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George W. Bush’s Somalia Legacy
Suicide Terrorism. Also, here, the Post, which supported and helped lie on behalf of each and every one of Bush/Cheney's acts of mass murder, now admits to the public that, "The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably...
Interviews of Me
Here's one from the 12th on Free Talk Live with Ian, Mark and Sam. (Last hour). And here's one from (very early) this morning on Break the Matrix radio with Kurt Wallace. (starts at approximately 63:30)
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn’t work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence skyrocketed, and we continue to see it now, with ubiquitous street drugs, gang violence and millions of people in prison for nonviolent crimes. The public health problem of drug use is very real, Carpenter readily concedes, but that doesn’t in any way imply that the answer is to use the police force and the penal system to try to solve it. In fact, countries like Portugal provide case studies in the ways that decriminalization can lead to lower levels of drug use and far lower levels of the secondary problems caused not by drug use per se, but by the fact that drugs are made to be black market commodities: turf wars, violent crime, dangerously adulterated supplies and police abuse. The failed war on drugs, he says, has had even further-ranging consequences, including being responsible, in large part, for America’s immigration crisis.
Discussed on the show:
- NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur
- “Bloodbath in Mexico: Another gift of US drug and drone wars” (Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft)
Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Photo IQ; Green Mill Supercritical; Zippix Toothpicks; and Listen and Think Audio.
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08/15/08 – Pat Buchanan – The Scott Horton Show
Pat Buchanan, conservative commentator and author, most recently of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, discusses the crisis in Georgia, why he thinks the Russian action on behalf of South Ossetia was justified, comparisons between Russian moves in the Caucasus to interwar Germany and Britain, the stupidity of the war guarantees and new missile defense systems going into Eastern Europe, the limits of American imperial power and the question of whether the administration gave Saakashvili the green light to attack South Ossetia.
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08/15/08 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, discusses his new open letter to Colin Powell, he and Powell’s similar backgrounds growing up in the Bronx and time spent working together in the White House in the 1980s, the withholding of the Sabri and Habbush no-WMD intelligence before the Iraq war from Powell and other leading figures in the Bush cabinet, the necessity of a Congressional investigation and a Powell’s testimony about what really happened, Rep. John Conyers duty as chair of the judiciary committee, Bush’s trip to CIA headquarters on Thursday and the Bush family tradition of pardoning their loyal underlings for crimes committed at their direction.
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08/14/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent for Canada’s Sun National Media and author of War at the Top of the World, discusses the complicated politics of the Caucasus region, U.S. and Israeli arming and training of Georgian troops, the Ossetia fiasco, McCain’s foreign policy handler Randy Scheunemann and his relationship with the Saakashvili regime, the fight within the military industrial pentagon complex over whether to focus on imperial occupations or preparing for war with great powers, the dangerous foolishness of NATO expansion, the self-serving hypocrisy of America and Russia’s leaders, the ignored U.S. sponsored regime change in Somalia, McCain’s 3AM moment and emulation of the Kaiser, the rift between Pakistan and India over religion, Kashmir and Afghanistan, Dick Armitage’s threat to totally destroy Pakistan after 9/11 and the new great game in Central Asia.
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08/12/08 – Brendan O’Neill – The Scott Horton Show
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online, discusses the conflict between Georgia and Russia over Ossetia, including the blame due the U.S. for supporting and arming Georgia, the hypocrisy of western leaders and media for condemning Russia while they sow catastrophe in the Balkans and Iraq, Russia’s motivation, U.S. infiltration of the region under the guise of the ‘War on Terror,’ and the bankruptcy of the American-Anglo empire’s claim of moral authority.
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08/11/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, discusses the slightly less violent, yet still horrific, conditions in Iraq, the fear and violence that dominates daily life there, the various factions influencing Maliki, the Sunni ‘Awakening’ movement and the volatile tensions in Kurdistan.
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08/08/08 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative reporter Joe Lauria discusses the series he co-wrote for the London Times about the Sibel Edmonds case, including the 30 year Washington connection to the A.Q. Kahn nuclear black-market operation, the difficulty in corroborating stories about such a secretive subject, the inability of American mainstream media to diverge from the status quo, how the Tinner family fits into the story and the history of the military-industrial-congressional complex as told in the new book he’s co-authored with former senator Mike Gravel, A Political Odyssey.
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08/08/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses his recent article ‘How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq,’ the revelations in Ron Suskind’s book, the systemic cherry-picking of intelligence to justify the decision to invade Iraq, George Tenet’s priorities, Doug Feith’s possible involvement in the forgeries and the schism between America’s imperial intentions and outcomes.
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08/07/08 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News and author of Beyond the Green Zone, discusses the new effort by the Maliki government to allow the former Sunni insurgency – now known at the ‘Sons of Iraq’ or ‘Concerned Local Citizens’ – into the police forces in Baquba in order to fight ‘al Qaeda in Iraq,’ the various militias’ within the government and their primary loyalties, precarious politics in Kirkuk, Maliki’s statements in favor of American withdrawal, the irony of the U.S. backing the also-Iranian-backed Dawa Party and Supreme Islamic Council since the elections of ‘05 and danger to U.S. troops in the event of war with Iran.
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