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Christmas Promotion & Fundraiser
Help support The Libertarian Institute and The Scott Horton Show this holiday season. For any contribution of $50 or more, you can choose one of five great libertarian books or enter our raffle for a...
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Prof. Todd Gitlin discusses the very real risks of nuclear war
Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, discusses the very real risks of nuclear war and why nobody’s finger – least of all Donald Trump’s – should be on the...
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Gareth Porter on US-Russia-Syria relations in the ongoing war
Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the US-Russia agreement on a ceasefire in Syria; the Pentagon’s bureaucratic opposition to friendly Russia relations; and why there...
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Mondoweiss.net’s Yakov Hirsch discusses the poisoning of Israeli society
Yakov Hirsch, a professional poker player and writer at Mondoweiss.net, discusses preeminent American Jewish journalist/activist Jeffrey Goldberg’s strange silence on Israel’s recent negative news...
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Antiwar.com’s news editor, Jason Ditz, on the wars in Syria, Libya, and Yemen
Jason Ditz, news editor for Antiwar.com, discusses why the “moderate” US-backed Free Syrian Army threatened to slaughter US special forces advisors on the ground in Syria; why Donald Trump thinks 38...
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Stanley L. Cohen on sabotaged hostage negotiations and the threat of a...
Stanley L. Cohen, a lawyer and human rights activist who has done extensive work in the Middle East and Africa, discuses why the US government sabotaged his negotiations with the Islamic State to free...
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Will Grigg and Scott Horton discuss the recent shooting in Dallas, Texas
Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the media’s characterization of Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson’s attack on police as a “massacre” and part of a continuing war on...
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10/7/16 Andrew Bacevich on knowing nothing about nukes
Andrew Bacevich talks about his new article for tomdispatch.com, “The National Security Void”. During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump’s answer regarding the concept of first use of nuclear...
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10/7/16 Kelley Vlahos on the return of torture
“The Return of Torture: the CIA and Congress oppose Trump’s push but the public may not.” is a new The American Conservative article by Kelley Vlahos, Scott’s guest on today’s episode. The Senate’s...
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10/10/16 Kenneth Vogel on Hillary selling guns to Libyan jihadis
“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...
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10/10/16 Conn Hallinan on ‘humanitarian’ excuses for war
“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...
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10/12/16 Rajan Menon on the war in Syria
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...
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10/12/16 Brian Sonenstein on the nation-wide prison labor strike
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...
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10/14/16 Catherine Lutz on the costs of war
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...
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10/14/16 Nasser Arrabyee on the slaughter in Yemen
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...
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Our Big Announcement!
Scott Horton, Will Grigg, Sheldon Richman and Jared Labell announce the creation of The Libertarian Institute.The post Our Big Announcement! appeared first on The Libertarian Institute.Our Big...
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10/14/16 Joe Lauria on the battle for Mosul
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...
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10/14/16 Mario Murillo on prospects for peace in Colombia
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...
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10/14/16 Jordan Smith on the feds’ continued use of discredited ‘science’
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...
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10/17/16 Jonathan Landay on State Dept. lawyers’ worries over Yemen
“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...
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