#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 635 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
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(09:14) - From the Cold War to the War on Terror
(1:02:13) - Iraq War 1
(1:30:17) - Bin Laden
(2:29:39) - Afghanistan War
(2:44:35) - Iraq War 2
(3:10:59) - Military Industrial Complex
(3:50:25) - Scott's life story
(4:20:15) - Iraq War 2 (continued)
(5:11:43) - Syria
(6:05:01) - Iraq War 3
(6:17:28) - Somalia
(6:22:56) - Iran
(7:12:41) - Israel-Palestine
(9:02:19) - Cold War 2.0
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Scott Horton. |
| 0:02.5 | He's the director of the Libertarian Institute, |
| 0:05.6 | editorial director of NTWore.com, |
| 0:08.2 | co-host of Provoked, and Host of the Scott Horton Show, |
| 0:12.5 | on which he has done over 6,000 interviews since 2003. |
| 0:18.0 | He's the author of Provoked, Enough Already, and other books and articles that have, over the past three decades, criticized U.S. foreign policy, especially in regard to military interventionism and the military industrial complex. |
| 0:34.9 | And now, a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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