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12/7/23 Dave DeCamp on the Crimes of Hamas and the IDF from 2023-12-10T22:56
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the war in Gaza. He and Scott discuss the latest death count as well as the trustworthiness of the numbers we’re getting. They then talk a...
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12/7/23 Daniel McAdams on the Ukraine War in American Politics from 2023-12-09T23:30
Daniel McAdams on the Ron Paul Institute joins the show to discuss the war in Ukraine. Washington’s unending support for Kyiv recently hit a snag in Congress. Scott and McAdams discuss the current ...
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12/4/23 Diego Rivera on Defend the Guard’s Growing Momentum from 2023-12-06T01:56
Diego Rivera returns to the show to give an update on Defend the Guard. He shares some good developments about the effort to pass the legislation. Then the two discuss the importance and practicali...
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11/30/23 John Robb: Israel Has Lost the Moral High Ground Online from 2023-12-05T02:01
John Robb joins the show to discuss the battle for the moral high ground between Israel and the Palestinians. Robb, who has worked with and now writes about information warfare in the online space,...
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11/30/23 Joe Meadors on the USS Liberty Attack and Washington’s Coverup from 2023-12-05T01:08
Joe Meadors of the USS Liberty Veterans Association returns to the show to discuss the attack. He and Scott give an overview of what happened for those unfamiliar with the story. They then discuss ...
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11/30/23 Muhammad Sahimi Debunks Myths About the Iranian Regime from 2023-12-04T01:13
Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at the University of Southern California, is back on the show to discuss a recent article he wrote about Iran. Sahimi, who is from Iran, is no fan of the Iranian regime...
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11/30/23 Gareth Porter on Israel’s Lies about al-Shifa Hospital from 2023-12-02T01:02
Gareth Porter returns to the show to discuss the war in Gaza. First, Porter explains the project that has been keeping him from his typical daily journalism. He and Scott then dig into the story th...
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11/22/23 James Carden on Israel’s Role in the Ethnic Cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh from 2023-11-27T22:17
James Carden returns to the show to discuss the Israeli role in Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Carden explains what the enclave was, and he and Scott run...
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11/22/23 Trita Parsi on the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza from 2023-11-27T22:06
Scott is joined by Trita Parsi to discuss the horrific situation playing out in Gaza. They discuss what we know about the scale of suffering before zooming out and examining the broader geopolitica...
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11/22/23 Michael Tracey on Ethnic Cleansing on the West Bank from 2023-11-25T18:05
Michael Tracey joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss his experience reporting from Israel. He explained why he decided to travel there and what surprised him about the country. Discus...
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11/16/23 Kyle Anzalone on the Situation in Gaza from 2023-11-17T13:14
Kyle Anzalone joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas. They go through some of the biggest news stories of the week related to the war, explaining what w...
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11/9/23 James Bamford on the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty from 2023-11-14T13:09
Scott is joined by James Bamford to discuss Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Bamford lays out the story of what happened. They then discuss the coverup and play down by the US government...
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11/9/23 Joseph Solis-Mullen Debunks the Fake China Threat from 2023-11-12T22:28
Joseph Solis-Mullen joins the show to discuss his new book about China. He and Scott work through some of the most common talking points meant to make the American people fear a noninterventionist ...
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11/9/23 Ted Snider: Ukraine Would Have Fared Better Without Washington from 2023-11-10T14:24
Ted Snider joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the war in Ukraine. Snider explains that we now know that early on, both Ukraine and Russia were willing to stop the fighting and work ...
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11/2/23 Connor Freeman: The Palestinians are Getting Slaughtered from 2023-11-04T13:58
Connor Freeman joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the violence in Gaza, the West Bank and northern Israel. Freeman gives an overview of what’s happening and the two analyze the reac...
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10/25/23 Meron Rapoport on Netanyahu’s Choice to Aid Hamas from 2023-10-27T15:23
Scott talks with Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport about Netanyahu’s policy to prop up Hamas and the broader political ramifications of the current escalation. They begin by working through the his...
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10/19/23 Arik Horowitz on What It's Like in Israel from 2023-10-24T13:19
Scott interviews Arik Horowitz, who lives about thirty miles from Gaza, about how things are in Israel right now. He explains that the current consensus among Israelis is that Gaza must be leveled....
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10/18/23 Hassan El-Tayyab on the Need for a Ceasefire in Gaza from 2023-10-20T22:54
Scott brought Hassan El-Tayyab of the Friends Committee on National Legislation onto Antiwar Radio this week to discuss his organization’s push for a ceasefire in Gaza. El-Tayyab says the Hamas att...
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10/16/23 Dave DeCamp on the Gaza Hospital Explosion and the Risk of a Wider War from 2023-10-20T22:45
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss what’s going on in Gaza. They started with the explosion at a hospital in Gaza City that kicked off protests around the region, despite de...
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10/12/23 Darryl Cooper on the Israel-Palestine Conflict from 2023-10-16T16:05
Darryl Cooper of the MartyrMade Podcast joins Scott to discuss the Hamas attacks, the Israeli response and the Israel-Palestine conflict more broadly. They touch on some of the Israeli military and...
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10/12/23 Ramzy Baroud on the Hamas Attacks from 2023-10-13T12:38
Ramzy Baroud returns to the show to talk about the latest violence in and around Gaza. Baroud explains why, while unfortunate, these developments should not be surprising to anyone who’s been payin...
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10/12/23 Max Blumenthal on What People Need to Know About Gaza from 2023-10-13T12:10
Max Blumenthal joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the situation in Gaza. They talk about what’s happening and put the events in historical context. Discussed on the show:Dying to W...
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10/5/23 Dennis Marburger on the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh from 2023-10-11T12:14
Scott was joined by Dennis Marburger to discuss the shelling and invasion of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, also known as the Republic of Artsakh. Last month, after a ten-month siege, Az...
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10/5/23 Dan Cohen on the US Deploying Troops to Haiti from 2023-10-07T12:08
Dan Cohen of Redacted joined Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the expanding U.S. interventions in Haiti. News broke recently that the U.S. will be providing support for a force of Kenyan soldiers...
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10/5/23 Connor Freeman on Mark Milley’s Legacy from 2023-10-07T12:01
Connor Freeman joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the legacy of Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs. They start with some bad reasons people hate Milley before gett...
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9/28/23 Matt Taibbi on the Origins of Russiagate and Government Censorship’s Legal Challenge from 2023-10-01T16:07
Matt Taibbi was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the origins of Russiagate and the major First Amendment case in front of the Supreme Court. They start with Russiagate and talk about what...
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9/21/23 Ken Silva on FBI-Created Terrorist Plots and Nazi Groups from 2023-09-26T23:12
Ken Silva joined Scott to discuss the recent acquittal of three men tied up in the FBI-created plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. Silva gives some background on who these men are and how they fit int...
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9/21/23 Trevor Timm on Assange, the Espionage Act and Growing Pressure from the Australians from 2023-09-24T14:09
Trevor Timm of the Freedom of the Press Foundation joins the show to give an overview of the U.S.’s case against Julian Assange. They look back at why Obama was uncharacteristically reluctant to ch...
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9/21/23 Daniel Davis on Why People Can’t Admit Ukraine is Losing from 2023-09-23T00:18
Scott was joined by Daniel Davis on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the counteroffensive in Ukraine. They talk about why so many people have trouble admitting Ukraine is losing this war. They th...
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9/14/23 Kyle Anzalone on the Counteroffensive, Elon Musk’s Starlink and the Failures of Western Sanctions from 2023-09-17T19:01
Kyle Anzalone joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to run through some of the biggest Ukraine news of the day. They start with a look at the many factors that doomed Ukraine’s counteroffensive a...
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9/7/23 Dr. Ron Paul on the Long Deliberate War on Our Liberties from 2023-09-09T22:13
Dr. Ron Paul joined Scott to talk about his newest book, The Great Surreptitious Coup. They talk about how some of the big power grabs of the 1960s and 1970s by institutions like the CIA, FBI and F...
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9/7/23 Ted Galen Carpenter on Ukraine and the Call for War on Mexico from 2023-09-09T01:38
Scott was joined by Ted Galen Carpenter on Antiwar Radio this week. They first discuss the status of Ukraine’s counteroffensive. There has been a lot of coverage of some Ukrainian gains in the sout...
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8/31/23 Andy Worthington: Some Good News from Guantanamo Bay from 2023-09-02T23:48
Andy Worthington is back to discuss what’s happening down at Guantanamo Bay. This time there is a positive development. A judge has ruled that statements gathered from the so-called “Clean Team” in...
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8/31/23 Branko Marcetic on the Ousting of Imran Khan and Washington’s Plan for Ukraine from 2023-09-01T23:33
Branko Marcetic joined Antiwar Radio this week to talk about two articles he wrote recently. The first concerns the ousting of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote. U....
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8/24/23 Nasser Arrabyee on the State of Yemen Today from 2023-08-28T02:35
Nasser Arrabyee joins Scott again to give an update on Yemen. The ceasefire has held for more than a year, but there is still much for the various factions to negotiate. Arrabyee gives an account o...
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8/24/23 Dennis Marburger on the Brutal Nagorono-Karabakh Blockade from 2023-08-28T02:26
Dennis Marburger returns to the show to talk about the humanitarian crisis occurring right now in Nagorno-Karabakh. Marburger gives the historical context behind what’s happening before digging int...
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8/24/23 Kyle Anzalone on the Counteroffensive and Prigozhin Plane Crash from 2023-08-25T23:50
Kyle Anzalone was back on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about Ukraine. Scott and Anzalone take stock of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and discuss the reaction of American officials. They then to...
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8/17/23 Brad Pearce on the Coup in Niger and the Troubling State of West Africa from 2023-08-19T18:22
Scott was joined by Brad Pearce on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss what’s happening in West Africa. Pearce has been following the region closely. He puts the recent coup in Niger in context and ...
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8/17/23 Jim Bovard on the Biden Family’s Corruption from 2023-08-19T18:12
Jim Bovard joins the show to talk about some of his recent articles on Joe and Hunter Biden. Scott and Bovard examine what we know about Hunter Biden’s crimes and shady business deals and also how ...
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8/10/23 Ted Snider on the Polish-Belarussian Tension from 2023-08-13T00:38
Ted Snider joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about some concerning developments in Eastern Europe. They start with the tensions on the Polish-Belarus border where forces have been bui...
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8/3/23 Lyle Goldstein on True Costs of a Naval War with China from 2023-08-08T13:19
Lyle Goldstein is back to talk with Scott about a recent U.S. wargame simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. While Goldstein has some problems with the game’s design, he thinks it was far superio...
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8/3/23 Jeff Deist on Recessions, Debt and BRICS from 2023-08-06T17:45
Scott is joined by Jeff Deist to talk about both the problems facing our economy and the flawed economic ideas that brought us here. Scott and Deist discuss business cycles and inflation before tur...
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8/3/23 Philip Weiss on the American Zionists Breaking with Netanyahu from 2023-08-05T18:55
Philip Weiss was back on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about the political situation in Israel. Or, more specifically, the reaction to the Israeli political upheaval. The last six months have see...
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7/27/23 Dave DeCamp on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive and America’s Escalations in the Pacific from 2023-07-30T20:41
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss developments in Eastern Europe and the Pacific. They start with an update on Ukraine’s counteroffensive, examining how both sides are char...
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7/20/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Truth About Oppenheimer from 2023-07-26T00:18
Patrick MacFarlane joins the show to discuss his new docuseries, The Truth About Oppenheimer. MacFarlane talks about the project and some of his sources. They then compare the version of Oppenheime...
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7/20/23 Kyle Anzalone on Article 5, Ukraine and Syria from 2023-07-22T23:23
Kyle Anzalone was on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss some of the week’s news. They touch on Rand Paul’s failed attempt to get Congress to do its job and formally declare war if NATO triggers Art...
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7/11/23 Daniel Davis on the Counteroffensive and Cluster Bombs from 2023-07-15T23:40
Scott was joined by Daniel Davis on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about Ukraine. In this interview, Davis gives an update on where things stand with the counter-offensive. They then refute some c...
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7/6/23 Ryan McMaken: Where in the Boom-Bust Cycle Are We? from 2023-07-11T00:59
Scott is again joined by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute to talk about the economy. First, they examine the major fluctuations in the money supply to help us predict where in the boom-bust cycl...
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7/6/23 Matt Taibbi on the Judge's New Injunction Against the Censorship State from 2023-07-08T00:09
Matt Taibbi joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about the injunction compelling the Federal Government to stop contacting social media companies. Taibbi was one of the journalists instr...
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6/29/23 Tommy Salmons on ESG and RFK Jr. from 2023-07-02T19:02
Scott talks with Tommy Salmons about the threat that the push for so-called Environmental, Social Governance (ESG) poses to our liberties. Salmons has dug deep into what ESG really is and who is be...
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6/29/23 Dave DeCamp on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Wagner’s “Revolt” from 2023-07-01T19:17
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to give us an update on Ukraine. He and Scott start with Biden’s gaff where he called Ukraine “Iraq” which leads them to reflect on the hypocrisy of ...
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6/23/23 Dana Rohrabacher the Tragic Return of U.S.-Russia Tension from 2023-06-28T00:58
Scott interviewed former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher at Porcfest. Rohrabacher, who also worked under President Reagan as a speechwriter and special assistant, had attended Scott’s speech on Ukrain...
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6/22/23 Kyle Anzalone on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Blinken’s Trip to China from 2023-06-23T23:13
Kyle Anzalone was back with Scott for Antiwar Radio today to talk Ukraine and China. They start with Ukraine. Anzalone gives an update on the state of Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive. They th...
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6/15/23 Kevin Gosztola on Assange’s Latest Legal Setback from 2023-06-20T01:23
Scott is joined by journalist Kevin Gosztola to discuss the UK High Court’s latest ruling in the government’s effort to extradite Julian Assange. They examine the ruling, reflect on the establishme...
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6/15/23 Daniel Davis on Ukraine’s Big Offensive from 2023-06-18T16:23
Daniel Davis joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive. Davis has been closely monitoring what’s happening on the ground. He shares where things stand and w...
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6/15/23 Judge Andrew Napolitano on the Indictment of Donald Trump from 2023-06-17T01:18
Judge Andrew Napolitano joined Scott to discuss the DOJ’s case against Donald Trump. Napolitano believes it is an incredibly strong case and that the former President—and current Republican front-r...
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6/8/23 Ben Freeman on the Think Tanks Helping Weapons Companies Make Sales from 2023-06-13T01:05
Ben Freeman of the Quincy Institute joins the show to discuss his latest research on cronyism in American foreign policy. Freeman examined the top Think Tanks working to influence lawmakers in Wash...
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6/8/23 Kit Klarenberg on His Experience Getting Interrogated for Doing Journalism from 2023-06-10T01:18
Journalist Kit Klarenberg joined Antiwar Radio this week to talk about his experience being detained by British police and interrogated about writing for The Grayzone. Klarenberg talks Scott throug...
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5/26/23 Nick Turse on the Crimes of Henry Kissinger from 2023-06-01T00:34
Scott talks with journalist Nick Turse about a series of articles he wrote to mark Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday. Scott and Turse reflect on all the destructive policies Kissinger helped enact d...
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5/25/23 Ken Silva on his Recent Interview with Andreas Strassmeir from 2023-05-29T00:07
Ken Silva joins Scott to talk about a recent three-hour interview he did with Andreas Strassmeir, a German national whose name has come up often in discussions of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Specifi...
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5/18/23 Erik Sperling on the US Attempt to Keep the War in Yemen Going from 2023-05-27T21:56
Erik Sperling was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the situation in Yemen. Sperling explains the recent pressure campaign launched by U.S. officials to dissuade the Saudis from making pea...
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5/11/23 Philip Weiss on US-Israeli Relations, 20 Years Ago and Today from 2023-05-17T00:39
Philip Weiss is back on the show to discuss the evolving views of Israeli apartheid in the American Jewish community and the U.S. Government. Scott and Weiss reflect on where the U.S.-Israeli dynam...
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5/11/23 Joziah Thayer on AQAP’s Standing in Yemen from 2023-05-15T23:16
Joziah Thayer joins to show to discuss some of the work he’s done digging into the many factions and groups within Yemen and the foreign powers working to pull their strings. Scott and Thayer drill...
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5/11/23 Mutaqee Akbar on the Uhuru Movement, Who They Are and What They’re Charged With from 2023-05-14T01:12
Scott is joined by Mutaqee Akbar, one of the lawyers representing members of the Uhuru Movement. The Uhuru Movement is a group of Black Socialists who were recently arrested in a SWAT raid and char...
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5/11/23 Kyle Anzalone on This Week’s Ukraine News from 2023-05-14T01:04
Kyle Anzalone was back on Antiwar Radio to go over some of this week’s biggest foreign policy stories. They discuss the battle of Bakhmut, the plan for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the concerning ...
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5/4/23 Joseph Solis-Mullen on the Fake China Threat from 2023-05-08T21:46
Scott was joined by Joseph Solis-Mullen to talk about the overblown fear of a global Chinese takeover. Solis-Mullen has been following the current wave of China fearmongering very closely and gives...
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5/4/23 Dave DeCamp on the Kremlin Stikes, US Airstrike in Syria and Biden’s Assange Hypocrisy from 2023-05-06T20:56
Dave DeCamp joined Antiwar Radio this week to run through some of the week’s biggest foreign policy stories that he’s been covering at Antiwar.com. Scott and DeCamp discuss the drones that struck t...
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4/27/23 Kyle Anzalone on the Week’s Top Foreign Policy Stories from 2023-04-29T21:37
Kyle Anzalone returns to the show to run through some of the top stories from the Libertarian Institute and Antiwar.com. They touch on Ukraine, China, Assange and more. Discussed on the show:“Dem...
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4/27/23 Daniel Davis on the Actual State of Ukraine’s Forces from 2023-04-29T21:24
Daniel Davis joined Scott for Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the war in Ukraine. They talk about the leaked documents, which Davis says only confirmed what those paying attention already knew. ...
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4/14/23 Michael Maharrey on The Best Arguments Against Defend The Guard and Why They’re Wrong from 2023-04-19T13:35
Scott is joined by Micahel Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center to talk about Defend The Guard. Maharrey reviews the arguments that federal and state officials have been using against the Defend ...
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4/14/23 Erik Sperling: Don’t Underestimate America’s Ability to Ruin the Yemen Peace Talks from 2023-04-18T01:03
Erik Sperling of Just Foreign Policy joins the show to talk about what’s going on in Yemen. There have been some very good developments there recently with peace talks, ceasefires and blockades bei...
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4/14/23 Rick Sterling on Why Zelensky Will Not Take Back Crimea from 2023-04-18T00:54
Scott interviews journalist Rick Sterling about what he learned on a trip to Crimea back in 2016. Sterling explains how the trip came about, who he was able to meet and why it’s convinced him the c...
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4/14/23 Ted Galen Carpenter on the News Media’s Role in the American Empire from 2023-04-18T00:45
Ted Galen Carpenter makes his first appearance on the show as a Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Scott and Carpenter discuss his most recent book about the news media’s long history of e...
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4/5/23 Matt Taibbi on the Danger of Digital Censorship from 2023-04-08T14:53
Scott was joined by Matt Taibbi this week on Antiwar Radio. They discuss some of Taibbi’s recent reporting on the government-NGO-corporate media joint effort to flag and suppress certain news and o...
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4/4/23 Jeffery Sachs on What Led to War in Ukraine from 2023-04-05T22:34
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University joins the show to discuss the war in Ukraine. First, Scott asks him about his extensive experience telling the truth about American foreign policy on national t...
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3/31/23 Josh Rushing on the Persecution of Julian Assange from 2023-04-05T22:21
Journalist Josh Rushing joins Scott to discuss a documentary he produced for Al Jazeera about Julian Assange. Rushing talks about his experience making the documentary, what they focused on and why...
