Playable Characters Show with Brandon Gentile The Money Truth About Iran That Both Parties Are Hiding | Scott Horton
Mar 8, 2026
Scott Horton, author and foreign policy analyst known for anti-war advocacy, breaks down Iran, the American empire, and the case for separating money and state. He tackles political corruption, how military‑industrial interests drive intervention, and the risks to the dollar. Short, sharp conversations on deterrence, empire’s costs, and what ending interventionism would look like.
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How The Mixed Economy Enables Corporate State Capture
- The U.S. is a mixed economy where powerful corporations capture the state to shape regulations and policy.
- Scott Horton explains industry lobbying, regulatory complexity, and participatory fascism as mechanisms that entrench corporate-state collusion.
Merchants Of Death Drive War Demand
- The military‑industrial complex drives intervention because arms makers fund think tanks and lobbyists to produce justifications for war.
- Horton cites Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing funding neocon think tanks that write studies to justify arms purchases.
Unreasonable Demands Are Designed To Manufacture War
- U.S. foreign policy creates conflicts through unreasonable demands tailored to be rejected.
- Horton compares current Iran demands to the pretext used to start the Kosovo war in 1999 and earlier manufactured crises.
