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Robert Higgs on C-SPAN
David Theroux writes: Dear Lighthouse Reader, I am very pleased to alert you to two, very timely, upcoming C-SPAN TV programs featuring Independent Institute fellows: 1. Senior Fellow Robert Higgs will be the featured guest in an exclusive, three-hour interview on...
Hersh On NPR: Cheney Has Supporters Still In Position Inside The Government.
Hersh claims Cheney has purposely "left people behind" in positions of government who report to him, particularly in the defense department and NSA. Also, Obama is protecting Bush and Cheney from torture charges. Doug Feith appeared on O'Reilly last night to try and...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/24/21 Barbara Slavin on the True Winner of Iraq War 2
Scott interviews Barbara Slavin from the Atlantic Council. Slavin recently co-authored an article with Abbas Kadhim about how Iran’s influence in the middle east has grown substantially since the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. Slavin explains that the U.S. was more supportive of Iraq while they were engaged in a brutal war with Iran in the 80s, because the foreign policy establishment saw Iran as a bigger threat. Of course this changed in the 90s when George Bush Sr. launched a war against Iraq. And then there was the invasion in 2003 that disposed of Saddam. Scott and Slavin reflect on the ridiculous claims from that time arguing that regime change in Iraq would not hand Iran more influence, with some claiming it would weaken Iran by giving the U.S. leverage over the entire region.
Discussed on the show:
- “Iran ‘won’ the war with Iraq but at a heavy price” (Atlantic Council)
- Bruce Riedel overheard Bush’s phone call days after 9/11
- “After Sistani and Khamenei: looming successions will shape the Middle East” (Atlantic Council)
- A Clean Break
- Cheney 1994 interview
Barbara Slavin is director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Follow her on Twitter: @BarbaraSlavin1.
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08/03/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the troop surge increase and mission creep in Afghanistan, U.S. alliances with Central Asian despots, the subservience of the State Department to the Pentagon in foreign policy and consequences of the sanctions on Iran.
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07/31/09 – Jeremy Scahill – The Scott Horton Show
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the dwindling ranks of antiwar Democrats in Congress, the ‘cruise missile’ liberals that support war in Darfur without questioning the aims of U.S. imperialism, the mercenary surge accompanying the troop surge in Afghanistan, the history of bipartisan executive assassination programs and the ‘birther’ conspiracy theories that completely miss the point.
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07/31/09 – Michael Paterniti – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Paterniti, author of the article ‘Never Forget‘ in GQ Magazine, discusses the Khmer Rouge’s four year reign of terror, Cambodia’s ongoing trials of Khmer regime crimes, the notoriously brutal S-21 death camp, the destruction of individuality including the banning of smiles in the Khmer Rouge’s anti-society and the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia initiated by Nixon.
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07/30/09 – Eric Stoner – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Stoner, freelance journalist based in New York, discusses the use of nonviolence to force political changes, the decline in the antiwar movement after Obama’s election, the need for more creative and assertive protests, the replacement of soldiers with remote controlled robots and why there is no such thing as a humanitarian war.
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07/30/09 – Antiwar Radio, Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses Washington’s treatment of the Constitution as a legal suggestion, why real patriots are civil liberties extremists, evolving Democratic excuses for not prosecuting Bush administration war crimes and how governmental powers ‘temporarily’ increased during emergencies never fully recede.
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07/29/09 – Robert P. Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert P. Murphy, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism and The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and the New Deal, discusses modern warfare dependent on central bank money creation, Austrian economic theory entering mainstream vocabulary, the FED’s argument against a congressional audit, the consumer-driven economic theory that misses the production component, a new era of stagflation coming.
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07/29/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the Iraqi government’s more aggressive stance on the Mujahedin-e Khalq, how the Bush administration’s wishful thinking and ignorance guaranteed a disastrous Iraq policy, the de-emphasis of the MEK’s Islamic Marxism in U.S. Congress lobbying efforts and the political scheming behind the Iraq/U.S. Status of Forces Agreement.
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07/28/09 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show
Pepe Escobar, writer for the Asia Times, discusses the Pentagon’s ‘arc of instability’ that follows the same path as a potential Western-dominated oil pipeline, how U.S. aggression abroad has united Russia, China and Iran, the internal economic-fueled strife in China and Joe Biden’s wacky rant against Russia.
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