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3/31/23 Mike Swanson on the Bank Failures and the Strength of the Dollar from 2023-04-04T02:29
Mike Swanson is back on the show to talk about the state of the economy. Scott and Swanson discuss some of the forces behind the recent banking failures and examine how they complicate the Fed’s fi...
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3/30/23 Dave DeCamp on Bakhmut, Nord Stream and the Escalations over Taiwan from 2023-04-01T12:50
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss some of the week’s biggest foreign policy news. They discuss Ukrainian President Zelensky’s recent comments about what would happen if Rus...
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3/24/23 Ryan McMaken on Nuclear Weapons and How the Fed Fuels Inequality from 2023-03-29T21:25
Scott is joined by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute to talk about nuclear weapons and the boom-bust cycle. They begin with a discussion of McMaken's recent article pushing back against common ar...
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3/24/23 Ted Snider on the Rapidly Changing World Order from 2023-03-28T21:54
Scott is joined by Ted Snider to talk about the real-time shift we are living through from a unipolar order dominated by Washington to a multipolar world where different blocs engage on more equal ...
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3/24/23 Kelley Vlahos on Those Most Responsible for Iraq War II from 2023-03-28T00:31
Kelley Vlahos returns to the show to talk about some of the writers, pundits and government advisors most responsible for the invasion of Iraq twenty years ago. Vlahos wrote an article highlighting...
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3/24/23 Trita Parsi: America Is Not the Peacemaker in the Middle East from 2023-03-26T23:49
Scott talks with Trita Parsi about an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times on the Saudi-Iranian agreement to reestablish diplomatic ties. Although the agreement does not mark an end to the rivalry ...
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3/24/23 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard’s Victory in Arizona and How You Can Help Keep the Momentum Going This Monday from 2023-03-25T19:09
Dan McKnight returns to the show to talk about Defend the Guard’s recent success in Arizona and how you can help bring about another victory this Monday in Texas. Defend the Guard is state-level le...
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3/23/23 Kyle Anzalone on Somalia, Ukraine and the Growing Alliance Between Russia and China from 2023-03-25T00:12
Kyle Anzalone was back on Antiwar Radio this week to run through some of the most important foreign policy news. They talked about the famine in Somalia, the ongoing War on Terror, the state of the...
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3/17/23 Grant F. Smith on How the Saudi-Iran Peace Initiative Is Bad for Israel from 2023-03-22T00:35
Scott talks with Grant F. Smith about an article he recently wrote on the major blow the Saudis dealt Israel by reengaging with Iran. Scott and Smith assess the damage this has done to Israel’s pla...
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3/17/23 Kit Klarenberg on the Georgia Uprisings and the National Endowment for Democracy from 2023-03-22T00:27
Kit Klarenberg is back to provide some important context for the uprisings in Georgia. They start with the Eastern European country’s transition after the fall of the Soviet Union and the influence...
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3/17/23 Nasser Arrabyee on the Major Progress Towards Peace in Yemen from 2023-03-22T00:14
Nasser Arrabyee is back to discuss the improving situation on the ground in Yemen. They talk about two huge developments, first that the Saudis have agreed to most of the Houthis’ requests in their...
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3/17/23 Eric Brakey on Monday's Defend the Guard Hearing in Maine from 2023-03-18T12:23
Scott talks with Eric Brakey, now serving in the Maine Senate, about the Defend the Guard hearing scheduled for Monday at 1 PM EST. Scott and Brakey discuss the nationwide effort to pass the legisl...
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3/16/23 Dave DeCamp on the Drone Incident, the Battle for Bakhmut and Escalations over Taiwan from 2023-03-18T02:01
Dave DeCamp returned to Antiwar Radio this week to discuss developments in Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia. Scott and DeCamp talk about the U.S. drone encounter with Russian fighters over the Black...
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3/10/23 Jim Bovard on Waco, 30 Years Later from 2023-03-16T12:28
Jim Bovard is back on the show to discuss the Federal Government’s siege at Waco thirty years ago. Scott and Bovard reflect on how they both first learned about the story. Bovard then goes through ...
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3/10/23 Kevin Gosztola: They Lied About Iraq and Now They’re Lying About Assange from 2023-03-15T17:11
Scott talks with Kevin Gosztola about a project he’s working on documenting the lead-up to Iraq War II as well as his brand new book about Julian Assange. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the d...
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3/10/23 Eli Clifton: The Weapons Companies are the Big Winners of the War in Ukraine from 2023-03-15T00:54
Scott interviews Eli Clifton of the Quincy Institute about some articles he wrote for Responsible Statecraft—the Quincy Institute’s publication. They begin with an article Clifton wrote about the f...
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3/10/23 Bonnie Kristian: What does a Ron DeSantis Foreign Policy Look Like? from 2023-03-14T00:19
Bonnie Kristian returns to the show to discuss a piece she wrote examining the foreign policy beliefs of the Florida Governor and likely Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Kristian shares what sh...
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3/10/23 Daniel Larison on Biden’s Iran Policy, the Saudi-Iran Agreement and the House Vote on Syria from 2023-03-14T00:08
Scott interviews Daniel Larison about Iran and Syria. They start with a column Larison recently wrote which highlights how the Biden Administration’s Iran policy makes no sense. Scott and Larison e...
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3/10/23 Gabriel Shipton on his Brother Julian Assange’s Fight for Freedom from 2023-03-12T21:50
Scott talks to Gabriel Shipton, the brother of Julian Assange, about the documentary he recently produced about his family’s fight for Assange’s freedom. Scott and Shipton discuss the film, what it...
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3/10/23 Philip Weiss on the American Jews Waking Up to Netanyahu’s Extremism from 2023-03-12T19:15
Philip Weiss joins the show to discuss developments concerning the Israeli government’s support among American Jews. They talk about a column written recently by Thomas Friedman, who is essentially...
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3/10/23 Daniel McAdams on the Uprisings in Georgia from 2023-03-12T19:01
Daniel McAdams joins Scott to discuss the recent uprisings in one of Russia’s southern neighbors, the country of Georgia. Scott and McAdams discuss what is happening, how it began and what role out...
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3/9/23 Kyle Anzalone on Bakhmut, the Chinese Peace Plan, Nord Stream, Syria and North Korea from 2023-03-10T22:52
Kyle Anzalone joined Scott for Antiwar Radio this week to go over all the biggest foreign policy news. They start with JDAMs, the American-guided bombs that are now operational in Ukraine. Next the...
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3/6/23 Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine, China and the Military Industrial Complex from 2023-03-08T23:30
Douglas Macgregor is back on the show to talk about the war in Ukraine. Macgregor gives his assessment of where things stand on the ground. They talk about the astounding casualty numbers and the h...
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3/3/23 Richard Booth: Honest OKC Bombing Coverage Finally Goes Mainstream from 2023-03-08T22:19
Richard Booth joins Scott to talk about the surprisingly good CNN article on Oklahoma City cop Terry Yeakey. Scott and Booth give an overview of Yeakey’s story and praise CNN for publishing such a ...
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3/3/23 Jim Bovard on the 1993 WTC Bombing and Global Engagement Center from 2023-03-08T00:11
Scott is joined by Jim Bovard to discuss two articles he recently published. The first marked the 30-year anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993. Scott and Bovard talk about what the...
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3/3/23 Connor Freeman on the Antiwar Protests in Europe from 2023-03-06T01:11
Connor Freeman joins Scott to talk about the antiwar protests in Europe and how the demeanor of western governments is evolving. They discuss protests in Germany, France and Italy where people call...
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3/2/23 Diego Rivera on Defend the Guard and Those Trying to Stop It from 2023-03-04T01:01
Diego Rivera returns to talk about some of the recent successes in the effort to pass Defend the Guard. Rivera explains what the bill is and why it’s necessary. They then talk about how the movemen...
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3/2/23 Dave DeCamp on the Blinken-Lavrov Chat, the Ukraine War and Sanctions on Syria from 2023-03-04T00:54
Dave DeCamp returns to Antiwar Radio this week to talk about the biggest foreign policy news stories. Scott and DeCamp run through the quick meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ...
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2/27/23 Trita Parsi: Biden Opens the Door to War in the Middle East from 2023-03-03T01:56
Scott talks with Trita Parsi who just wrote an article for Responsible Statecraft about the path to a new war breaking out in the Middle East. In the article, Parsi runs through the history of tens...
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2/24/23 Chas Freeman: America Needs to Use Diplomacy from 2023-03-02T02:45
Scott interviewed Chas Freeman about some of the biggest flashpoints that threaten to plunge the world into war. They discuss the war in Ukraine, the growing tension over Taiwan and even touch on t...
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2/24/23 Ray McGovern Dissects the Official Reaction to Hersh’s Nord Stream Revelations from 2023-03-02T00:53
Ray McGovern is back to discuss his testimony at the UN about Nord Stream. They discuss Seymour Hersh’s reporting and the reaction from the White House and CIA. McGovern draws parallels between the...
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2/24/23 Jonathan Ofir on the Israeli Elites Warning of Apartheid from 2023-03-01T00:39
Scott interviews Jonathan Ofir about a recent article he wrote at Mondoweiss. The article highlights the latest mainstream Israeli voice, a journalist named Ben-Yishai, to voice concerns that the c...
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2/24/23 Michael Tracey on His Experience at the Munich Security Conference from 2023-02-27T23:55
Scott talks with journalist Michael Tracey about the Munich Security Conference which he attended earlier this month. Tracey gives an overview of who was at the conference, who was disinvited and w...
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2/24/23 Seymour Hersh: How and Why America Blew Up Nord Stream from 2023-02-26T14:49
Scott is joined by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to discuss his recent story about the American operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines last September. Scott and Hersh talk about t...
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2/23/23 Andrew Cockburn: How the Media Failed Julian Assange from 2023-02-25T23:18
Andrew Cockburn joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to talk about Julian Assange. Cockburn wrote an article for Harper’s Magazine about the hypocrisy of mainstream journalists in their refusal to stand u...
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2/23/23 Connor Freeman on Ukraine, Nord Stream and China from 2023-02-25T23:14
Connor Freeman, from the Libertarian Institute, was the first guest this week on Antiwar Radio. First, Scott talks about the Rage Against the War Machine rally in DC last Sunday. Then, Scott and Fr...
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2/17/23 Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare from 2023-02-23T22:44
Scott brings Bill Buppert on the show for a long discussion centering around U.S. attempts at utilizing irregular warfare since 1945. The two touch on the Afghan surge, the battle of Tora Bora, the...
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2/17/23 Kit Klarenberg Refutes Myths About the Bosnian War from 2023-02-20T16:38
Scott is joined by Kit Klarenberg to discuss an article he wrote about the Bosnian War. The article analyzes some declassified cables from Canadian Peacekeepers that give a window into what was act...
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2/17/23 Kyle Anzalone on the War in Ukraine, the Derailment in Ohio and the Balloon Panic from 2023-02-19T16:33
Scott and Kyle Anzalone run through some of the big stories of the day. They start with the war in Ukraine where they discuss how the rhetoric by officials of both sides is evolving. They next disc...
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2/16/23 Max Blumenthal: Why You Should Come to the Antiwar Rally in DC This Sunday from 2023-02-17T15:09
Max Blumenthal joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to explain why you should accompany them and an impressive lineup of speakers at the Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington DC this ...
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2/10/23 Daniel Davis on the Russian Offensive and Other Developments in Ukraine from 2023-02-13T23:22
Scott interviews former Lt. Col. Daniel Davis about the war in Ukraine. Davis has been closely watching the daily developments on the ground in Ukraine. He gives an update on where things stand on ...
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2/10/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Balloon Panic from 2023-02-12T20:01
Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to talk about the alleged Chinese balloon that captured the American news cycle a week ago. MacFarlane wrote a piece for the Libertarian Institute digging into...
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2/9/23 Dave DeCamp on the Bombshell Story about how Biden Bombed Nord Stream from 2023-02-10T22:36
Dave DeCamp was back on Antiwar Radio this week to go over the major report by Seymour Hersh that details how a U.S.-Norwegian covert operation was responsible for the bombing of the Nord Stream pi...
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1/27/23 Ted Snider on the Missed Opportunities to Avoid War in Ukraine from 2023-02-07T18:54
Ted Snider is back to discuss his recent article for the Libertarian Institute. In it, Snider documents the many chances that were missed to avoid the war in Ukraine and a handful of opportunities ...
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1/27/23 Arthur Bloom on Don Reynolds and the Fast and Furious Scandal from 2023-02-06T21:12
Scott talks with journalist Arthur Bloom about the case of Donald Reynolds. Reynolds is currently serving a life sentence plus 75 years in a Communications Management Unit (CMU), a prison for terro...
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1/27/23 James Bamford on the Many Failures of American Counterintelligence from 2023-02-02T22:28
Scott interviews James Bamford about some of the stories he collected for his new book about the collapse of America’s counterintelligence apparatus. They start with Russiagate and talk about how, ...
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1/27/23 Eric Margolis on the Rush to All Out War Over Ukraine from 2023-01-31T22:54
Eric Margolis returns to the show to talk about the war in Ukraine. Scott reflects on some of his early interviews with Margolis about Ukraine back in 2014. Just as he had said back then, Margolis ...
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1/27/23 Ryan McMaken on How the Fed Is Ripping Us Off from 2023-01-31T14:55
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins Scott to discuss the ill effects central banking has on the country. McMaken wrote an article recently pointing out that the Federal Reserve, America’s cen...
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1/27/23 Ted Snider: Were the Minsk Agreements a Lie? from 2023-01-29T15:01
Scott talks with Ted Snider about former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent claim that the Minsk agreements were never meant to bring peace to the Donbas. Merkel said that instead, they were ...
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1/26/23 David Swanson on What Russia Could Have Done Instead of Invading Ukraine from 2023-01-28T17:11
Scott brings on David Swanson to discuss the war in Ukraine. Scott and many of his guests have spent a lot of time explaining all the ways the U.S. and NATO unnecessarily backed Russia into a corne...
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1/26/23 Kyle Anzalone on Escalations over Ukraine and Zelensky’s “Anti-Corruption” Measures from 2023-01-28T17:03
Kyle Anzalone joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to go over some of the week's biggest stories. They talked about the German Foreign Minister’s admission that NATO is fighting a war against Ru...
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1/19/23 Ara Sanjian Explains the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict from 2023-01-22T20:33
Scott speaks with Ara Sanjian, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, about the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. This ...
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1/19/23 Branko Marcetic: Cables Expose Washington’s NATO Expansion Lies from 2023-01-21T00:54
Scott talks with Branko Marcetic about some cables he recently dug up that show U.S. officials and western governments voicing concern about Russia’s reaction to NATO expansion going back to the 19...
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1/13/23 Bjorn Handeen on Using Local Politics to End the Wars from 2023-01-17T22:32
Scott talks with Bjorn Handeen, a long-time listener who is now the Idaho Republican Party Region 1 Chairman. The two talk about Handeen’s efforts to translate his knowledge of American foreign pol...
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1/13/23 Hunter DeRensis on Defend The Guard in 2023 from 2023-01-16T23:57
Hunter DeRensis joins the show to talk about the year ahead in the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation. DeRensis reviews what the legislation is and where it stands in state legislatures ar...
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1/13/23 Andy Worthington: The US is Still Running an Illegal Prison at Guantanamo Bay from 2023-01-15T17:17
Andy Worthington returns to talk about the 35 men who remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as we pass the 21st anniversary of the prison. Of those 35 men, 20 have already been cleared for release, y...
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1/12/23 Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Russiagate and Government Censorship from 2023-01-13T21:09
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Matt Taibbi about the latest batch of Twitter Files, released seconds before Taibbi jumped on the line. To start, Scott asks Taibbi to respond to the cl...
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1/6/23 Angela McArdle and Nick Brana on the Rage Against the War Machine Rally from 2023-01-08T14:25
Scott talks to Angela McArdle, chair of the Libertarian Party, and Nick Brana, Chair of the People’s Party, about the Rage Against the War Machine rally taking place in Washington D.C. on February ...
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1/5/23 Ramzy Baroud on Netanyahu’s Return from 2023-01-07T01:17
Ramzy Baroud joins the show to talk about Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel. Baroud explains where things stand between the Israeli government and the Palestinian people today and warn...
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1/5/23 Dave DeCamp on Putin’s Ceasefire and the Strikes on Russian Barracks from 2023-01-07T01:11
Scott is joined by Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com to run through the latest news about the war in Ukraine. They talk about Putin’s announcement today that Russian forces would be observing a 36-hour ce...
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12/30/22 David Hathaway on the Border, the Drug War and the OKC Bombing from 2023-01-04T23:49
Scott interviews David Hathaway, the libertarian sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Hathaway recently made news by calling attention to the video surveillance blimps that the border patrol is f...
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12/30/22 John Kiriakou on the CIA, FBI, JFK and 9/11 from 2023-01-04T01:40
Scott talks with John Kiriakou—former CIA officer, whistleblower and author— to discuss revelations, old and new, about the CIA’s connections to Lee Harvey Oswald as well as the agency’s awareness ...
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12/30/22 Ted Galen Carpenter on the Arrogance Behind Washington’s Foreign Policy from 2023-01-02T22:41
Scott talks with Cato Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about American interventions in Ukraine and Syria. They dig into the likeliest escalation scenarios in Ukraine and imagine how both sides wou...
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12/30/22 Eli Clifton on Twitter’s Hypocritical Acceptance of US Information Operations from 2023-01-01T22:51
Scott brings Eli Clifton of Responsible Statecraft on to discuss the recent revelations about Twitter’s boosting of U.S. military information operations. They go over some of the details outlined i...
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12/30/22 Daniel Davis: A Look at Where Things Stand in Ukraine from 2023-01-01T16:31
Scott interviews Daniel Davis about the state of the war in Ukraine. Davis has been watching the war closely and works hard to correct for the biases of both sides. He gives Scott a rundown of wher...
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12/22/22 Kelley Vlahos on Zelensky’s Visit to Washington DC from 2022-12-25T03:49
Next on Antiwar Radio this week was Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft. Scott and Vlahos talk about Zelensky’s visit with Biden and address to Congress on Wednesday. The visit highligh...
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12/22/22 Connor Freeman: Biden Escalates Toward War With Russia from 2022-12-25T03:43
Scott’s first guest on Antiwar Radio this week was Connor Freeman, the Assistant Editor at the Libertarian Institute. They talk about the Ukrainian strikes deep in Russian territory, and the appare...
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12/16/22 Jeffrey Kaye on US Bio-weapons and the CIA’s Attempts to Hide Them from 2022-12-21T01:06
Scott talks with Jeffrey Kaye about an article he recently published on the CIA’s effort to suppress reports about the use of bio-weapons by U.S. forces fighting in Korea. The agency went to great ...
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12/16/22 Kyle Anzalone on All the Bad News in American Foreign Policy from 2022-12-19T12:29
Kyle Anzalone joins Scott to run through all the biggest foreign policy news of the day. They discuss the $858 billion NDAA that just passed the Senate, the ridiculous claims that Biden is in China...
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12/9/22 Philip Weiss on the Silver Lining of an Even Worse Israeli Government from 2022-12-19T12:27
Scott talks with Philip Weiss about the political implications of an Israeli government run by Ben-Gvir, a far-right extreme zionist. Weiss gives a quick background on the volatile last five years ...
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12/15/22 Annelle Sheline on the Delayed Yemen Vote from 2022-12-16T22:49
Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute joined Antiwar Radio to discuss Senator Bernie Sanders’s Tuesday night decision to delay the vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution. Scott and Sheline talk ...
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12/15/22 Dave DeCamp: Troubling Developments fromthe War in Ukraine from 2022-12-16T22:42
Dave DeCamp joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to run through some of the latest news about the war in Ukraine. The two discuss the U.S. and British personnel on the ground in Ukraine and the ...
