Scott Horton Show - Q & A Shows

Listen to Scott's speech at Freedom Fest, where he explains that the war on terrorism is all the Democrats' fault.

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Listen to Scott's speech to the Colorado Libertarian Party Convention about the history of the war on terrorism.

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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 least 39 civilian deaths so far. Both of these stories are perverted by most mainstream media sources in order to obscure the real story. In Israel, in this and all similar cases, the headlines invariably focus on the fact that Palestinians have attacked Israeli forces, without ever providing the background that in many cases, Palestinians are just fighting back against an increasingly oppressive Israeli military that is allowing settlers to steal their homes. There's even less media attention focused on Colombia, since their right-wing government is a close ally of the United States. Make no mistake, says Cohen, if this were happening in Venezuela or any other state officially deemed an enemy by the U.S., it would practically be grounds for a military intervention. Interventionist hawks have cited far smaller causes over the last few years when advocating regime change in Venezuela.

Discussed on the show:

"Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: "Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests"" (MintPress News)

"Video: Temple movement rabbi proselytizes for genocide" (Electronic Intifada)

"If I don’t steal it, somebody else is going to steal it." (Twitter)

Oslo Accords

"Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike" (Behind the Headlines)

Dan Cohen is a journalist and co-producer of the award-winning documentary, Killing Gaza. His website is dancohenmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @dancohen3000.

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Listen to a livestream Scott recorded with Pete Quinones on Friday. They discuss covid passports, the government’s response to the pandemic over the last year and the growing focus in the U.S. government on so-called “domestic terrorism.”

Discussed on the show:

“Blaming Tuskegee syphilis study for Black communities’ distrust in vaccines doesn’t capture everything” (CNN)

“4/2/21 Larry Wilkerson on the Global Struggle for Power in Asia” (The Libertarian Institute)

“4/2/21 Immortal Technique on Slavery, Israel-Palestine and the Politicization of American Society” (The Libertarian Institute)

Podesta Emails

“US Capitol: Driver dead after ramming barricade” (Newstral.com)

““The President Threw Us Under the Bus”: Embedding With Pentagon Leadership in Trump’s Chaotic Last Week” (Vanity Fair)

“Deradicalization Needed for Evangelical Christian QAnon Believers” (Foreign Policy)

“The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics” (Glenn Greenwald)

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

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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 real economic figures behind the trade relationship. In particular, he explains the way that losses from outsourcing tend to be concentrated to a few employees in a specific industry, whereas the (much larger) gains to are spread out over a whole population of consumers. This results in a skewed narrative that Americans are losing out on global trade with China. He also dispels the myth that America doesn’t produce anything anymore, explaining that we produce the same amount as ever, just with many fewer workers. Henderson and Scott go on to discuss the prospects for war between the U.S. and China, a very real and concerning threat that is mitigated, at least to some extent, by an open economic relationship between the two nations.

Discussed on the show:

“Is China An Economic Threat?” (Hoover Institution)

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Wal-Mart: A Progressive Success Story

“TikTok Pot Luck | GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution” (YouTube)

“Testing the “China Shock”: Was Normalizing Trade with China a Mistake?” (Cato Institute)

“War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)” (IMDb)

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

“Special Report: Pentagon’s latest salvo against China’s growing might – Cold War bombers” (Reuters)

David R. Henderson is a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and former professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey. Read his work at DavidRHenderson.com and AntiWar.com.

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Pete Quinones interviews me about China, the accusations against Russia in Afghanistan, Middle East wars and race and power in America.

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 stockpiles, making the world significantly safer. Since then, however, this trend toward disarmament has begun to slow and even to reverse. At the same time, more countries have developed their own nuclear weapons programs. Scott thinks this has more to do with the financial incentives of the military-industrial complex than it does with the possibility for real global hostilities—but that doesn’t make the situation any less dangerous.

Discussed on the show:

“SIPRI Yearbook 2020” (SIPRI)

“Nuclear weapon modernization continues but the outlook for arms control is bleak” (SIPRI)

Hans M. Kristensen is an Associate Senior Fellow with the SIPRI Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme and Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists. Follow him on Twitter @nukestrat.

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I talked with an expert about the Coronavirus, and then I talked with Pete about that.

Me and Pete talked about some things.

Pete Quinones interviews me about the common narratives about Iran in Iraq and so forth; specifically addressing a hawk's interview on the Joe Rogan show and a recent hawkish piece in the Wall Street Journal.