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The final proof that there is, in fact, no God:
Vice President Cheney charged Sunday morning on CNN that President Obama is using the recession ‘to try to justify’ what is probably the largest expansion of federal authority ‘in the history of the Republic.’
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WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with President Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly explained to the nation's first African-American commander in chief the highly classified origin of crack cocaine and the resultant...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/30/21 Patrick Cockburn: The ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan is Far From Over
Scott and Patrick Cockburn speculate about the future of Afghanistan as the United States ends its military involvement there. Cockburn reminds us that although the Taliban are making gains in parts of the country, they are far from universally popular, and the likelihood of an entirely Taliban-controlled Afghanistan seems somewhat low. This, he stresses, means that “the war in Afghanistan” is not going to be over anytime soon, just because the U.S. is leaving—and fighting between the various powers there may continue indefinitely without us.
Discussed on the show:
- “The forever war in Afghanistan is far from over” (Independent)
Patrick Cockburn is the Middle East correspondent for The Independent and the author of The Age of Jihad and Chaos & Caliphate.
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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04/17/09 – James Bamford – The Scott Horton Show
James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, discusses the NSA’s excessive domestic spying, how all the necessary intelligence gathering tools were available pre-9-11, the second life of Total Information Awareness (TIA) in the NSA and the Israeli government-connected companies involved in U.S. intelligence gathering.
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04/17/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the torture memos [.pdf] released at Obama’s behest, delays in the Spanish war crimes case against Bush administration lawyers, the Orwellian torture procedures revealed in the memos and the legal precedents for prosecuting crime-enabling lawyers.
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04/15/09 – Stephen Weber – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Weber, Chief Operating Officer of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, discusses a new opinion poll that indicates Americans are ready for open relations with Cuba, the Obama administration’s loosening of Cuba restrictions back to Clinton-era levels and the many areas of Democrat and Republican agreement on Cuba policy.
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04/13/09 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the broken deals that prompted Iran to establish an independent nuclear program, the near-impossibility of Iran making secret nuclear weapons under IAEA supervision, Carter-era restrictions on nuclear power generation and the Bush administration’s attack on the international non-proliferation regime.
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04/13/09 – John Basil Utley – The Scott Horton Show
John Basil Utley, associate publisher of The American Conservative, discusses the directly proportional relationship between lengthy congressional incumbency and pro-war attitudes, the left-right alliance needed to curb military spending, the military-industrial-congressional complex and the narrowing political divide in the U.S. (except the south).
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04/13/09 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the Iraqi government’s unwillingness to incorporate Sunni ‘Awakening Councils’ into the regular army, the walled-off autonomous conclaves within Baghdad, the decimation of Iraq’s health care system and forty years of U.S. meddling in Iraqi affairs.
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04/10/09 – Mark Almond – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Almond, Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, discusses the discontent about elections in Moldova, the devastation wreaked by neoliberal economics, the encroachment of NATO recruitment on former soviet states, political instability in Georgia and Kosovo and the bureaucratic inertia in NATO that seeks continual expansion.
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04/10/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the nefarious origin of the state secrets privilege, the ways in which Obama has exceeded the Bush administration on secrecy invocations, the fight over releasing the few remaining Bush torture memos and the Obama administration’s foot-dragging over prosecuting Bush-era crimes.
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