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12/9/22 Misty Winston on the Global Push to Free Assange and How You Can Help from 2022-12-11T23:15
Scott interviews activist and podcast host Misty Winston about the persecution of Julian Assange and those who are working to stop it. Winston first gives an update on what Assange is facing right ...
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12/9/22 Dan Cohen on the Threat of a U.S. Invasion of Haiti from 2022-12-10T23:04
Scott talks with journalist Dan Cohen about the volatile situation in Haiti. Cohen recently traveled to the country to report on Washington’s targeting of opposition leader Jimmy Chérizier. Cohen e...
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12/8/22 Hassan El-Tayyab and Marcy Winograd on Yemen and Ukraine from 2022-12-09T13:19
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Hassan El-Tayyab about the vote next week to end support for the Saudi war in Yemen. The two give a brief background on the war to explain how we got he...
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12/2/22 John Young on Cryptome, Wikileaks and the Persecution of Julian Assange from 2022-12-09T13:12
Scott talks with John Young of Cryptome.org about his attempt to join the Julian Assange indictment as a co-defendant. Before Wikileaks published redacted versions of the State Department cables le...
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12/2/22 Trevor Aaronson Gives a Window Into FBI Entrapment Schemes from 2022-12-05T00:16
Scott interviews journalist and author Trevor Aaronson about an article he recently published for the Intercept. Aaronson has been one of the best reporters exposing how the FBI uses paid informant...
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12/1/22 Kyle Anzalone and Kevin Gosztola on the NDAA, Ukraine, North Korea and Julian Assange from 2022-12-03T01:05
For his first Antiwar Radio show in the new Thursday afternoon timeslot, Scott interviews Kyle Anzalone about the latest foreign policy news and then Kevin Gosztola about Julian Assange. First, he ...
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11/18/22 Daniel McAdams on the Poland Missile Incident and Prospects for Negotiations from 2022-11-20T22:20
Scott is joined by Daniel McAdams to talk about the war in Ukraine. They start with the incident on Tuesday when a missile crossed into Poland, a NATO country, and killed two people on a farm. That...
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11/14/22 Tim Shorrock: The Tension with North Korea is America’s Fault from 2022-11-19T22:24
Scott talks with Tim Shorrock about the build-up to today’s tension with North Korea. Shorrock takes us back to the 1990s when the U.S. and North Korean governments were making serious headway in n...
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11/11/22 David Stockman on the Economy and the Misplaced Fear of China from 2022-11-18T02:13
Scott is joined by David Stockman to talk about the economic issues facing the world today. To start, Stockman explains where the American economy stands today. He argues that the crash of 2020 rep...
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10/31/22 Mike Swanson on our Strange and Troubling Economy from 2022-11-05T12:29
Scott talks with Mike Swanson about the economic mess we find ourselves in. Swanson helps us understand how we got here and why all the traditional “experts” have been so confused. Swanson argues t...
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10/31/22 Lyle Goldstein on the Danger of Fighting over Ukraine and Taiwan from 2022-11-02T19:57
Scott interviews Lyle Goldstein about the danger posed by escalating conflicts in Europe and the Pacific. First Goldstein, who correctly predicted the February invasion, gives his account of where ...
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10/28/22 John Robb on the Geopolitical Ramifications of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover from 2022-11-02T00:30
Scott talks with John Robb about the major consequences of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Robb has written about how the internet created a global geopolitical environment determined chiefly by t...
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10/27/22 Kyle Anzalone on Washington’s Incompetent Imperialism from 2022-10-30T21:17
Kyle Anzalone joins Scott this week on Antiwar Radio to provide a quick insight into the status of the American empire’s foreign adventurism. They first look to North Korea, where the Biden adminis...
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10/24/22 Ted Snider on America's Obligation to Stop the War in Ukraine from 2022-10-27T13:33
Scott talks with Ted Snider about some of his recent articles at Antiwar.com. Snider makes the argument that, by deliberately ignoring off-ramps, the U.S. bears just as much responsibility for the ...
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10/22/22 Patrick MacFarlane on the Populist Right’s Taiwan Hypocrisy from 2022-10-26T21:23
Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane, the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute, to discuss an article he wrote recently as well as the new direction he’s taking his podcast Vital Di...
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10/21/22 Annelle Sheline: Mad at the Saudis? End the War in Yemen from 2022-10-24T21:45
Scott talks with Quincy Institute research fellow Annelle Sheline about the recent anti-Saudi sentiment in the Democratic Party and the effort to end the war in Yemen. After some tension between th...
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9/6/22 Ramzy Baroud on the Deliberate Misrepresentation of Palestinians and the Siege of Gaza from 2022-09-07T17:45:25
Scott interviews Ramzy Baroud about two articles he wrote recently for Antiwar.com. The first examines the media’s role in distorting the truth about Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. S...
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8/22/22 Hunter DeRensis on Loser Liz Cheney’s Awful Legacy from 2022-08-25T21:14:47
Scott speaks with Hunter DeRensis about the legacy of Liz Cheney. Although the Wyoming Congresswoman recently lost her primary, she seems determined to take a shot at national office. But even if w...
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8/19/22 Peter Van Buren’s “Neopracticalist” Take on Taiwan from 2022-08-25T00:39
Scott interviews writer and State Department veteran Peter Van Buren about Taiwan. Van Buren is sticking with his assessment that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will not happen because there’s too mu...
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8/19/22 Shane McCarver Debunks Petraeus’s Lies in the Atlantic from 2022-08-23T21:30:27
Scott talks with Shane McCarver about an article he published last week at Antiwar.com challenging the wild assertions David Petraeus made in his Atlantic article earlier this month. Despite its le...
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8/19/22 Sheldon Richman on America’s Totalitarian Tax System from 2022-08-22T22:07:36
Scott interviews the Libertarian Institute executive editor Sheldon Richman about a column he put out last Friday. In it, he discusses the massive boost Biden’s spending bill gives the IRS. Richman...
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8/13/22 Kyle Anzalone on the Week’s Biggest Foreign Policy News Stories from 2022-08-17T14:21:32
Kyle Anzalone of the Libertarian Institute and Antiwar.com was back on Antiwar Radio on Sunday to run through all the biggest news stories taking place this week. He and Scott talk about Kosovo, Cr...
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8/12/22 Daniel Davis on the Myth that Victory in Afghanistan Was Possible from 2022-08-17T02:38:28
Scott talks with Daniel Davis about David Petraeus's latest attempt to rewrite the history of the war in Afghanistan. Davis knows firsthand how the war actually played out back when Petraeus was in...
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8/12/22 Matthieu Aikins on the Many Problems Facing Afghanistan Today from 2022-08-15T17:17:54
Scott interviews journalist and author Matthieu Aikins about life in Afghanistan one year after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Having spent a lot of time in the country, Aikins is able to give a nu...
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8/12/22 Ben Freeman on how Taiwan and Other Foreign Governments Control American Foreign Policy from 2022-08-15T14:52:50
Ben Freeman is back to talk about who’s really influencing United States foreign policy. Freeman recently wrote a paper about the Taiwan lobby. He talks to Scott about how this Taiwan lobby was inv...
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8/8/22 Bonnie Kristian on America’s Ongoing War in Somalia from 2022-08-12T19:40:50
Scott interviews Bonnie Kristian about her new book and an article she wrote recently on America’s war in Somalia. After the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan last summer, Somalia is now Americ...
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8/5/22 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard’s Momentum and the Death of Zawahiri from 2022-08-12T19:21:15
Dan McKnight of Bring Our Troops Home is back to give an update on the movement to pass Defend the Guard Legislation. Defend the Guard aims to prohibit the Federal Government from deploying Nationa...
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8/5/22 Grant F. Smith on Isaiah Kenen and how the Israeli Government Formed AIPAC from 2022-08-10T22:12
Scott talked with author Grant F. Smith about his new podcast detailing the founding of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. They also discuss how AIPAC has recently been getting...
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8/5/22 David Pyne Shares the Views That Got Him Blacklisted by the Ukrainian Government from 2022-08-09T21:29:07
Scott interviews David Pyne about the articles he wrote on the war in Ukraine that landed him on the Ukrainian regime's blacklist. Earlier this year, Pyne wrote a piece that contained a fifteen-poi...
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8/5/22 Laurie Calhoun on Zawahri’s Alleged Assassination and the Fanaticism of the Military Industrial Complex from 2022-08-08T19:15
Scott talks with Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun. They begin with a discussion of last week's announcement that a CIA drone strike killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in Kabu...
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8/5/22 Connor Freeman on JCPOA Negotiations and Opposing War with China from 2022-08-07T22:16:24
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott interviewed Libertarian Institute Assistant Editor Connor Freeman. Freeman goes over the messy situation Iranian officials face as JCPOA negotiations pick back up ...
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7/28/22 Douglas Macgregor on NATO’s Doomed Strategy in Ukraine from 2022-07-31T21:33:12
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott was joined by retired Col. Douglas Macgregor to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine. Macgregor has been deeply critical of NATO’s reaction to the Russian invasion, ...
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7/25/22 Matt Taibbi on the Depravity of the Media and Liberal Interventionists from 2022-07-30T22:25:34
Scott interviews journalist Matt Taibbi about two articles he published at TK News. The first examines the role the New York Times plays in defining the boundaries of acceptable discourse in our co...
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7/25/22 John Vaughn on Why People Aren’t Joining the Military from 2022-07-29T21:51:01
Scott spoke with retired U.S. Army Captain John Vaughn about the Military’s recent recruitment troubles. Vaughn gives an insider’s take on why interest in joining up has been dropping and highlight...
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7/25/22 Dave DeCamp on Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran and his New Podcast from 2022-07-28T16:55:18
Scott interviewed Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp earlier this week. First, they discussed DeCamp’s new podcast — Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp. The show runs every weekday and highlights the m...
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7/22/22 Jeff Deist on Inflation, the Housing Market and the Death of Savings from 2022-07-28T16:54:58
Scott is joined by Jeff Deist, the President of the Mises Institute, to discuss the bizarre economic moment we are living through. Deist puts into perspective the historic levels of economic stimul...
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7/22/22 Kyle Anzalone on the Ukraine-Russia Grain Deal and the Evolving State of the War from 2022-07-28T16:54:30
Kyle Anzalone is back this week on Antiwar Radio to update us on all things Ukraine. Anzalone explains the grain deal both sides reached after Turkey hosted negotiations. If honored, the deal is ex...
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7/22/22 Doug Bandow on Biden’s Saudi Trip and Awful Middle East Policy from 2022-07-23T23:43:39
Scott talks with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow about an article he wrote recently for The American Conservative. Bandow gives his take on Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia. He thinks the Saud...
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7/21/22 Hassan El-Tayyab on the Yemen Ceasefire, Biden’s Saudi Trip and a Second War Powers Resolution from 2022-07-22T20:25
Hassan El-Tayyab is back with a big update on the effort to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen. There are now War Powers Resolutions in each chamber of Congress, and momentum is building. El-Tay...
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7/15/22 Patrick MacFarlane on Adrian Zenz and the 'Xinjiang Police Files' from 2022-07-17T18:16
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to discuss the narrative that China is conducting a genocide against the Uyghurs of Xinjiang, its westernmost region. The narrative...
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7/8/22 Kyle Anzalone on Recent Developments in Ukraine from 2022-07-11T12:53:12
This week on Antiwar Radio, Kyle Anzalone of the Libertarian Institute and Antiwar.com joins Scott to discuss the status of the war in Ukraine. Anzalone explains how fighting has evolved in the Don...
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7/8/22 John Kiriakou on Vault 7, Robert Grenier and Bin Laden’s Escape at Tora Bora from 2022-07-10T00:10:22
Scott is joined by CIA officer turned whistleblower turned political commentator John Kiriakou to discuss the trial of Joshua Schulte, the man accused of leaking the CIA’s Vault 7 program to Wikile...
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6/23/22 Should the U.S. Be Sending Weapons to Ukraine? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young at the Soho Forum from 2022-07-07T00:32
Should the U.S. give full military and political support to Ukraine in its war with Russia, short of sending troops? That was the subject of a Soho Forum debate held on Thursday, June 23, at the Po...
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7/1/22 Alan MacLeod on the Alarming Number of Ex-FBI Agents Working at Twitter from 2022-07-05T21:13
Scott talks with Alan MacLeod about the reporting he’s done on the surprising number of former FBI agents who have joined the content moderation department at Twitter. He runs through some specific...
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3/24/22 Dave Decamp on Russia’s War in Ukraine and Washington’s Reaction from 2022-03-28T15:26
Dave DeCamp joined Scott on Antiwar Radio yesterday to discuss the Russian war in Ukraine. DeCamp gives a brief rundown of the Russian campaign so far and details where the bulk of the fighting is ...
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3/15/22 Kevin Gosztola on the Dangers Posed by the Prosecution of Assange from 2022-03-18T13:56
Scott talks with journalist Kevin Gosztola about the most recent developments in the attempt to extradite Jullian Assange to the United States. Gosztola gives a background of the legal process so f...
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3/12/22 – Scott’s Speech on Yemen and Ukraine at the New Jersey Libertarian Convention from 2022-03-14T20:20:02
On Saturday, Scott delivered a speech to the New Jersey Libertarian Party Convention. He covered the Saudi war in Yemen and the Russian war in Ukraine. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is spo...
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3/11/22 Larry Bowen and Joe Meadors Tell Their Story of Surviving the Attack on the USS Liberty from 2022-03-14T14:07:59
Scott sat down with two of the survivors of the 1967 Israeli attack on the American Navy ship the USS Liberty. They detail their personal experience and fit their story into the broader historical ...
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3/8/22 Max Blumenthal on the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine from 2022-03-10T13:00:56
Max Blumenthal joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss the Neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine that have been enjoying the support of Western governments for years. He also talks about Zelinsky, who was el...
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3/4/22 Peter Van Buren on the War in Ukraine and the Origins of Russiagate from 2022-03-07T02:47:56
Scott was joined by Peter Van Buren for an extended Antiwar Radio interview. They begin with a long discussion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, how it’s going and how it will likely end. Van Buren ...
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2/26/22 Scott’s Recent Speech on the History Behind the Russia-Ukraine Crisis from 2022-03-03T03:23:08
Scott gave a comprehensive speech on the story behind the Russia-Ukraine crisis to the Libertarian Party of Utah and Mises Caucus in Salt Lake City, Utah. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is ...
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2/24/22 Hassan El-Tayyab on the Effort to End the War in Yemen from 2022-02-25T22:13:51
Scott is joined by Hassan El-Tayyab of the Friends Committee on National Legislation to discuss Yemen. Despite the rapidly unfolding situation in Ukraine, Scott and El-Tayyab agree that what’s happ...
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2/24/22 Greg Palast on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine from 2022-02-25T17:25:43
Scott interviews Greg Palast about the situation in Ukraine. They discuss the political, economic and religious context behind Putin's actions. Discussed on the show:Support KPFK Investigative re...
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2/24/22 Joe Cirincione: US Actions Don’t Justify Putin’s Attack, But They Set The Stage For it from 2022-02-24T18:06:43
Scott is joined by Joe Cirincione to talk about the situation in Ukraine. They start with some background on the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. They discuss the levels of warheads and how its e...
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2/21/22 Ramzy Baroud on the Not-So-Secret Massacres of Palestinian Villages from 2022-02-24T18:04:36
Scott interviews Ramzy Baroud about an article he wrote recently on the shifting awareness of Israeli massacres against Palestinian villages. Scott and Baroud discuss what happened during the killi...
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2/18/22 Anne Williamson on How the US Sabotaged Russia’s Economy after the Fall of the Soviet Union from 2022-02-22T18:19:21
Scott interviews former reporter Anne Williamson about the flawed privatization of Russia after the fall of the USSR. While privatization had mixed success across the former Soviet Bloc, Russia ran...
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2/21/22 Lyle J. Goldstein on Today’s Developments Concerning Russia and Ukraine from 2022-02-21T20:38:46
Scott is joined by Lyle Goldstein of Defense Priorities to discuss today’s developments as Russian officials appear to be ramping up their rhetoric in regards to exacting control over Ukraine. Gold...
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2/18/22 Ben Freeman on the Army of Ukraine Lobbyists in DC from 2022-02-21T19:39:01
Ben Freeman joined Scott on Antiwar Radio yesterday to discuss some analysis he recently published that looks at the Ukrainian Government’s lobbying efforts in Washington DC. Freeman combed over re...
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2/18/22 Doug Bandow on Yemen and Ukraine from 2022-02-21T16:56:17
Scott talks with Doug Bandow about the escalation of the war in Yemen and the tension with Russia over Ukraine. Bandow explains why the Hawk’s characterization of Iran’s involvement in Yemen is dec...
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2/18/22 Jack Matlock on the Predictable and Avoidable Crisis Over Ukraine from 2022-02-20T15:06:35
Scott interviews Jack Matlock, former Ambassador to the USSR, about the current situation in eastern Europe. While he can’t imagine Russia will actually invade Ukraine, Matlock points to the last t...
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2/10/22 Ray McGovern on the Russia Invasion Panic from 2022-02-14T17:09:47
Ray McGovern joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss the hysteria over a Russian invasion of Ukraine. McGovern explains why no such invasion will be taking place. They then discuss the r...
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2/11/22 Shireen Al-Adeimi: A Deep Dive on the War in Yemen from 2022-02-11T22:02:33
Scott is joined by Shireen Al-Adeimi to discuss an article she wrote recently about the Yemen War under Biden. The two go through the origins of the war and where it stands today. Al-Adeimi explain...
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2/6/22 Branko Marcetic on the Nazi Insurgency in Ukraine from 2022-02-07T16:08:48
Scott was joined by Branko Marcetic of Jacobin on Antiwar Radio this Sunday to discuss the Nazi insurgents in Ukraine that the U.S. appears to be supporting. That term is has been overused in conte...
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1/27/22 Grant F. Smith on Next Month’s Israel Lobby Conference from 2022-02-03T00:46:56
Scott is joined by Grant F. Smith to discuss the Israel Lobby Conference taking place on March 3rd and 4th. The annual conference is returning to a live venue but will provide remote viewing option...
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1/27/22 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Ten Seven Club from 2022-02-01T00:56:24
Scott is joined by Dan McKnight of Bring Our Troops Home to discuss the prospects for Defend The Guard legislation in 2022. The legislation seeks to recognize the proper use of the National Guard a...
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1/27/22 Dave DeCamp on What’s Happening in Ukraine and Yemen from 2022-01-31T15:55:12
Dave DeCamp joined Scott for another Antiwar Radio interview. They discussed developments in Ukraine and Yemen. DeCamp gave an update on the tension in Eastern Europe and reveals some of the dishon...
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1/27/22 Gilbert Doctorow on the War Hysteria in Eastern Europe and Germany’s Reluctance to Go Along With It from 2022-01-28T23:42:51
Scott interviews political analyst Gilbert Doctorow about the tensions in Eastern Europe. Doctorow points to the strong state of the Russian economy as sufficient evidence that they won’t want to s...
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1/26/22 Darren Beattie on the Indictment of Stewart Rhodes and other Developments from 2022-01-27T21:21:45
Darren Beattie of Revolver News returns to the show. Beattie’s journalism has raised questions about the inconsistency of the Government’s investigation and prosecution of people who helped breach ...
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1/21/22 Annelle Sheline on Why Yemen Matters from 2022-01-26T01:18:59
Scott is joined by Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute to discuss Yemen. Sheline wrote an article recently about the shifting balance of the war. One year after Biden announced an end to U.S. s...
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1/21/22 Richard Hanania on American Power, Public Choice Theory and the Rise of China from 2022-01-23T23:43:25
Scott interviews Richard Hanania of Defense Priorities. They discuss the reality of how the American military’s presence impacts global events. Hanania argues that, if it were true that the U.S. wa...
