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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/01/21 Peter Van Buren on the Stages of America’s Imperial History
Scott is joined by Peter Van Buren to discuss some recent articles he wrote for The American Conservative. Van Buren used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on his experience on that day, as well as how the attacks fit into the larger story of America’s quest for global dominance. Scott and Van Buren also discuss the future of this quest. Finally, Van Buren shares a story of how a job he was tasked with forced him to confront the truth about America’s role in the world.
Discussed on the show:
- “It Looks Like We Forgot” (The American Conservative)
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.” (Washington Post)
- American Raj Liberation Or Domination? by Eric Margolis
- “Peter Bergen is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy” (Antiwar.com)
- 24 – IMDb
- “The Widowed And The Fatherless” (The American Conservative)
Peter Van Buren worked for 24 years at the Department of State including a year in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and the novel Hooper’s War. He is now a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine.
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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03/11/10 – Larisa Alexandrovna – The Scott Horton Show
Larisa Alexandrovna, Managing Editor of investigative news for RawStory, discusses the lies told about the US push for war with Iraq in Karl Rove’s new book, how the Bush administration ‘fixed the facts‘ around their Iraq policy, US bellicosity on Iran that is meant to assuage Israel’s fears of a competing regional power, Russian geopolitical successes against lightweight US strategists, why purple fingers are not necessarily indicative of democracy, the media’s obsession with ‘balance’ at the expense of presenting facts or telling the truth and the difficult task of assigning appropriate blame to the public and media for complicity in Iraq War lies.
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03/10/10 – Nate Cardozo – The Scott Horton Show
Nate Cardozo, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Open Government Legal Fellow, discusses the military’s illegal spying on Americans revealed in Department of Defense documents obtained through FOIA requests, EFF’s attempt to challenge the constitutionality of telecom immunity, the Obama administration’s use of ‘state secrets privilege’ to stymie politically embarrassing lawsuits, the NSA’s massive and unaccountable electronic data-mining capability and the common practice of cops obtaining cell phone location information without a warrant.
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03/09/10 – Meryl Nass – The Scott Horton Show
Meryl Nass, a practicing physician and blogger on anthrax-related issues, discusses the FBI’s flawed anthrax investigation, the persecution of innocent suspects (Ayaad Assaad, Steven Hatfill) that may have been set up as patsies, deliberately misrepresented evidence in the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins and the possible link between anthrax vaccine and Gulf War Syndrome.
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03/09/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the US military’s descriptive excesses that preceded their offensive on the Afghan ‘city’ of Marjah, the US counterinsurgency strategy of establishing a favorable narrative to shape domestic public opinion, the winners and losers in the global war on terrorism and the military-industrial complex’s goal of permanent occupation.
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03/09/10 – David R. Henderson – The Scott Horton Show
This interview is jointly conducted by Scott Horton and Antiwar Radio producer Angela Keaton.
David R. Henderson, author of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, discusses the ‘Across the Political Spectrum Against War and Militarism‘ conference in Washington, D.C., Milton Friedman’s prominent opposition to the draft in the late 60s, the need to minimize divisive fringe issues during antiwar protests and why conservatives squirm when they hear the words ‘peace’ and ‘imperialism.’
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03/09/10 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, Editor-in-Chief at Campaign for Liberty, discusses Obama’s rhetorical differences and policy similarities with the Bush administration, why the PATRIOT Act has (unfortunately) been around too long to be repealed, apologists who blame the ‘tough guy’ Republican political trap for Obama’s hawkishness and why public support for torture and war has increased since Bush left office.
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03/05/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA and DIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the usual suspects who are calling for war with Iran, the practical limitations on the U.S. military’s ability to fight a third concurrent war, the ploy of letting Israel start a war with Iran so the U.S. will be obligated to finish it, likely U.S. sponsorship of the terrorist organization (and former al Qaeda satellite group) Jundallah, birth defects in Iraq linked to depleted uranium and the terrible U.S. network news shows exemplified by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell’s conflicted reporting.
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03/04/10 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the budgetary limitations that expansive U.S. foreign policy imposes on domestic programs, the Dennis Kucunich resolution (co-sponsored by Rep. Paul) that will require a House of Representatives debate on the war in Afghanistan, wrongheaded government action on the coming dollar crisis and why the peace and liberty movement is best served by setting a good example and avoiding the politics of personality.
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