Antiwar Radio: Philip Giraldi

Former CIA and DIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses evidence that documents touted by the London Times contradicting the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran are forgeries, the history of Rupert Murdoch-owned media passing along propaganda from Israeli and British intelligence, how bogus news stories create a deeply ingrained false narrative and distort public perception, the overwhelming Congressional support for warlike sanctions on Iran, the possibility Osama bin Laden is...

12/31/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the structure of a thoroughly propagandized populace, the al Qaeda moniker’s usefulness as the media’s lazy shorthand for 'evildoers,' Yemen’s emergence as the 'Afghanistan of the Arabian Peninsula,' the sovereign state of British intelligence otherwise known as the Sultanate of Oman, why Pakistan is wary of attacks on its nuclear installations, how Iranian protests are indicative of some level of political freedom — as compared to...

12/31/09 – Kurt Haskell – The Scott Horton Show

Kurt Haskell, Detroit area attorney and passenger on the 'Christmas bomber' flight 253, discusses the arrest of a second man that an FBI agent insinuated was carrying a bomb, the inconsistent statements from the FBI and US Customs — particularly from spokesman Ron Smith — and an account of the sharply dressed man of Indian appearance who helped suspected bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab board the plane in the Netherlands.

12/30/09 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses the Peace of the Action anti-empire protests beginning in March in Washington, DC, how current US wars are outlasting the public's attention span and the need for focused antiwar goals to prevent division among allies and derision in the media.

12/30/09 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show

Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses her article 'Christmas Kamikaze,' why blowing up a plane is not as easy as Hollywood makes it seem, boom-times for producers of millimeter wave scanner machines, foreign military adventures that beget terrorism at home and the fallacy of judicious and limited state-sponsored torture.

12/30/09 – George Maschke – The Scott Horton Show

George Maschke, professional Persian/English legal translator and co-founder of Antipolygraph.org, discusses the evidence that the Iranian nuclear documents disclosed by the London Times are forgeries, the lack of dates, signatures or classification stamps on a purportedly top-secret governmental document, how the bombshell accusation against Iran is based on the suspicious juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated memos and why 'lie detector' tests continue to be used for security screenings...

12/29/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Brian Ross's ABC News report linking released Gitmo inmates with the Northwest Airlines bomb attempt, the popular belief that both guilty and innocent Gitmo inmates can never be released, blowback from US airstrikes in Yemen and the fading John Durham CIA torture tape investigation.

12/29/09 – Doug Casey – The Scott Horton Show

Doug Casey discusses the impending "greater" depression that will make the 1930s look like boom times, how the world's governments are working in unison on economic problems - but are completely wrong, the increasing difficulty of rolling over US government debt and the growing chance for a major war between world powers.

Well, there’s another decade of our lives shot to hell.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. First of all, thanks very much to all y'all, for listening to the show, reading/supporting AWC, etc. - and the rest you do for peace and liberty too. By my count, the empire is killing a bunch of people and isn't about to quit any time soon. So ... In the new year I will be continuing with Antiwar Radio for Antiwar.com, KAOS in Austin and KUCR in Riverside - as well as Anomaly Radio, the Liberty Radio Network, and Revere Radio, which all run the show online....

12/18/09 – Michael Prysner and James Circello – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Prysner and James Circello, staff members of March Forward!, an antiwar organization for active duty soldiers and veterans, discuss the bigotry ingrained in military culture that dehumanizes the enemy du jour, the class struggle between enlisted soldiers and officers, the intentional 'draw fire' missions that boost an officer’s career while endangering troops, double-dipping retired generals who get paid to propagandize for more war, the continued deployment of soldiers with PTSD and...

12/18/09 – Mark Emery – The Scott Horton Show

Mark Emery the "Prince of Pot" discusses the explosion of drug offense incarcerations since the 1980s, his movement to legalize marijuana in North America, the punitive costs of openly defying anti-drug laws (as civil disobedience?) and the close association (real or imagined) between marijuana and the antiwar movement

12/17/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the media driven myth of a truly oppositional US political system, hypocritical progressive support for the same Obama policies that were denounced during the Bush administration, how conservative outrage over FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society subsided when the programs were continued by Republican presidents, the unusual upholding of the Constitution in ACORN’s lawsuit (PDF) against Congress and the...

12/17/09 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show

Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the delays in getting habeas corpus hearings for her clients, the inadequate health care afforded Gitmo inmates, Matthew Waxman’s role in having 'enemy combatant' status reviews redone until the results were favorable to the government, why detainees headed to Illinois will probably get military tribunals and Gorman’s own attempt to sue the NSA for tapping her phone.

12/16/09 – Martin Chulov – The Scott Horton Show

Martin Chulov, Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian of London, discusses the ecological disaster in Iraq, diversion of water from the Tigris and Euphrates by Syria, Turkey and Iran, the fate of Iraq's Marsh Arabs, greatly increased birth defects in Fallujah, the few remaining foreign journalists covering Iraq and the near-certainty that the US occupation will soon be over.