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1/20/22 Clint Ehrlich on Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan from 2022-01-22T01:17:35
Scott is joined by Clint Ehrlich who recently went viral after his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show struck the nerve of a handful of foreign policy “experts.” So Scott invited him on the show to...
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1/19/22 Zaher Wahab: Afghanistan is Starving and Nobody Cares from 2022-01-21T02:20:01
Scott interviews Zaher Wahab of the Lewis&Clark Graduate School of Education about the economic catastrophe taking place in Afghanistan. Although the U.S. Government claimed it was working to devel...
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1/14/22 Ken Bensinger on the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot and January 6th from 2022-01-20T01:15:27
Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News returns to the show to follow up about the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Although the plot made national headlines when 14 militia members w...
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1/14/22 Ray McGovern on the US-Russia Talks from 2022-01-17T22:52:12
Ray McGovern is back to discuss the recent talks between Putin and the Biden Administration. McGovern observes that the talks, framed as a tense battle over Ukrainian sovereignty, appear to have ac...
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1/13/22 Daniel Ellsberg: Humans Are Not to Be Entrusted With Nuclear Weapons from 2022-01-17T01:58:51
Scott is joined by the heroic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to talk about a recent press release he helped put out calling for the abolition of land-based nuclear missiles in the United States. Bef...
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1/13/22 Andy Worthington on the Twenty Years of Abuse at Guantanamo Bay from 2022-01-16T01:39:50
Scott is joined by Andy Worthington, author of Guantanamo Files to discuss the status of the prison two decades after it opened. Worthington explains who remains detained at the prison, where detai...
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1/13/22 Trita Parsi on the American Public’s Influence on US Foreign Policy from 2022-01-15T01:54:16
Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute recently wrote a piece in a German publication arguing that the noninterventionist sentiment of the Trump years was not an arbitration. So Scott brought him on t...
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1/7/22 Daniel McAdams on the Unfolding Revolution in Kazakhstan from 2022-01-09T17:25:29
Scott interviews Daniel McAdams about the uprisings in Kazakhstan this week on Antiwar Radio. McAdams explains why these violent protests broke out. He then points to how this has all the markings ...
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1/7/22 Bill Ottman on Alternative Social Networks and the Future of the Internet from 2022-01-08T22:43:48
Scott is joined by Bill Ottman, the co-founder and CEO of Minds — a blockchain-based social network. After Twitter banned Dr. Robert Malone for spreading alleged medical misinformation, many have b...
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12/30/21 Ray McGovern on the Dumb but Dangerous Tension With Russia Over Ukraine from 2022-01-04T23:21:39
Scott interviews Ray McGovern in this extended version of Antiwar Radio. They discuss the recent tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine. Both Scott and McGovern agree that there is no im...
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12/30/21 Grant F. Smith on Israel’s Evolving Strategy to Sway American Politics from 2022-01-04T02:12:16
Scott is joined by Grant F. Smith to talk about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) new strategy for reaching U.S. politicians. AIPAC has largely operated as a lobbying group on ...
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12/30/21 Darren Beattie on the Mysterious Men Who Breached the Capitol from 2022-01-02T23:49:25
Scott interviews Darren J. Beattie of Revolver News about the in-depth articles he’s written about the riot at the Capitol last January. Beattie’s reporting uses video and photo evidence to highlig...
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12/30/21 Basir Bita on the Economic Crisis in Afghanistan from 2022-01-01T22:39:37
Scott interviews activist Basir Bita about the economic calamity that’s hit Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal this past summer. With the U.S. and IMF freezing Afghan government funds as well as...
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12/30/21 Daniel Larison: US Militarism Should Have Died With the Soviet Union from 2021-12-31T21:43:05
Scott is joined by Antiwar.com contributing editor Daniel Larison to discuss his most recent piece. Larison argues that the period following the peaceful breakup of the USSR was the best moment for...
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12/22/21 Gareth Porter on Iran and Afghanistan from 2021-12-26T20:44:21
Scott celebrates eleven years on the radio by interviewing Gareth Porter about Biden’s first year in office. They discuss the negotiations between the Administration and Iran over a return to the J...
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12/10/21 Dave DeCamp on Iran, Russia, China and Yemen from 2021-12-14T03:42:52
Dave DeCamp is back on the show for another rapid-fire episode of some of the biggest foreign policy news. He starts out with an update on the recently resumed indirect negotiations between the U.S...
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12/10/21 Kevin Gosztola on Assange’s Future After the High Court Ruling from 2021-12-12T23:30:15
Scott is joined by journalist Kevin Gosztola to discuss the evolving situation Julian Assange finds himself in. The UK’s High Court recently overturned a decision blocking Assange from extradition ...
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12/3/21 Giorgio Cafiero on the Rumors of Russian Mercenaries Fighting in Mali from 2021-12-08T18:54:31
Scott interviews Giorgio Cafiero about an article he wrote last month on France’s war in Mali. Cafiero gives a concise, but thorough, background on the war, how it started and where it stands today...
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12/3/21 Bob Murphy and Jon Schwarz on Whether Current Inflation Is a Good Thing from 2021-12-07T22:54:06
Jon Schwarz wrote an article for the Intercept last month that stirred up quite a buzz. In the piece, Schwarz makes the argument that, because it’s hurting creditors and shrinking the real value of...
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12/2/21 Gilbert Doctorow on the Growing Tension at the Russia-Ukrainian Border from 2021-12-07T02:30:50
Scott was joined by Gilbert Doctorow on Antiwar Radio Sunday to talk about Russia and Ukraine. The recent Russian build-up of forces on its border with Ukraine’s Donbas Region has been highly publi...
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12/2/21 Ford Fischer on the New Details Surrounding Johnny Hurley’s Tragic Death from 2021-12-06T01:10:53
Scott is joined by journalist and primary source documentarian Ford Fischer to discuss the recently released footage of Johnny Hurley’s death at the hands of an Arvada police officer. Fischer made ...
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12/2/21 Patricia Hynes Explains How the US Military Poisoned Its Own Soldiers from 2021-12-04T22:23:24
Scott interviews Patricia Hynes about a piece she wrote back in 2017 highlighting the devastation caused by burn pits on American military bases over the last thirty years. Scott wanted to discuss ...
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12/2/21 John Dolan (The War Nerd) on the Tigray-Ethiopia War from 2021-12-03T22:17:32
Scott is joined by John Dolan who used to write under the names Gary Brecher and The War Nerd. The two discuss a recent article Dolan wrote that lays out the big picture causes and developments in ...
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11/30/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on This Weeks Senate Vote to Block the Saudi Arms Sale from 2021-11-30T20:21:49
Hassan El-Tayyab is back with an update on a Senate vote taking place later this week that aims to block the Biden Administrations' $600 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia. The resolution is the res...
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11/24/21 Aaron Maté on the Award-Winning Lies Still Propping up Russiagate from 2021-11-30T01:48:16
On Antiwar Radio this Sunday, Scott was joined by Aaron Maté to discuss an article he wrote for Real Clear Investigations. Amidst the collapse of the Steele dossier, Maté wrote about five articles ...
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11/19/21 Peter Van Buren on Why China’s Not Invading Taiwan and How Absurd the Russiagate Story Was From the Beginning from 2021-11-24T22:34:14
On Antiwar Radio this past Sunday, Scott interviewed Peter Van Buren about two articles he wrote on Taiwan. Van Buren laid out the reasons he believes a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is unlikely. Scot...
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11/19/21 Samantha Melamed on the Epidemic of Coerced Confessions in the Philadelphia Police Department from 2021-11-23T22:23:32
Scott is joined by Samantha Melamed of the Philadelphia Inquirer to talk about a series of articles she wrote called The Homicide Files. Since 2018, a total of 22 people convicted of murder have be...
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11/19/21 Russell Wray on the Antiwar Movement, Protesting and the Military’s Impact on the Environment from 2021-11-22T23:56:17
Scott interviews activist Russel Wray from Ellsworth Maine. Wray has been protesting the wars every Sunday since 2002. He discusses his journey to the antiwar movement and how it’s changed since he...
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11/15/21 Lyle J. Goldstein on How the US Would Lose the Battle for Taiwan from 2021-11-21T22:56:40
Scott interviews Lyle J. Goldstein, who now works at Defense Priorities. Goldstein challenges the idea that a war with China over Taiwan would be fundamentally different from the war in Afghanistan...
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11/12/21 Joe Lauria Explains Julian Assange’s Situation from 2021-11-20T22:28:16
Scott is joined by Joe Lauria of Consortium News. Lauria gives us a detailed account of Assange’s eventful past year. A British judge, who despite agreeing that Assange had violated the Espionage A...
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11/12/21 Aaron Maté on the Further Collapse of Russiagate from 2021-11-19T22:50:19
Aaron Maté is back to give an update on Russiagate as the years-long conspiracy theory continues to fall completely apart. Maté fills us in on the indictment of Igor Danchenko, who was a major sour...
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11/12/21 Kelly Beaucar Vlahos on the Quincy Institute, Zalmay Khalilzad and Mark Perry from 2021-11-18T22:08:03
Scott interviews Kelly Beaucar Vlahos from Responsible Statecraft. For listeners unfamiliar with it, Vlahos gives an introduction to her place of work and the think tank behind it, the Quincy Insti...
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11/12/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on the Many Ways Congress Can End the War in Yemen from 2021-11-18T00:21:51
This last Sunday, Hassan El-Tayyab of the Friends Committee On National Legislation joined Antiwar Radio to talk with Scott about Yemen. El-Tayyab explains the numerous ways Congress could end the ...
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11/12/21 Dave DeCamp with Updates on Russia, Iraq, Yemen and Taiwan from 2021-11-16T23:31:56
Scott is joined by Antiwar.com’s Dave DeCamp for a rapid fire review of what’s been happening around the world. They start with Russia where the U.S. has told its European allies an invasion of Ukr...
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11/12/21 Daniel Davis: We Shouldn’t Send American Soldiers to Die for Taiwan from 2021-11-15T17:24:57
Scott interviews Daniel Davis about an article he recently published at 19fortyfive.com about Taiwan. Davis does believe there is a solid chance that China will invade Taiwan. At the same time, he ...
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11/12/21 Daniel Larison on Iran, Sanctions and Great Power Competition from 2021-11-15T04:35:38
Scott brings Daniel Larison back to the show to discuss a handful of articles he’s written recently for Antiwar.com. First they discuss his piece pointing out that there is no legal basis for any a...
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11/12/21 Hunter DeRensis on America’s History of Hating War Profiteers from 2021-11-14T00:58:25
Scott is joined by Hunter DeRensis to discuss a recent longform article he wrote for The American Conservative. The article was the culmination of months of research DeRensis did on the history of ...
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11/4/21 Peter Zeihan on American Power and China’s Coming Collapse from 2021-11-06T00:35:32
Scott interviews author and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan. Zeihan does not believe China will be a nation state ten years from now. One reason, he argues, is that China’s economy is completely ...
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10/29/21 Ryan McMaken on the Economy, the Money Supply and the Labor Shortage from 2021-11-05T00:24:01
Scott is joined by Ryan McMaken from the Mises Institute to talk about the state of the economy. McMaken describes how we are still living with the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis as well...
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10/29/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Cruelty Julian Assange Could Face in America from 2021-11-02T23:53:19
Kevin Gosztola is back to give an update on the appeal hearing against Julian Assange. Back in January, a UK judge ruled against Assange’s extradition to the U.S., citing his mental health. The U.S...
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10/26/21 Cheryl Rofer on the Shoddy Science behind Havana Syndrome from 2021-11-01T02:58:06
Scott is joined by writer and chemist Cheryl Rofer. Rofer penned an article back in May that debunked the increasingly popular theory that numerous American intelligence and diplomatic personnel we...
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10/25/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Yemen Atrocity and the Battle for Marib from 2021-10-30T20:53:33
Scott is joined by Nasser Arrabyee who gives an update on the state of the war in Yemen. The battle for Marib is raging as the Houthis take control of more and more districts. The city is one of th...
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10/25/21 Trita Parsi on Biden’s Awful Approach to JCPOA Negotiations from 2021-10-28T23:40:14
Scott interviews Trita Parsi about Biden's bizarre approach to JCPOA negotiations. When Biden came into office, the Iranians wanted to work out some mechanism to limit any future President’s abili...
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10/22/21 Gareth Porter on the Self Licking Ice Cream Cone from 2021-10-28T00:06:04
Scott is joined once again by Gareth Porter to discuss a piece he wrote at the beginning of the month for Responsible Statecraft. But before talking about the article, Porter gives a quick update o...
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10/22/21 William Hartung on the Existential Threat of the Nuclear Weapons Lobby from 2021-10-27T02:16:28
William Hartung returns to the show for a quick episode about a press release he published at the Institute for Public Accuracy. Hartung describes the current setup of America’s ICBMs. The missiles...
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10/22/21 Aaron Maté on the Clintonian Origins of Russiagate from 2021-10-26T00:45:03
Aaron Maté is back on the show to discuss an article he wrote published at Real Clear Investigations. Maté explains how, although the origins of Russiagate are still murky, the Clinton Campaign see...
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10/18/21 Scott Hechinger on the Murder Rate, Police Reform and Gun Control from 2021-10-24T16:56:29
Scott interviews attorney Scott Hechinger about a recent article he wrote for The Nation. They discuss the recent jump in the murder rate, its possible causes and the portrayal of the increase in t...
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10/15/21 Barrett Brown Returns from 2021-10-19T14:10:39
Scott interviews journalist and investigator Barrett Brown. Since his last appearance on the show in 2011, Brown spent four years in prison and he is currently seeking asylum from the United States...
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10/14/21 James Bradley on the Lies Americans Are Fed About China from 2021-10-16T02:32:19
Scott is joined by author James Bradley. They discuss how foolish the Russiagate story was from the beginning before getting into China. Bradley explains how the entire American understanding of Ch...
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10/11/21 Andrew Quilty on the Afghan War Criminals being Brought to the United States from 2021-10-13T22:12:30
Scott interviews Andrew Quilty, a journalist who’s stayed in Kabul, about a recent article he wrote for the Intercept. The article talks about the Zero Units which were militia groups of Afghan com...
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10/4/21 Scott’s Debate with Bill Kristol from 2021-10-12T22:09:07
On Monday, October 4th, Scott took part in a debate organized by Gene Epstein. Scott’s opponent was neoconservative Bill Kristol, one of the most prominent war hawks of recent American history. The...
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10/8/21 David Vine on the Absurd Number of American Bases Around the World from 2021-10-12T01:14:33
Scott talks with David Vine about a report he wrote recently for the Quincy Institute along with Patterson Deppen and Leah Bolger. The report makes the case for significantly reducing the number of...
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10/8/21 John Kiriakou on the Torture of Abu Zubaydah from 2021-10-10T01:31:15
Scott interviews former CIA Officer John Kiriakou about a recent article he wrote. Kiriakou was personally involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan. At the time, the CIA believed Zu...
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10/01/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Misleading Portrayal of the Taliban from 2021-10-06T21:34:12
Gareth Porter joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his recent piece at the Gray Zone about the dishonest ways the media has covered the Taliban. Both Scott and Porter agree that the Taliban are...
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10/01/21 Peter Van Buren on the Stages of America’s Imperial History from 2021-10-04T17:52:23
Scott is joined by Peter Van Buren to discuss some recent articles he wrote for The American Conservative. Van Buren used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on his experience on th...
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9/27/21 Aaron Maté on the Charged Clinton Lawyer and the Legacy of Russiagate from 2021-10-02T00:17:25
Scott interviews Aaron Maté about his recent article on Michael Sussmann, the Clinton attorney who was recently charged for lying to the FBI. Maté helps weave this developing story into the broader...
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9/27/21 James Carden on AUKUS, China and NATO Infighting from 2021-10-01T01:10:47
Scott is joined by James Carden to discuss a possible silver lining to the new and unnecessary anti-China pact between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. (AUKUS). Tensions broke out within NATO after...
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9/27/21 Kevin Gosztola on the CIA’s War on Assange, Wikileaks and Journalism Itself from 2021-09-30T01:17:01
Kevin Gosztola is back on the show to discuss a recent Yahoo! News article about Assange that went viral. Gosztola thinks the piece contains some good reporting but leans too much on a flawed Russi...
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9/24/21 Barbara Grant on What Really Happened on the Final Day of the Waco Siege from 2021-09-28T23:44:21
Scott is joined by Barbara Grant to discuss her new documentary which gives an experts perspective on the infrared footage capture on the final day of the Waco siege. Grant was busy working on a s...
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9/24/21 Capt. John Vaughn on His Experience at the Kabul Airport During the Evacuation from 2021-09-27T22:24:01
Scott is joined by U.S Army Captain John Vaughn who spent two weeks in Kabul assisting with the evacuation. Vaughn gives some details on his experience and addresses the concerns about military equ...
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9/24/21 Barbara Slavin on the True Winner of Iraq War 2 from 2021-09-26T21:01:06
Scott interviews Barbara Slavin from the Atlantic Council. Slavin recently co-authored an article with Abbas Kadhim about how Iran’s influence in the middle east has grown substantially since the U...
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9/22/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on How We Can Help End the War in Yemen by Tomorrow from 2021-09-22T16:36:49
Scott talks with Hassan El-Tayyab about tomorrow’s vote to end all support for the Saudi campaign in Yemen. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is going to be debated on the floor ...
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9/17/21 Weimin Chen on Why the Approaching Completion of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Is Great News from 2021-09-20T22:59:06
Scott talks with Weimin Chen about his recent article on the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. The pipeline will transport natural gas from Russia to Germany. Chen explains that these two countries have a lo...
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9/13/21 Aaron Maté on the Seemingly Forgotten American Occupation of Syria from 2021-09-17T00:42:41
Scott talks with journalist Aaron Maté about his recent piece bringing attention to the U.S. occupation of Syria. The U.S. military currently controls about a third of Syria with an official troop ...
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9/13/21 Mathieu Aikins on the Recent US Drone Strike in Kabul and Life in Afghanistan Post-Withdrawal from 2021-09-15T22:46:19
Scott interviews journalist Mathieu Aikins who has remained in Kabul to report for the New York Times. Aikins and his team recently investigated the drone strike the U.S. carried out on August 29th...
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9/9/21 Joe Dyke on the Civilian Bodycount of American Airstrikes from 2021-09-15T01:39:10
Joe Dyke from Airwars.org joins the show to discuss his new report, coauthored with Imogen Piper, which attempts to count civilian deaths resulting directly from U.S. airstrikes during the Terror W...
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9/9/21 Dave DeCamp on Developments in Afghanistan and Syria from 2021-09-13T23:01:03
This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talked with Dave DeCamp. DeCamp gives an update on Afghanistan where the Taliban are attempting to form a government. Both Scott and DeCamp agree that the Taliban ...
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9/6/21 Clive Stafford Smith on Ahmed Rabbani and the Other Innocent Men Being Held at Guantanamo Bay from 2021-09-10T01:04:36
Scott interviews Clive Stafford Smith about a recent article written by his client Ahmed Rabbani. Rabbani has been in custody for 19 years without a single charge being brought against him. In 2002...
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9/6/21 Magnus Panvidya on the Upcoming Day of Antiwar Protests from 2021-09-09T00:30:25
Scott sits down with Magnus Panvidya to discuss the upcoming antiwar protests that will take place all over the country on September 11th. All indications point to a sizable turnout that is, import...
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9/3/21 Coleen Rowley on the Many Ways 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented from 2021-09-08T01:14:56
Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have b...
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9/3/21 Danny Sjursen on Afghanistan, Veterans and Counterinsurgency from 2021-09-07T02:04:13
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen and gets his reaction to the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Sjursen thinks the Taliban’s campaign to take control of the country may soon be studied in war colleges....
