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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
4/16/21 Ray McGovern: Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about America’s perilous foreign policy stance in Eastern Europe. Over the last few years, the U.S. has increasingly thrown its support behind Ukraine—and specifically the pro-Western, anti-Russian forces in that country. This policy has shown itself to be extremely dangerous, given Russia’s clear willingness to go to war to defend its interests in Crimea and on its own border. Luckily, explains McGovern, the Biden administration seems to have backed down for the time being from a commitment to a full defense of Ukraine against Russia.
Discussed on the show:
- “Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine” (Antiwar.com)
- “White House: Intel on Russian ‘bounties’ on US troops shaky” (wfmz.com)
- “Our Work with the DNC: Setting the record straight” (CrowdStrike)
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
- “Why America Can’t End Its ‘Forever Wars’” (Newsweek)
- “[Letter from Washington] | A Very Perfect Instrument, by Andrew Cockburn” (Harper’s Magazine)
- “In Midst of War, Ukraine Becomes Gateway for Jihad” (The Intercept)
- “Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call” (BBC News)
- “”F the EU!” – Victoria Nuland phoning with Geoffrey Pyatt” (YouTube)
- “Nyet Means Nyet” (WikiLeaks)
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, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Photo IQ; Green Mill Supercritical; Zippix Toothpicks; and Listen and Think Audio.
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Recommended reading
04/26/07 – Sara Olson – The Scott Horton Show
Sara Olson discusses the rights and plight of antiwar soldiers, many who have refused to participate, others who will fight despite their opposition to the war, those who have risked their own liberty to take a principled stand against the war and what soldiers really think about domestic dissent.
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04/24/07 – David Beito – The Scott Horton Show
History professor David Beito discusses the history of America’s empire and the movements that have opposed it.
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04/24/07 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
The great libertarian author James Bovard discusses his new article for The American Conservative, “Working for the Clampdown,” about the new martial law powers in the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act.
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04/23/07 – Justin Raimondo – The Scott Horton Show
Justin Raimondo discusses Iraq, Left, Right and prospects for an anti-imperialist realignment, the neocons, China, Africa, Russia and the AIPAC trial.
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04/22/07 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
The Ludwig von Mises Institutes‘s Robert Murphy discusses his new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism and the problems caused by government intervention, particularly in regards to America’s relationships with the rest of the world.
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04/20/07 – Dilip Hiro – The Scott Horton Show
Dilip Hiro, author of Secrets and Lies: Operation “Iraqi Freedom” and After: A Prelude to the Fall of U.S. Power in the Middle East? and 27 other books, discusses the end of the Iraqi Shia’s patience with the U.S. occupation and the relationships between the different Shia power blocks in Iraq’s south.
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04/18/07 – Andrew Cockburn pt.2 – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar Radio Exclusive: Revealed by Andrew Cockburn April 18, 2007: When Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced, on March 26, 1997, that Iraqi sanctions would stay in place despite the UN inspectors success it was an effort to preempt UN inspection chief Ralf Ekeus’s pending announcement that Iraq was to be certified “free” of “weapons of mass destruction.” (at 22:40)
This, as Cockburn explains, led Saddam to decide there was no further point in allowing the inspectors access to his palaces. (Former UN inspector Scott Ritter has maintained, including to this radio host, that the only purpose for the inspections after 1996 was to allow American spies to opportunity to assassinate Saddam Hussein.) This allowed Bill Clinton to falsely claim that Saddam had kicked them out of the country, launch his “Operation Desert Fox” bombing campaign (on the day the full House of Representatives were to begin debating Articles of Impeachment against him), and for the War Party to claim to this day that there must have been weapons there.
Also: Cockburn and General Anthony Zinni’s belief that the neocons plan B after installing Chalabi as dictator fell through was to deliberately destroy Iraq (that is, all this “failure” is on purpose), the suffering of the Iraq people, Rumfeld’s bogus “transformation” of the military and more…
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04/18/07 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute and author of The Empire Has No Clothes explains the “enemy combatant” status used to imprison Jose Padilla and now put him on trial and the implications for the rest of us.
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