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Update: Fox exit poll: 10% say Iraq war top issue. I guess the Surge┞¢ worked after all.
The Show: Robert Parry
Robert Parry will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, November 4th. Parry will be on at 12:15PM Eastern. Robert Parry is an investigative journalist who won the George Polk Award in 1984 for reporting on the Iran-Contra affair...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
5/13/21 Jim Bovard on the Dangerous Consequences of America’s Secret Police State
Jim Bovard discusses the way the American surveillance state has slowly dismantled the fourth amendment, especially thanks to the FISA courts and the way they’ve enabled legal loopholes for spying on nearly any American citizen. Bovard cites interventions by the NSA and FBI as major factors in Trump’s failure to win re-election in November, and says similar activity has most likely compromised dozens of high-profile politicians in the past. All Americans should be able to agree that the intelligence apparatus is an obstacle to liberty and flourishing in this country.
Discussed on the show:
- “FISA and the Still Too Secret Police” (The American Conservative)
- “The lies and conspiracy theories from neocon ‘crazies’ that fueled Iraq war are subject of new history” (Mondoweiss)
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- “The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant” (The Guardian)
- “Clear and Present Danger (1994)” (IMDb)
- Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Jim Bovard is a columnist for USA Today and the author of Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard.
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
04/22/07 – 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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04/18/07 – Mike McNulty – The Scott Horton Show
Mike McNulty, producer of Waco: The Rules of Engagement, Waco: A New Revelation and The FLIR Project explains the proof of his contention that the U.S. Army Delta Force (Combat Applications Group) was sent by Bill and Hillary Clinton to Waco and how they helped the FBI Hostage Rescue Team mass murder 86 men, women and children in broad daylight, in front of everybody, live on TV, call it a suicide and get away with it.
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04/17/07 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Professor Juan Cole explains the splits and similarities inside the Shi’ite political factions in Iraq, the recent Sadr-inspired protests, accusations that Sadr is the tool of Iran, how our government lies when they blame American deaths on Iran-backed militias, tensions between the governments of Kurdistan and Turkey and the ability of local powers to work out their own problems.
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04/17/07 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Former Constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald discusses the constitutional limits on the President’s war powers, the sad history of the government’s lack of compliance with these rules, the radical and totalitarian impulse of our neoconservatives today, the neocon/Federalist Society’s bogus “Unitary Executive theory,” Rudy Giuliani’s embrace of the idea of unlimited power for himself and the new peace and freedom realignment of the liberal left, paleo-right and libertarians.
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04/13/07 – Behzad Yaghmaian – The Scott Horton Show
Behzad Yaghmaian, discusses the history of American regime change in Iran, the tyranny of the American puppet, the Shah Pahlavi and his brutal SAVAK, the tyranny of the Ayatollahs who took his place, why American ‘help’ hurts reformers and fears that if Bush bombs them the repercussions for millions of people all over the world will be disastrous.
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