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Ron Paul Talks With Bob Sheiffer
My favorite is the part where he "admits" that he does not attend Caesar's speeches to the Congress. They are, he says, "unbearable." It's also fun to see how many edits there are in part two. Part one and Part two. Thanks to Lew.
Senator Whitehouse Warns Nation
Absolute horror to be revealed by torture hearings. Via the Daily Kos, which notes that Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/13/21 Aaron Maté on the Seemingly Forgotten American Occupation of Syria
Scott talks with journalist Aaron Maté about his recent piece bringing attention to the U.S. occupation of Syria. The U.S. military currently controls about a third of Syria with an official troop count of 900. But considering officials were willing to lie to the former president about the real troop numbers, Scott and Maté are skeptical of the official figures. Maté observes that even with bipartisan opposition to these “forever wars” the occupation of Syria remains a subject that’s not to be talked about. Maté has little hope it will come to an end anytime soon. While the official reason given for the military presence is the fight against ISIS, Maté shows that this claim falls apart after a small amount of digging. And that the real reason is to hold economic leverage against the Syrian regime as a way to support Israel in its not-so-cold war with Iran.
Discussed on the show:
- “To keep troops in Syria, US leaders are lying like in Afghanistan” (substack)
- Joe Kent on Tucker
- Dana Stroul giving the official reason for staying in Syria
- Pentagon Report admitting that the U.S. is not fighting ISIS in Syria, contradicting the official narrative
- “US military ‘owns’ 1/3rd of Syria, boasted top Biden Pentagon official, vowing to block reconstruction of ‘rubble’” (Grayzone)
Aaron Maté is an NYC-based journalist and producer. He hosts the news show Pushback for The Grayzone, and writes regularly for The Nation. Follow him on Twitter @AaronJMate.
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02/03/09 – Allan Nairn – The Scott Horton Show
Allan Nairn, author of the article ‘The Torture Ban That Doesn’t Ban Torture‘ on Counterpunch.org, discusses the Executive Order that does indeed ban torture under limited and specific conditions, how torture under U.S. auspices is legal if the work is outsourced to foreigners, the possible complicity of human rights groups in allowing the continuation of extraordinary renditions and the alarming history of Dennis Blair, Obama’s new national intelligence director.
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02/03/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, discusses the enormous and expanding U.S. defense budget amidst a general economic collapse, the army of defense lobbyists ready to fight against any spending cuts, how military spending diverts economic resources away from beneficial uses and how defense contractors make the largest and most dubious defense projects into sacred cows by spreading production to as many congressional districts as possible.
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02/03/09 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the Bush administration’s foreign policy legacy, why maintaining a U.S. military presence in S. Korea makes less sense than ever, the difficulty of negotiating alternative U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan while taking a hard line on Russia and Iran, the high cost in Iraqi lives for their ‘liberation’ from one authoritarian government to another and the demise of Bush’s two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
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02/02/09 – Stephen Zunes – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses his recent article ‘Obama Gathering a Flock of Hawks to Oversee U.S. Foreign Policy,’ the mixed-bag of appointments from holdover Bush Republicans to recycled Clinton-era staffers, the particularly terrible work history of Richard Holbrooke and the importance of organized political pressure in ensuring that Obama is the agent of change he claims to be. to be.
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02/02/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the article ‘Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision’, discusses the rift within the military on the issue of troop withdrawal from Iraq, the apparent attempt by Robert Gates and Generals Petraeus and Odierno to undermine Obama’s planned Iraq withdrawal timeline, the NIE Iran report and the Iranian nuclear hedging strategy and the fight over control of the foreign policy narrative and who ultimately is to blame for historical failure.
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02/02/09 – Justin Raimondo – The Scott Horton Show
Justin Raimondo, editorial director for Antiwar.com, discusses Vladimir Putin’s red-baiting of Soviet America, the U.S. military’s use of old Soviet supply lines into Afghanistan, how the incredible U.S./Russia role reversal confirms the existence of Bizarro World, why the crumbling U.S. economy won’t stop an Afghanistan surge or prevent new interventions in Africa and how the use of logical deduction in figuring out U.S. foreign policy goals only leads to wild speculation.
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01/24/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of the January 24th article ‘For Detainees, Obama Off to Good Start‘, discusses Barack Obama’s initial executive orders regarding the closure of Gitmo and secret CIA prisons, the lengthy year-long review process for detainee trials, how the Bush administration’s torture policy ruined any opportunity to prosecute the few legitimate terrorism cases, the propaganda potential in the Pentagon’s loaded phrase ‘returned to the battlefield’ and the relatively low recidivism rate of detainees released from Guantanamo compared to ordinary American civilian prisons.
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01/24/09 – Dean Ahmad – The Scott Horton Show
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, discusses how the Israel/Palestine issue seen from a libertarian perspective defines the central conflict in terms of individual property rights, the difficulty in determining the motivation behind Israel’s recent – seemingly fruitless – military endeavors, the precipitous decline in non-Jewish land ownership in Israel from 1948 to the present day and the looming prospect of a democratic Jewish Israel with an Arab majority population.
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