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Jordan Smith, an award-winning investigative journalist with The Intercept, discusses why the FBI and DOJ are determined to continue using certain controversial forensic practiceslike bite-mark analysis – even though they are based on “junk science” and have been used to convict innocent victims.

Mario Murillo, Professor and Chair of the Radio, Television, Film department in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University, discusses why the FARC peace agreement failed a popular vote in Colombia, and the government’s failure to address the core issues – like land reform – that started the rebellion in the first place more than 50 years ago.

Veteran UN beat and consortiumnews.com reporter Joe Lauria updates Scott on the latest about the upcoming battle for Mosul. Have over 9,000 ISIS fighters already left the city, which is what the Russians claim? Joe talks about his sources inside Mosul and what they’re saying about the battle. How are the Turks involved in the latest news from Mosul in Iraq?

Scott Horton, Will Grigg, Sheldon Richman and Jared Labell announce the creation of The Libertarian Institute.

Yemeni Journalist Nasser Arrabyee updates Scott about the ongoing and growing conflict in Yemen. The Saudi war crimes, the recent bombing of a funeral that killed more than 140 people, and Yemen’s 9/11 are all discussed. Saudi Arabia’s blank check, Iran, the Houthis and the US’s role in Yemen are also detailed on another episode of the Scott Horton Show.

Catherine Lutz, from the Cost of War Project at Brown University, talks to Scott about all of the balance of account information from the wars. The jaw dropping total figure of the war is revealed, as well as the human costs of the war, the unquantifiable costs on the home front, and the ongoing and unacknowledged health costs to the troops is all discussed. All of this and more on another great episode of the Scott Horton Show.

Brian Sonenstein, of shadowproof.com, talks about the ongoing national prison strike, a very under the radar news story, and about resistance and riots in US prisons. The prison strike is very undercover in the media, and Brian details why, and also why he thinks news outfits like MSNBC have a duty to report on it. Brian also details a lot of the common misconceptions that allow the prison industrial complex to thrive. All of this and more on another episode of the Scott Horton show.

Rajan Menon talks with Scott about his article: “US Military Intervention Can’t Save Syria.” He gives a detailed discussion about the dynamics at play in Syria and Yemen. What are Turkey’s goals, and how are they related to Syria? Can the US militarily intervene in Syria without coming into conflict with Russia? Can a “no fly” zone, as advocated by Hillary Clinton, be established without suppressing Syria’s air defense systems first?

“US Diplomacy, a Dangerous Proposal”, by Conn Hallinan from Foreign Policy in Focus is discussed on this episode of the Scott Horton Show. The United States’s so called “Responsibility to Protect” and the Doctrine of Humanitarian intervention, which has been hijacked by Samantha Powers, is talked about at length. Powers’s word destruction, and the ability to find the US “National Interest” in every conflicts is also reviewed.  The doctrine’s spread and use in Latin America is also detailed, with Venezuela and Honduras being examined in particular. Additional topics include China and Russia, on another great value of information for the Scott Horton Show.

“Obama DOJ drops charges against alleged broker of Libyan Weapons”, Kenneth Vogel’s new article about Mark Turi, an arms dealer that was the target of a DOJ case with alleged links to the Clinton State Department and the CIA. Turn was a well known arms dealer, who had worked with the US government before the Libyan crisis. The case against Turi is alleged to have been dropped right at the point where sensitive disclosures about Clinton’s role in the transfer of weapons from Libya to Syria would have been revealed. Clinton is placed at risk in part because of her questioning by Sen. Rand Paul, who asked Clinton specifically about the transfers in a Senate hearing, which she denied knowledge of. All of this, and other great things are discussed in this episode of the Scott Horton show.