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The Walrus John Bolton Calls For Boots On The Ground In Somalia .
According to John Bolton and the Fox "news" anchorman, it is time for a coalition of the willing to begin air strikes and to put boots on the ground in Somalia to "take these people out".
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Thank goodness for the liberals that they have a central bank to initiate the boom-bust cycle - that way we can all suffer together! Okay, I admit this is old, but I really like it when politicians admit what depraved criminals they are. If Hart's position papers...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/30/21 Jack Murphy on America’s Failed Drone Campaign in Afghanistan
Scott talks with Jack Murphy about the piece he wrote detailing the surge in drone strikes that took place under President Trump. Murphy explains how the whole project started when a distraught drone operator approached him. It quickly became clear that that drone operator was not alone. Murphy details how Rules of Engagement (ROE) are formulated and how they evolved during the Obama and Trump presidencies. This leads to a discussion of the ruthless drone campaign that the U.S. carried out against the Taliban during negotiations. A campaign that killed numerous Afghan men for the crime of simply using a radio.
Discussed on the show:
- “Looser rules, more civilian deaths, a Taliban takeover: Inside America’s failed Afghan drone campaign” (Audacy)
- “The Uncounted” (New York Times)
- Rand Corporation Study on Limited Intervention
Jack Murphy is an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran. After returning to civilian life in 2010, he graduated from Columbia University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Find his memoir here and follow him on Twitter @JackMurphyRGR
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; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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10/07/09 – Adam Kokesh – The Scott Horton Show
New Mexico Republican Congressional candidate Adam Kokesh discusses the voter’s remorse felt by antiwar Obama supporters, how Christian Just War theory can turn conservatives against the Afghanistan war, the tiresome ‘can’t let the troops die in vain’ argument and the wide divide between Republican national leadership and the party’s grassroots.
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10/07/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses newly discovered interrogation video of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani, how Obama’s ‘move forward’ rhetoric undermines Eric Holder’s torture investigation, the broad application and abuse of increased law enforcement powers meant to specifically combat terrorism, John Durham’s glacial-paced investigation of missing CIA tapes and the minimal protests in Congress against renewing the Patriot Act.
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10/07/09 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the 60 year history of Israeli espionage against the U.S., Obama’s ‘assumption of openness’ decree that has made FOIA requests more successful, the inauspicious start of the 1985 U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement and how the 1979 Iranian Revolution cost Israel an important export market.
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10/06/09 – Brad Friedman – The Scott Horton Show
Brad Friedman, Publisher and Executive Editor of The Brad Blog, discusses the ‘too big to bust’ problem with Sibel Edmonds’ far-reaching accusations, compromised investigative entities (FBI, Congress, MSM) that risk self-implication by doing their jobs, former FBI manager John Cole’s corroboration of Edmonds’ claims, the continued Brewster Jennings mystery, failures of the 9/11 Commission and the buried FBI investigation of Marc Grossman.
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10/06/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the first diplomatic engagement between the U.S. and Iran in a generation, plans to outsource the higher enrichment of Iran’s uranium to Russia, the constant assault on the 2007 Iran NIE by NYT columnists Broad and Sanger and anti-Iran propaganda based on a 1987 A.Q. Kahn brochure and ‘smoking laptop’ documents.
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10/02/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the decreasing number of ‘worst of the worst’ Guantanamo prisoners, Congressional intransigence on allowing Gitmo prisoners to be held and tried in the U.S., initial court challenges to Bagram prison’s extralegal status and how Obama picks and chooses which Geneva Convention rules he abides by.
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10/02/09 – David R. Henderson – The Scott Horton Show
David R. Henderson, author of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, discusses the anti-Afghanistan war demonstration he organized in Monterey, California, the effectiveness of hypothesizing a role reversal to demonstrate the hypocrisy of U.S. exceptionalism, winning over conservatives by showing the economic consequences of war and how punitive sanctions designed to instigate regime change inevitably fail.
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10/02/09 – Jeffrey Rogers Hummel – The Scott Horton Show
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, associate professor of economics at San Jose State University, discusses the major points of contention on U.S. Civil War history, the inextricable link between the Union and liberty in Northern doctrine, why moral rights should supersede constitutional limitations, how the North could have ended slavery in the South without contesting secession, the inability of chattel slavery-based economies to cope with runaways, the numerous bad precedents set while central governmental power grew during the Civil War and why the Articles of Confederation are better than the Constitution.
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