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Scott Horton books: every book Scott Horton wrote and recommended
Across 6 podcasts. Every show Scott Horton appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Scott Horton
Scott Horton’s most recommended books
- Treacherous alliance by Trita Parsi
- Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss
- Tyranny's Ally by David Wurmser
- Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
- Manufactured Crisis by Gareth Porter
- Coming to Palestine by Sheldon Richman
- Perfect soldiers by Terry McDermott
- Reclaiming the American Right by Justin Raimondo
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- 1000 Years for Revenge by Peter Lance
Scott Horton appeared on programs such as Breaking Points, Lex Fridman Podcast, and Timcast IRL to discuss foreign policy, the military-industrial complex, and Middle Eastern geopolitical history. During these podcast appearances, Horton repeatedly recommended several key books to help listeners understand the historical background of modern conflicts. He strongly endorsed Robert Dreyfuss's book Devil's Game as an excellent text explaining how British and American policies supported Islamists against nationalists and socialists in the post-World War II era, providing background on groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Horton also recommended Trita Parsi's book Treacherous Alliance to explore the complex political relationships involving Israel, Iran, and the United States. Additionally, he suggested Sheldon Richman's Coming to Palestine to examine the history of Israel's dispossession of Palestinians. To provide historical context on Al-Qaeda, Terry McDermott's Perfect Soldiers and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower were also recommended by Horton during debates on the Middle East and the September 11 attacks.
Books recommended by Scott Horton
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Treacherous alliance
Treacherous Alliance by Trita Parsi is a political analysis examining the complex, shifting diplomatic and covert relations 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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Devil's Game
Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss is a detailed historical investigation into how Western powers, particularly the United States and Britain, historically supported and unleashed fundamentalist Islamist groups in the Middle East.
Recommended“Everybody read Devil's Game by Robert Dreyfuss. It's an excellent book on the background of all of that.”
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Tyranny's Ally
Tyranny's Ally by David Wurmser examines American foreign policy failures and neoconservative strategies regarding Iraq and the effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
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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Imperial Hubris
Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer is a controversial analysis of American foreign policy and counterterrorism written by the former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit, arguing that United States intervention in the Muslim world directly provokes Islamist terrorism.
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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Manufactured Crisis
Manufactured Crisis by Gareth Porter is a historical non-fiction work examining the geopolitical tensions surrounding Iranian nuclear ambitions and foreign policy interventions.
Discussed“And as I believe Tree Parsey shows in his book Treacherous Alliance and Gareth Porter in his book Manufactured Crisis, it was the um the Iranians only turned on the uh Israelis after the Israelis had turned on them.”
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Coming to Palestine
Coming to Palestine by Sheldon Richman offers a historical examination of the dispossession of Palestinians and the broader background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Recommended“It's called Coming to Palestine by my colleague Sheldon Richmond.”
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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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Reclaiming the American Right
Reclaiming the American Right by Justin Raimondo is a historical examination of the traditional American conservative movement, tracing its origins, foundational principles, and the subsequent ideological shift that altered its trajectory.
Recommended“this is reclaiming the American right by my mentor Justin Rondo who was the founding editorial director of antiwar.com and this is the history of the real American conservative movement that was supplanted by the neocons and how it was done”
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The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright is a sweeping non-fiction history chronicling the origins of the war on terror, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and the path to the September 11 attacks.
Recommended“Or you could read "The Looming Tower," by Lawrence Wright”
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1000 Years for Revenge
Discussed“And there's a book called A Thousand Years for Revenge um by a journalist named Peter Lance where he really goes through um the FBI's failings all through the '90s as tracing these these terrorists inside especially in New York City uh during that time.”
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A Clean Break
Discussed“these are American neoconservatives it's called a clean break a new strategy for securing the realm and they wrote it for Netanyahu”
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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
By way of deception by Claire Hoy and Victor Ostrovsky is a controversial memoir detailing covert operations and inner workings within the Israeli intelligence agency.
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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Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile details the covert operations of U.S.
Discussed“okay and and people uh can reference there's a movie in a book called Charlie Wilson's War all about this as well”
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Coping with Crumbling States
Discussed“the followup is called coping with crumbling States”
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Crisis and Leviathan
Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs is a prominent 1987 economic and historical study that examines how the size and power of the United States government tend to ratchet upward during national crises such as wars and economic depressions.
Discussed“that wrote crisis in leviathan”
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Dark Alliance
Dark Alliance by Gary Webb is an investigative journalism book that examines the alleged connections between the Central Intelligence Agency, Nicaraguan Contras, and the introduction of crack cocaine into American cities during the 1980s.
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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Goliath
Discussed“And look, I mean, I interviewed him back and he moved to Israel and lived there for 10 months to write his book Goliath back years ago.”
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Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
Gary Vogler's critical political analysis, published by the Libertarian Institute, examines the complex geopolitical motivations, intelligence failures, and underlying economic factors that drove the invasion of Iraq.
Discussed“It's called Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War by Gary Voggler where he explains that this is exactly right and how Michael Maloof, the same guy from the policy counterterrorism evaluation group, was on the phone with him bugging him about the uh pipeline...”
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Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky is a notable political manual outlining strategies and tactics for community organizing and effecting social change.
Discussed“You know, I'm sure you're familiar with Saul Alinsky. Yes. wrote rules for radicals.”
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The other 5 books Scott Horton recommended or discussed, ranked
- Syria Crucified by Zachary Wingerd
- The black banners by Ali H. Soufan
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
- The Secret History of Al Qaeda by Abdel Bari Atwan
- They Knew They Were Right by Jacob Heilbrunn
Appearances
Other mentions (25: 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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“Got Fool's Aaron on Afghanistan, enough already on the war on terrorism and provoked on Russia and Ukraine.”
“So, let's get after my book, Provoked. Great stuff. Let's go deep. Gargantuan book.”
“And you get for lifetime subscribers, you get a free copy of Enough Already and some other goodies and stuff like that.”
“Well, so Fool's Aaron, that's my first book. Thank you for saying that's my book about time to get out of Afghanistan.”
“And then this is the latest is provoked. How Washington started the new cold war with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.”
“And I have a bit on this in enough already, but I found much more in my latest book, Provoked, because a lot of it has to do with the wars in the Balkans, of course, and wars against the Russians.”
“And I show in my book "Enough Already." I have a solid dozen sources- -”
“My latest is Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine.”
“and so just like with my previous book enough already on the Middle East Wars and now with this one I think what I bring in terms of comparative advantage is just that I'm so old now”
“oh this is my last book enough already time to end the war on terrorism thank you very much”
“I got I got a chapter two on this in Fool's aand what he really said”
“and I wrote it all up in enough already”
“that's my book is called provoked it's about how they provoked it”
“and read my book enough already time to end the war on terrorism”
“and i wrote two books fool's errand time to end the war in afghanistan”
“and then the brand new one out this year is enough already time to end the war on terrorism”