s increasingly desperate behavior ahead of elections.
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03/24/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.
This is the eighth part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the CIA’s flawed assessment of Iran’s nuclear program; re-using the “fix the facts around the policy” strategy from the Iraq war; the good guys in the CIA like Paul Pillar; why wrongheaded National Intelligence Estimates go unchallenged; and the high-level coverup of a “John Doe” CIA operative’s discovery that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons.
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03/23/14 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.
This is the seventh part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the mystery of the MEK-delivered “smoking laptop” documents, the circumstantial case that the documents were Mossad forgeries based on flawed assumptions on Iran’s uranium enrichment and Shahab-3 missile programs; and the German intelligence officials who advised the Bush administration against using the documents for policy decisions.
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03/22/14 – Robert Blumen – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Blumen, an independent enterprise software consultant based in San Francisco, discusses his article “Say’s Law and the Permanent Recession” at Mises.org; the macroeconomic balance of supply and demand; Keynes’ thoughts on recessions and stimulus spending; the merits of social support in a kleptocratic economy; and Robert Higgs’ “regime uncertainty” theory.
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