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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
8/16/21 Andrew Cockburn on the Legacy of Zalmay Khalilzad
Scott talks to Andrew Cockburn about his 2014 article on Afghan-born neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad. Cockburn explains how it was Khalilzad who selected new leaders for Afghanistan and Iraq after the old regimes had fallen to U.S. forces. Scott and Cockburn also touch on Khalilzad’s role in “the Redirection” when the U.S. began backing bin Ladenite groups in an attempt to counter Iran. In the end, Scott and Cockburn think Khalilzad deserves a lot of blame for the current problems in the middle east. However, he also deserves credit for following Trump’s order and negotiating a deal with the Taliban.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Long Shadow of a Neocon” (Harper’s Magazine)
- “How the US military got rich from Afghanistan” (The Spectator World)
- “The Redirection” (The New Yorker)
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins. Follow him on Twitter @andrewmcockburn.
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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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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07/18/08 – 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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07/17/08 – 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 – 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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07/16/08 – 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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07/15/08 – 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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07/14/08 – L. Neil Smith – The Scott Horton Show
L. Neil Smith discusses how the political establishment controls supplies to sway markets, the millennium old clash of civilizations and aggressive tendencies of all religions, the story of The Probability Broach, the continuous liars who are writing the history books, the Waco tragedy, the danger of retuning U.S. occupation enforcers turning into local cops, the over-militarization of the American police forces and Hamilton’s attempt at forming an American Monarchy.
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07/11/08 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran and the smokescreen of diplomatic progress, how Iran’s recent promise of retaliation has raised the stakes by ensuring limited U.S. strikes would be inadequate, how facts and reason are irrelevant since the neocons in command believe they can generate their own realities, the need for Congress to reduce the level of tension not increase it with their current pending Iran war resolutions, how the War Party’s aggressive rhetoric towards Iran only helps their hardliners, Iran’s nuclear program as pretext for regime change, the dubious origins of the ‘smoking laptop,’ the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against Iran and the need for American business to demand Congress put an end to the march to war.
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