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Every book Scott Horton recommended on podcasts
Scott Horton appears on podcasts such as the Lex Fridman Podcast and The Joe Rogan Experience, focusing his discussions heavily on American foreign policy, military intervention, geopolitical conflict, and the military-industrial complex. Aligning with these critical themes, Horton recommends Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance for understanding the historical relations between Israel, Iran, and the United States. To examine the background of the September 11 attacks and Al-Qaeda, he suggests Terry McDermott's Perfect Soldiers and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower. During deep-dive discussions, Horton also references several analytical works. He mentions Jacob Heilbrunn's They Knew They Were Right and David Wurmser's Tyranny's Ally to critique neoconservative strategies regarding Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Furthermore, he brings up Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris to explain the stated motivations behind attacks on the United States, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy to analyze foreign policy influence, and Gary Webb's Dark Alliance to highlight historical intelligence and drug trafficking controversies.
Books recommended by Scott Horton
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Perfect soldiers
Perfect soldiers by Terry McDermott is a non-fiction book that examines the lives and backgrounds of the September 11 hijackers.
Recommended“You can read "Perfect Soldiers," by Terry McDermott.”
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The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright is a comprehensive investigative history that traces the events leading up to the September 11 attacks and the rise of Al-Qaeda.
Recommended“Or you could read "The Looming Tower," by Lawrence Wright”
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Treacherous alliance
Treacherous alliance by Trita Parsi is a historical analysis examining the secret geopolitical dealings and complex triangular relationship between Israel, Iran, and the United States.
Recommended“In fact tree parsy shows in his absolutely excellent book treacherous alliance which if you haven't read that you'll absolutely love it.”
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Angler
Discussed“That was reported originally by Stephen Clemens in the Washington Note, but it was later confirmed in "The New York Times," and by "The Washington Post," reporter Barton Gellman, in his book "Angler," on Dick Cheney.”
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By way of deception
Discussed“Well that's almost always a reference to Beirut 1983, which you can read in the book "By Way of Deception," by Victor Ostrovsky, the former Mossad officer, that the Israelis knew that they were building that truck bomb to bomb the Marines with, and withheld that information from the United States”
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Dark Alliance
Dark Alliance by Gary Webb is an investigative journalism book that explores the origins of the American crack cocaine epidemic and its alleged links to the Central Intelligence Agency's support of anti-communist Contra rebels in Latin America.
Discussed“Point being, America's back in Saddam, except when they're helping Israel back Iran and by selling them these missiles and there even I don't have my footnote anymore, but it's findable, I'm sure, where they did talk about, you know, what we do is we support one side till they start getting ahead a little bit, then we support the”
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Imperial Hubris
Discussed“Um there's this great book uh by Michael Shyer, who was the former chief of the CIA bin Laden unit. It's called Imperial Hubris.”
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Israel Lobby and Us Foreign Policy
Israel Lobby and Us Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt is a critical political science book that examines the influence of special interest groups on American international relations.
Discussed“Now their book is called The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy. It came out in 2007.”
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Manufactured Crisis
Discussed“Now in Gareth Porter's book "Manufactured Crisis," he shows that the major conclusion that the DIA had made”
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The black banners
Discussed“Ali Soufan you know, Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent, counter-terrorism agent, he wrote in his book "The Black Banners," that the Bin Ladenites said to Bin Laden, we don't understand why you're so angry at America.”
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Discussed“Now their book is called The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy. It came out in 2007.”
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They Knew They Were Right
Discussed“There's a there's a book about the neoconservatives by Jacob Hill Brun called They Knew They Were Right, which is of course, right?”
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Tyranny's Ally
Discussed“And then they wrote a book where Worms wrote the book and Richard Pearl wrote the forward. It's called Tyranny's Ally. America's failure to remove Saddam Hussein.”
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Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“um you know, like even when I was uh writing my book about the Russia Ukraine stuff, I would do my radio show once a week and I was able to still cover what was going on in Palestine.”
“And then from there, and and I cover all this in my book, Provoke. Um, and I I it's even overkill on the research because I wasn't sure where to stop.”
“And essentially it's America, you know, the the book is called, sorry I keep mentioning the book, but it's how Washington provoked how Washington started the new cold war with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.”
“Got Fool's Aaron on Afghanistan, enough already on the war on terrorism and provoked on Russia and Ukraine.”
“Got Fool's Aaron on Afghanistan, enough already on the war on terrorism and provoked on Russia and Ukraine.”
“Got Fool's Aaron on Afghanistan, enough already on the war on terrorism and provoked on Russia and Ukraine.”
“And I show in my book "Enough Already." I have a solid dozen sources- -”