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Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste
Like for example, if some lone nut shoots less than a dozen others and then himself yesterday... Then call out the U.S. Army today.
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Charles "Chas" Freeman [ironically] in the neocon-dominated Wall St. Journal upon being un-hired to what was to be his new position leading the National Intelligence Council - an effort thwarted by indicted Israeli spy Steve Rosen, Jeffery "I will never ever be able...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/01/21 Peter Van Buren on the Stages of America’s Imperial History
Scott is joined by Peter Van Buren to discuss some recent articles he wrote for The American Conservative. Van Buren used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on his experience on that day, as well as how the attacks fit into the larger story of America’s quest for global dominance. Scott and Van Buren also discuss the future of this quest. Finally, Van Buren shares a story of how a job he was tasked with forced him to confront the truth about America’s role in the world.
Discussed on the show:
- “It Looks Like We Forgot” (The American Conservative)
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.” (Washington Post)
- American Raj Liberation Or Domination? by Eric Margolis
- “Peter Bergen is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy” (Antiwar.com)
- 24 – IMDb
- “The Widowed And The Fatherless” (The American Conservative)
Peter Van Buren worked for 24 years at the Department of State including a year in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and the novel Hooper’s War. He is now a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine.
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; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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04/21/09 – Sauvik Chakraverti – The Scott Horton Show
Sauvik Chakraverti, author of Antidote: Essays Against The Socialist Indian State, discusses the upcoming Indian elections, the fascist tendencies of the Hindu BJP party, the growing influence of libertarian thought in India and how the Mumbai terrorist attack could have been prevented if Indians had the right to bear arms.
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04/21/09 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author of the article ‘Obama’s War‘ in GQ Magazine, discusses the skepticism among some high-ranking military officers about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, the inevitability of diplomatic negotiations with the Taliban, the permeation of Afghan society by the drug trade and the frightening talk about a 25 year U.S. committment to Afghanistan and the broader region.
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04/21/09 – Jeff Stein – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Stein, Spy Talk columnist for Congressional Quarterly, discusses his breaking news story about the alleged NSA wiretap recording of Rep. Jane Harmon agreeing to intervene on behalf of two AIPAC employees accused of espionage in exchange for help getting appointed chair of the House Intelligence Committee and why then-Attorney General Gonzales intervened to close the case before it could really begin.
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04/17/09 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the China fear-mongering used to fend off U.S. defense budget cuts, the future of artificial intelligence warfare, the seeming normalcy of U.S. interventionist foreign policy and how Woodrow Wilson ruined the 20th century for everyone.
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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 – 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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