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9/3/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Reaction to the Withdrawal From Afghanistan from 2021-09-06T02:11:23
Gareth Porter joins Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his latest piece about the media’s reaction to Afghanistan. Porter lays out how virtually the entire media ecosystem is arguing the withdrawal ...
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9/3/21 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan from 2021-09-05T02:17:51
Scott talks with Dan McKnight about the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation, which would block the use of National Guard troops in foreign combat operations without a declaration of war. Mc...
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8/30/21 Jack Murphy on America’s Failed Drone Campaign in Afghanistan from 2021-09-01T03:04
Scott talks with Jack Murphy about the piece he wrote detailing the surge in drone strikes that took place under President Trump. Murphy explains how the whole project started when a distraught dr...
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8/27/21 Ashraf Nubani on Why Sirhan Sirhan, the Man Convicted for Killing Robert Kennedy, Ought to Be Released from 2021-08-31T02:53:37
Scott interviews attorney and writer Ashraf Nubani about his recent piece making a case for releasing Robert Kennedy’s convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan. Nubani explains that Sirhan meets all the st...
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8/27/21 Daniel Davis on the Kabul Airport Bombing from 2021-08-31T02:48:47
Scott speaks with Daniel Davis about the suicide bombing at the entrance to the Kabul Airport. Davis considers this an especially devastating attack because the soldiers killed were only days away ...
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8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan from 2021-08-31T02:45:41
Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their ...
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8/27/21 Grant Smith on the Open Secret of Israel’s Nuclear Weapons from 2021-08-31T02:40:47
Scott interviews Grant Smith about his recent article, which makes the case that the $3.8 billion in foreign aid given to Israel is on questionable legal grounds. It all comes back to Israel’s nucl...
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8/20/21 Trita Parsi on the True Drivers of Middle East Instability from 2021-08-24T18:15:15
Scott interviews Trita Parsi about his paper concerning the intervention of Middle East powers over the last decade. Parsi and his coauthor Matthew Petti found that, contrary to the picture often p...
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8/20/21 Daniel McAdams on Hubris of the Foreign Policy Establishment from 2021-08-24T18:13:25
Scott talks with Daniel McAdams about his recent appearance on RT, where he challenged the Western Media's narrative about China. McAdams says they have it backward, criticizing China for its best ...
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8/20/21 Dave DeCamp: An Update on the Afghanistan Evacuation from 2021-08-24T18:11:48
Dave DeCamp joins the show to give an update on the effort to evacuate Westerners and their allies from Kabul. He explains that the evacuations are moving at a good clip. So far, the Biden Administ...
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8/17/21 Eric Margolis: This is Not the Worst Case Scenario in Afghanistan from 2021-08-20T13:34:14
Eric Margolis talks with Scott about the situation in Afghanistan as American forces continue to withdraw. Of course, the last few days have seen nonstop headlines proclaiming an utter disaster in ...
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8/17/21 Matthew Hoh on the Systemic Failures Behind America’s Loss in Afghanistan from 2021-08-20T03:57:29
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh, the Marine veteran who blew the whistle about the doomed Afghan Surge. Hoh lays out what led him to resign in protest and go to the press with the truth about how hope...
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8/16/21 Andrew Cockburn on the Legacy of Zalmay Khalilzad from 2021-08-20T03:56:57
Scott talks to Andrew Cockburn about his 2014 article on Afghan-born neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad. Cockburn explains how it was Khalilzad who selected new leaders for Afghanistan and Iraq after...
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8/13/21 Joseph Solis-Mullen: China Won’t Be Taking Over the World from 2021-08-18T03:11:50
Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the claim that America must now turn its attention toward China as the new threat of global hegemony. War hawks will cite China's growing economic supremacy, many alle...
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8/13/21 Ken Bensinger on the Role of FBI Informants in the Michigan Kidnapping Plot from 2021-08-18T02:04:34
Scott talks to Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News about the role of FBI informants in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Bensinger explains that informants played a heavy role in th...
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8/13/21 Adam Kokesh on Quitting the Military and Big Tech Suppression of Dissident Voices from 2021-08-18T01:49:21
Scott is joined by Adam Kokesh, who gives his perspective on how much blame cops and soldiers bear for the immorality of their actions. Scott describes the way we seem to cut soldiers some slack, l...
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8/13/21 Daniel Davis on the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan from 2021-08-15T23:49:47
Scott talks to Daniel Davis about his recent Fox News article praising President Biden for standing firm (so far) in his intent to end the war in Afghanistan. Davis explains that although the Talib...
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8/12/21 Ray McGovern on the History of US-Russia Relations and the Threat of a New Cold War from 2021-08-14T14:58:09
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 tow...
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8/4/21 Muntadhar al-Zaidi on the Infamous George Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident from 2021-08-07T18:06:37
Scott talks to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who famously threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008. At the time, Al-Zaidi hoped to bring awareness to the suffering inflicted on the Iraqi peopl...
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8/4/21 Ford Fischer on the Death of Johnny Hurley, the Concealed Carrier Who Stopped a Mass Shooting from 2021-08-07T18:02:19
Independent journalist Ford Fischer tells the story of Johnny Hurley, a Colorado man who was killed by police after he stopped a mass shooting. Hurley came out of a store after seeing the shooter k...
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8/4/21 Daniel Larison: What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion from 2021-08-07T17:58:21
Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will ...
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7/30/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Ongoing War in Yemen from 2021-08-01T19:29:27
Scott talks to Nasser Arrabyee about Yemen, where despite the Biden administration's assurances almost six months ago that the U.S. would be ending its support for "offensive operations," the Saudi...
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7/30/21 Patrick Cockburn: The ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan is Far From Over from 2021-08-01T19:27:29
Scott and Patrick Cockburn speculate about the future of Afghanistan as the United States ends its military involvement there. Cockburn reminds us that although the Taliban are making gains in part...
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7/30/21 Justin Cornett and Josh Eakle: Mobilizing Tennesseans to Empower People and Limit Government from 2021-08-01T03:19:41
Scott interviews Justin Cornett and Josh Eakle about their organization, For All Tennessee, which they describe as a lobbying group for the people. Cornett and Eakle target specific reforms that ju...
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7/30/21 Kevin Gosztola and John Kiriakou on the Sentencing of Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale from 2021-08-01T03:13:17
Scott talks to Kevin Gosztola and John Kiriakou about the trial of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale, who was just sentenced to 45 months in prison for crimes under the espionage act. Hale's case is ...
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7/30/21 Gareth Porter on the Stressing of US-China Relations over Taiwanese Independence from 2021-08-01T03:09:59
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the tenuous and secretive relationship between the U.S., China and Taiwan. Since the Nixon administration, Porter explains, America has had an official, but mos...
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7/30/21 David Swanson on the Unexpectedly Good War Powers Reform Bill from 2021-08-01T03:06:43
David Swanson discusses the new congressional and presidential war powers legislation that's been proposed by Senators Murphy, Lee and Sanders. Swanson describes his initial fears about the bill, g...
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7/27/21 Dave DeCamp: Recent Updates on America’s Forever Wars from 2021-07-28T23:24:14
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about what's going on in the various corners of America's would-be empire. In Afghanistan, as predicted, the Taliban have been making gains against the Afghan government ...
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7/25/21 Mark Curtis on Britain’s Secret Role in Syria and Yemen from 2021-07-26T13:56:41
Scott interviews journalist Mark Curtis about his investigations into the UK role in the wars in Syria and Yemen. Regarding Yemen, Britain has long denied any involvement in that war, says Curtis, ...
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7/19/21 Peter McCormack on the Bitcoin Revolution Taking the World by Storm from 2021-07-19T22:06:46
Peter McCormack discusses the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin. The most important news is that El Salvador moved to make Bitcoin legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar, which McCormack...
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7/16/21 Ron Enzweiler: Requiem for America’s Ineffectual War State from 2021-07-18T23:24:16
Ron Enzweiler discusses the unlearned lessons of America's wasteful and doomed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. First of all, he says, we should have known that the only thing keeping Iraq together wa...
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7/16/21 Doug Bandow on the Calls for Intervention in Haiti and a Cold War With China from 2021-07-18T23:21:56
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the recent assassination of Haiti's president and the ensuing calls for U.S. intervention. Bandow warns about the perils of interventions like this, even when they ...
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7/16/21 Dave DeCamp on Iraq, Iran and US Withdrawal from the Middle East from 2021-07-18T23:19:02
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some of the latest stories at antiwar.com. Recently, says DeCamp, it's been reported that Iran was urging Iraqi militias not to retaliate against the U.S., after th...
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7/16/21 Branko Marcetic on the Julian Assange Media Blackout from 2021-07-18T02:20:44
Branko Marcetic discusses the stunning lack of mainstream media coverage of Julian Assange's case. Besides being the right thing to do, since Assange has heroically helped expose heinous crimes by ...
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7/15/21 Ted Snider on Why the US Prefers Iranian Hardliners from 2021-07-16T03:46:30
Scott talks to Ted Snider about America's relationship with Iran and Syria. Iran has just elected a new president, Ibrahim Raisi, who Snider says is much more of a hardliner than his predecessor, H...
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7/9/21 Jim Bovard on Biden’s Buffoonish War on Extremism from 2021-07-14T22:34:13
Jim Bovard discusses the recent rumblings about "domestic extremism," which the Biden administration and many Democrats have been warning is a rising problem in America. So far, Biden has only issu...
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7/9/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Plights of Julian Assange and Daniel Hale from 2021-07-14T22:32:38
Kevin Gosztola is back with an update on Julian Assange and Daniel Hale, both of whom continue to languish in maximum security prisons for the "crime" of telling the people about the very real crim...
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7/9/21 Danny Sjursen on the Danger of an Afghanistan ‘Threequel’ from the Biden Administration from 2021-07-14T22:29:33
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which at the moment the Biden administration appears poised to follow through with. Sjursen is concerned about the response from...
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7/9/21 Jared Wall on the Delta-8 THC Loophole Allowing Americans to Buy Cannabis Legally from 2021-07-14T00:43:25
New advertiser Jared Wall joins the show to discuss his website, thchempspot.com, which offers cannabis products containing Delta-8 THC, a form of psychoactive THC that's perfectly legal almost eve...
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7/2/21 Andrew Cockburn on the Catastrophic Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld from 2021-07-08T02:26:12
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about his new book, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. Scott and Cockburn discuss Rumsfeld's ascent to power through various presidential administra...
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7/2/21 Mark Perry on the Pentagon’s Latest Corporate Welfare Boondoggle from 2021-07-06T00:44:30
Mark Perry discusses the bizarre case of the Stryker, a vehicle used by the U.S. army to transport infantry troops to the battlefield. The Stryker, Perry explains, is a deathtrap: it isn't heavily ...
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7/2/21 Matthew Hoh on Veteran Suicides, Afghanistan and America’s Failed War on Terrorism from 2021-07-06T00:42:35
Scott and Matthew Hoh have a wide-ranging conversation about America's war on terrorism. The latest news is that the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is essentially complete, with the excepti...
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7/2/21 Phil Weiss on Israel’s Declining Influence in American Liberal Politics from 2021-07-06T00:40:30
Phil Weiss comes back on the show to talk about Israel-Palestine. Now that Netanyahu has been ousted, Weiss is hopeful about the Biden administration's ability to work with Israel's new coalition g...
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7/2/21 James Carden on the Internal EU Division Over Russia Policy from 2021-07-04T15:38:18
Scott interviews James Carden, Adviser to The American Committee for US-Russia Accord, about relations between Russia and the European Union. In recent years, Carden explains, some EU states have s...
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7/2/21 Max Blumenthal on Sulome Anderson’s McCarthyite Lawsuit Against the Grayzone from 2021-07-04T15:35:30
Max Blumenthal tells the shocking story of a recent lawsuit filed against the Grayzone by heiress Sulome Anderson, who alleged that she was slandered as a hack journalist by Blumenthal's outlet. Bl...
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7/1/21 Bjartmar Alexandersson on the Lies of America’s Star Witness Against Julian Assange from 2021-07-02T15:57:42
Journalist Bjartmar Alexandersson explains the outright lies of America's major witness against Wikileaks' Julian Assange.
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6/24/21 Nasser Arrabyee: Roadblocks to Peace in Yemen from 2021-06-28T22:12:05
Nasser Arrabyee comes on the show for an update about Yemen. There seems to be some promise of a real peace negotiation, Arrabyee says, though it's hard to get both sides to see eye to eye on the r...
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6/24/21 Ben Suitt on the Alarming Suicide Rate Among Post-9/11 War Vets from 2021-06-25T03:35:05
Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University's Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America's terror wars have ...
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6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War from 2021-06-25T03:31:59
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol pro...
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6/23/21 Doug Bandow on America’s Dangerous Alliance with Ukraine from 2021-06-25T03:22:59
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the U.S. relationship to Ukraine, perhaps the perfect case study in America's foreign policy arrogance. Ukraine, of course, has very little direct strategic relev...
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6/22/21 William Hartung on the Pork Barrel Politics Behind America’s H-Bomb Policy from 2021-06-24T01:40:26
Scott talks to William Hartung about America's nuclear policy and the shocking profit motives that end up determining it. Hartung draws particular attention to land-based ICBMs, which, he explains,...
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6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government from 2021-06-24T01:36:24
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition gove...
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6/17/21 Ray McGovern: Baby Steps at the Biden-Putin Summit from 2021-06-21T01:56:05
Scott interviews Ray McGovern about the Biden-Putin summit. It was not exactly a groundbreaking meeting, says McGovern, though Biden and Putin did agree on at least one crucial point: America and R...
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6/10/21 Ray McGovern on the Biden-Putin Summit from 2021-06-14T04:43:14
Ray McGovern is back to talk about America's relationship with Russia. President Biden met with Putin recently, McGovern explains, which is good for Biden's stance toward Russia, and, of course, fo...
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6/4/21 Sam Husseini on the Collapse of the Official Coronavirus Origin Narrative from 2021-06-07T04:03:21
Scott talks to Sam Hussini about the sudden popularity of the coronavirus "lab leak" theory. For about a year straight, Husseini reminds us, anyone discussing the possibility that the coronavirus o...
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6/4/21 Annelle Sheline on Washington’s Fatal Misunderstanding of the Situation in Yemen from 2021-06-06T18:46:18
Scott interviews Annelle Sheline about her work on the war in Yemen. Sheline says that negotiating an end to the war has proven difficult, since both the UN framework and the U.S.-Saudi mentality i...
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5/28/21 Gareth Porter on Daniel Ellsberg’s Shocking New Account of the Taiwan Strait Crisis from 2021-06-01T00:06:55
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his coverage of a recently-released document liberated by Daniel Ellsberg when he originally leaked the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s. This document, Porter expl...
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5/28/21 Max Blumenthal on the Israel Lobby’s Efforts to Distract from Gaza Atrocities from 2021-05-31T23:21:52
Scott interviews Max Blumenthal about the recent violence that has thrust Israel-Palestine into the national spotlight. On one hand, there is a growing recognition—thanks to reports from organizati...
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5/28/21 John Kiriakou on the Persecution of Daniel Hale from 2021-05-30T18:06:48
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 o...
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5/28/21 Tom Woods on the Revitalization of the Libertarian Movement from 2021-05-30T18:04:11
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 ef...
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5/20/21 Jeremy Hammond on the Deliberate Perpetuation of Strife Between Israel and Palestine from 2021-05-24T16:03:19
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 a...
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5/20/21 Pete Quinones on All the Best Libertarian Podcasts You Should Be Following from 2021-05-24T15:23:20
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 ...
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5/20/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Fraught Past and Uncertain Political Future from 2021-05-21T19:45:40
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 Mini...
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5/20/21 Eric Brakey and Reed Cooley on State Nullification and the Defend the Guard Movement from 2021-05-21T19:42:53
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 Gua...
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5/20/21 Gareth Porter on the Increasing Power Shift Toward Hard-Liners in Iran from 2021-05-20T21:33:58
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 force...
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5/20/21 Daniel Larison on Israel’s De Facto Annexation of Palestine from 2021-05-20T21:31:30
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...
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5/17/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on American Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s War of Genocide in Yemen from 2021-05-17T20:02:31
Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the state of the war in Yemen. The Biden administration famously announced in February that it would be ending support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, includin...
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5/13/21 Mike Swanson on the Post-Covid Economic ‘Recovery’ from 2021-05-17T20:00:21
Mike Swanson gives his take on what's in store for the U.S. economy as the covid restrictions begin to lift. Although the early economic recovery isn't looking as rosy as some predicted, many busin...
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5/13/21 Max Blumenthal on the Real History of Israel-Palestine from 2021-05-16T19:35:24
Scott talks to Max Blumenthal about the true state of affairs between Israel and Palestine, which you won't hear about in most mainstream media sources. Although the situation is often depicted as ...
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5/13/21 Ben Freeman on Saudi Arabia’s Covert Influence in American Politics from 2021-05-16T19:32:54
Scott interviews Ben Freeman about his research into the Saudi lobby's activity in American politics. Freeman explains that while it's illegal for foreign governments to donate directly to politici...
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5/13/21 Jim Bovard on the Dangerous Consequences of America’s Secret Police State from 2021-05-15T18:19:56
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 ...
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5/13/21 Alan Macleod on the Global PR Offensive of the Israeli Propagandists from 2021-05-14T17:13:34
Scott interviews Alan Macleod about all the ways the mainstream media distorts the Israel-Palestine narrative to make it seem like both sides share some of the blame for an unfortunate situation th...
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5/13/21 Ramzy Baroud on Palestinian Solidarity in the Face of Israeli Oppression from 2021-05-14T17:10:49
Ramzy Baroud discusses the deliberately misleading way that stories about Israel-Palestine are presented in western media. The story, he says, almost always begins with the fact that Palestinians h...
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5/13/21 Phil Weiss on the Growing Recognition of Israeli Apartheid from 2021-05-14T17:07:53
Scott talks to Phil Weiss about Israel-Palestine in light of the violence of the last few days. Weiss begins by pointing out that Human Rights Watch has finally declared Israel to be a single apart...
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5/11/21 Dave Smith on the Upcoming Pennsylvania LP Convention and Mises Caucus Event from 2021-05-11T22:57:57
Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming Pennsylvania Libertarian Party convention and the special Mises Caucus event happening in Pittsburgh the same weekend. Both Smith and Scott will be spea...
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5/7/21 Dan Cohen on Western Media Bias in Israel and Colombia from 2021-05-10T21:48:47
Scott talks to Dan Cohen about unrest in Jerusalem, where Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque, and in Colombia, where protestors have been clashing with government forces, resulting in at l...
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5/7/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Inhumane Treatment of America’s National Security Whistleblowers from 2021-05-10T21:44:28
Kevin Gosztola discusses the alarming new developments in the case of Daniel Hale, a whistleblower who helped expose the U.S. military's secret drone assassination program during the Obama administ...
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5/7/21 Alfred McCoy: How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War from 2021-05-10T21:41:21
Scott interviews Professor Alfred McCoy about the history of the drug trade during America's decades-long involvement in Afghanistan. Before the 1980s, McCoy explains, drugs were not a significant ...
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5/7/21 Doug Bandow on the Neocon Think Tanks Keeping America at War from 2021-05-10T02:17:22
Doug Bandow discusses the creation of the Vandenberg Coalition, the latest in a long string of neocon think tanks that do little more than promote American interventionism halfway across the world....
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5/7/21 Heather Brandon-Smith on the Effort to Repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF from 2021-05-10T02:14:21
Scott talks to Heather Brandon-Smith of the Friends Committee on National Legislation about the effort to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force. Although the 2002 AUMF has be...
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5/4/21 Trita Parsi: Why Mohammed bin Salman Suddenly Wants to Talk to Iran from 2021-05-05T02:25:57
Trita Parsi talks about the possibility of diplomatic talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which he views as a consequence of the Biden administration's somewhat less aggressive stance toward the M...
