6/27/24 Eli Clifton on the Nuclear Industry, AIPAC and Donald Trump’s Biggest Donors

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Eli Clifton returns to the show to talk about some of the recent reporting he’s done at Responsible Statecraft. They start with a couple of reports Clifton highlights about the status of nuclear weapons around the world today and how much of our money is being spent to produce and maintain them. They then move on to money in politics, discussing AIPAC’s funding of Jamal Bownman’s primary defeat and the concerning group set to become Donald Trump’s biggest donors. Discussed on the show: “World spending on nukes explodes to more than $90 billion” (Responsible Statecraft) Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen “Bowman crushed by GOP-fueled AIPAC cash” (Responsible Statecraft) “TikTok investor Jeff Yass wants to shape US foreign policy too” (Responsible Statecraft) Eli Clifton is a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and Investigative-Journalist-at-Large at Responsible Statecraft. Follow him on Twitter @EliClifton. 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
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full
0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. for many years he would pile around with the great Jim Loeb over there at
0:53.8	Interpress Service in the Loeb log and he's now the co-founder of the
0:57.3	Quincy Institute with Treita Parsi and Andrew Bacevich and he writes
1:02.4	over there of course regularly at responsible
1:04.4	statecraft.com nope.org I meant to say in cooperation with our good friend the the great editor, Kelly Vallejo, so very happy to talk to you again.
1:17.0	Eli, how are you doing?
1:18.0	I'm doing great. Thanks so much for having me back.
1:21.0	Absolutely, happy to have you here. And, man man I want to talk to you about this great
1:25.1	article that you wrote you're so good on this stuff the lobbying the military
1:29.6	industrial complex financing of America's foreign policy establishment and all their horrible
1:34.8	stupid policies that they all pretend to believe in for the money and on this one this
1:40.0	one's the worst world spending on nukes explodes to more than 90 billion.
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