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9/23/22 Chip Gibbons on the CIA’s War on Assange
Scott talks with journalist Chip Gibbons about an article he wrote for Jacobin that details the CIA’s 2019 plots to surveil, kidnap and even poison Julian Assange. First, Scott and Gibbons reflect on the impact of Assange and Wikileaks. They then discuss the CIA’s 2019 activities and the pair of protests happening next weekend in London and DC against the illegal prosecution of Assange.
Discussed on the show:
- “Secret Documents Have Exposed the CIA’s Julian Assange Obsession” (Jacobin)
- The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
- Wikileaks.org
- “What Happened to America’s Civil Libertarians?” (TK News) [paywall]
- October 8th Hands Off Assange Rally
Chip Gibbons is a journalist whose work has been featured in In These Times and the Nation. He is also the policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, where he authored the report “Still Spying on Dissent: The Enduring Legacy of FBI First Amendment Abuse.” Follow him on Twitter @ChipGibbons89.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot.
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10/10/12 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show
Globetrotting Asia Times journalist Pepe Escobar discusses the US’s complicated relationship with Hugo Chavez; South America’s independent economic and political union; the push to end the supply-side war on drugs; why NATO won’t be able to bomb their way to regime change in Syria; instability in Jordan; why sanctions aren’t winning any hearts and minds in Iran; oil pipeline politics in the Middle East and Central Asia; and why the big Western energy corporations are losing the Great Game.
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10/09/12 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the NYPD’s international intelligence operations; Mitt Romney’s alarming foreign policy speech; why Rand Paul’s proposed foreign aid cuts aren’t what they seem; how Turkey and Syria could end up at war; and the US’s silly preconditions for a political settlement with the Taliban.
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10/09/12 – Conn Hallinan – The Scott Horton Show
Foreign Policy in Focus journalist Conn Hallinan discusses how Syria’s civil war could provoke a regional conflagration; the irony of despotic Gulf monarchies providing the fighters, money and arms to “democratize” Syria; how the Obama administration makes peaceful diplomatic settlements impossible; and the US/Israeli strategies for dominating the Middle East.
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10/08/12 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses his article “Spy Crisis Launched AIPAC’s Think Tank;” WINEP Research Director Patrick Clawson’s now infamous speech on how to instigate war the American way; how the Israel lobby periodically reinvents itself to avoid being shut down by the feds; a brief history lesson on the Lavon Affair; and AIPAC’s involvement in drafting legislation on regulating the internet.
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10/08/12 – John Glaser – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar.com editor John Glaser discusses why Hamid Karzai said the US war in Afghanistan “will not succeed;” the total failure of Obama’s surge strategy; and why the US should withdraw and leave India and Pakistan to fight over Afghanistan’s future.
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10/05/12 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the FFF’s Civil Liberties College Tour from October 15-19th featuring Glenn Greenwald and Bruce Fein; why the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments (under constant attack by the government) are just as important as the First and Second; and how US-imposed sanctions on Iran are in effect a war on the Iranian people.
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10/03/12 – David Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson of Veterans For Peace discusses the 40-member delegation of activists headed to Pakistan to see Obama’s drone war firsthand; how drone strikes create more enemies than they kill (and they aren’t “war on the cheap,” either); the willful ignorance of Americans and their media; and why Ron Paul was booed in a primary debate for suggesting a foreign policy guided by the Golden Rule.
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10/02/12 – Dave Hagen – The Scott Horton Show
Dave Hagen, co-director of the documentary movie The Prosecution of an American President, discusses why George W. Bush is guilty of murder for lying us into war with Iraq; famed Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s career and legal theories; how a Bush conviction would make other US presidents think twice before committing high crimes; and how accusations of Democratic partisanship hurt the credibility of Bush critics.
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