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4/30/21 Tom Collina on the Reckless Plan to Expand America’s Nuclear Arsenal from 2021-05-01T01:13:34
Scott talks to Tom Collina about the alarming plan to expand America's nuclear arsenal. The $2 trillion package, Collina explains, would include a large investment in what's known as the "nuclear s...
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4/30/21 Aisha Jumaan on US Complicity in Yemen’s Dire Humanitarian Crisis from 2021-05-01T01:09:12
Aisha Jumaan discusses the situation in Yemen. Although the Biden administration claimed earlier this year that it would end American support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, they have re...
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4/30/21 Andy Worthington on the Shameful Human Cost of Joe Biden’s Guantanamo Inertia from 2021-05-01T01:03:52
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about Guantanamo Bay, America's secret black site prison, where 40 men are still being held, some of them without ever having been charged with a crime. President ...
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4/26/21 Dan Gifford: What Really Happened at Waco and How the Establishment Covered It Up from 2021-04-29T15:55:25
Scott talks to Dan Gifford, producer of the famous film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, about the tragedy of the Waco siege, all the government and media lies to cover it up and what really happene...
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4/23/21 Gareth Porter on Biden’s Promised Withdrawal from Afghanistan from 2021-04-27T20:51:49
Gareth Porter discusses the recent announcement that the Biden administration will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. This is obviously a violation of the May 1...
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4/21/21 Edward Hasbrouck on Abolishing the Draft Once and for All from 2021-04-23T14:33:31
Scott interviews Edward Hasbrouck about the effort to finally abolish America’s “selective service” requirement, the modern-day remains of what was once the draft. Hasbrouck explains how, after Nix...
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4/16/21 Ray McGovern: Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine from 2021-04-18T06:17:18
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...
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4/16/21 William Arkin: Why America Can’t End its ‘Forever Wars’ from 2021-04-18T06:16:30
William Arkin discusses the changing nature of America’s military, specifically the way that operations have shifted away from traditional “boots on the ground” and toward drone strikes, special fo...
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4/15/21 Dan McKnight on America’s Ascendant Bipartisan Antiwar Coalition from 2021-04-17T04:08:08
Dan McKnight talks about the “Defend the Guard” movement, a set of bills that would mandate that a state’s national guard troops not be deployed overseas without an official declaration of war from...
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4/14/21 Grant Smith on the Upcoming Israel Apartheid Conference from 2021-04-15T15:37:57
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the upcoming Israel Lobby Con, the annual conference hosting a range of expert speakers who offer opposing views to the mainstream zionist position that dominates A...
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4/13/21 Gareth Porter on Staying in Afghanistan, the Iran Deal and Getting Shut Out of Vietnam from 2021-04-14T17:20:14
Interview #5,500! Scott talks to Gareth Porter about a range of U.S. foreign policy issues, beginning with the Biden administration’s announcement that it will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan ...
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4/12/21 Ted Carpenter on Putin’s Ukraine Red Line from 2021-04-13T02:55:57
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about America’s dangerous Ukraine policy. Carpenter explains how ever since the Obama administration helped right-wing extremists in Western Ukraine overthrow the ele...
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4/12/21 Jacob Sullum: Biden Loves Gun Control by Fiat from 2021-04-13T02:55:29
Jacob Sullum discusses the Biden administration's possible moves on gun control. Thanks to recent mass shootings, says Sullum, gun control is back in the public eye, resulting in some proposed new ...
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4/9/21 Danny Sjursen on AFRICOM’s Latest Adventure in Mozambique from 2021-04-13T02:54:03
Danny Sjursen talks about the absurdity of the recent announcement that America is sending special forces troops to Mozambique, a country that he says has basically no strategic relevance to the Un...
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4/9/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on Yemen’s Dire Humanitarian Crisis from 2021-04-12T02:48:37
Scott interviews Hassan El-Tayyab from the Friends Committee on National Legislation about the effort to end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Although the Biden administration announced an end to ...
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4/9/21 Jessleyn Radack on the Latest Victim of America’s Draconian Espionage Act from 2021-04-09T21:53:11
Scott interviews national security attorney Jesselyn Radack about her work in the protection of whistleblowers. Daniel Hale, the man who leaked the so-called “drone papers” to the Intercept in 2014...
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4/9/21 Jay Schweikert: New Mexico Ends Qualified Immunity for All Public Officials from 2021-04-09T19:53:41
Scott talks to Jay Schweikert about the promising developments in New Mexico, where a new state-wide law has been enacted that repeals qualified immunity as a legal defense for any public official....
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4/9/21 Jesselyn Radack on the Latest Victim of America’s Draconian Espionage Act from 2021-04-09T19:53:11
Scott interviews national security attorney Jesselyn Radack about her work in the protection of whistleblowers. Daniel Hale, the man who leaked the so-called “drone papers” to the Intercept in 2014...
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4/8/21 Trita Parsi on Biden’s Willingness to Negotiate With Iran from 2021-04-09T19:50:46
Trita Parsi talks about the state of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. President Trump, of course, made a point of withdrawing from the JCPOA and increasing hostilities with Iran, deliberatel...
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4/2/21 Peter Lee on China’s Treatment of the Uyghur Muslims from 2021-04-05T22:38:34
Scott talks to Peter Lee about the ongoing Uyghur controversy in China. The Chinese government, he says, is trying to integrate their minority Uyghur Muslim population, as part of their larger proj...
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4/2/21 Lyle J. Goldstein on the American Military’s Disastrous Indo-Pacific Strategy from 2021-04-05T17:38:10
Lyle J. Goldstein discusses the terrifying possibility of war between the U.S. and China. There are plenty of hawks in the U.S. government, he says, who might try to fight China were they to attack...
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4/2/21 Immortal Technique on Slavery, Israel-Palestine and the Politicization of American Society from 2021-04-04T16:05:34
Scott interviews rapper Immortal Technique in a wide-ranging conversation covering the legacy of slavery in America, the false narrative about Palestine fed to most Americans and the ways that poli...
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4/2/21 Larry Wilkerson on the Global Struggle for Power in Asia from 2021-04-03T15:35:25
Scott talks to Larry Wilkerson, former army Colonel and Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, about America’s involvement in Asia, both during his time in the federal government and to...
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4/2/21 Grant Smith on Israeli Apartheid and the False Promise of a Two-State Solution from 2021-04-03T15:35:01
Grant Smith discusses the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestine and its treatment of the Palestinians. There seems to be growing recognition that Israel is presiding over a form of apartheid...
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4/2/21 Jacob Sullum on the Trial of Derek Chauvin from 2021-04-03T15:34:33
Scott interviews Jacob Sullum about the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. Sullum highlights two important features of the prosecution’s case so far: the first is that paramedics...
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3/26/21 Daniel Davis: US War With China Over Taiwan Would Be Foolish and Costly from 2021-03-30T16:36:35
Daniel Davis talks to Scott about the possibility of war with China. Davis fears that despite what would seem to be common sense arguments against ever fighting such a war, that’s the direction tha...
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3/26/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Equivocations from 2021-03-30T16:36:10
Matthew Hoh comes back on the show to talk about Afghanistan. President Biden said in a recent press conference that due to logistical difficulties, America is unlikely to meet the May 1 withdrawal...
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3/26/21 Jack Matlock on America’s Unnecessarily Hostile Relationship With Russia from 2021-03-30T16:35:39
Jack Matlock, America’s second-to-last ambassador to the Soviet Union, talks to Scott about relations with Russia today. He stresses that the real ideological differences that once divided America ...
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3/26/21 Joe Dyke on the Secret Talks that Nearly Saved Gaddafi from 2021-03-29T11:23:08
Scott interviews Joe Dyke about his coverage of the little-known secret talks between Norwegian diplomats and Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, which sought a peaceful end to the war there. Although Norway ...
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3/26/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s Uncompromising Parliamentary Extremists from 2021-03-29T11:22:29
Kalmen Barkin fills Scott in on the political situation in Israel, a country that in his words is in complete political deadlock. Leading right wing figures like Prime Minister Netanyahu have had t...
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3/26/21 Jim Bovard on the Government Cover-Up of the Waco Massacre from 2021-03-27T16:25:18
Scott talks to Jim Bovard about the Waco massacre, and especially the second investigation into the government’s actions, led by Senator John Danforth in 1999. After new evidence emerged that contr...
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What I Told the Montana State Senate from 2021-03-27T16:21:58
Americans For Prosperity and Concerned Veterans of America had me out to give a talk to a committee of the Montana State Senate in Helena on Tuesday.
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3/18/21 Daniel Davis: America Must Finally and Fully Withdraw from Iraq from 2021-03-23T16:34:12
Daniel Davis talks about the need to fully withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. He traces the history of terrible decision-making there since 2003, which has encumbered America in an unwinnable war for ...
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3/18/21 Dave DeCamp on Biden’s Haphazard Russia Policy from 2021-03-23T16:33:28
Scott interviews Dave DeCamp about President Biden's Russia policy. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Biden notably called Putin a "killer;" his administration has also increased sanction...
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3/18/21 Scott Paul on the Millions of Innocent Lives at Stake in Yemen from 2021-03-22T02:56:05
Scott Paul discusses the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, especially in the formerly small town of Marib, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Yemenis who have fled there are now at risk o...
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3/18/21 Daryl Kimball: Enough Already, No New ICBMs from 2021-03-22T02:55:06
Daryl Kimball talks about the need to limit the creation and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the world. Today, says Kimball, the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction: a $200 billion plan is i...
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3/18/21 Brian McGlinchey on the Brutal Realities of Economic Sanctions from 2021-03-19T14:29:09
Scott talks to Brian McGlinchey about the realities of America's economic sanctions, which many believe are a more humane alternative to outright war. But this couldn't be further from the truth. M...
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3/18/21 Gareth Porter on the Military’s Efforts to Subvert the Afghan Peace Deal from 2021-03-19T14:28:21
Gareth Porter talks about the U.S. military's efforts to sabotage any attempt at leaving Afghanistan. The deal negotiated by the Trump administration made both the conditions and deadlines for with...
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3/9/21 Martin Smith on Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani from 2021-03-15T01:28:27
Scott talks to documentary producer Martin Smith about the subject of his newest project, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. Smith considers Jolani and his fighters to be somethin...
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3/12/21 Danny Sjursen on the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan Plan from 2021-03-14T04:00:16
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the leaked Biden administration plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. The document evidently represents the Biden administration’s new take on the de...
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3/9/21 Dan McKnight on the Defend the Guard Movement from 2021-03-14T03:59:41
Dan McKnight discusses the progress of the “Defend the Guard” movement, a set of bills that would mandate that a state’s national guard troops not be deployed overseas without an official declarati...
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3/5/21 Peter Van Buren on Nuclear Proliferation and the Redirection from the Middle East to China from 2021-03-08T23:36:22
Peter Van Buren is back for a conversation about President Biden’s foreign policy, especially regarding Iran. Van Buren explains the way that the JCPOA, signed under the Obama administration, lengt...
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3/5/21 Hans Kristensen on America’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling in Eastern Europe from 2021-03-08T06:00:22
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about nuclear proliferation. Ever since the U.S. government backed the coup in Ukraine in 2014, he says, we’ve been flying bombers near Russia and the Baltic states i...
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3/5/21 Max Blumenthal: UK Foreign Office Colluded with International Media to ‘Weaken Russia’ from 2021-03-08T05:59:25
Max Blumenthal begins by discussing the immense power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, which has led to enormously one-sided violence by the Israelis. The Palestinians, to be sure, have foug...
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2/26/21 Ryan McMaken on the Apocalyptic Threat of Nuclear Weapons from 2021-02-27T01:07:25
Scott talks to Ryan McMaken about nuclear proliferation. McMaken describes two lessons that other countries have learned from the U.S. about nukes: (1) America will use the threat of an emerging nu...
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2/19/21 Eli Clifton on the Arms Industry Money Behind Biden’s Afghanistan Study Group from 2021-02-23T06:23:55
Eli Clifton discusses the Biden Administration’s Afghanistan study group, a panel of national security experts and former officers giving recommendations on whether the U.S. should get out of Afgha...
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2/19/21 Ray McGovern: Will Comey’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him? from 2021-02-22T04:19:48
Ray McGovern talks with Scott about the lies and malfeasance of the national security state during the “Russiagate” fiasco. McGovern begins by rehashing the FBI’s lies that first led to a FISA warr...
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2/19/21 Gareth Porter on the Misleading Data Behind Uyghur Genocide Claims from 2021-02-22T04:19:15
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about his coverage of the recent and widespread claims of a Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs. Many of these accusations have relied on the work of one man, Adrian Zenz...
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2/19/21 Ben Wizner on the Dangerous Precedent of the Assange Prosecution from 2021-02-21T15:56:55
Scott talks to Ben Wizner of the ACLU about the ongoing Julian Assange saga. Assange’s attempted prosecution under the Espionage Act is practically unprecedented, says Wizner. While it’s true that ...
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2/18/21 Nathan J. Robinson on the Crackdown on Critics of Israel from 2021-02-21T15:56:06
Nathan Robinson shares his story of being fired from the Guardian after posting a sarcastic tweet about Israel. After joking about the amount of military aid the U.S. government sends to Israel, Ro...
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2/18/21 Phil Weiss on BDS, Biden and Israel’s Apartheid State from 2021-02-18T23:09:27
Phil Weiss is back to discuss Israel, beginning with the observation us that now that the two-state solution is essentially off the table for good, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that Israel is...
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2/17/21 Mike Swanson on the Fragile and Distorted American Economy from 2021-02-18T19:38:26
Scott talks to Mike Swanson about some of the problems in the U.S. economy and what we can expect in the near future. Scott points out the emerging real estate booms in places like Austin, Texas, a...
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2/16/21 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Suffering and Devastation in Yemen from 2021-02-18T19:37:54
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the heavy fighting going on outside of Ma’rib, the last stronghold of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. The Houthi “rebels” are closing in on the city, says Arrabyee, ...
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2/12/21 Patrick Jaicomo on Qualified Immunity and the Case of José Oliva from 2021-02-15T01:34:50
Scott interviews Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute for Justice about the case of José Oliva, a Vietnam veteran who was assaulted by police officers at a VA hospital in 2016. Because of doctrines lik...
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2/12/21 John Kiriakou on the Government’s Dangerous Reaction to the Capitol Storming from 2021-02-15T01:34:08
John Kiriakou discusses an alarming new trend in the government and the media, in which the American right is freely compared to some kind of domestic terrorist or insurgent movement. Kiriakou desc...
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2/12/21 Danny Sjursen: Biden’s Bolt from Yemen from 2021-02-15T01:33:44
Scott talks with Danny Sjursen about President Biden’s foreign policy moves during his first few weeks in office. Most notably, the administration has announced an end to all support for “offensive...
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2/11/21 Alan Macleod on the Social Media Giants in Bed With Big Government from 2021-02-13T04:08:51
Alan Macleod talks about the unholy alliance between government and social media. In an alarming number of cases, says Macleod, companies like Facebook and Twitter end up hiring former government o...
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2/5/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on Biden’s Big Step Toward Peace in Yemen from 2021-02-08T21:35:46
Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the great news out of Washington last week: the Biden administration has announced an end to all support for Saudi offensive operations in Yemen, and is appointing an env...
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2/5/21 Lyle J. Goldstein on the Nuclear Tensions Between the US and Russia from 2021-02-08T21:35:10
Scott talks to Lyle Goldstein about the U.S.-Russia relationship and the future of global nuclear arms negotiations. Goldstein says that after the Cold War, the world’s nuclear weapon situation was...
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2/5/21 Bette Dam: How Flawed Intelligence Leads to War Crimes in Afghanistan from 2021-02-06T22:19:31
Scott interviews Bette Dam about her reporting on the war in Afghanistan. Dam explains how faulty intelligence about enemy “combatants” has led to many unjustified killings, notably the war crimes ...
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2/5/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Reversal from 2021-02-05T23:07:22
Matthew Hoh discusses the Biden administration’s Afghanistan policy. Trump, Hoh reminds us, had appointed Zalmay Khalilzad to negotiate a U.S. withdrawal with the Taliban; now it appears that Biden...
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2/4/21 Jim Bovard on the Official Whitewash of the Killing of Duncan Lemp from 2021-02-04T23:36:49
Jim Bovard is back to discuss the tragic killing of Duncan Lemp, a Maryland man who was shot by police during a no-knock SWAT raid last year. Bovard has been covering the details of Lemp’s story ev...
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1/28/21 Gareth Porter: Biden’s Coercive Iran Policy Threatens New Regional Crisis from 2021-02-01T02:54:23
Gareth Porter discusses U.S. relations with Iran, especially the ways the policies of the Biden administration might differ from those of the Trump administration. Even though the JCPOA was one of ...
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9/7/20 Joe Lauria: Day One of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Joe Lauria gives an update on Julian Assange’s extradition trial in the UK. The biggest piece of news from day one is that certain media outlets are reporting 17 new charges added to Assange’s indi...
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9/4/20 James Carden on the Rotten Alliance between Liberals and Neocons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the ...
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9/5/20 Gareth Porter on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gareth Porter discusses President Trump’s foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump’s time in office, as everyone knows, has been that despite his sense for the futili...
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9/4/20 David Henderson on the Supposed Economic Threat From China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews David Henderson about the threat to the U.S. posed by China’s growing stature as an economic powerhouse. In general, Henderson thinks that such concerns are overblown, citing the r...
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9/4/20 Trevor Timm on the Vindication of Edward Snowden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Trevor Timm discusses an important new ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which says that the NSA’s mass data-gathering program, famously exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal all along...
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8/31/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Israeli Bureaucracy Forcing Palestinians From Their Homes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ramzy Baroud shares the heartbreaking story of Ahmed Amarneh, an engineer who decided to build a home for his family in a network of caves near their town after getting repeatedly denied building p...
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8/31/20 Gareth Porter on Israel’s Ammonium Nitrate Terror Plot Delusion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gareth Porter debunks a series of bogus incidents in which Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, has accused various Lebanese men over the years of being Hezbollah agents attempting to orchestrate ...
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8/31/20 Phil Weiss on Ultra-Pro-Israel Presidential Candidate Joe Biden from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Phil Weiss about the deplorable state of the Democratic Party when it comes to Israel policy. Weiss calls Joe Biden the most pro-Israel candidate of all time, which is somewhat iro...
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8/28/20 Alan MacLeod on the Tight Relationship Between the US and Israel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Alan MacLeod discusses a recent round of bombing by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, which as usual is either being completely ignored by mainstream media outlets, or is being described as justifi...
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8/28/20 Doug Bandow on America’s Failures as the World’s Police from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about the baffling failure of U.S. policymakers to learn from any of America’s recent foreign policy blunders. In particular, despite widespread consensus that the invasi...
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8/28/20 Giorgio Cafiero on the Ongoing Catastrophe in Yemen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Giorgio Cafiero about the ongoing situation in Yemen, where complex Middle Eastern alliances and rivalries are playing themselves out on the battleground of Yemen. In particular, Caf...
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8/28/20 Gilbert Doctorow on the Situation in Belarus from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gilbert Doctorow discusses the political unrest in Belarus, where opposition protesters are demanding a new round of elections after President Lukashenko claimed to have won 80% of the vote this mo...
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8/28/20 David Stockman on the Coming Lockdown-Induced Financial Catastrophe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to David Stockman about the economic fallout from the coronavirus lockdowns. Stockman points out all the devastation that has already been wrought by the government so far—relating to b...
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8/25/20 Ted Snider on Donald Trump and the Art of Betrayal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ted Snider discusses the many foreign policy betrayals that have already taken place under the Trump administration. One of Trump’s first moves in office—and indeed one of his biggest campaign prom...
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8/21/20 Gareth Porter on the Journalistic Malpractice of Charlie Savage and the New York Times from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott and Gareth Porter discuss Charlie Savage’s shameful reporting on the recent Russian bounties story. In this case Savage, whom Scott and Porter actually regard as one of the better journalists...
