Scott Horton Show Interviews

Scott Horton Show Interviews


Latest Episodes

5/11/18 Ray McGovern on his arrest protesting Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing
May 11, 2018

Ray McGovern, co-founder of VIPS, joins Scott on the show to talk about his recent arrest for protesting Gina Haspel's CIA confirmation hearing. McGovern begins by sharing what he got up and said during his protest and what he saw and heard before bein...

5/9/18 Karen Greenberg on the history of the U.S. torture program and Gina Haspel’s involvement
May 09, 2018

Fordham University law professor Karen Greenberg joins Scott to discuss the history of the United States torture program. Greenberg makes the case that Haspel was just one cog in the wheel of the U.S. torture program and that a whole torture network wa...

4/20/18 Tom Woods on the racket of the “privatized” war state
April 24, 2018

The great Tom Woods joins Scott to discuss the war state and Trump’s bombing of Syria. Woods begins by going back to the founding and shows that even in the years immediately following the ratification of the Constitution,

4/20/18 Dennis Halliday on the deaths of Iraqi children due to American sanctions in the ’90s
April 24, 2018

Former U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Dennis Halliday, who resigned over the Iraq sanctions in 1998, joins Scott to discuss Madeleine Albright’s new book and the true figures of the total deaths of Iraqi children due to the U.N. sanctions.

4/17/18 Danny Sjursen on America’s support for Israeli and Saudi Arabian atrocities
April 24, 2018

Army major Danny Sjursen returns to the show to discuss his latest work for antiwar.com including “American Empathy Gap: Massacres in Gaza and US Silence.” Sjursen begins by breaking down the situation in Gaza and Palestine and makes the case that Isra...

4/17/18 Ramzy Baroud on his new book “The Last Earth” and the unbreakable spirit of the Palestinians
April 22, 2018

Editor-in-chief of the Palestine Chronicle Ramzy Baroud joins Scott to discuss his latest article “Why Israel Feels Threatened by Popular Resistance in Palestine,” and his new book, “The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story.

4/17/18 Cindy Sheehan on the lies of the Iraq War and the Women’s March on the Pentagon
April 22, 2018

Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan returns to the show to discuss the history of her son Casey’s death in Iraq in light of the new TV miniseries The Long Road Home. Sheehan recaps the story of her son’s life and death in Iraq and the fallout from her anti-...

4/17/18 Daniel Lazare on Saudi Arabia’s Resource Curse
April 22, 2018

Journalist and author Daniel Lazare returns to the show to discuss the latest issues facing Saudi Arabia and his latest article for The American Conservative, “Will the Saudi Kingdom Collapse Under the Resource Curse?

4/17/18 Grant F. Smith on Americans’ overstated support for Israel
April 19, 2018

Grant Smith returns to the show to discuss his latest articles, “Why Gallup Overstates American Sympathy for Israel” and “Israel Advocacy Groups Demand Questionable Changes to Virginia Textbooks.” Smith explains the problems with Gallup’s polling metho...

4/14/18 Gareth Porter on Trump’s bombing of Damascus
April 18, 2018

Investigative reporter and historian Gareth Porter returns to the show to discuss Donald Trump’s decision to bomb the Assad government in Damascus. Porter explains how the evidence has been repeatedly massaged to misconstrue what is ambiguous as what i...