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On FPF #390, I discuss a US drone being shot down over Yemen. The US claims that Iran supplied the Houthi with the weapons. The US media has focused their attention on the relationship between Houthi and Iran. However, the more important question is what was a US drone doing over Houthi held Yemen. Trump has no authority to wage a war against the Houthi, who oppose al-Qaeda. I explain how the downing of a US drone and Saudi losing Aden to separatists show the US needs to end its involvement in Yemen. 

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Moon of Alabama - Chinese Cult

Moon of Alabama - Crowd Size

American Conservative - Yemenhttps://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-sycophant-not-a-statesman/

Intercept - CIA Support for Afghan Militias

Alastair Crooke - Yemen

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Pete invited John Denson to come on the show to answer the question, "Did the U.S. have to fight in the European theater in WW2?"

John V. Denson is Distinguished Scholar in History and Law at the Mises Institute. He is a practicing attorney in Alabama and the editor of two books, The Costs of War and Reassessing the Presidency, and the author of A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt.

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The Intercept's Trevor Aaronson joins the show to talk about the travesty of justice in the trial of Hamid Hayat, who has finally been released after nearly 15 years in prison. Hayat was an alleged terrorist, convicted based on a coerced confession he gave to FBI agents under duress, as well as recordings from his conversations with an FBI informant who had pretended to befriend Hayat's family. Hayat is just one of many such cases of U.S. government entrapment, which make up the majority of supposed terrorism prosecutions.

Discussed on the show:

"Reporters Questioned His Terror Prosecution. Now He's Free." (The Intercept)

"The Confession Tapes" (Netflix)

"Lodi Man Describes Terrorist Training" (LA Times)

"US-led coalition 'killed 1,600 civilians' in Syria's Raqqa" (Al Jazeera)

Trevor Aaronson is a contributing writer for The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. He is the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism. Find him on Twitter @trevoraaronson.

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Gareth Porter explains why the claim that the Russian government "hacked all 50 U.S. states" is false—namely, the states themselves know that their systems were intact! The narrative has nonetheless been pushed continuously, as democrats try to justify Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss by any means necessary.

Discussed on the show:

"U.S. States: We Weren’t Hacked by Russians in 2016" (The American Conservative)

"Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds" (The New York Times)

Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state, and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.

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Scott interviews Cato's John Mueller about why it's time to leave Afghanistan. Fundamentally, the Taliban cannot be defeated at any remotely acceptable cost of American lives and U.S. dollars, says Mueller, and at the same time military interventions has only made the Al-Qaeda problem—America's original enemies—even worse. Fortunately, it seems like President Trump might see ending the war in Afghanistan as a possible path to reelection.

Discussed on the show:

"Overcoming Inertia: Why It’s Time to End the War in Afghanistan" (Cato Institute)

"Life under the Taliban shadow government" (Overseas Development Institute)

John Mueller is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a senior research scientist with the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them , Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda, and many others. Follow his work at the Cato Institute.

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Alan Kuperman explains the true story of the 2011 civil war in Libya, which the United States famously and disastrously supported. Contrary to the narrative that this uprising was started by regular, educated citizens like doctors and lawyers, Kuperman and his research assistants discovered that the key actors fomenting revolution were actually Al-Qaeda veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Kuperman reflects on the dangers of reckless use of American military force throughout the years.

Discussed on the show:

"America's Little-Known Mission to Support Al Qaeda's Role in Libya" (The National Interest)

"False pretense for war in Libya?" (The Boston Globe)

"Did the R2P Foster Violence in Libya?" (Genocide Studies and Prevention)

"Hillary Clinton Libya war genocide narrative rejected by U.S. intelligence" (Washington Times)

Alan J. Kuperman is a professor of public affairs at UT Austin and the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda. He co-edited Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War and has written for The National Interest, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and others.

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Pete invited history professor CJ Killmer to come back on the show and give everyone a real history of the Spartans and the events of the movie 300. CJ destroys myths and gives us an account that we would never see come out of Hollywood.

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Max Blumenthal explains how the policies of the Obama administration, pushed by Joe Biden in particular, have fueled the migration crisis in Latin America we see today. Notably, America gave material support to the Colombian regime that massacred thousands of innocent civilians and dressed them as guerrilla revolutionaries in order to claim they were winning the war, and thereby get more aid from the U.S. Biden also supported brutal regimes in Honduras, El Salvador, and other countries, whose instability have caused millions of people to flee their homes for America's southern border. The ultimate irony is that in this sense, Biden's policies were directly responsible for the election of Donald Trump.

Discussed on the show:

"Joe Biden Fueled the Latin American Migration Crisis" (Consortium News)

Plan Colombia

"False positives" scandal

"Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign? | The New Yorker" (The New Yorker)

"Opinion | Joe Biden: A Plan for Central America" (The New York Times)

"'The coup turned Honduras into hell': President Manuel Zelaya on 10th anniversary of overthrow by US" (YouTube)

Director and writer of “Killing Gaza,” Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project and the author Goliath, Republican Gomorrah, and The 51 Day War. Follow Max on Twitter @MaxBlumenthal.

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Time to talk about all the immigration stories, from the ICE workplaces raids from a week ago that got overshadowed to the new public charge rule and why it's really not OK to the ever evolving rules on who can and cannot apply for asylum in the US

Scott talks to Jim Bovard about Bill Clinton's bombing campaign in Serbia twenty years ago, which at the time was widely heralded as a triumph of the "forces of good." It was also, apparently, something that Bill Clinton did as a way to appease Hillary after the fallout from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The entire narrative of "ethnic cleansing" that was put forth as justification for American intervention turned out later to have been overblown, with, in actual fact, casualties (and some atrocities) on both sides of the civil war but little evidence for the purported one-sided genocide.

Discussed on the show:

"America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia" (Future of Freedom Foundation)

Hillary's Choice

"Hillary Clinton-Style Social-Worker Liberalism Has Some Dark Areas" (LA Times)

Rambouillet Agreement

Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years

Khobar Towers bombing

1998 United States embassy bombings

Camp Bondsteel

Jim Bovard is a columnist for USA Today and the author of Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard.

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