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Watching Cheney is Torture
The Pro-Israeli Media Twist
Jonathan Broder is a CQ Weekly journalist who was on CSPAN yesterday along with Washington Times journalist Eli Lake discussing Obama's defense and foriegn policy objectives. A lady calls in complaining of the cost of defense, and asks if our objectives could be more...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/15/21 Barrett Brown Returns
Scott interviews journalist and investigator Barrett Brown. Since his last appearance on the show in 2011, Brown spent four years in prison and he is currently seeking asylum from the United States. He tells Scott the story of those tumultuous ten years. Brown also gives background and updates on his fellow journalists and activists working to expose the cyber-industrial complex. Finally, he gives advice for listeners who may be interested in getting involved in activism.
Discussed on the show:
- The Internet’s Own Boy — Full Movie
- The Operators by Michael Hastings
- Brown’s pinned tweet
- “The Return of Anonymous” (The Atlantic)
- The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson
Barrett Brown is the founder of Project PM. Follow him on Twitter @BarrettB.
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; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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04/28/10 – Iloilo Marguerite Jones – The Scott Horton Show
Iloilo Marguerite Jones, Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, discusses the rights and responsibilities of jurors, why – despite popular opinion – jurors may follow their consciences and render verdicts contrary to laws they think are unjust, the incarceration of millions of Americans for victimless crimes and how American public education churns out citizens overly deferential to authority.
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04/27/10 – Chris Deliso – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist and author Chris Deliso discusses the multiple conflicting claims on the (regional/national/ethnic) identity of Macedonia, economic instability that threatens the Euro currency and the EU in general, the longstanding conflict between Turkey’s religious government and secular military, the lasting legacies of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires in Asia Minor and the possible incorporation of Kosovo into a Greater Albania.
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04/23/10 – Tracey Harmon – The Scott Horton Show
Tracey Harmon, conscientious objector member of IVAW and LOLA, discusses her poor phone reception in Iraq, her conscientious objector ordeal, working with an undisclosed NGO to investigate crimes by or against Iraqi Kurds.
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04/23/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the escalation of violence in Iraq that is mostly ignored by the media, Muqtada al-Sadr’s significant political clout, disputed Iraqi election results from early March and the unwillingness of Iraq’s political factions to compromise and form a government.
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04/23/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his website’s Guantanamo Habeas Week event that seeks to draw attention to government torture and lawlessness, the difficult-to-determine ratio of evil/incompetence at work in the Bush administration, the arbitrary roundup of ‘terrorists’ in Afghanistan and Pakistan following the embarrassing bin Laden Tora Bora escape, the current score card of Guantanamo Habeas hearings, scaremongering Republican politicians and the end of Congressional oversight and checks and balances.
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04/22/10 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for the foreign policy blog Lobelog, discusses Israel’s postwar history, the lack of a serious peace process since Camp David, Obama’s sometimes-encouraging rhetoric on a peaceful two-state settlement, common ground between the anti-occupation Left and foreign policy/military realists worried about disruption of US regional goals, why Palestinians will have a powerful appeal for one person one vote democracy should a two-state solution fail and why parsing the public statements of Israeli officials is like reading tea leaves.
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04/22/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the military’s fraudulent ‘personality disorder‘ discharges that deprive injured soldiers of benefits and medical care, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s mistreatment and effective incarceration by Army doctors, how the Pentagon has saved an estimated 12 billion dollars by denying care to 22,600 soldiers since 2001 and how the Feres Doctrine limits malpractice lawsuits against military doctors.
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04/21/10 – Jonathan Hafetz – The Scott Horton Show
ACLU attorney Jonathan Hafetz discusses the McCain-Lieberman bill‘s potential to replace the US justice system with arbitrary and indefinite military detention, Obama’s confirmed policy of extrajudicial assassination of suspected American terrorists, illegal government actions shielded by invocations of national security and sovereign immunity and how the Bill of Rights degenerated from a guarantee of individual liberty to a conditional permission slip subject to the whims of government.
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