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Marjorie Cohn discusses the attempted extradition of Julian Assange from Britain to the United States so that he can stand trial for alleged violations of America's Espionage Act. Cohn outlines the two main grounds on which she believes the British judge should refuse to go along with the extradition: that Assange is being charged with a political crime, and that he is likely to face torture at the hands of the American authorities, much like he has been facing for years now in the form of solitary confinement and the refusal of medical care. Scott and Cohn also talk about Chelsea Manning, who is likewise being held in solitary confinement for heroically refusing to testify against Assange.

Discussed on the show:

"ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Indictment on Political Offense Runs Counter to Extradition Treaty" (Consortium News)

"Baghdad War Diary" (Wikileaks)

"The Guantanamo Files" (Wikileaks)

Collateral Murder

"«A murderous system is being created before our very eyes» – Republik" (Republik)

The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse

Marjorie Cohn is a professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the author of numerous books including Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Find all of her work at her website marjoriecohn.com.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Scott interviews Nasser Arrabyee about the latest on the war in Yemen. The humanitarian situation there is still desperate, with the UN finally updating its estimates to over 200,000 dead—many of these women and young children. But Arrabyee sees reasons for hope. For one thing, the war is very unpopular, both among Americans and for Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, so neither country looks very good for their participation. Arrabyee says that airports may also start to be opened to humanitarian aid soon, helping to alleviate the thousands of deaths from deprivation and preventable disease.

Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twitter @narrabyee.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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On FPF #457, I discuss the deep state is rolling out Russiagate for the 2020 election. Now Trump and Bernie have been accused of receiving Russian support in this election cycle. Just like in the first Russiagate, no one has presented evidence of the alleged Russian conspiracy. It seems the goal of the deep state is to hem in the likely candidates of the two major parties.

43 Minutes

PG-13

Pete invited the founder and lead host of the terrestrial radio show Free Talk Live to come on the show. FTL is broadcast on over 200 radio stations 365 days a year delivering messages of voluntaryism, anarchy, cryptocurrency, peace and whatever the callers want to talk about.

Pete and Ian talk about the time the FBI raided their studios, some of the kinds of callers they get and Ian wanted to address a comment his friend Brett Veinotte recently made on a Free Man Beyond the Wall episode.

Free Talk Live

LRN.FM

Episode 372 w/ Brett Veinotte

Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course

TakeHumanAction.com

Donate at the Libertarian Institute

Pete's Link to Sign Up for the LP

Lions of Liberty Podcast

Pete's Patreon

Pete's Books on Amazon

Pete's Books Available for Crypto

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Scott talks to Dave DeCamp about the OPCW's efforts to discredit a pair of whistleblowers, both of whom are former employees who claim their findings were expunged from the organization's official reports on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma in 2018. The OPCW concluded that there was clear evidence of the Assad government attacking its own civilians with chemical weapons, which was used as justification for the U.S. to launch a retaliatory strike. But these two former employees are adamant that the evidence did not point to such a conclusion—evidence that the OPCW intentionally ignored. Of course the mainstream media has covered basically none of this.

Discussed on the show:

"OPCW Tries To Discredit Whistleblowers in Response to Douma Leaks" (Antiwar.com Original)

"The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors" (Counterpunch)

"Exclusive: New leaks shatter OPCW's attacks on Douma whistleblowers" (The Grayzone)

"How John Bolton Once Threatened an International Official" (The Intercept)

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about Joe Biden's history pushing for the war in Iraq and his subsequent attempt to whitewash this record. When Hillary Clinton faced Barack Obama in the 2008 primary, Hillary's record in support of the war was a major factor in Obama's victory—Hoh wishes that this time around the other Democrats would make more out of Biden's pro-war history instead of mostly letting foreign policy go undiscussed. Even Sanders, who has been sound in his opposition to the war in Yemen, and who theoretically should be staunchly antiwar, has not made this a central aspect of his campaign. The rest of the major candidates, Hoh says, are just as bad as Biden.

