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Scott interviews Larry Johnson about the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska. Although they spoke hours before the actual meeting took place, Scott and Johnson discussed the wider context and likely consequences of this meeting.  

Discussed on the show:

• “The Putin Trump Summit: A Triumph for Putin, A Disaster for the Neocons” (Sonar21)

Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and a former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. Follow his analysis at Sonar21. 

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John Kiriakou discusses the case of hero whistleblower Daniel Hale, who helped expose the White House’s secret drone assassination program during the Obama administration. Hale has pled guilty to one charge under the espionage act, in an effort to win the mercy of the court, but he still faces four other charges, which at the moment the Justice Department is refusing to back down from. Hale is now facing at least some time in prison, but could be given a much longer sentence, depending on how things go in the coming months. Scott and Kiriakou remind us that, of course, Hale shouldn’t be facing any charges at all: the secret activities he exposed—namely the killing of civilians—are criminal, and therefore can’t be classified in the first place under U.S. law.

Discussed on the show:

• “JOHN KIRIAKOU: Duping a Whistleblower” (Consortium News)
• Stand with Daniel Hale
• “The Drone Papers: Secret documents detail the U.S. assassination program.” (The Intercept)
• The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program
  
• “National Bird (2016)” (IMDb)
• The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (Facts on File Crime Library)
  
• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  
• “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says” (The New York Times)
• “Podesta Email Leak” (WikiLeaks)
• “State Department Cables” (WikiLeaks)

John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies and Doing Time Like A Spy. He is the host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik Radio. Follow him on Twitter @JohnKiriakou.

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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Scott talks to the great Tom Woods about the latest happenings in Libertarian Party politics. Scott, Tom and many other committed libertarian activists have decided to join the LP recently in an effort to re-energize the movement and spread the principles of liberty. Much of this new energy is thanks to Michael Heiss of the Mises Caucus, who’s been spent the last few years organizing events with the likes of Tom and Scott, and has big things planned for the future.

Discussed on the show:

• “The American Lenin” (lneilsmith.org)
• “Scott’s Talk to the Colorado Libertarian Party Convention, May 22, 2021” (The Scott Horton Show)
• “Scott Horton’s Speech at the Pittsburgh Mises Caucus Convention” (Libertarian Party Mises Caucus)
• “Dave Smith 5/14/2021 – LP Mises Caucus “Take Human Action Bash” – Pittsburgh” (YouTube)

Tom Woods is the host of the Tom Woods Show and the author of numerous books including Real Dissent. Follow him on Twitter @ThomasEWoods.

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Scott interviews Jeremy Hammond about the real history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on the fact that, counter to the mainstream narrative, Israel has encouraged the rise of Hamas all along as a useful foil. Israel, Hammond explains, has never wanted a two-state solution, and when the PLO renounced terrorism and openly began supporting the idea of a two-state solution in the late 1980s, Hamas provided a convenient excuse for Israel to claim it couldn’t negotiate with the Palestinians at all. Hammond also refutes the claim that the Palestinians have repeatedly refused to negotiate peaceful settlements to the conflict, by going through all the supposed deals that they turned down.

Discussed on the show:

• “Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal | Charlie Rose” (YouTube)
• Oslo Accords
• Camp David Accords
• “The Palestine Papers” (Al Jazeera)

Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist, political analyst, and author. He wrote Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, along with many other books. Follow him on Twitter @jeremyrhammond.

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Scott and Pete Quinones talk about all the other libertarian and antiwar podcasts you should be listening to. Some are big names that every libertarian needs to know about, others are lesser-known up-and-comers that need all the support we can give them.

Discussed on the show:

• “Pete | The Libertarian Institute” (The Libertarian Institute)
• “Conflicts of Interest | The Libertarian Institute” (The Libertarian Institute)
• “Year Zero on Apple Podcasts” (Apple Podcasts)
• The Tom Woods Show
• “Part Of The Problem” (GaS Digital Network)
• “Anti-Neocon Report” (Google Podcasts)
• “Ron Paul Liberty Report” (Apple Podcasts)
• Lions of Liberty
• Free Talk Live
• For Canon Sake
• Thaddeus Russell
• “5/20/21 Gareth Porter on the Increasing Power Shift Toward Hard-Liners in Iran” (The Libertarian Institute)
• The Bob Murphy Show
• “The Human Action Podcast” (Mises Institute)
• The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social Welfare
  
