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Reza Marashi from National Iranian American Council and formerly from the US State Department is on the show to discuss the recent Iranian elections. Marashi details the history of the elections, how Iranian politics work with the Supreme Leader, and what the Iranian people hope they voted for. The Obama and Trump administration’s policies towards Iran is also discussed, and some of the dangerous actions both have taken to increase the likelihood of a conflict.

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Alex Main from the Center For Economic and Policy Research is interviewed on “Collateral Damage of a Drug War” and “Still Waiting for Justice”, his reports co-authored with Annie Bird about a DEA atrocity in Honduras. Topics discussed include America’s drug war in Central America, how it relates to the migration of unaccompanied minors, and how accelerated American security aid has been used by corrupt officials in Honduras, especially after the coop in 2009.

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Ken Klippenstein discusses “CIA Documents Expose the Failed Torture Methods Used on Guantamo’s Most Famous Detainee”. The article exposes the unknown and inhumane torture methods used on Abu Zubaydah, once the success case cited by the Bush administration for its enhanced interrogation program. As revealed by earlier documents, Zubaydah was water boarded 83 times, spent a total of 11 days in a small confinement box the size of a coffin, and subjected to inhuman isolation techniques. Klippenstein details the new information, including having guards wear full body suits so that he wouldn’t get the satisfaction of seeing another human while imprisoned.

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Peter Van Buren, former foreign service officer for the State Department, is interviewed on We Meant Well, his book on the Iraq War, and Hooper’s War, his new novel about war and PTSD. In a wide ranging interview, Van Buren discusses moral injury and responsibility for the Iraq War in the United States.  The long term psychological effects of wartime combat service among veterans and how that correlates to a high suicide rate is just one of many subjects that are discussed in this interview.

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Ted Galen Carpenter from the Cato Institute is interviewed on the Bosnian conflict and the deterioration of Western relations with Russia. United States government interference with a potential peace deal that was being formulated to end the conflict is also detailed.  The final border lines and how the Dayton Accords ultimately ended up displacing more people than the civil war did is also discussed, as is the history of Western Russian relations and the dangerous new cold war that has already set it with the Russian Federation.

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Center for International Policy’s William Hartung, author of “The American Way of War is a Budget Breaker”, is interviewed about his new article “There’s Less Than Meets The Eye in Trump’s Saudi Arms Deal” on defenseone.com, on the huge new arms deal, which he writes is “a mix of offers already made and promises yet to be kept”. Hartung also talks at length about how these deals have an implied US security guarantee, and how the Saudi military has historically been a Potemkin army. Also discussed is the defense budget, how money is appropriated, and whether there is any hope to ever reign in the military industrial complex.

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Scott interviews Jacob Hornberger with the Future of Freedom Foundation at FFF.org.  Jacob talks about his upcoming conference, “The National Security State and JFK”, at the Dulles Airport Marriot in Northern Virginia on June 3rd, 2017, at which both Ron Paul and Oliver Stone will speak.

Hornberger also talks about the ongoing drug war in Mexico and how the laws of supply and demand can’t be overridden by a drug crackdown, even one as extensive as in Mexico, which involved the Mexican military going after drug lords. The total and absolute failure of the drug war is spoken about at length, including why the conventional thinking is flawed and the approach of most people in the country to this issue doesn’t address the core problem of drug addiction or the drug trade.

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Co-Founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern is on the show to discuss his new article Not Remembering the USS Liberty and the new book by Philip Nelson, “Remembering the Liberty”. Scott and Ray discuss the audio of the ship to aircraft communications between the attacking aircraft and their commander, the story of the Israeli attack on the Liberty, and the incredible story of how the attack was ultimately ended, and how the captain of the USS Liberty received a Medal of Honor.

Also discussed is the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria and Obama’s response, and a great story of how Ray gave Joe Lieberman a lesson in constitutional law.

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Trevor Timm Cofounder and Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation at freedom.press talks with Scott about Wikileak’s being considered by some in government as an independent intelligence agency and how that undermines the freedom of the press and the first amendment. The prosecution of Wikileaks or their personnel would set a precedent that would allow the Justice Department to prosecute any journalist for leaks or publishing classified information.

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Scott talks with Phil Giraldi, former DIA and CIA officer and friend of the show, about the intelligence leaks surrounding the Trump administration. The information flow from the intelligence agencies and the FBI to the media is discussed and so is the possible impeachment that is being pushed. The leaks coming from the NSC, the staff of which was hand-picked by President Trump, and the FBI’s inability to find the leakers or even to look, is also discussed, as are potential motives.

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