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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

8/12/22 Ben Freeman on how Taiwan and Other Foreign Governments Control American Foreign Policy

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ben Freeman is back to talk about who’s really influencing United States foreign policy. Freeman recently wrote a paper about the Taiwan lobby. He talks to Scott about how this Taiwan lobby was involved in making the recent Pelosi trip happen. Scott and Freeman talk about how we find ourselves in a situation where foreign governments have more influence on America’s policies than the American people and American business too.  Discussed on the show: “The Taiwan Lobby” (Center for International Policy) “How the Taiwan lobby helped pave the way for Pelosi’s trip” (Responsible Statecraft) “Bipartisan ‘Fighting Foreign Influence Act’ targets think tank funding” (Responsible Statecraft) “The well-traveled road from member of Congress to foreign agent” (Responsible Statecraft) “Feds accuse Brookings president Gen. Allen of illegally lobbying for Qatar” (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; and Thc Hemp Spot. 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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All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arren,

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time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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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

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview

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archive is also available at YouTube YouTube. You

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Scott Horton Show. All right, so you guys, introducing Ben Freeman research fellow at the Quincy Institute

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for Responsible State Craft. He wrote the book The Foreign Policy

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auction and he previously was director of the Foreign Influence Transparency

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Initiative at the Center for International Policy.

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And that's a mouthful, but check this out.

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They've got this brand new giant thing.

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Holly Zang and Ben Freeman, Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative,

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the Taiwan Lobby.

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So I guess you're still moonlightened back with your old crew there.

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And this is all about the Taiwan lobby and incidentally and coincidentally coming out right around the time that Nancy Pelosi is making her controversial trip over there and everything.

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So can't wait to dig into this. Welcome back to the show how you

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