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Rep. Ron Paul M.D. in Opposition to House Gaza Resolution
Thanks to Lew. Also, Bob Dreyfuss discusses Bush's abstention in the last UNSC vote.
U.S. Senate Unanimously Approves Resolution Backing Israel in Gaza Slaughter
Shame.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/15/21 Ted Snider on Why the US Prefers Iranian Hardliners
Scott talks to Ted Snider about America’s relationship with Iran and Syria. Iran has just elected a new president, Ibrahim Raisi, who Snider says is much more of a hardliner than his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani was the one who worked with the Obama administration on the JCPOA, so on the surface it seems that Raisi’s more obstinate stance toward the U.S. will be to America’s disadvantage. But Snider goes on to explain a bizarre dynamic that pervades American—and especially neoconservative—foreign policy: the U.S. government will push for moderate leaders in Iran, then discredit their reformist positions by betraying our agreements (as President Trump did with the JCPOA), which in turn give rise to more radical, conservative leaders in their place. And Snider suspects that this pattern is deliberate. The establishment war planners in Washington want Iran to be America’s arch-nemesis, and moderate reformers stand in the way of that portrayal. Needless to say, none of this is actually good for the American people.
Discussed on the show:
- “Why Are We Still at War with Syria?” (Antiwar.com)
- “Iran’s Election: Making Your Iranian Nightmares Come True” (Antiwar.com)
- “Why I’m Rooting for the Hardliner in Iran’s Elections” (POLITICO Magazine)
- “The Redirection” (The New Yorker)
- Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear
Ted Snider has a graduate degree in philosophy and writes on analyzing patterns in U.S. foreign policy and history. He is a regular writer for Truthout, MondoWeiss and antiwar.com.
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06/30/08 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, writer for the Independent Institute, the Future of Freedom Foundation, and LewRockwell.com, discusses the Republican crimes which increase the warfare/welfare/police state and how the Congressional Democrats go along, not out of fear that they’ll be called cowards, but because they simply want the power for themselves.
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06/30/08 – Seymour Hersh – The Scott Horton Show
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Dr. Gordon Prather, Antiwar.com’s in-house nuclear physicist, discusses the chaos of the Bush regime’s policies against the ‘Axis of Evil’ and global non-proliferation regime, from trying to frame North Korea with the same bogus intel as they used on Iraq to trying to connect Iran and North Korea with the Israeli-bombed facility in Syria, the U.S.’s nuclear deals with India, how A.Q. Kahn’s stolen intel scheme was falsely claimed by George Tenet to be a CIA success story, the vague credentials of nuke ‘expert’ David Albright Ph.D and how the Bush team has put us in far more danger from nuclear proliferation.
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06/25/08 – Clay Ramsay – The Scott Horton Show
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06/25/08 – Trevor Lyman – The Scott Horton Show
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06/23/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, blogger at Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses the particulars of the congressional Democrats’ sellout of the 4th Amendment and complete capitulation to the Bush administrations’ lawless wiretapping program and the new realignment for liberty.
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06/23/08 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan, discusses the American media’s abandonment of the Iraq war as a topic worth covering, the humanitarian catastrophe that continues to deteriorate, the ‘excess deaths’ in Iraq since the invasion, the total number of Iraqis killed with American complicity over the years, America’s government’s on-off relationship with Saddam Hussein, the failure of the ‘surge’ to allow for 5 million refugees to return to their homes.
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06/23/08 – Melvin Goodman – The Scott Horton Show
Melvin Goodman, author of Failure of Intelligence: The Rise and Fall of the CIA, discusses problems with the CIA, how the serial intelligence manipulator Robert Gates was brought in to replace Rumsfeld only after Rumsfeld started talking about withdrawal, the history of distorting intelligence to fit the policy, how the military runs the intelligence apparatus, Congress’s indifference to the Constitutional crisis and our inevitable failures in Iraq and the militarily-led war on terror.
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