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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
2/11/22 Shireen Al-Adeimi: A Deep Dive on the War in Yemen
Scott is joined by Shireen Al-Adeimi to discuss an article she wrote recently about the Yemen War under Biden. The two go through the origins of the war and where it stands today. Al-Adeimi explains how the war is evil and counterproductive. Lastly, Scott and Al-Adeimi game out what an end to the war would look like and discuss what everyday Americans can do to help stop this atrocity.
Discussed on the show:
- “Biden has merely rebranded the brutal war against Yemen”(Insider)
- Dave Smith explaining the Yemen War to Joe Rogan
- “In Strategic Shift, U.S. Draws Closer to Yemeni Rebels” (Wall Street Journal)
- 1-833-STOPWAR
- every75seconds.org
Shireen Al-Adeimi is an assistant professor of Education at Michigan State. She conducts research on language and literacy and writes frequently about Yemen. Follow her on Twitter @shireen818.
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; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio.
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11/03/10 – Josh Ruebner – The Scott Horton Show
Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, discusses Caterpillar’s reported cancellation of bulldozer shipments to Israel for the duration of the Rachel Corrie trial, how Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes works as slow motion ethnic cleansing, keeping up the appearance of a viable Palestinian government so the international community can pretend the conflict isn’t completely one-sided and how Jewish settlements physically cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank making a shared Jerusalem capital (a major sticking point in a 2 state solution) impossible.
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11/03/10 – Jeanne Theoharis – The Scott Horton Show
Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties, discusses Syed Fahad Hashmi’s years of pretrial solitary confinement on extremely tenuous material support for al-Qaeda charges, how Syed’s supposed accomplice became a government witness against him for a reduced sentence, classified evidence defendants can’t see and lawyers need to be vetted for, Syed’s acceptance of a 15-year plea deal one day before the trial’s start, torture’s effectiveness at producing false confessions and forcing plea deals and how US prisoner mistreatment has led European countries to refuse extradition requests.
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11/02/10 Darwin BondGraham: the New START Treaty
Darwin Bond Graham, member of the Los Alamos Study Group, discusses the massive giveaways to weapons manufacturers that will occur after the Senate ratifies the New START Treaty, the ‘prompt global strike’ capability that will let Obama rain death on anyone in the world in 30 minutes or less [insert pizza delivery joke here], billions budgeted for new nuclear weapons infrastructure, the loophole in START accounting methods that makes a joke of mandatory weapons reductions and why well-intentioned arms reduction treaties often do more harm than good.
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11/02/10 – Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette, authors of Meltdown and The Dollar Meltdown (respectively), discuss Washington Post writer David Broder’s assertion that a war with Iran would save Obama’s legacy and the economy, why it’s still important to fight against the myth that WWII caused the end of the Great Depression, how surging commodity prices and a falling dollar signal serious consumer price inflation by next year, the post-9/11 economic sugar high engineered by Alan ‘Maestro’ Greenspan’s interest rate cuts, the insignificant spending cuts in the GOP’s ‘Pledge to America’ and why Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign will be a barn-burner.
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11/02/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Frago 242 ‘ignore Iraqi torture’ order in the context of vigorous US support for Shi’ite militias battling the exploding Sunni insurgency, the influence of David Wurmser‘s ‘Coping With Crumbling States‘ on original US plans to replace Iraq’s centralized nation state with a federation and how Mideast policy can best be described as a somewhat equal mix of stupidity and attempts to advance Israel’s interests.
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11/02/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the recent Congressional hearings on bogus ‘personality disorder’ military discharges of injured soldiers, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s Congressional testimony about his confinement and torture for refusing to accept his personality disorder diagnosis, the billions of dollars in health care improperly denied to veterans and how the Pentagon was caught lying about an outreach program that was supposed to help veterans without medical care.
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11/01/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the many suspicious details in the Yemen printer bomb plot, Obama’s declaration of war on al-Qaeda’s Arabian Peninsula franchise, a recent-history lesson on Yemeni civilian casualties from US drone strikes and why the somewhat decentralized and anarchic state of Yemen may be another nation-building candidate.
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11/01/10 – Gary Brecher – The Scott Horton Show
The Exiled writer Gary Brecher, a.k.a. The War Nerd a.k.a. John Dolan, discusses his stint teaching English at the American University of Iraq Sulaimaniya, the pitched battles and million-plus casualties in ‘The War Nobody Watched‘ Iran-Iraq War, how the US used Saddam Hussein as a proxy for revenge against Iran’s Revolution and the Hostage Crisis, Hussein’s slaughter of Jalal Talabani‘s Iran-allied Kurdish faction and how Iran’s larger population allowed them to outlast Iraq’s superior military while still taking high casualties.
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