• Human Action
• Man, Economy, and State
• What Has Government Done to Our Money?
• The Case Against the Fed
• AnarchoChristian
• “Liberty Lockdown Podcast” (SoundCloud)
• The Sharpe Way Show, Hosted by Larry Sharpe
• RADICAL
• “Biting The Bullet” (Apple Podcasts)
• “No Way, Jose!” (Jose Galison | Listen Notes)
• Fortress On A Hill Podcast
• Legalman (@USlawreview) on Twitter
• A Neighbor’s Choice
  
• “The Liam McCollum Show” (Apple Podcasts)
• THE COALITION
• Reed Coverdale (@ReedCoverdale) on Twitter
• Free the People
• The Statist Quo
• “Timeline Earth” (Apple Podcasts)
• Run Your Mouth with Robbie Bernstein
• “Rebel With A Cause” (Apple Podcasts)
• “Counterflow with Buck Johnson” (Apple Podcasts)
• “Pushback with Aaron Mate” (Apple Podcasts)
• The Fight For Liberty Podcast
• “The Agora” (Apple Podcasts)
• “Will Grigg’s Freedom Zealot Radio” (The Libertarian Institute)
• No Quarter: The Ravings of William Norman Grigg
• “Break The Cycle w/Joshua Smith” (Apple Podcasts)
• “Adam Kokesh” (Podchaser)
• “Blackbird with James Jenneman” (Apple Podcasts)
• “The Brian Nichols Show” (Apple Podcasts)
• “The System is Down with Dan Smotz” (Audible)
• Tenth Amendment Center
• GodArchy Podcast
• “It’s Too Late with Alan Mosley” (Apple Podcasts)

Pete Quinones is managing editor of the Libertarian Institute and hosts the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. He is the author of Freedom Through Memedom: The 31-Day Guide to Waking Up to Liberty and is co-producing the documentary, The Monopoly On Violence.

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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Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. In the last two weeks, Knesset opposition leader Yair Lapid got the opportunity to form a coalition government, and possibly oust Prime Minister Netanyahu for the first time since 2009. But just afterward, as Barkin explains, violence erupted at the al-Aqsa mosque, in response to Palestinian protests about settlements in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. These events have thrown Israeli politics into turmoil, and it’s not at all clear what will happen going forward. If Netanyahu can hold onto power, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s done so by leveraging uncertain circumstances and supposedly temporary powers. Barkin also explains much of the history that has led the Israelis and Palestinians to this point of conflict.

Discussed on the show:

• “Israeli Party Leader: Hamas is a Strategic Asset” (Antiwar.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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Eric Brakey, former state senator from Maine and current spokesman for Young Americans for Liberty, talks about the efforts to get Defend the Guard bills into state legislatures. The Defend the Guard movement is an attempt to force congress to uphold its role in declaring war by making sure states retain control of their own national guard troops until an official declaration of war, as the constitution outlines. Of course, congress hasn’t declared a war since World War II, and is unlikely to do so with any of the current terror wars, meaning that in practice the national guard troops simply wouldn’t be available to serve overseas. Brakey is joined by Reed Cooley, Vice President of Communications at Young Americans for Liberty.

Discussed on the show:

• “Afghanistan Papers” (Washington Post)
• “Congress won’t end the wars, so states must” (The Hill)

Eric Brakey was a member of the Maine State Senate from 2014 to 2018. He has also been a candidate for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Brakey is now a senior spokesman for Young Americans for Liberty. Find him on Twitter @SenatorBrakey.

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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Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the national political scene in Iran, where, in large part thanks to U.S. intervention, the population is increasingly aligning behind the most conservative forces, and moving away from President Rouhani. Iranians, Porter says, have very little trust that America will negotiate in good faith, and there is now less support than ever for the JCPOA, which the Biden administration is supposedly trying to renegotiate.

Discussed on the show:

• “Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners” (Consortium News)

Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state. He is the author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and, with John Kiriakou, The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.

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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Daniel Larison talks Israel-Palestine. He takes on the common straw man argument that Israel “has a right to defend itself” from the belligerence of its neighbors. In the abstract, of course, every sovereign nation should have the right to self-defense; the problem is that this argument doesn’t take any of the history of the conflict into account. The Hamas rocket attacks, Larison explains, have been a response to raids on the al-Aqsa Mosque, which were themselves a reaction to Palestinian protests in solidarity with victims of Israeli settlements. And besides, Israel only pretends that the Palestinians are “their neighbors” when there’s fighting—the rest of the time Palestine is just territory that in fact is being occupied by the Israeli government. We should always be wary of simply condemning one side, especially when one side  is so consistently mischaracterized in the mainstream media.

Discussed on the show:

• “Gaza Lives Erased: Israel Is Wiping Out Entire Palestinian Families on Purpose” (Haaretz)

Daniel Larison is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com, contributor at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLarison or on his blog, Eunomia.

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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