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Speech – What You Need to Know About Waco – Porcfest 2023
Download Episode. In 1993 the US Federal government murdered 86 men, women and children in a show of force. Since then the FBI and ATF have tried to cover their tracks by pinning the deaths on "religious extremism" and David Koresh. In this talk Scott Horton will...
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Fool’s Errand Correction
Gah. There's an error on pages 191–192 in my 2017 book Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan. A vet just wrote me to point out that I was in fact wrong to say that all 64 people killed in a battle in Kunar Province in February 2011 were "innocent." My...
Absolute Idiot Correction to the new book:
Two different times in Provoked, I "misspoke" and wrote that in 1999 Clinton added Poland, Hungary and Romania to NATO. That is of course stupid and wrong, and I know the right country — the Czech Republic, aka Czechia — and say it right more times than wrong in...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
6/26/26 Brandon Weichert on the Likely Legacy of Trump’s War with Iran
Scott interviews geopolitical analyst and author Brandon Weichert about the Iran war. They begin by reviewing the various reasons they’re pessimistic about Trump’s ongoing attempt to reach a lasting ceasefire. They then zoom out and reflect on how Trump and Netanyahu’s decision to launch this war is likely to change the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East going forward.
Discussed on the show:
- “How a $45 Million Donation Brought Larry Ellison Deeper Into Trump’s Circle” (Wall Street Journal)
Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst and author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life and A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine. Follow him on X @WeTheBrandon
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
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6/26/26 Bud Cummins on the ATF’s Killing of Bryan Malinowski
Scott interviews attorney Bud Cummins about Bryan Malinowski, a man who was killed by ATF agents in a poorly planned and entirely unnecessary pre-dawn raid in 2024. Two years later, no government officials have been held accountable, or have even adequately explained what happened. Cummins is representing Malinowski’s wife in a lawsuit that seeks to change that.
Bud Cummins is an American attorney, businessman and politician. He served as United States Attorney with five years of service from 2001 to 2006 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
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Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org
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Read Scott’s books:
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
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6/19/26 William Van Wagenen on What It’s Like on the Ground in Lebanon
Scott interviews William Van Wagenen about what he’s been seeing in southern Lebanon as the fighting between Hezbollah and the IDF drags on. They also discuss the Western-backed bin Ladinite regime in Syria.
Discussed on the show:
William Van Wagenen is the author of Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government. He has a BA in German literature From Brigham Young University and an MA in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. You can read his other writings on Syria for the Libertarian Institute here. Follow him on Twitter @wvanwagenen
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Read Scott’s books:
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
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This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tax Attorney Matt Sercely https://agoristtaxadvice.com; Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com; Expat Money https://expatmoney.com/; and Crowdhealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ (use promocode Horton)
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6/19/26 Larry Johnson on Trump’s Effort to End the Iran War
Scott interviews Larry Johnson about the ongoing, frequently broken yet somehow still holding ceasefire between the US and Iran, the Trump administration’s effort to find some way out of the war they started and the Israeli’s muddled attempt to sabotage the process.
Discussed on the show:
- “Persian Gulf Oil Shipping Crisis Deepens as Barnacle Fouling Hits Idled Supertanker Hulls” (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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Read Scott’s books:
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow
And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tax Attorney Matt Sercely https://agoristtaxadvice.com; Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com; Expat Money https://expatmoney.com/; and Crowdhealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ (use promocode Horton)
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6/19/26 Kit Klarenberg on the Unraveling of West’s Global Hegemony
Scott interviews Kit Klarenberg about some reporting he’s done on the looming political shakeup in Bosnia. That leads to a broader discussion about how the foreign policy of the post-Cold War American empire set the conditions for its own decline.
Discussed on the show:
- “Western Hegemony Unravels In Bosnia” (Global Delinquents)
- “The Day America’s Empire Died” (The Exiled)
- “Ukraine’s Secret Al Qaeda Invasion Of Africa” (Global Delinquents)
Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg
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Read Scott’s books:
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
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This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tax Attorney Matt Sercely https://agoristtaxadvice.com; Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com; Expat Money https://expatmoney.com/; and Crowdhealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ (use promocode Horton)
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6/15/26 Trita Parsi on the Israeli Panic over Trump’s Peace Deal
Scott interviews Trita Parsi about the deal Trump has apparently made with the Iranians to end the war. They discuss the panic we’re seeing about it from the Israelis and what Trump must do to rein them in and prevent Tel Aviv from sabotaging the peace process. They also discuss Parsi’s recent appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show and The Free Press story that tried to start a deportation scare about him.
Discussed on the show:
- Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi
- A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran by Trita Parsi
- Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy by Trita Parsi
- Parsi’s interview with Tucker Carlson
Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy. Parsi is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Follow him on Twitter @tparsi
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Read Scott’s books:
Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/43D82oY (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com)
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/4eMQblu
Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/4a5fKvx
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This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tax Attorney Matt Sercely https://agoristtaxadvice.com; Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com; Expat Money https://expatmoney.com/; and Crowdhealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/ (use promocode Horton)
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