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for today: Ray McGovern, Pat Buchanan, Joe Lauria and Gordon Prather. Tune in to Antiwar Radio on 92.7 FM in Austin from 11-1pm, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.

08/15/08 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, discusses his new open letter to Colin Powell, he and Powell's similar backgrounds growing up in the Bronx and time spent working together in the White House in the 1980s, the withholding of the Sabri and Habbush no-WMD intelligence before the Iraq war from Powell and other leading figures in the Bush cabinet, the necessity of a Congressional investigation and a Powell's testimony about what really happened, Rep. John Conyers duty as chair of the judiciary...

08/15/08 – Pat Buchanan – The Scott Horton Show

Pat Buchanan, conservative commentator and author, most recently of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, discusses the crisis in Georgia, why he thinks the Russian action on behalf of South Ossetia was justified, comparisons between Russian moves in the Caucasus to interwar Germany and Britain, the stupidity of the war guarantees and new missile defense systems going into Eastern Europe, the limits of American imperial power and the question of whether the administration gave Saakashvili...

08/15/08 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show

Joe Lauria, freelance reporter and co-author with former senator Mike Gravel of the new book A Political Odyssey, discusses his article 'The Personification of the Military-Industrial Racket,' McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann’s long, diabolical history as a chief neocon and war-salesman, McCain’s side-jobs as a foreign asset first for Iran and now Georgia and how luring Russia to retaliate against Georgia may have been instigated to strengthen McCain’s campaign and ratchet up...

08/15/08 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show

Dr. Gordon Prather discusses the different uses for varying yield nuclear weapons for missile defense, the tactical and strategic handicaps of our missile defense systems, what it takes to build a nuclear weapon and the difference between a nuclear weapons program and what the Iranians are doing. MP3 Here.

08/14/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent for Canada's Sun National Media and author of War at the Top of the World, discusses the complicated politics of the Caucasus region, U.S. and Israeli arming and training of Georgian troops, the Ossetia fiasco, McCain's foreign policy handler Randy Scheunemann and his relationship with the Saakashvili regime, the fight within the military industrial pentagon complex over whether to focus on imperial occupations or preparing for war with great powers, the...

08/12/08 – Brendan O’Neill – The Scott Horton Show

Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online, discusses the conflict between Georgia and Russia over Ossetia, including the blame due the U.S. for supporting and arming Georgia, the hypocrisy of western leaders and media for condemning Russia while they sow catastrophe in the Balkans and Iraq, Russia’s motivation, U.S. infiltration of the region under the guise of the 'War on Terror,' and the bankruptcy of the American-Anglo empire’s claim of moral authority. MP3 Here.

The Show: Brendan O’Neil

Los Angeles — August 12, 2008 — Brendan O’Neil, editor of Spiked Online, will discuss the conflict between Russia and Georgia on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, August 12th, at 12:15PM Eastern. The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

08/11/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, discusses the slightly less violent, yet still horrific, conditions in Iraq, the fear and violence that dominates daily life there, the various factions influencing Maliki, the Sunni 'Awakening' movement and the volatile tensions in Kurdistan. MP3 Here.

The Show: Patrick Cockburn

Middle East correspondent for the Independent, Patrick Cockburn will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Monday, August 11th. Patrick Cockburn will discuss Iraq at 1:15PM Eastern. Patrick Cockburn has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times, and presently, for the Independent. Cockburn has written five books on Iraq including The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, Two, Out of the Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, Saddam...