Discussed on the show:

WORTH THE PRICE? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War

"THE FIX IS IN" (antiwar.com)

"How Wartime Washington Lives In Luxury" (The American Conservative)

"Coca-Cola Classic ad: 'Mean' Joe Greene [Full Version] (1979)" (YouTube)

"Secret Annexes Can Khalilzad Deliver Afghan Peace for Trump?" (Time)

"The Redirection" (The New Yorker)

"Iraq Has a New Prime Minister, but It Needs Regime Change to Escape Iran's Influence" (Foreign Policy)

Matthew Hoh is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Hoh is a member of the Board of Directors for Council for a Livable World and is an Advisory Board Member for Expose Facts. He writes on issues of war, peace and post-traumatic stress disorder recovery at matthewhoh.com.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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On FPF #456, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss the evolving justification for Trump's assassination of Soleimani. Will explains how the Trump admin has now given several reasons that they needed to and had the power to kill Soleimani. Will and Kyle look at the failure of Trump to have appropriate authorization for the strike and the strategic failures of the strike. 

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Abby MartianNATO mission in IraqCIA encryptionSoleimani assassinationRecord military spending

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Pete invited Monica Perez to return to the show to go over what we know about the coronavirus and to theorize as to what the lasting implications of a global pandemic scare may be.

Monica is the host of The Monica Perez Show on WSB radio in Atlanta and co-host of The Propaganda Report with Brad Binkley.

The Monica Perez Show on WSB Radio

The Propaganda Report

Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course

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Conronavirus pandemic exercise Oct 2019

https://youtu.be/mx8xKcQMTRs

https://twitter.com/tragedyandhope/status/1227629222870560771?s=20

https://twitter.com/tragedyandhope/status/1227628906385158144?s=20

https://twitter.com/tragedyandhope/status/1227628246717673473?s=20

Recent World Health Org summit admits vaccines not safe or effective

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82KJGSLT2e4 (2 hours, worth watching in entirety)

Short version (10m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IujhTdCLE

Playlist of the WHO Health Summit (raw footage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IujhTdCLE&list=PL9JldIf7HUZTqPbAlsZ6xjnQ_OZP2nQc6

SAME WOMAN FROM THOSE CLIPS - https://twitter.com/HighWireTalk/status/1227629169032548353?s=20

Sheldon Richman discusses what he calls "the nonintervention principle," a corollary of libertarianism's nonaggression principle. Richman says that in the face of those who advocate foreign intervention and regime change, libertarians have a tendency to deny the claims that are being used to justify the intervention, rather than categorically opposing intervention qua intervention, no matter how bad the situation is. He acknowledges that many of these arguments are sound, so far as they go—for example, the fact that Assad is actually pretty good by regional standards—but that they can give the impression that in cases where the situation actually is dire, libertarians would be okay with the proposed regime change. This is obviously not the case, and Richman reminds us that opposition to this brand of foreign policy should be based first and foremost on the philosophical stance against any kind of aggressive war, not on the particulars of the situation at hand.

Discussed on the show:

"TGIF: The Nonintervention Principle" (The Libertarian Institute)

America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited

Our Enemy, the State

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of the Libertarian Institute and the author of Coming to Palestine and America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited. Follow him on Twitter @SheldonRichman.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Grant Smith joins the show to promote his upcoming conference, Transcending The Israel Lobby At Home And Abroad, to be held in Washington D.C. this May. The conference, as with most of Smith's work, is focused on exposing the power the Israel Lobby wields in America to control the narrative on both Israel-Palestine, and American relations with Israel. Smith laments the fact that any opposition to the policies of the Israeli government is so easily depicted as mere anti-semitism. He is optimistic, however, about the kind of activism that is gaining steam and showing that it is possible to criticize the injustice without unjustly but effectively being smeared as a racist.

Discussed on the show:

IsraelLobbyCon 2020

"1/10/20 Grant Smith on the Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board" (The Libertarian Institute)

Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

"Iraq Has a New Prime Minister, but It Needs Regime Change to Escape Iran's Influence" (Foreign Policy)

Occupation of the American Mind

"“American neoconservatives: a history and overview” Jim Lobe" (YouTube)

Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, Divert!, and most recently The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: NoDev NoOps NoIT, by Hussein Badakhchani; The War State, by Mike Swanson; WallStreetWindow.com; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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