10/30/08 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show

Daphne Eviatar, lawyer and journalist for the Washington Independent, discusses the Bush Administration’s semantic games that are redefining torture, how John Yoo’s justification of waterboarding conveniently ignored numerous contradictory court precedents, the familiar refrain of fitting legal opinions around the policy, why the Hamdan ruling doesn’t help detainees outside of Guantanamo and how the growing Bagram prison and other 'black' detention facilities remain outside the law and hidden...

10/30/08 – Chris Calabrese – The Scott Horton Show

ACLU lawyer Chris Calabrese discusses the government-defined 100 mile wide 'Constitution-free zone' border area that extends inland from the U.S. external boundary and covers nearly 2/3 of the U.S. Population, how the traditional exception of Fourth Amendment protections for border searches now applies to nearly all major U.S. metropolitan cities, why the current system ought to feel like home to anyone who lived in Communist East Germany and how advances in technology and a large DHS budget...

The Show: Daphne Eviatar

Daphne Eviatar will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Thursday, October 30th. Eviatar will discuss her recent article in The Washington Independent, "Torture by Any Other Name" at 12:15PM Eastern. Daphne Eviatar is a lawyer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Legal Affairs, Mother Jones, The Washington Independent and many others. She is a Senior Reporter at The American Lawyer and was an Alicia Patterson...

10/29/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show

Robert Dreyfuss, author of The Dreyfuss Report blog for The Nation, discusses the policy of 'hot pursuit' across international boundaries against anyone deemed an enemy, an increased military budget that encourages greater use of special forces, the prospect of a renewed UN mandate replacing a failed Iraq SOFA agreement and how it could effect the incoming U.S. administration, Iran’s decision to reduce confrontation with the U.S., how the Israeli election result will impact prospects for peace...

The Show: Robert Dreyfuss

Robert Dreyfuss will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, October 29th. Dreyfuss will be on at 12:15PM Eastern. Robert Dreyfuss is an investigative journalist who writes about politics and national security while frequently contributing to The Nation, Rolling Stone, The American Prospect and Mother Jones. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalism Islam and writes the blog The Dreyfuss Report on TheNation.com....

The Show: Mark Ames

Mark Ames will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, October 28th. Ames will will be discussing the hype over the Russia-Georgia conflict which he recently wrote about in The Nation in his article, "The Cold War That Wasn't" at 12:15PM Eastern. Mark Ames is a journalist who has written for several publications including the New York Press, The Nation and GQ Russia and is the founding editor and regular contributor of the Moscow-based newspaper The eXile....

10/28/08 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show

Mark Ames, author of 'The Cold War that Wasn’t' in The Nation, discusses the dominant narrative and ideological underpinnings in the U.S. press regarding the recent Georgian attack on South Ossetia and subsequent Russian counterattack on Georgia, the attempt to portray Russia as the aggressor by floating the idea of a first-strike cyber war despite the lack of any evidence, the alleged poisoning of Ukraine’s Victor Yushchenko and the current dispute between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko over...

10/27/08 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show

Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch and of The World According to TomDispatch, chronicles the failures of the Bush Administration and their misguided faith in the dark side of force, the state of complete catastrophe inside Afghanistan and on its border with Pakistan, the precarious situation in Iraq, Bush's failure to get Iran to stop enriching Uranium (his standard), how U.S. policy has benefited Hamas and Hezbollah, the worst crisis on earth: the U.S.-caused war in Somalia and the rise of...

10/27/08 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show

H. Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the difficulty of being a defense attorney for detainees subject to shifting court rulings and legal designations, a paralyzed federal court system that is stalling habeas corpus hearings until after the presidential election is decided, back room repatriation deals between the Bush administration, potential host countries and Guantanamo defense attorneys in order to preempt unfavorable judicial...

The Show: Candace Gorman and Tom Engelhardt

Candace Gorman and Tom Engelhardt will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, October 27th. Gorman will discuss the unraveling of the Guantanamo trials at 12:15PM Eastern and Engelhardt will be grading Bush by his own standard at 1:30PM Eastern. Candace Gorman is a civil rights lawyer best known for representing two Guantanamo Bay detainees pro bono and can be found blogging at GtmoBlog.blogspot.com and Tom Engelhardt is an author, consulting editor and...

McCain’s Tawana Brawley

Ashley Todd, who John McCain called to comfort yesterday and whose campaign hyped the story as loudly as they could, has admitted that her story about a big, scary, black man who beat her up and carved - ever so lightly - a backwards "B" for Barack on her face ... was pure bullshit. Yesterday: "She also indicated she was sexually assaulted as well. She indicated that when he had her on the ground he put his hand up her blouse and started fondling her. But other than that, she says she doesn’t...

10/24/08 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and author of America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, discusses the intrigue behind the AIPAC spy case, long rage patterns of neocon duplicity and criminality, the history behind the Logan Act, the complicity of the corporate media, the likely continuity of Mideast policy in an Obama administration and the War Party's shutting down of...