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Bush Plans “Authoritarian” History
Plagiarized entirely from Jim Bovard: Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir ‘so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.’...
A Real New Global Currency?
This Telegraph article is not entirely clear. What is this "super-currency"? Is it backed by something other than U.S. debt? Which countries have agreed to treat it as legitimate? Is this bullshit for real or what? Thanks to David Kramer. Update: Why bother when...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/3/21 Coleen Rowley on the Many Ways 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented
Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies to the locking of cockpit doors. After the attacks, Rowley says bureaucratic changes alone would have been enough to prevent similar attacks from occurring again and been a lot less costly than launching wars and spying on the world’s population. But both Scott and Rowley observe that instead the tragedy was seized upon by people with predefined agendas, something they both find just as morally reprehensible as prior knowledge of the attacks.
Discussed on the show:
- Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- Press For Truth Movie
- Ray Nowosielski interview with Richard Clarke
- The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
- Coleen Rowley’s Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
- Her second letter to Mueller, right before the invasion of Iraq in 2003
- The Fall by Camus
Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent and lawyer who helped expose the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She was honored with TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2002. Find her on Twitter @ColeenRowley.
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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05/20/09 – Jeremy Scahill – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the continuous 18 year history of the U.S. bombing of Iraq, the Guantanamo Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) that brutalizes prisoners and even a U.S. soldier, Obama’s failure to improve detention facilities and how the Spanish Guantanamo torture investigation is proceeding apace while the U.S. dawdles.
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05/20/09 – David Rose – The Scott Horton Show
David Rose, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, discusses the torture case of Binyam Mohamed, why the over-the-top U.S. threats to the UK over torture documents in his case may be at the request of the British government, the ‘007”³ agent that exposes British claims of ignorance about torture as lies and the story behind the U.S. rejection of a 2004 reconciliation with Iraq’s Sunni leaders which led to the deaths of a million people.
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05/19/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses Obama’s plan to keep Bush’s Military Commissions Act powers over the American people and bring the Guantanamo legal system to the U.S. and the recent Supreme Court ruling
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05/19/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of the indispensable Blowback trilogy, discusses the evolution of his view of the Cold War and American empire since the fall of the Soviet Union, the inevitable collapse of the U.S. dollar and world empire, Obama’s LBJ guns and butter trap, the kicking-out of the empire by the people of Latin America, the danger of further intervention in Pakistan, the ongoing rape of Okinawa and America’s relationship with Russia.
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05/15/09 – Jeff Riggenbach – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Riggenbach, author of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, discusses the role of Charles Beard and Harry Elmer Barnes in advancing revisionist U.S. history, court historians who fight to preserve a mythology of benevolent government actions, drastic changes in the meaning of politically descriptive terms like ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ and moving away from a war/presidential perspective of history to a focus on economic/social science issues.
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05/15/09 – Rand Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul and 2010 Senatorial candidate, discusses the war in Afghanistan, reducing corruption by making lobbying and bidding on government contracts mutually exclusive, the excess federal authority derived from the commerce clause, prosecutions of Bush administration officials for war crimes and the need for withdrawal from Iraq.
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05/14/09 – Kelly B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos, longtime political reporter for FoxNews.com, discusses her controversial article ‘Gian Gentile: Exposing Counterfeit COIN,’ the enduring myth of the Petraeus ‘surge’ success story, the re-emergence of a counterintelligence cult devoted to the clear-build-hold doctrine and the prominent role the neoliberal CNAS plays in the Obama administration.
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05/14/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the newly assertive U.S. role in relations with Israel, how ending nationalism-inspiring threats against Iran will allow a moderate government to take hold, Israel’s inability to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities without U.S. help, how missile defense provokes nuclear proliferation and why nuclear weapons can and should be abandoned in our lifetimes.
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