9/19/22 Roger Waters on Palestine, Assange and Ukraine

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews Roger Waters, co-founder of the band Pink Floyd. They begin with a look back at how Waters first woke up to the plight of the Palestinians. That leads to a discussion about the persecution of Julian Assange, which Waters has been actively speaking out against. Next they look to the war in Ukraine and discuss Waters’ public back and forth with the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska. Lastly, Scott brings Waters up to speed on the effort to end the war in Yemen. Discussed on the show: The Heart of Jenin Documentary The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer Roger Waters’ Open Letter to Olena Zelenska “Kiev Must Lead the Charge for Peace” (Antiwar.com) 1833stopwar.com Roger Waters co-founded the band Pink Floyd. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1983. Waters has been very active in antiwar and other activism for many years. He has been outspoken against Western involvement in the war in Ukraine, a defender of Palestinian rights, and one of the leading advocates of freedom for Julian Assange. Last month, he conducted a live webinar that was co-sponsored by Antiwar.com. It is archived here. 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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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. lead singer of Pink Floyd of course and with his own solo career he's on tour right now this is not a drill is the name of the tour and of course he's an activist on a lot of important political topics important to us.
1:06.6	Welcome to the show, Roger, how are you, sir?
1:08.8	I'm good, thank you.
1:10.4	I really appreciate you joining us today. And to Pink Floyd my whole life and you know
1:19.7	your music and and your post Pink Floyd music too but it's always been a big part of my life and that goes for a lot of people listening this and so really appreciate you.
1:29.0	It's great stuff.
1:30.0	Okay, now, business, I'm very curious how you got started on sticking up for the
1:36.2	Palestinians. Was there a particular event that kind of opened your eyes to this
1:40.6	situation going on there? Yeah, there is.
1:44.0	In 2006, in the middle of a European tour,
1:47.0	I accepted an invitation to perform in Haikun Stadium in Tel Tel Aviv and that was the start of it all.
1:56.4	From there obviously I started getting some responses initially from North African email addresses and then very, very quickly I met the main man who's
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