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10/25/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Yemen Atrocity and the Battle for Marib

Scott is joined by Nasser Arrabyee who gives an update on the state of the war in Yemen. The battle for Marib is raging as the Houthis take control of more and more districts. The city is one of the last strongholds outside of Houthi control, and it looks like that may change soon. Arrabyee also gives an update on the rest of the country, where the Saudi blockade continues to wreak havoc on the population. 

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Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee.

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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01/21/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Hastings, author of the article ‘The Day Democracy Died in Iraq,’ discusses US withdrawal plans that are hinged on an orderly Iraqi election in March, the surge’s failure to effect Sunni/Shia political reconciliation, Ahmed Chalabi’s involvement in banning Sunni and secular candidates and why the promise of military aid will likely guarantee Iraqi acceptance of US forces remaining beyond 2011.

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01/21/10 – Christopher Manion – The Scott Horton Show

Christopher Manion, columnist for the weekly Catholic newspaper The Wanderer, discusses the two conflicting currents within the Conservative momement, the marked difference between Sarah Palin’s carefully crafted image and her actual policy positions, the rotten core of the GOP that is best left to the next generation to fix, the public’s misguided reliance on symbolism to categorize political figures and why neoconservatives are more correctly called neoliberals.

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01/21/10 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses his disinterest in political parties, the slippery slope from indefinitely detaining foreign terrorism suspects to designating domestic criminals ‘enemy combatants,’ why the US empire is more likely to end from the dollar’s collapse than a reasoned decision to return to a republic, the diminishing returns from intelligence spending and why reestablishing gold and silver as currency is a good idea.

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01/20/10 – Brandon Neely – The Scott Horton Show

Former Guantanamo prison guard Brandon Neely discusses his recent reunion and reconciliation with two former Gitmo inmates now living in England, his regret for violently restraining a prisoner in an incident that better communication would have prevented, the total discretion of officers in deciding on the treatment of prisoners and the frequent use of Initial Reaction Force (IRF) teams for prisoner beatings rather than control and restraint.

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01/19/10 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show

Sheldon Richman discusses Lysander Spooner’s argument – contra other abolitionists of his day – that the Constitution forbids slavery, Spooner’s dismissal of euphemistic language in the Constitution in favor of a pro-liberty reading, the current logical trap that prevents dissent from governmental authority, the myth of “consent of the governed,” and why libertarians are against Capitalism (the term, anyway).

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01/19/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the ‘supermax‘ modernization program for Bagram prison in Afghanistan, the Bush administration’s dismantling of proper and longstanding military tribunals for determining a war prisoner’s status (used extensively in the first Gulf War), the Justice Department’s fight to preserve Bagram’s extralegal status, the secrecy still surrounding ‘ghost prisoners‘ held worldwide under US auspices and why the US refuses to release Gitmo prisoner Shaker Aamer.

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