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The Scott Horton Show 1/23/13
Today on the show: Max Blumenthal on the Israeli elections, Yousaf Butt on Iran nuclear negotiations and Allen St. Pierre on legalizing pot. 12-2 eastern scotthorton.org noagendastream.com
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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
4/14/23 Ted Galen Carpenter on the News Media’s Role in the American Empire
Ted Galen Carpenter makes his first appearance on the show as a Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Scott and Carpenter discuss his most recent book about the news media’s long history of enabling Washington’s disastrous foreign policy. They start with the campaign to get the U.S. involved in World War I and move up to the present day—touching on Vietnam, Iraq War I, Bosnia, Iraq War II, Syria and Ukraine.
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Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest.
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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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