5/16/22 Ben Freeman on the Links Between Foreign Governments and America’s Foreign Policy “Experts”

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Scott interviews Ben Freeman about the money governments like Saudi Arabia and Ukraine invest in D.C. lobbying. They begin by discussing the Middle East Institute, a Saudi-funded D.C. Think Tank that brands itself as an objective institution studying the Middle East when, in reality, its “experts” always happen to argue for what the Saudi regime desires. They then turn to the rest of the world and observe how awful and dangerous the rhetoric coming out of D.C. think tanks is concerning Russia and China. Discussed on the show: “Gulf funded think tank turns pro-Saudi, UAE messaging up to 11” (Responsible Statecraft) “Why the “end the Yemen war” narrative is problematic” (Middle East Institute) “Army of Ukraine lobbyists behind unprecedented Washington blitz” (Responsible Statecraft) “Tell us how this war in Ukraine ends” (Responsible Statecraft) Ben Freeman is a Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute. He previously served as Director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative with the Center for International Policy. Read his work at AntiWar.com and Responsible Statecraft. Follow him on Twitter @BenFreemanDC. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. Institute and he's got a new one out for responsible statecraft.org called
0:55.5	Gulf-funded think tank turns pro-Soudi U.A.E messaging up to 11. All about the
1:02.0	Middle East Institute here. Welcome back to the show, Ben.
1:06.4	Thanks, Scott. It's great to be here again. Great to have you on and, you know what,
1:10.6	it's just great to have your acquaintance here. You are the best guy I know and there's a few like this,
1:17.6	but you're the best guy I know on just watching like a hawk these foreign lobbies and they're spending in this country to influence
1:25.7	the Congress and especially the think tanks and the way you do and you know our last
1:30.2	interview was about Ukraine and how much money they've been spending.
1:33.7	Of course, that's all American tax money anyway, but recycled into public relations campaigns
1:38.5	in America and this kind of thing.
1:40.2	And of course, the Israel Lobby and the Saudi lobby and here comes the Saudis again.
1:45.0	And you know I think probably a lot of Americans would be surprised to know that these so-called
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