06/25/05 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Ellsberg describes the White House's order for CIA hitmen to "incapacitate him totally," and how Richard Nixon's relentless persecution of him helped destroy Nixon's regime and end the Vietnam war. Also: The lessons of Vietnam for our current conflict. Audio Stream MP3 Link

The Economics of Terrorism

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com June 23, 2005 On my June 18 radio show [stream] [download], I interviewed Loretta Napoleoni, an economist, reporter, and novelist from Italy, about the economics of terrorism, a subject she knows well. Her work for Italy’s financial papers goes back to the ’70s and includes coverage of jihadists, the IRA, and even interviews with leaders of the Italian Red Brigades. Her new book Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks is the result of 10...