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Scott talks to Eli Clifton about the billionaire "megadonors" who control the Republican party. Although Trump started his campaign touting his status as an independent billionaire who couldn't be bought, Clifton explains how even if that's true, someone needs to fund all the senate and congressional campaigns of the candidates to support Trump during his term. Since these donors are almost universally zionist neocons, Trump's foreign policy ends up being directed toward Israel's interests, meaning toward war with Afghanistan.

Discussed on the show:

"2¾ Cheers for the New Quincy Institute" (Antiwar.com Original)

"Trump Stuck Between Ending Endless Wars and his Hawkish Megadonors" (Responsible Statecraft)

Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist working with the Quincy Institute and a contributing editor for Lobe Log. Follow him on Twitter @EliClifton.

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Pete comments on the shooting of a UPS driver and innocent bystander in a police shootout involving 4 South Florida agencies.

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On FPF #427, I explain how the shooting at the US base in Flordia was a part of the war the US is fighting in the Middle East. The shooter was a Saudi officer who was training at the base. Before the shooting, the Saudi posted about American crimes against Muslims being the motivation for his attack. While in the US, this will be presented as an act of terror only preventable by killing more Muslims in the Middle East, the reality is more war in the Middle East will only create more terror attacks in the US. 

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The charges against journalist Max Blumenthal have been dropped. He was accused of simple assault while trying to deliver food to the Venezuelan embassy in DC. No evidence has been produced of the assault and what evidence that may have existed appears to have been deleted. Five months after delivering food to the embassy, Max was arrested and held for two days at the end of October. [Link]

Jeff Bezos is pushing other tech companies to work with the Pentagon saying, “we are the good guys.” [Link]

CBP reverses a plan that would have required all US citizens to be photographed leaving and entering the US. [Link]

The US House votes in favor of a resolution that condemns Israel’s annexation of the West Bank. [Link] 

Mexican Cartels 

Trump says he will not designate Mexican cartels as terror groups. [Link]

The Mexican President meets with AG Barr and says he will work with the US to prevent the flow of weapons into Mexico, but would not permit another operation like fast and furious. [Link]

Shootings

A US sailor killed two civilians Department of Defense employees before killing himself at the Pearl Harbor Shipyard. [Link]

A Saudi air force officer training in the US shot and killed three people in a US base. Post by the Saudi suggests he carried out the attack in response to US foreign policy. [Link]

NATO

Turkey says it expects NATO members' support in Syria after it dropped its objection to NATO’s Baltic defense plan. [Link]

Trump and Canada’s leader clash at the NATO conference. Trump called Trudeau two-faced and complained Canada is not meeting the 2% defense spending target. [Link]

Trump suggests he could sanction Germany for not meeting NATO’s 2% defense spending target. [Link]

Hungary says it will block Ukraine’s NATO membership over Ukraine’s language law. [Link]

Putin says Russia will extend the New Start Treaty without any preconditions or discussions. [Link]

Ukraine

Ukraine’s president says he will look to swap the rest of the POWs from the Ukrainian Civil War in talks with Russia next week. [Link]

Trump’s 2020 budget requests $250 million in lethal aid to Ukraine. [Link]

North Korea

North Korea says it carried out a test at a long-range missile facility. The facility was partially deconstructed when the US and North Korea were making diplomatic progress. [Link] In response to the missile test Trump says North Korea risks losing everything and calls on Kim Jong-un to denuclearize. Trump also warned North Korea against interfering in the 2020 elections. [Link]

A North Korean official says denuclearization is off the table in talks with the US. [Link]

GCC

Qatar confirms that it is in talks with Saudi Arabia to resolve the GCC dispute. [Link]

Iran

Trump is considering a plan that would send an additional 14,000 troops to the Middle East. [Link]

Japan will deploy 270 sailors to the Middle East to protest its ships. [Link]

A senior Pentagon official says Iran could act aggressively. [Link]

Iran says protesters have been killed in recent weeks but far less than the claimed 200 claimed by Amnesty International. [Link]

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Pete welcomes New Hampshire FSP Board Chair, Carla Gericke. Carla comes on to talk about how New Hampshire is now #1 in taxes (with no sales or personal income tax), how their business tax is declining quarterly, how business-friendly it is with deregulation as well as recently abolishing the death penalty. They talk about that, and more!

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Tom Collina tells Scott about the "nuclear sponge", a collection of land-based nuclear weapons in America's upper midwest, whose real purpose is just to absorb the strikes of a nuclear attack by a hostile power rather than to actually be used in an attack of their own, which would most likely be done by submarine. Needless to say this is utterly crazy. Collina reminds us that there are enough nukes between just the U.S. and Russia to destroy the world's population centers many times over, not to mention the nuclear winter that would follow and could wipe out almost all life on the planet.

Discussed on the show:

"Why Are We Rebuilding the ‘Nuclear Sponge’?" (The National Interest)

"Welcome to America’s ‘Nuclear Sponge’" (Defense One)

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Tom Collina is Director of Policy for the Ploughshares Fund, a nonprofit combatting the spread of nuclear weapons. Collina writes for The National Interest, The Independent, Defense One, and many other publications. Find him on Twitter @TomCollina.

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Scott talks to Ted Carpenter about the NATO secret no one wants to admit, which is that part of the alliance involves America promising to enter a nuclear war in the defense of its allies, including the Baltic states right on Russia's border. It hardly needs to be said how dangerous this is. Carpenter reminds us of the original promise not to extend NATO eastward, which has since been broken many times, even to the extent that some want Ukraine added to the organization. He says this would be like a hostile power adding Canada to its alliance. Carpenter advocates disbanding NATO and allowing European powers to figure out more reasonable defense arrangements for themselves.

Discussed on the show:

"NATO’s Dirty Little Secret Is Out" (The National Interest)

"Exploring the Role Nuclear Weapons Could Play in Deterring Russian Threats to the Baltic States" (RAND)

"NYET MEANS NYET" (WikiLeaks)

Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest.

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; Washinton Babylon; Liberty Under Attack Publications; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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Kelley Vlahos discusses the latest with Julian Assange, who now will be testifying in a spying case involving the Spanish company UC Global, and which may implicate America's CIA and even top Republican donor Sheldon Adelson. Assange is being held in a London jail for missing bail, mostly in solitary confinement. His already weakened physical and mental state from seven years of isolation in the Ecuadorian embassy makes his health—and even his survival—a real concern. Meanwhile Chelsea Manning is also rotting in a cell for refusing to testify against Assange. Scott and Vlahos bemoan the very selective appreciation for whistleblowers of the American public, who are mostly indifferent about the plights of Assange and Manning.

Discussed on the show:

"Was Sheldon Adelson Acting As Bag Man For The CIA?" (The American Conservative)

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Kelley B. Vlahos is the executive editor of The American Conservative. Follow her on Twitter @KelleyBVlahos.

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; Washinton Babylon; Liberty Under Attack Publications; Listen and Think Audio; TheBumperSticker.com; and LibertyStickers.com.

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On FPF #426, I review the recently released on Amazon movie, The Report. The movie tells the story of the CIA torture program after 9/11 and Daniel Jones' effort put together a report on the program. The movie is well done and generally gets the narrative correct. I breakdown some of the best and worst themes in the movie. 

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The New York Times publishes drawings by CIA torture victim Abu Zubaydah of the abuse inflicted on him. [Link]