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8/21/20 Ammon Bundy on Supporting Black Lives Matter’s Effort to Defund the Police from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ammon Bundy discusses his reasons for endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement and their move to defund police departments across America. Bundy, of course, was involved in a standoff with the Bur...
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8/21/20 Danny Sjursen Debunks the Biggest Myths About Lebanon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about Lebanon, which has been in the news recently after a disastrous, and apparently accidental, explosion left hundreds dead there. Today Sjursen discusses Lebanon’s ...
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8/21/20 Jordan Smith on the Pseudoscience Putting Americans Behind Bars from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jordan Smith discusses her research into the “BlueLeaks” archive of the leaked personal data of hundreds of thousands of cops and their cases. Smith was looking for evidence of unscientific techniq...
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8/14/20 Branko Marcetic on Kamala Harris’ Powerful Pro-War Backers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Branko Marcetic about Kamala Harris’ dismal foreign policy. Although she’s frequently portrayed as a progressive leftist, when it comes to foreign policy, says Marcetic, her foreign ...
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8/14/20 Grant Smith on the Unscrupulous Dealings of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Grant Smith joins the show for another look at the Virginia Israel Advisory Board, a government entity associated with the state of Virginia that allocates taxpayer money to Israeli companies start...
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8/14/20 Dan McAdams on America’s Latest Attempted Color Revolution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Dan McAdams about the precarious situation in Belarus, where some western agitators are seeking to use the country’s recent presidential elections as an excuse to foment and support ...
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8/14/20 Max Blumenthal on the Media’s Favorite Hong Kong Protest Hoaxer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Max Blumenthal discusses the case of Kong Tsung-gan, an “expert source” on the ground in Hong Kong, who has been quoted by many American media outlets in recent months as an authority on the separa...
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8/10/20 Dan McKnight on Liz Cheney’s Toxic Association With the Republican Party from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dan McKnight discusses recent efforts by his organization, BringOurTroopsHome.US, to get Republicans in congress to distance themselves from Liz Cheney. Cheney wields enormous influence in congress...
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8/7/20 Michael Klare on War in the Middle East and the Politics of Oil from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Michael Klare about the incentives behind America’s involvement in wars in the Middle East. One common narrative says that Bush invaded Iraq simply because America needed the oil—the...
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8/7/20 Brett Wilkins on the False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brett Wilkins discusses the story about Hiroshima and Nagasaki that everyone learned in school: the U.S. was forced to drop the atomic bombs, because the alternative would have meant a ground invas...
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8/7/20 Kingston Reif on the Growing Nuclear Tensions Between the US, Russia and China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kingston Reif talks about the imminent lapse of the New START treaty, one of the last remaining nuclear safeguard agreements between the U.S. and Russia. Russia has made some moves to renegotiate t...
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8/7/20 Tom Woods: The Problems With the Police and How to Fix Them from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Tom Woods about his new eBook, which provides a libertarian perspective on some of the national questions being raised these days about the future of policing. Scott and Woods focu...
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8/7/20 Stephen Zunes on Susan Rice’s Pro-War Establishment Credentials from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Susan Rice, one of the leading candidates for Joe Biden’s VP pick. Rice fits Biden’s criteria in that she’s a black woman with political experience, but Zunes rai...
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8/3/20 Mark Willacy on SAS War Crimes in Afghanistan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Australian journalist Mark Willacy talks to Scott about his investigations into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces units in Afghanistan. Willacy has worked closely with former SAS oper...
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7/31/20 Ray McGovern on Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ray McGovern joins the show to talk about Colin Powell and Mike Pompeo: two credentialed, respected members of the foreign policy establishment that have both been hugely damaging to American inter...
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7/31/20 Branko Marcetic on Trump’s Dangerous Russia Hawkishness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Branko Marcetic discusses a recent move by the Trump administration that will grant unprecedented powers to the CIA to conduct cyber attacks against foreign countries. This highlights a persistent ...
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7/31/20 Greg Mitchell on the Real History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Greg Mitchell about The Beginning or the End, his new book that tells the story of the making of the 1947 film of the same name. The movie was conceived as an exposé on the horrors...
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7/31/20 Daniel Davis on Afghanistan, Germany and China from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Daniel Davis talks about the questionable Russian bounties story that is being used as an excuse to stop President Trump from pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Never mind the fact that Americ...
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7/31/20 Sheldon Richman: What Social Animals Owe to Each Other from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Sheldon Richman about his new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other, a collection of essays exploring libertarian political philosophy, particularly as it relates to ancient ...
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7/31/20 Gareth Porter on the Real Story Behind the US-Israeli AMIA Bombing Narrative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gareth Porter discusses the 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish community center bombing, and in particular the allegation that Hezbollah was behind the attack. Porter has written a piece based on testimony b...
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7/24/20 Sheldon Richman on the Two-State Illusion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Sheldon Richman about the dawning realization that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is never going to happen. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu recently backed down...
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7/18/20 Gareth Porter on the Prospects of War with Iran from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the idea of a war with Iran. Certain hawkish figures in the U.S. government have been slowly and steadily pushing for such a war for a long time, and have gained ...
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7/17/20 Greg Shupak on the Media’s Syrian Sanctions Malfeasance from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Greg Shupak discusses America’s horrible “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign against Syria, and the media’s total willingness to cheer it along. Shupak reminds us that despite what policymakers c...
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7/17/20 Giorgio Cafiero on Yemen’s Unprecedented COVID-19 Calamity from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Giorgio Cafiero about the devastating catastrophe facing the people of Yemen in the form of the coronavirus pandemic. Cafiero describes the way that a virus—or indeed any natural dis...
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7/17/20 Phil Weiss on the Death of the Two-State Solution from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Phil Weiss joins the show to discuss what he views as the internal collapse of Zionism, especially in America. It is starting to become obvious to everyone, as signaled by a recent Peter Beinart pi...
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7/17/20 Wayne McElrath on the Dangerous Militarization of the Police from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Wayne McElrath about the proliferation of military equipment in America’s police forces, and its harmful effect on police practices. McElrath describes the process by which local p...
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7/17/20 Ted Carpenter on the Bogus Russian Bounties Story from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ted Carpenter talks about the Russian bounties story, including all the ways it has been misreported by the media. Carpenter reminds us that the original intelligence that was leaked to the press w...
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7/17/20 Doug Bandow on America’s Crumbling Empire from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Doug Bandow discusses America’s failing world empire and the “threats” posed by rival powers like Russia and China. These countries, of course, don’t pose a plausible threat to the safety and secur...
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7/16/20 Kelley B. Vlahos on the Dangerous National Security ‘Blob’ Dominating American Government from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kelley Vlahos talks about prominent Democratic national security official Michele Flournoy, whom she calls “The Queen of the Blob.” The Blob, explains Vlahos, is the group of politicians, advisors,...
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7/10/20 Gareth Porter on the Pentagon’s ‘Bountygate’ Hoax from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the Russian bounties story, or “Bountygate” as it has come to be known. Porter describes attempts by outlets like the New York Times to portray this as a well-s...
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7/10/20 Bas Spliet on the American War that Destroyed Libya from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bas Spliet is back to discuss the disaster that was America and the UN’s involvement in Libya after 2011’s Arab Spring. Spliet reminds us that Libya was once one of the wealthiest countries in nort...
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7/10/20 Ryan Dawson on Cancel Culture, Police Reform and the War on Drugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Ryan Dawson about cancel culture and the latest wave of deplatforming, of which Dawson himself is a victim. Dawson, who spends much of his time fighting against the neoconservative i...
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7/10/20 Jeffrey Kaye on Biden’s ‘Humane’ CIA Torture Apologist from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about Avril Haines, a former Obama administration adviser and Deputy Director of the CIA recently appointed as a foreign policy adviser to Joe Biden. Haines has been d...
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7/10/20 Grant Smith on the Covid-19 Relief Money Helping to Fund the Israel Lobby from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Grant Smith discusses the Israel lobby’s deep involvement in the U.S. economy, this time as regards the American firms in the business of promoting Israeli interests, who have recently received lar...
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7/6/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Steady Annexation of Palestine from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Ramzy Baroud about the Israeli annexation of Palestine, including Trump’s role as perhaps the most acquiescent president in American history in going along with the agenda of the I...
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7/3/20 Ron Enzweiler on the Russian Bounties Hoax from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ron Enzweiler exposes some of the falsehoods behind the developing story about supposed Russian bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. For one thing, outlets like the New York Times have imp...
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7/3/20 Trita Parsi on John Bolton’s ‘Israel First’ Foreign Policy from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Trita Parsi discusses John Bolton’s tenure in the Trump administration, during which time he worked tirelessly to sabotage any form of negotiation between the United States and Iran. Bolton is a fi...
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7/3/20 Tom Woods on How the Pentagon Makes Us Poorer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Tom Woods about his latest free ebook, The Pentagon vs. The Economy. Woods examines the many ways America’s military-industrial complex distorts the economy, often applying Frederic ...
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6/29/20 Matthew Hoh on the Dubious Russia-Afghanistan Bounty Story from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about the recent claim that the Russian government has been paying bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers. The headlines have made it sound as though this ...
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6/26/20 Hans Kristensen on the Bleak Outlook for Nuclear Arms Control from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about the state of the world’s nuclear weapons arsenals. Immediately after the Cold War, says Kristensen, the U.S. and Russia drastically reduced their nuclear stockp...
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6/26/20 Jim Bovard on American Atrocities in Kosovo and Korea from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jim Bovard exposes the false claim that Bill Clinton presided over a peaceful administration, pointing out the horrible atrocities of the “humanitarian” intervention in Kosovo. Clinton launched thi...
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6/26/20 Dave DeCamp on Russia, Yemen, Israel and Syria from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Antiwar.com News Editor Dave DeCamp about several of his latest articles. The two discuss the status of nuclear arms negotiations between the U.S. and Russia, the conflict between so...
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6/26/20 Jason Ditz on Turkey, the Kurds and the India-China Border Dispute from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jason Ditz talks about the Turkish attacks on Kurds in northern Iraq, which have taken the form of both land assaults and periodic airstrikes. These incursions began around the time the U.S. invade...
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6/26/20 Jonathan Hafetz on the Plight of Adham Amin Hassoun from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Jonathan Hafetz about the troubling case of Adham Amin Hassoun, a man who was convicted in 2008 of providing material support to terrorist organizations. Hassoun was a legal resident...
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6/26/20 Joe Lauria on the New Indictment Against Julian Assange from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Joe Lauria explains the latest superseding indictment against Julian Assange, who still faces extradition to the U.S. for his supposed violations of the Espionage Act. Lauria’s take is that the new...
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6/27/20 Mike Swanson on America’s ‘Zombie Firms’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mike Swanson discusses the continuing economic fallout from the coronavirus, focusing in particular on what are sometimes called “zombie companies.” These firms stay afloat largely because of easy ...
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6/22/20 Vincent Bevins on the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews journalist Vincent Bevins about his latest book, The Jakarta Method, in which he lays out some of the history of the U.S. government’s support for violent right-wing coups all over...
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6/19/20 Pete Quinones: The Monopoly on Violence from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pete Quinones talks about his new project, The Monopoly on Violence, a documentary featuring interviews with many prominent figures in the libertarian and anarchist movements. The film explores the...
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6/19/20 Danny Sjursen on the Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Danny Sjursen talks about the Mexican-American War, a seldom-discussed conflict that he maintains holds lessons for America today. Sjursen describes a pattern that by now—with our long experience o...
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6/19/20 Bas Spliet on America’s Empowerment of al Qaeda in Yemen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Bas Spliet about the state of the ongoing war in Yemen, in which America continues to support Saudi Arabia in its victimization of the Yemeni people. Spliet describes the true situat...
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6/19/20 Eric Margolis on the World’s Most Dangerous Border Dispute from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Eric Margolis about the recent border skirmishes between Chinese and Indian troops, which have resulted in deaths on both sides. The border between these two countries has been in ...
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6/19/20 Mike Maharrey: End Qualified Immunity for Cops from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mike Maharrey untangles the complex web of legal history that has given America the system known as qualified immunity, which in practice shields police officers from just about any civil lawsuit. ...
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6/19/20 Jacob Sullum on the Inescapable Reality of Racially Skewed Policing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Jacob Sullum about the many ways policing in America disproportionately targets black and hispanic communities, both by means of explicitly racist policies, and also those that have ...
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6/19/20 Jeff Abramson on America’s Bloody Arms Industry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott interviews Jeff Abramson about America’s convoluted process for selling weapons to foreign governments. The arms trade is a multi-billion dollar industry for private firms like Raytheon—but i...
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6/19/20 Patrick Cockburn on the Heinous Mistreatment of Julian Assange from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Patrick Cockburn joins the show for an update on Julian Assange, who continues to languish in jail as he awaits the results of his possible extradition from Britain to the U.S. on charges under the...
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6/19/20 Dave DeCamp on the Killing of David McAtee from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dave DeCamp shares the tragic story of David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in Louisville who was killed by National Guard troops during a recent night of protests. McAtee was cooking f...
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6/15/20 Ali Abunimah on the Threat to Israel Posed by Black Lives Matter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ali Abunimah discusses the odd relationship between U.S. policing and the Israeli government. He describes the way higher-ups at many American police departments are sent on all-expenses paid trips...
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6/12/20 Jake Johnston on the Phony Bolivian Election Fraud Narrative from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jake Johnston discusses the coup in Bolivia last year following accusations of election fraud by former President Evo Morales. Leading up to the election, the Organization of American States had ra...
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6/6/20 Kelley Vlahos on the Arms Dealers and Lobbyists Getting Rich as Yemen Burns from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kelley Vlahos discusses the scandalous ties between the arms industry and the American government, starting with the fact that so many members of the Defense Department are former employees of top ...
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6/8/20 Matt Agorist on Black Lives Matter and the Police Brutality Protests from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott and Matt Agorist discuss the recent protests against police brutality that have swept through cities across the nation. Both agree that America’s police are in serious need of reform, though ...
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6/8/20 Ray McGovern on the USS Liberty, Israel, and the Slow Death of ‘Russiagate’ from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Scott talks to Ray McGovern about the June 8th anniversary of the USS Liberty attack, a U.S. ship that was fired on by Israeli forces during the 1967 Six-Day War. The Israelis claimed the attack ha...
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1/28/21 Shuja Paul on the Forgotten Bombs of America’s Secret War on Laos from 2021-01-31T17:56:12
Scott interviews Shuja Paul about his forthcoming documentary, Waiting to Explode: Forgotten Bombs of a Secret War Continue to Kill. Paul’s film tells the little-known story of the thousands of und...
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1/22/21 Steve Ellner on the Attempted US Destruction of Venezuela from 2021-01-27T04:03:24
Steve Ellner discusses the economic and political situation in Venezuela, and the U.S. role in pushing the country to where it is today. Ellner dispels a common misconception, which is that foreign...
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1/22/21 Gareth Porter on the Latest Chapter in the Manufactured Iran Crisis from 2021-01-25T23:33:58
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the competing attitudes toward Iran in American foreign policy. During his presidency, Trump was sometimes the voice of restraint against those who favored a mo...
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1/23/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on Biden’s Promise to End the War in Yemen from 2021-01-25T23:33:23
Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the prospects for an end to the war in Yemen under the incoming Biden administration. President Biden and Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken have both signaled tha...
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1/22/21 Matt Agorist on the Growth of the American Police State from 2021-01-24T22:31:58
Scott talks to Matt Agorist about police violence in America. Agorist is adamant that although police brutality is disproportionately a problem in black communities, this is an issue that affects u...
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1/22/21 David Swanson on Joe Biden’s Dangerous Cabinet Appointments from 2021-01-23T22:28:44
David Swanson discusses the foreign policy of the incoming Biden administration. On the positive side, he thinks there’s a good likelihood of ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen, lifting some ...
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1/15/21 Andrew Quilty on the CIA’s Afghan Death Squads from 2021-01-18T13:49:22
Scott interviews journalist Andrew Quilty about his recent piece for the Intercept, which details the horrific violence being carried out in Afghanistan by U.S.-backed militia groups. In several re...
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1/7/21 Kelley Vlahos on America’s Endless War Against Iraq from 2021-01-12T05:17:34
Scott talks to Kelley Vlahos about America’s 30-year nonstop bombing campaign of Iraq, and the prospects for ending it. The destruction of Iraq, says Vlahos, has followed a familiar trend: American...
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1/7/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israeli Settlements and Netanyahu’s Political Future from 2021-01-12T05:17:12
Kalmen Barkin discusses the deplorable situation of Palestinians in Israel today, a people whose lands and rights are being slowly taken away from them by the Israeli government, while the delusive...
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1/7/21 Bob Murphy on the Disastrous Consequences of the Government’s Covid Policies from 2021-01-09T19:49:52
Scott talks to Bob Murphy about the economic side of all the covid policies this past year. Most obvious are the huge spending bills, which dwarf even the stimulus measures taken after the 2008 rec...
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1/7/21 Peter Van Buren on the Stunning Revelations from Hunter Biden’s Laptop from 2021-01-09T19:49:30
rial from his personal life, but concedes that that has little to do with his father’s election as president. More importantly, the laptop has records of many of Hunter Biden’s business dealings, i...
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1/4/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Rejection of Julian Assange’s Extradition from 2021-01-05T04:45:14
Scott interviews Kevin Gosztola about the breaking news that a British judge has denied the request to extradite Julian Assange from England to the United States. The prosecutors will appeal, says ...
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12/22/20 Alan MacLeod on the Mainstream Media’s Russia Hysteria from 2020-12-27T02:27:26
Scott talks to Alan MacLeod about the bizarre and troubling trend in both media and government where Russia is the automatic target of blame for everything these days. Every hack and cyber attack, ...
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12/22/20 Mark Perry: Lloyd Austin Isn’t Who You Think He Is from 2020-12-25T01:30:04
Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn’t your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead,...
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12/21/20 Ted Carpenter on the Futility and Cruelty of Washington’s Economic Sanctions from 2020-12-24T01:05:01
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about his recent coverage of America’s sanctions policies around the world. Carpenter begins by explaining that economic sanctions are both ineffective and inhumane. ...
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12/21/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Plight of the Palestinians from 2020-12-24T00:17:07
Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud discusses a series of recent articles he’s written on the status of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and the long history that informs the situation today. It has ...
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12/18/20 Danny Sjursen on Nagorno-Karabakh and the Ethiopian Civil War from 2020-12-23T22:39:11
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about two prominent conflicts facing the world in 2020. In Nagorno-Karabakh, an uneasy, Russian-brokered peace deal is holding between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but Sju...
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12/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen’s Desperate Humanitarian Crisis from 2020-12-23T03:51:03
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the ongoing war in Yemen. Joe Biden, he says, has said some promising things about ending U.S. support for the Suadi war there, but both Arrabyee and Scott...
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12/18/20 Tim Shorrock on the Prospects for Peace with North Korea from 2020-12-23T02:27:05
Tim Shorrock analyzes the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula under the upcoming Biden administration. President Trump, he and Scott agree, made some promising moves toward detente between ...
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12/18/20 Doug Bandow on America’s New Cold War with Russia from 2020-12-22T06:02:52
Doug Bandow discusses the state of U.S. relations with Russia, an issue of increasing relevance these days as some figures in American government try to leverage Russophobia for political purposes....
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12/18/20 Dave DeCamp on Assange’s Warning to the State Department from 2020-12-22T06:02:29
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about a new audio recording of Julian Assange released by Project Veritas, which proves Assange’s contention that he tried to warn the State Department before the famous ...
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12/18/20 Ray McGovern on Biden’s Dangerous Foreign Policy Picks from 2020-12-19T17:39:48
Ray McGovern reflects on the ways America’s foreign policy and national security state have changed since his time in the CIA. In particular, he warns that Michael Morell, one of Joe Biden’s top pi...
