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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
Scott interviews Grant Smith about his recent article, which makes the case that the $3.8 billion in foreign aid given to Israel is on questionable legal grounds. It all comes back to Israel’s nuclear weapons, which the U.S. government has not officially acknowledged even exist. Because Israel is not a part of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is illegal for the U.S. to give them aid without making a specific case for why it’s necessary. Smith explains that to avoid this, Israel puts a lot of pressure on incoming Presidents to stay silent and not acknowledge the program. Smith also gives some background on how Israel acquired nuclear technology in the first place and how a tiny country in the middle-east has so effectively controlled American lawmakers.
Discussed on the show:
- “Israel’s Nukes Make US Aid Illegal” (Antiwar.com)
- “America Needs to Start Telling the Truth About Israel’s Nukes” (New York Times)
- “Joe Biden should end the US pretense over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons” (The Guardian)
- Chuck Schumer acknowledging Israel’s Nuclear Weapons
- Documents obtained about the Israeli agent who infiltrated the NUMEC facility
- Grant Smith’s book about NUMEC
- Roger Mattson’s book about NUMEC
- Roger Mattson on CSPAN with Grant Smith
- Grant Smith’s book Big Israel
- “How Trump and Three Other U.S. Presidents Protected Israel’s Worst-Kept Secret: Its Nuclear Arsenal” (New Yorker)
- Grant Smith’s book about the fight to register the Israel Lobby as foreign agents
Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, Divert!, and most recently The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.
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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09/10/09 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses Ronald Reagan’s lip service to torture prohibition and support for atrocities in Central America, the hypocritical critiques of ‘moral relativism’ by amoral neocons, the inheritance of an entire generation of government-worshiping journalists, Islamic fundamentalist blowback from Reagan administration attempts to weaken the USSR and the quid-pro-quo deal that enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons.
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09/09/09 – John Feffer – The Scott Horton Show
John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses a Jeffersonian-era U.S. navy suicide attack against Barbary pirates, the Western tradition of self-sacrifice for a ‘greater good,’ how suicide attacks are usually a desperate tactic taken against foreign occupation and not exclusive to Islam and the inability of Western claims of moral superiority to withstand scrutiny.
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09/09/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Regular Antiwar.com columnist Jeff Huber discusses Bob Dole’s cheerleading for a 2012 Gen. Petraeus presidential candidacy, the constantly shifting Pentagon war slogans that distract attention from policy failures, why Obama can’t back down in Afghanistan after eschewing the Iraq war, how civilian-led nation building creates more targets for ‘insurgents’ and Gen. McChrystal’s tough transition from assassination squad leader to civilian casualty handwringer.
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09/08/09 – Declan McCullagh – The Scott Horton Show
Declan McCullagh, senior writer for CNET News, discusses the historical decline of U.S. government involvement with the physical Internet, Jay Rockefeller’s Senate bill that gives the president broad powers during an ill-defined ‘cybersecurity emergency,’ the continuing struggle between government surveillance and private anonymity and how the private sector is much more capable of responding to cyber attacks than the Pentagon.
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09/04/09 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to CounterPunch.org, discusses Obama’s propagandized meeting with the Bizarro World Cindy Sheehan, how the antiwar Left lacks the ideological passion and clarity of libertarians, the permanent cold war mentality in Washington D.C. and the widening divide between Democratic Party leaders and rank and file activists.
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09/03/09 – Michael Penn – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Penn, Executive Director of the Shingetsu Institute for the Study of Japanese-Islamic Relations, discusses the (nearly) first electoral loss for Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party since 1955, the balance between Japanese resentment over U.S. troop presence and the security of military protection, Japanese energy policy in the Middle East and how warmer relations with China would mean reduced dependence on the U.S.
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09/03/09 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, author of the article ‘Obama Is Leading the U.S. Into a Hellish Quagmire‘, discusses the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan that surpasses the levels during Soviet occupation, how Russia benefits from (and is gloating about) a U.S./Taliban stalemate, the slim chance of Russia’s inclusion in NATO and George F. Will’s ‘Walter Cronkite moment’ on Afghanistan.
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09/02/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses the void in Iraqi politics created by Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim’s death, Al-Maliki’s failure to reconcile with Sunni nationalist groups, shifting coalitions within the United Iraqi Alliance and the overstated increase in Iraqi violence since the U.S. troop pullback
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