5/9/24 Andrew Cockburn on the Neoconservatives and the Military-Industrial Complex

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scott is joined by Andrew Cockburn for a high-level discussion of the neoconservative movement and the military-industrial complex. They talk about an article Cockburn wrote on the emergence of neoconservatism, reflect on the origins of Iraq War I and utilize Cockburn’s years of studying the military-industrial complex to analyze where things stand with the war in Ukraine. Discussed on the show: “The Birth of the Neocons” (Spoils of War) Scott’s debate with Bill Kristol Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine and Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins. Follow him on Twitter @andrewmcockburn. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY 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
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0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. . . . . . . . . . . .
0:45.0	. . . . . .
0:48.0	And you guys, introducing Andrew Coburn. He is the Washington editor of Harper's magazine, and
0:52.0	many wrote a bunch of great books about the old
0:54.6	Soviet Union and about Iraq and about Donald Rumsfeld and about the military
0:59.9	industrial complex the drone wars and Industrial Complex, the Drone Wars, and he also has a substack because he is a writer and it's
1:09.6	2024.
1:10.6	Welcome to the show, how you doing, Andrew?
1:13.0	Great to be with you.
1:14.0	I'm doing fine.
1:15.0	Great.
1:16.0	Now, I just got to figure out where's my tab with your sub-stack on it,
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