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Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public support for Syrian regime-change, and why most of the Left has fallen for it.

Whether the boot grinding into our face is on the left foot or the right, the next president will administer a Clintonian police state.

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Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural resources and political identity – and helped by US military aid.

Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article “Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;” and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of an actual state – not the pseudo state currently held in Iraq.

Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton’s Syria policy is due to stupidity or “something worse;” and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian ideas on immigration and foreign policy an appealing alternative to the status quo.

Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood, and could easily lead to a shooting war – especially if Hillary Clinton is serious about imposing a no fly zone in Syria.

Martha Mundy, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria, discusses how decades of neoliberal/IMF/World Bank economic policy degraded Yemen’s agricultural production, making the country especially vulnerable to famine from the Saudi-led blockade and bombing campaign – which are clearly war crimes.

Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why the $38 billion US military aid package to Israel marks the end of both Washington’s role in an Israel-Palestinian peace process and any hope for a two-state solution.

“Sandra Bland died one year ago Today: And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail” Ryan Reilly discusses dying in police custody. “Deaths inside American jails frequently go unnoticed, sometimes even unrecorded.” Reilly gives all the details to Scott, including the attempt by prison officials across the country to conceal the true numbers of deaths, and how you’re far more likely to die in jail if you have any kind of medical condition. All of that and more on today’s episode of the Scott Horton Show.

“As Saudis bombed Yemen, US Worried About Legal Blowback”, Jonathan Landay’s new article with Warren Strobel for Reuters, talks about US exposure to the war in Yemen, and the legal risk the US government is taking by supporting the Saudi’s war on Yemen.