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Impeach Olmert!
Apparently, he, not George W. Bush, is President of the United States. Therefore, I would like to see him impeached, removed, indicted, prosecuted under the War Crimes act, and ultimately sentenced to hang to death (after all of his appeals are exhausted, of course).
Saturdays are good days for reading Robert Higgs
This one is called, "The Latest Reported Bankruptcy: Mainstream Economics."
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/17/21 Matthew Hoh on the Systemic Failures Behind America’s Loss in Afghanistan
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh, the Marine veteran who blew the whistle about the doomed Afghan Surge. Hoh lays out what led him to resign in protest and go to the press with the truth about how hopeless the military’s counterinsurgency mission really was. Hoh then explains that, while he is upset that few listened to him back then, he is more disappointed about how many of his colleagues agreed with him, but kept their agreement quiet. Scott and Hoh go through the history of the Obama surge and observe how the pundits and generals who were the most wrong tended to get rewarded with promotions and fame. Finally, Hoh talks about resources available to veterans who are struggling and opens up about how those resources have helped him.
Discussed on the show:
- “US Official Resigns Over Afghan War” (Washington Post)
- About Face
- Obama’s Wars
- Carlotta Gall at the New York Times
- The Soldier’s Heart by Jacob George
- “What America Didn’t Understand About It’s Longest War” (Politico)
- “The Afghanistan Papers” (Washington Post)
- The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
- Kelley Vlahos at Responsible Statecraft
- “Afghanistan Veterans Struggling with News of Taliban Takeover” (Defense One)
- VA.gov
Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Hoh is a member of the Board of Directors for Council for a Livable World and is an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts. He writes on issues of war, peace and post-traumatic stress disorder recovery at https://matthewhoh.com/ .
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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Recommended reading
07/31/08 – Larry Velvel – The Scott Horton Show
Larry Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law and sponsor of the upcoming Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals, featuring Francis Boyle, Vincent Bugliosi, Philippe Sands and others, discusses the many crimes of the Bush administration, the history of unaccountability of our leaders, the legal gymnastics perpetrated by the Bush regime lawyers, the immunity clauses of the Military Commission Act and how they might effect potential foreign prosecutions of American war criminals.
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07/30/08 – Fred Kaplan – The Scott Horton Show
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate and author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, discusses his recent article: ‘How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You To Think‘ which lays out McCain’s many foreign policy misstatements and mistakes including wanting to kick Russia out of the G8 and start a ‘League of Democracies’ to bypass the U.N., his wish to take policy back to the early years of the Bush administration and how the McCain/neocon view falsely assumes the U.S. can and should rule the world.
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07/30/08 – John Judis – The Scott Horton Show
John B. Judis, senior editor of the New Republic and author of The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, discusses the importance of Trotskyism to neoconservative thought, John McCain’s change from skeptic to cheerleader for intervention, relationship with the neocons and the dangerous mix between his volatile temperament and his views on foreign policy.
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07/29/08 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, former CIA analyst and author of the Blowback Trilogy, discusses his recent article: ‘The Military-Industrial Complex-It’s Much Later Than You Think‘ explaining the pervasive privatization of the intelligence industry, the history of corporatism and empire in America, total corruption of Congress and the inevitable end of empire.
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07/28/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism officer and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the possibility of and precedents for an Israeli ‘False Flag’ operation in Iraq to frame Iran and draw the U.S. into attacking, the conflicts within the administration over Iran policy, the likely catastrophic consequences of any attack, U.S. covert operations within Iran, America’s support of the Iranian Islamic Revolution back in 1979, how real conservative principles apply to foreign policy, the extensive databases of ‘dangerous’ Americans kept by the government, total lack of accountability in Washington, provocative stance toward Russia and demented neocon view of the world.
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07/23/08 – Pat Buchanan – The Scott Horton Show
Pat Buchanan, political analyst, columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, discusses the British politicians’ colossal blunders that led them into World War I and II and the collapse of their empire, the consequences of American intervention in WWI and imposition of the Versailles Treaty, Hitler’s motive to regain the lands lost in the east and willingness to forsake former German provinces in the west out of his desire to avoid war with England and France, what really happened at Munich, the folly of the British war guarantee to Poland during their dispute with Hitler over Danzig and the real lessons of the second World War.
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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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