05/29/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show

Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses Hillary Clinton's emphatic rejection of any kind of Israeli settlement growth, the Obama administration's (first in a generation) hard-line on Israel, the low probability of a Palestine/Israel 2-state solution even with a settlement freeze and allegations that Netanyahu sees Iran as Amalek - eternal biblical persecutor of Jews.

Abuse Photos Show Rape.

Whilst most of the mainstream media focus on trying to justify waterboarding, General Taguba speaks of rape and other sexual abuses at Abu Ghraib in todays Telegraph. ‘These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency, At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and...

05/28/09 – Larisa Alexandrovna – The Scott Horton Show

Larisa Alexandrovna, managing investigative news editor for Rawstory.com, discusses the possible treason in Valerie Plame's outing, the subsequent loss of CIA covert contacts with the A.Q. Kahn network (that may have supplied al-Qaeda with weapons), evidence of the U.S. scheming to start a war with Iran as early as December 2001 and what living in a police state really looks like.

05/28/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

  Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses Stanley McChrystal's role in extralegal assassinations and the Bagram prison torture program, Rumsfeld's attempt to divert covert special operations from the somewhat accountable CIA to the Pentagon, the mixed messages in U.S. personnel and strategy changes in Afghanistan and how the U.S. continues to create enemies to justify staying in Iraq.

05/27/09 – Jonathan Hafetz – The Scott Horton Show

Jonathan Hafetz, staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project, discusses Obama's refusal to end military commissions, the U.S. government's gaming of the courts to avoid an adverse Supreme Court ruling on indefinite detentions, some details on Ali Saleh Kahlah Al Marri's military detention and the excessive deference given to presidential authority.

05/27/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the U.S. pressure behind Pakistan army attacks in the northwest tribal region, the exaggerated threat of global terrorism, British and U.S. efforts to thwart a European competitor to NATO and U.S. threats to Canada of a trade embargo if it didn't contribute troops to Iraq or Afghanistan.

The Pro-Israeli Media Twist

Jonathan Broder is a CQ Weekly journalist who was on CSPAN yesterday along with Washington Times journalist Eli Lake discussing Obama's defense and foriegn policy objectives. A lady calls in complaining of the cost of defense, and asks if our objectives could be more easily met if Israel could be made to work out a peaceful solution for the Palestinians. Taking the question, Broder puts the burden on the Arabs for refusing to 'make peace with Israel'. The frustration is not just the reality...

Hold the Torturers Accountable

Or else we'll all be held accountable by Rep. Ron Paul, May 26, 2009 While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that? "Enhanced interrogation" as some prefer to call it, has been used throughout history, usually by despotic...

05/26/09 – Jeff Frazee – The Scott Horton Show

Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of Young Americans for Liberty, discusses his attempt to build an inclusive youth organization that produces politicians in the mold of Ron Paul, the importance of a political education based on liberty and individual rights and how the Right is ripe for a revival of limited government and antiwar ideals.

05/26/09 – Clive Hamilton – The Scott Horton Show

Clive Hamilton, author of the article 'Bush, God, Iraq and Gog' at Counterpunch.org, discusses G.W. Bush’s seemingly sincere desire to fight Iraqi and al-Qaeda incarnations of the biblical bogeymen Gog and Magog, the possibility that the U.S. does indeed fight religious wars and the increasingly diverse but still exclusive Skull and Bones society at Yale.