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Impeach Bush!
And it's not too late to hold a trial in the Senate. Seriously though, The Other Scott Horton's great Harper's article, "Justice After Bush" is now online. My take is forget commissions, just keep hiring special prosecutors until Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet,...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/12/21 Ray McGovern on the History of US-Russia Relations and the Threat of a New Cold War
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about his decades as a CIA analyst, with a particular focus on U.S.–Russia policy from Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. They also discuss America’s growing antagonism toward Russia and China in recent years, and the attempt to expand NATO eastward. McGovern describes not only the many follies of incompetent and hubristic government officials, but also the ways that special interests—like those of the military-industrial complex—are often deliberately advanced at the expense of the well-being of American citizens.
Discussed on the show:
- Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace: Third Edition
- The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
- JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
- JFK: The Smoking Gun
- “JFK (1991)” (IMDb)
- The Yankee and Cowboy War
- “Opinion | Chicken Kiev, the Sequel” (The New York Times)
- “The Putin Interviews” (SHOWTIME)
- “The Rape of Russia, Testimony of Anne Williamson Before the House Banking Committee” (Softpanorama)
- “TIME Magazine Cover: Boris Yeltsin – July 15, 1996 – Boris Yeltsin” (TIME)
- “Ideologies behind the Soviet Power” (Foreign Affairs)
- “Opinion | Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X” (The New York Times)
- Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- “The Real Reason to Intervene in Syria” (Foreign Policy)
- “NYET means NYET” (WikiLeaks)
- “Opinion | What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria” (The New York Times)
- “Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call” (BBC News)
- “The Afghanistan Papers” (Washington Post)
Ray McGovern is the co-creator of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the former chief of the CIA’s Soviet analysts division. Read all of his work at his website: raymcgovern.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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06/11/08 – Jahangir Golestan-Parast – The Scott Horton Show
Jahangir Golestan-Parast discusses his new movie Bam 6.6 about the massive earthquake in Iran 2003, and the unfortunate reality that it takes a catastrophe to bring humans together as they should always be, and the need for people to experience other cultures to fully appreciate each other.
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06/11/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn discusses his recent articles about how the U.S. is blackmailing Iraq to submit to permanent enslavement with 58 military bases and U.S. soldier immunity, how the Iranian influenced factions will respond to this treaty, Iraq’s history of foreign occupation by the British eighty years ago, the sectarian destabilization caused by all occupations, the free-flow of arms in Iraq caused not by the Iranian government but by free-market economics, and the inevitable blowback from immoral invasions and occupations.
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06/08/08 – Karen Kwiatkowski – The Scott Horton Show
Pentagon whistleblower and libertarian writer Karen Kwiatkowski discusses the importance of radicalism and principle in American life as the empire collapses, the modern American secession movements in the Lakota Nation, Hawaii and Vermont, the costs of empire, the growing police state, how the neoconservative cabal in the Pentagon lied this country into war in 2002 and 2003 and the sickness of Dick Cheney.
Her best articles on the OSP are here, here, here, here, and here. See also this, this, this and this.
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06/03/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses his newest article: ‘How Cheney Outfoxed His Foes On Iran And EFP’s,’ about how Cheney used General Patraeus to circumvent the intelligence agency’s disagreement with the War Party about supposed Iranian provided EFP’s to Shi’ite militias in Iraq.
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06/03/08 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
IPS’s Jim Lobe discusses the role of the Israel Lobby in American politics, why groups like AIPAC lean so far right compared to most American Jews, AIPAC’s immense influence, how the Christian-right’s support of Israel is simply an ‘instrumentalist’ means to an apocalyptic end and the Lobby’s role in U.S. Iran policy.
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06/02/08 – Christopher Ketcham – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance reporter Christopher Ketcham, author of a new piece called ‘The Last Roundup‘ for Radar magazine, discusses the ‘Continuity Of Government’ (COG) plan to keep government operating after a national emergency such as a nuclear strike, effectively suspending the Constitution and turning the country into a fascist military dictatorship, the history of COG going back to the Cold War and it’s partial implementation after 9/11, DHS’s ‘Main Core’ and other databases and lists of dissidents kept ready by the government, the measures in place for total police state after the next crisis, the pending collapse of America resulting from the suicide-pact with the military industrial complex and the possibilities to reverse this course.
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06/02/08 – Matthis Chiroux – The Scott Horton Show
Sgt. Matthis Chiroux discusses his refusal to redeploy to Iraq because of the illegality of the invasion, his role as an Army propagandist, how the Iraq Veterans Against the War helped him realize he wasn’t alone in opposing the illegal occupation and the widespread and neglected PTSD suffered by so many vets.
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05/30/08 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Dr. Gordon Prather, nuclear physicist and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush administration’s hegemonic aspirations and the obstacle posed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation regime, he details the NPT and IAEA procedures and mechanics, the recent confirmation from former White House spokesman Scott McClellan of the White House Iraq Group and their propaganda blitz to convict Iraq during the lead-up to the invasion, the pentagon’s ex-general cheerleading squad hired to promote the invasion, the new IAEA report declaring Iran has no nuclear weapons program [.pdf] — just like the many compiled for Iraq and the suspicious ‘stolen laptop‘ provided to the IAEA indirectly by Israeli intelligence.
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