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12/11/20 Aaron Maté on the OPCW’s Hero Whistleblowers from 2020-12-12T01:05:23
Aaron Maté is back with yet another update on the cover-up of the investigation into the supposed chemical attack in Douma, Syria. An initial investigation by the OPCW appeared to verify that the 2...
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12/4/20 Chris Woods on the Real Civilian Death Toll in Iraq from 2020-12-08T02:10:54
Scott talks to Chris Woods from Airwars about some of the difficulties in assessing civilian casualties from U.S. bombs in Iraq. Woods estimates very conservatively that between eight and thirteen ...
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12/4/20 Danny Sjursen: The Case Against Jake Sullivan from 2020-12-08T02:10:31
Danny Sjursen is back for a look at Biden’s foreign policy team, in particular his new National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sjursen says that Sullivan fits right in with many of Biden’s other ...
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12/4/20 Grant Smith on the Jonathan Pollard Exception from 2020-12-06T06:03:33
rd have been punished. Now Pollard is on the verge of joining those others who walked free for their crimes.
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12/4/20 Gilbert Doctorow: Will Antony Blinken’s Past Catch Up With Him? from 2020-12-06T06:03:05
Gilbert Doctorow talks about Biden’s pick for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, particularly his famous stepfather, Samuel Pisar. Pisar is well-known these days for being a holocaust survivor res...
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12/3/20 Gareth Porter on the Assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh from 2020-12-05T15:52:57
Gareth Porter discusses the recent assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh by the Israeli government, which continues to claim that Fakhrizadeh was a “top nuclear scientist” in...
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11/27/20 Stephen Zunes on Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy from 2020-11-30T03:30:41
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Joe Biden’s track record on foreign policy, and its potential implications for his presidency. Zunes rehashes some of the bad parts of Biden’s record, beginning w...
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11/27/20 Frank Ledwidge on Losing the War in Afghanistan from 2020-11-30T03:30:19
Frank Ledwidge, a British former intelligence officer, discusses the futility of the war in Afghanistan (and the rest of the terror wars), which many of the world’s countries have now been mired in...
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11/18/20 Dan Caldwell: Trump Should Get Out of Afghanistan Before Inauguration Day from 2020-11-21T03:23:18
Scott interviews Dan Caldwell of Concerned Veterans for America about President Trump’s plans to withdraw troops from the Middle East in what are looking to be his final weeks as president. The app...
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11/18/20 Jacob Sullum on Trump’s Flimsy Election Fraud Case from 2020-11-21T03:22:48
Scott talks to Jacob Sullum about the allegations of widespread fraud in November’s presidential elections. Sullum concedes that errors in counting, illegal votes and deliberate obfuscation do some...
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11/18/20 Kevin Gosztola on the Profiteers and War Hawks of the Biden Transition Team from 2020-11-19T16:57:54
Kevin Gosztola discusses the abominable record of some of Joe Biden’s key transition team officials, people who are likely to become high-level members of Biden’s eventual cabinet. This list includ...
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11/14/20 Gareth Porter on Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy from 2020-11-17T20:58:59
Gareth Porter is back for a retrospective on Trump’s foreign policy. Despite campaigning on a relatively non-interventionist platform, and indeed despite explicitly denouncing the policies of the B...
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11/13/20 Ray McGovern on the Revenge of an Outgoing Trump Administration from 2020-11-17T20:57:39
Ray McGovern discusses the recent personnel changes in the Trump administration and what they could mean for his final months in office. McGovern thinks that John Brennan and his allies are getting...
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11/13/20 Doug Bandow on the Lost Opportunities of the Trump Administration from 2020-11-16T16:45:10
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the missed foreign policy opportunities of the Trump administration. Bandow laments that Trump didn’t push harder to get U.S. troops out of our wars in the Middle...
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11/13/20 Mike Maharrey: Saving the Republic by Abandoning the Empire from 2020-11-16T16:44:47
Scott talks to Mike Maharrey of the Tenth Amendment Center about the shameful state of U.S. foreign policy. In particular, Maharrey explains the way that congress has completely abdicated its role ...
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11/13/20 Mark Perry: the Revenge of Colonel Douglas Macgregor from 2020-11-16T16:44:18
Pentagon reporter Mark Perry discusses the recent appointment of retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor to a senior advisory position under President Trump’s new secretary of defense. Perry calls Macgre...
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11/13/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby’s ‘QME’ Scam from 2020-11-15T06:59:01
Grant Smith discusses the concept of “QME”, or “Qualitative Military Edge,” and how Israel and their lobby in the U.S. use it to get billions of dollars from the American taxpayers. Smith explains ...
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11/11/20 Danny Sjursen on the Profitable Post-Military Careers of his Afghanistan Commanders from 2020-11-14T01:19:47
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about where his former commanders from Afghanistan have ended up in the years since the surge. Sjursen goes through a handful of these men: almost without fail, his f...
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11/11/20 David Swanson: Leaving World War II Behind from 2020-11-13T05:17:41
Scott interviews author and peace activist David Swanson in honor of Veterans’ Day, or Armistice Day, as it was originally known. Swanson begins by describing the way World War II has become the ju...
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11/6/20 Dave DeCamp on the Foreign Policy of a Biden Administration from 2020-11-10T15:36:11
With Joe Biden apparently poised to be America’s next president, Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about some possible foreign policy changes under the new administration. To begin with, DeCamp worries th...
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11/6/20 Jeff Deist on the Cancerous Growth of America’s Federal Government from 2020-11-07T23:36:24
Jeff Deist discusses the idea that the best path forward for America may be some kind of peaceful breakup. He reminds us that America has never truly been one country, the way that, for instance, m...
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10/31/20 Nicolas Davies: Bolivia Repudiates Yet Another Western Coup Attempt from 2020-11-02T02:43:02
Nicolas Davies joins the show for an update on the situation in Bolivia, where President Evo Morales was forced to flee the country last year after allegations that his party fixed the elections to...
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10/30/20 Matt Taibbi on Tech Censorship, Glenn Greenwald and the Hunter Biden Laptop Story from 2020-11-02T02:42:38
Matt Taibbi discusses the controversial new developments surrounding possible corruption in the Biden family. Taibbi takes us back to the original controversy of Biden’s supposed pressure on the Uk...
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10/30/20 Giorgio Cafiero on the Normalization of Israel-Sudan Relations from 2020-11-01T05:55:48
Scott talks to Giorgio Cafiero about the latest push for Sudan to join the group of countries officially normalizing ties with Israel. Cafiero thinks these official normalization deals are somewhat...
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10/23/20 Danny Sjursen on Nagorno-Karabakh and America’s Failed Afghanistan Strategy from 2020-10-24T18:27:09
Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the latest in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Sjursen says about 5,000 people have likely been killed. The media narrative abo...
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10/23/20 Daniel Davis: Trump vs. Biden on Foreign Policy from 2020-10-24T18:26:40
Daniel Davis is back, this time for a discussion of Trump and Biden’s foreign policy positions in light of last night’s presidential debate. Overall Davis thinks it’s good that Trump hasn’t started...
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10/16/20 Daniel Ellsberg on the Prosecution of Julian Assange from 2020-10-17T20:55:21
The great Daniel Ellsberg shares his thoughts on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, comparing the situation to his own trial in the 1970s. Ellsberg, of course, was acquitted—in part because it w...
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10/16/20 Dave DeCamp on Hunter Biden, Trump’s Tweets and America’s Endless Wars from 2020-10-17T04:32:50
Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about a handful of his recent antiwar.com stories, with a focus on President Trump’s efforts to bring troops home from overseas wars. Trump has issued a series of tweets ...
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10/16/20 Eric Margolis on Trump’s Supposed Middle East ‘Peace’ Deals from 2020-10-17T04:32:24
Eric Margolis discusses President Trump’s recent peace deals between Israel and some of the Arab states. First Margolis explains that these aren’t really peace deals; what they do is simply make pu...
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10/16/20 Aaron Maté: OPCW Malfeasance and More ‘Russiagate’ Updates from 2020-10-17T04:32:01
Scott interviews Aaron Maté about his testimony to the UN Security Council regarding the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in 2018. After the Trump administration authorized retaliato...
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10/16/20 Andrew Cockburn on the Dangerous and Unconstitutional Powers of Modern Presidents from 2020-10-17T04:31:30
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about the steady growth of unconstitutional powers that the federal government—and the president in particular—can summon during “emergencies.” Some of these powers...
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10/15/20 Matt Agorist on Breonna Taylor and American Police Abuse from 2020-10-16T19:38:12
Scott talks to Matt Agorist about some recent cases of unlawful police killings and police abuse in this country, both the high-profile incidents and the ones that escape mainstream notice. Agorist...
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10/9/20 Daniel Davis on the Failures of American Foreign Policy Since the Gulf War from 2020-10-14T03:11:05
Scott interviews Daniel Davis about his new book, Eleventh Hour in 2020 America, which explores the unhealthy expansion of the U.S. military over the last few decades, to the point that America’s v...
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10/9/20 Charles Glass on the Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange from 2020-10-13T06:56:09
Scott interviews Charles Glass about Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Glass has focused on Assange’s treatment at the hands of the U.S. and British governments and their allies, including his ...
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10/9/20 Ray McGovern on the Tireless Truthers Still Pushing ‘Russiagate’ from 2020-10-13T06:55:45
Ray McGovern discusses the lasting impact of the “Russiagate” conspiracy, which Democrats have continued to push throughout President Trump’s entire first term. McGovern reminds us that according t...
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10/9/20 William Smith: How Empire is Destroying the American Republic from 2020-10-13T06:55:05
Scott talks to William Smith about the threat to republican government posed by America’s growing world empire. The founders of this country, Smith explains, knew that perpetual war would lead to t...
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10/9/20 Harry Kazianis on Peace with North Korea from 2020-10-12T18:34:43
Scott talks to Harry Kazianis about America’s relationship with North Korea. Kazianis argues past much of the noise surrounding the effort to get North Korea to denuclearize, proposing instead that...
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10/9/20 Matt Welch: The Case Against Donald Trump from 2020-10-12T18:34:35
Reason Magazine’s Matt Welch follows up on Scott’s Jacob Sullum interview with his own case against Donald Trump. The clearest point to hit Trump on, says Welch, is probably his complete abandonmen...
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10/9/20 Jacob Sullum: The Case Against Joe Biden from 2020-10-12T18:34:31
Reason Magazine’s Jacob Sullum discusses the case against Joe Biden, including his record on crime, the war in Iraq and the surveillance state. Sullum focuses on Biden’s history as a “tough on crim...
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10/2/20 Danny Sjursen on the Latest Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict from 2020-10-06T04:16:28
Danny Sjursen explains the complicated situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, a piece of Azerbaijani territory that has been under de facto Armenian control since the 1990s. Nagorno-Karabakh is the result ...
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10/2/20 Andy Worthington on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony from 2020-10-06T04:16:03
Scott interviews Andy Worthington about his testimony in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Worthington reminds us how important the revelations in Chelsea Manning’s Guantanamo Files leak were, ...
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10/2/20 Jeffrey Kaye: Proof of American Biological Warfare in Korea from 2020-10-04T22:10:30
Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about his bombshell report on U.S. war crimes during the Korean War. For decades, Kaye says, the narrative advanced by America and the UN has been that although Japan,...
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10/2/20 Nicolas Davies on America’s Culpability for the War in Yemen from 2020-10-03T23:50:35
Scott talks to Nicolas Davies about America’s continuing role in the war in Yemen. Although the Trump administration has ended some of the more direct involvement like mid-air refueling of Saudi bo...
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10/2/20 Patrick Cockburn on his Testimony in the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-10-03T23:50:09
Scott interviews the great Patrick Cockburn about his written testimony in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Cockburn argued, as have many other witnesses for the defense, that Assange’s activi...
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10/2/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 17 of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-10-03T06:46:17
Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likel...
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10/1/20 Trevor Timm on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony from 2020-10-03T06:45:37
Trevor Timm is back with an update on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Timm was a witness for the defense, where he argued against the idea that what Assange and WikiLeaks do is categorically ...
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9/28/20 Kevin Gosztola: Week Four of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-09-29T06:16:39
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, where most recently the defense has been debunking the prosecution’s claim that Assange engaged in a hacking schem...
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9/25/20 Gilbert Doctorow on the US Government’s Provocative Russia Policy from 2020-09-29T03:47:51
Gilbert Doctorow discusses the latest aggressive maneuvers being carried out by the U.S. government and its allies toward Russia. Doctorow says that the flying of planes near Russia’s border just f...
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9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police from 2020-09-28T05:51:13
Scott talks to Jessica Katzenstein from the Costs of War Project about her recent paper on the effects of America’s foreign wars on police militarization. She and Scott trace police militarization ...
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9/25/20 Grant Smith on the Israel Lobby, Tech Censorship and the 1619 Project from 2020-09-27T01:28:59
Scott talks to Grant Smith about his ongoing work on the Israel lobby and its influence in America. Scott likens the story of Israel and Palestine to the history of the U.S. government and the Nati...
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9/25/20 Trevor Aaronson on the FBI’s Latest Fake Terrorism Entrapment Scheme from 2020-09-27T01:28:33
Trevor Aaronson discusses the FBI’s dubious techniques for luring people into fake terrorist plots, which very often border on entrapment. In this case he takes up the story of two Americans involv...
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9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen from 2020-09-27T01:28:10
Scott interviews Andrea Prasow about the war crimes and human rights violations being perpetrated by all sides in the war in Yemen. She reminds us that although civilians always suffer the most dur...
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9/23/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 12 of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-09-24T03:46:22
Kevin Gosztola is back for another update on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. A major focus of the last few days, he says, has been Assange’s mental health, including a brand new diagnosis of ...
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9/18/20 Tom Secker: How Homeland Security Controls Hollywood from 2020-09-23T19:29:44
Scott inverviews Tom Secker about the immense influence that the police, the military, the intelligence agencies and, especially, the Department of Homeland Security wield in Hollywood. Secker desc...
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9/18/20 Peter Van Buren on ‘Election Meddling’ and the Shameful State of American Journalism from 2020-09-23T03:46:31
Peter Van Buren discusses yet another development in the “Russiagate” story, one that he says exposes the whole thing for what it really is. He describes the way “media watchdog” groups will discov...
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9/18/20 Dave Smith on the 2020 Election and the Death of RBG from 2020-09-23T03:46:05
Scott talks to Dave Smith about the upcoming election and the role of the Libertarian Party in presidential politics. Both agree that the right move for the Party, given that it has essentially no ...
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9/18/20 Gareth Porter: Another Blow for ‘Russiagate’ Truthers from 2020-09-21T22:53:39
Gareth Porter discusses the slow death of the “Russiagate” narrative, which has been allowed to live on mainly because of deliberate obfuscation by democrats and the mainstream media. Rarely do the...
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9/18/20 Muhammad Sahimi on Pompeo’s Dangerous Iran Failures from 2020-09-21T22:52:59
Muhammad Sahimi discusses Mike Pompeo’s continual efforts to provoke a war between the U.S. and Iran, or to incite regime change from within. His “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign is part of th...
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9/18/20 Grant Smith on the Exaggerated Significance of Evangelical Zionists in America from 2020-09-21T22:51:42
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the role of evangelical Christians in the Zionist movement in America. Grant examines the premise that evangelicals are the most significant driving force behind Am...
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9/18/20 Tana Ganeva on the Death of Holly Barlow-Austin from 2020-09-21T16:56:26
Scott interviews Tana Ganeva about her recent article detailing the death of a woman due to medical neglect in one of America’s worst private jails. Holly Barlow-Austin, an HIV patient, was detaine...
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9/18/20 Nasser Arrabyee on the Continued Horrors of the War in Yemen from 2020-09-20T16:01:27
Nassar Arrabyee discusses the war in Yemen, where the Trump administration is now approaching four years of continued support for Saudi Arabia in their war of genocide against the Yemeni population...
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9/18/20 Joe Lauria: Day Nine of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-09-20T16:00:43
Joe Lauria comments on the last few days of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. He notes a movement on the part of the prosecution away from their previous tack, which was to argue that Assange w...
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9/17/20 Ted Snider on the Bahrain ‘Peace’ Agreement from 2020-09-20T16:00:18
Ted Snider comes back for an update on the recent round of “peace deals” conducted by President Trump over the last few weeks. Now Bahrain has joined the normalization agreement between the U.S., I...
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9/15/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Six of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-09-17T16:16:15
Kevin Gosztola is back for an update on Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. He describes the great line-up of witnesses being summoned by Assange’s defense team and how easily, for the most part,...
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9/11/20 Gareth Porter: More on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record from 2020-09-16T03:42:59
Scott and Gareth Porter continue their ongoing conversation about President Trump’s foreign policy so far. Porter focuses first on Iran, which has become the ultimate excuse for just about every fo...
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9/11/20 Arthur Bloom on the Fake Opinion Columnists Pushing War With Iran from 2020-09-15T20:22:13
Arthur Bloom talks about a recent piece from The American Conservative, which exposes the case of a prolific and well-known anti-Iran opinion columnist who turned out not to be a real person. “Amir...
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9/11/20 Ford Fischer on the Unified Activism the Media Doesn’t Want You to See from 2020-09-15T20:21:35
Journalist Ford Fischer discusses his coverage of the various armed factions taking to the streets in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, and amid broader calls for police reform. The mainstre...
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9/11/20 Josiah Lippincott on the Wholesale Slaughter of Japanese Civilians in WWII from 2020-09-15T07:42:43
Scott interviews Josiah Lippincott about the conventional narrative surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The common argument, says Lippincott, is that the U.S. had...
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9/11/20 Aaron Maté on the Deep State’s Many ‘Russiagate’ Lies from 2020-09-15T07:42:20
Aaron Maté revisits the many lies on which the ‘Russiagate’ probe into Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency was founded. Maté calls the whole story what it is: a conspiracy theory. The only way s...
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9/11/20 Trita Parsi: What Trump’s Iraq Troop Withdrawal Means for Ending America’s Wars from 2020-09-15T07:41:56
Trita Parsi discusses President Trump’s recent announcement of a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Parsi is hesitant to fully endorse this move, explaining that while troop reductions are obviously good,...
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9/11/20 Paul Robinson on the ‘Russiagate’ Narrative that Refuses to Die from 2020-09-15T07:41:31
Scott talks to Paul Robinson about yet another round of claims that President Trump colluded with Russia to disingenuously win the 2016 election. This time, what’s at issue is a trove of emails fro...
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9/11/20 Danny Sjursen: America in the Age of Endless War from 2020-09-14T04:36:28
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen about his new book, which chronicles his own story of disillusionment with America’s endless wars, in addition to outlining what he believes should be the new attitud...
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9/11/20 Clive Stafford Smith on Julian Assange’s Political Show Trial from 2020-09-12T20:19:50
Clive Stafford Smith, expert witness in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, talks about the outrageous scandal that is the U.S. government’s attempted prosecution of Assange and Wikileaks. Smith ...
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9/11/20 Ted Snider on the Israel-UAE Normalization Agreement from 2020-09-12T20:19:25
Ted Snider discusses the details of the recent “peace deal” between the UAE and Israel. President Trump, who helped broker the deal, has been bragging that this is a groundbreaking normalization of...
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9/11/20 David Vine on the Tens of Millions Displaced by America’s Terror Wars from 2020-09-12T20:19:01
Scott interviews David Vine about his research into the effects of America’s decades-long wars on terror. Vine and his team have recently estimated that at minimum, 37 million people have been disp...
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9/8/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day Two of the Assange Extradition Hearing from 2020-09-09T04:01:22
Scott talks to Kevin Gosztola about day two of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing. Gosztola covers some of the highlights of the day’s proceedings, including witness testimony for Assange’s defen...
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