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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
“I beg people to read”
“I beg people to read the pen uh it's called Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers and then also the doomsday machine.”— Scott Horton
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg
“I beg people to read”
“I beg people to read the pen uh it's called Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers and then also the doomsday machine.”— Scott Horton
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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Trita Parsi
“absolutely excellent book ... you'll absolutely love it”
“Tree parsy shows in his absolutely excellent book treacherous alliance which if you haven't read that you'll absolutely love it.”— Scott Horton
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Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Gareth Porter
“the very best book on that”
“He wrote the book manufactured crisis on the Iranian nuclear program. That is by none the the very best book on that.”— Scott Horton
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
James Bamford
“the great book by the great James Bamford”
“is a pretext for war. 9/11 Iraq and the abuse of America's intelligence agencies by James Bamford, the great book by the great James Bamford”— Scott Horton
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Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
Robert Dreyfuss
“I can also recommend ... Masterpiece”
“So I can also recommend Robert Drifus' book Devil's Game: How the United States helped to unleash fundamentalist Islam. Masterpiece.”— Scott Horton
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Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Jeremy R. Hammond
“wrote a masterpiece ... It's fantastic book”
“Obstacle to Peace by Libertarian Institute fellow Jeremy R. Hammond wrote a masterpiece about Israel and Palestine ... It's fantastic book.”— Scott Horton
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The Theory of Money and Credit
Ludwig von Mises
“the brilliant ... theory of money and credit”
“people can read the of course the brilliant Lisa's in his theory of money and credit from 100 years ago.”— Scott Horton
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Coming to Palestine
Sheldon Richman
“let me recommend to you and to your listeners ... I really hope you read this”
“let me recommend to you and to your listeners, but I really hope you read this ... It's called Coming to Palestine by my colleague Sheldon Richmond.”— Scott Horton
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Art Linson (inferred)
“I promise you will have a good time ... Everyone will like it. I promise.”
“for fans of where the Buffalo roams too ... I promise you will have a good time ... It's good. Everyone will like it. I promise.”— Scott Horton
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Defamation
Yoav Shamir (inferred)
“it's really great”
“have you ever seen the documentary defamation ... it's really great it's made by an Israeli Jew who goes out in search of anti-semitism”— Scott Horton
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The Settlers
Louis Theroux (inferred)
“great new documentary ... It's really good”
“there's a great new documentary called The Settlers ... the sequel, it just came out is called The Settlers. It's really good”— Scott Horton
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Provoked
Scott Horton
“He's the author of Provoked, Enough Already, and other books and articles that have over the past three decades criticized US foreign policy”— Lex Fridman
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Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
Scott Horton
“He's the author of Provoked, Enough Already, and other books and articles that have over the past three decades criticized US foreign policy”— Lex Fridman
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Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan
Scott Horton
“I make the case in both books and probably better in the second one um fool's air and enough already that they let Bin Laden go.”— Scott Horton
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Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Scott Horton
“hotter than the sun, time to abolish nuclear weapons. It is a book by Scott Horton that features over a decade of interviews”— Lex Fridman
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Scott Horton
“like we talked about provoked, you wrote a book on uh cold war 2.0. How Washington started the new cold war with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.”— Lex Fridman
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Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
Michael Scheuer
“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.”— Scott Horton
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Dark Alliance
Gary Webb
“as the great Gary Webb reported in the Dark Alliance series and in his great book Dark Alliance”— Scott Horton
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
“John Mirshimer and Steven Walt's book. We've talked about Mir Shimemer and Walt previously. Now their book is called The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy.”— Lex Fridman
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The Puzzle Palace
James Bamford
“the guy that wrote the puzzle palace and body of secrets and the shadow factory about the National Security Agency. Best author on the NSA.”— Scott Horton
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Body of Secrets
James Bamford
“the guy that wrote the puzzle palace and body of secrets and the shadow factory about the National Security Agency. Best author on the NSA.”— Scott Horton
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The Shadow Factory
James Bamford
“the guy that wrote the puzzle palace and body of secrets and the shadow factory about the National Security Agency. Best author on the NSA.”— Scott Horton
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The Taliban
Ahmed Rashid
“It's in Ahmed Rashid's book, The Taliban, has all that stuff in it, and I quote him at length in my books.”— Scott Horton
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Bush at War
Bob Woodward
“he published supposedly verbatim verbatim transcripts from the National Security Council meetings in his book Bush at War.”— Scott Horton
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Kill Bin Laden
Dalton Fury (Thomas Greer)
“namely uh Thomas Greer aka Dalton Fury in his book Kill Bin Laden and Gary Bernson in his book Jawbreaker talk about how they just could not understand”— Scott Horton
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Jawbreaker
Gary Berntsen
“namely uh Thomas Greer aka Dalton Fury in his book Kill Bin Laden and Gary Bernson in his book Jawbreaker talk about how they just could not understand”— Scott Horton
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88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary
Robert Grenier
“where we know from Robert Gier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad in his book 88 days to Kandahar, he had already made arrangements”— Scott Horton
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Blowback (the Chalmers Johnson trilogy)
Chalmers Johnson
“he wrote the book Blowback and then Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis or the trilogy that he wrote about the American Empire”— Scott Horton
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The Sorrows of Empire
Chalmers Johnson
“he wrote the book Blowback and then Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis or the trilogy that he wrote about the American Empire”— Scott Horton
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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Chalmers Johnson
“he wrote the book Blowback and then Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis or the trilogy that he wrote about the American Empire”— Scott Horton
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Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
Andrew Cockburn
“Andrew wrote Rumsfeld his rise fall and catastrophic legacy and killchain about the terror wars especially the drone wars”— Scott Horton
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Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Andrew Cockburn
“Andrew wrote Rumsfeld his rise fall and catastrophic legacy and killchain about the terror wars especially the drone wars”— Scott Horton
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Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua
Leslie Cockburn
“his wife Leslie Coburn wrote the great book Out of Control about the Iran Contra scandal”— Scott Horton
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Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
Gareth Porter
“He has uh written about the Vietnam War books including Perils of Dominance and Balance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.”— Lex Fridman
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What Has Government Done to Our Money?
Murray Rothbard
“there's Murray Rothbart, what has government done to our money and the case against the Fed.”— Scott Horton
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The Case Against the Fed
Murray Rothbard
“there's Murray Rothbart, what has government done to our money and the case against the Fed.”— Scott Horton
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David Stockman
“David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's former um uh budget adviser calls this the great deformation.”— Scott Horton
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Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA
Terry Reed
“And we got Terry Reed on the phone. Tell us about your book, Compromise, Clinton Bush and the CIA, Terry.”— Scott Horton
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
William Perry
“he wrote a book about my life at the nuclear brink. And he wrote about like you just don't understand about these machines.”— Scott Horton
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
M.E. Sarotte
“Mary Elise Serat wrote a whole book about this called Not One Inch. And she has a whole hell of a lot on this.”— Scott Horton
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden
Steve Coll
“There's a a journalist named Steve Call who wrote um Ghost Wars about Afghanistan and he wrote Director at S about the Pakistani uh ISI”— Scott Horton
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll
“Steve Call who wrote um Ghost Wars about Afghanistan and he wrote Director at S about the Pakistani uh ISI their secret intelligence service”— Scott Horton
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The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Trevor Aaronson
“Trevor Arensson is the greatest journalist on that question. He wrote a book called The Terror Factory about the FBI.”— Scott Horton
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Three Kings
David O. Russell (inferred)
“I'm not sure if you've ever seen the movie Three Kings ... they're soldiers on a gold heist, but they're in southern Iraq”— Scott Horton
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