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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/16/21 Doug Bandow on the Calls for Intervention in Haiti and a Cold War With China
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the recent assassination of Haiti’s president and the ensuing calls for U.S. intervention. Bandow warns about the perils of interventions like this, even when they are seemingly justified by the noble cause of humanitarianism. In Haiti in particular, he says, a history of disastrous foreign intervention is fresh in people’s minds, and any military response is likely to backfire. Luckily, Bandow doesn’t think Biden is especially keen on responding to the calls for intervention in this case. Similarly, in the case of China, where the more hawkish members of America’s foreign policy establishment have been beating the war drum, Bandow believes Biden has no real desire for war. Unfortunately, with pressure shifting from the Middle East toward Russia and China, tensions could escalate quickly and even an accidental provocation could escalate to full-scale war if the world’s governments aren’t firmly and carefully committed to maintaining peace.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Tragedy of Haiti: Washington Should Keep Its Troops at Home” (Cato Institute)
- “State Department Cables” (WikiLeaks)
- “Wolf Warrior (2015)” (IMDb)
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular contributor at Forbes Magazine, the National Interest, and elsewhere. He’s on Twitter @Doug_Bandow.
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07/22/08 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire and regular columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses Congress’s abdication of its responsibility in declaring war to the president, the lawlessness of a wartime president, how the ignorant warmonger John McCain, missile ‘defense’ on Russia’s border, the pending ‘Law of the Sea Treaty’ and the War Party’s self-fulfilling attitude toward conflict with China.
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07/21/08 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show
David Bromwich, Sterling professor of English at Yale University and blogger at the Huffington Post, discusses the op-ed in the New York Times by Benny Morris advocating an American/Israeli attack on Iran, numerous reasons not to attack Iran, the difference between pre-emptive and preventive wars, the constant warmongering of the New York Times, the War Party and the media’s ignoring of the opinions of the American and the Iraqi citizenry and the usefulness of impeachment.
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07/18/08 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, discusses the recently released footage of Omar Khadr, the Canadian juvenile being held in Guantanamo, the dubious ‘charges’ against him, the legal black hole of the made-up ‘enemy combatant’ status, the evil and counterproductive nature of torture and the kangaroo court system in Guantanamo.
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07/18/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, reporter for IPS News, discusses the fight between the ‘realists’ and hawks in the Bush administration, the routine where Rice gets what she wants, but then Cheney makes her efforts meaningless — as in the case of William Burns’ trip to Geneva, George Bush Jr.’s complete inability to lead — thank goodness, crying wolf, the public’s distracted impotence to stop a war they oppose, the relative influence of the Israeli Lobby on Middle East policy in Congress and the White House, Ariel Sharon’s preference for the order of future regime changes, speculation that Cheney may have ‘learned’ a bunch of nonsense about a necessary clash of civilizations from Prinston historian Bernard Lewis after 9/11, the War Party’s former(?) belief in regime change from the air.
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07/17/08 – Peter Crail – The Scott Horton Show
Peter Crail discusses the ongoing negotiations with North Korea to understand and dismantle their nuclear programs, the dubious allegations about a DPRK secret uranium enrichment program and accusations about their involvement with the Syrians on plutonium production.
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07/16/08 – Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the crime of the Fed’s “bailout” of the big financial institutions and the cronyism between the two, the problems with our fractional reserve system, the destructive consequences of a close state-private business relationship, the perils of inflation on society, the possibility of a catastrophic global dollar sell-off, how our trade deficit is a symptom of the federal budget deficit whereby we flood China with extra dollars to buy our massive debt and the need to turn our mixed economy into a laissez faire market to take the advantage away from big connected business.
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07/16/08 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his recent article on the probable Israeli/U.S. attack on Iran, Israel’s need for new war in Iran to keep the U.S. military in the Mideast due to the failure in Iraq, the outspokenness of the military brass against an attack on Iran, AIPAC’s drafting of the new Iran war resolutions, Bush and Cheney’s loyalty to Israel, the never-ending conflicts created by the Israel occupation of Palestine, the need for the American people and Congress to understand the catastrophe that would ensue from attacking Iran and the urgency of impeachment.
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07/15/08 – Jon Eisenberg – The Scott Horton Show
Jon B. Eisenberg, partner in the law firm of Eisenberg and Hancock, discusses his article Suing George W. Bush: A Bizarre and Troubling Tale;’ his clients’ lawsuit against the Bush administration for illegally tapping their phone, how the feds accidentally handed them evidence proving that the NSA illegally spied on his clients and their standing to sue, the Kafkaesque states’ secrets runaround insisted upon by the government in order to try to evade justice, his teams various successes and the path ahead.
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