Eric Margolis and Robert Scheer will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, November 14th. Margolis will discuss Pakistan and Afghanistan at 12:15PM Eastern and Scheer will discuss his latest article on TruthDig.com, "Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama" at 1:15PM Eastern. Eric Margolis is an award-winning author (American Raj: Liberation or Domination, War at the Top of the World), syndicated columnist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent for Sun Media....
Horton Moderates Citizine Debate
Antiwar Radio's Scott Horton moderated a second and third party forum held by Citizine & Texans for Accountable Government in Austin, Texas on October 28th. The event included local political luminaries, Kat Swift, Wes Benedict, Don Zimmerman and Debbie Russell. You can find the entire debate here.
The Show:Patrick Cockburn and Doug Bandow
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of The Independent, will the featured guest today at 12:15pm. Cockburn has been visiting Iraq since 1978. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting in recognition of his writing on Iraq. He is the author of, his memoir, The Broken Boy, and with Andrew Cockburn, Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession, The Occupation: War, Resistance and Daily Life in Iraq and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia revival and the Struggle for Iraq....
11/13/08 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies on Antiwar.com, discusses the need for a neocon purge from the Republican Party, the unsustainable U.S. empire of military bases, the failure of Bush diplomacy with North Korea, creating a political climate receptive to peace with Iran, Obama's post-election hawkishness and the lessons lost from WWI on entangling alliances.
11/13/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses the repeating of history in Afghanistan, India’s under-the-radar regional influence and sweetheart nuclear deal, ramifications of a future 'Pashtunistan', the precarious economic and political conditions in Pakistan, the possibility of Obama using Bill Clinton as Kashmir peacemaker, the need for a waxing Department of State and waning Pentagon in the foreign...
11/13/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondant for the Independent, discusses the Iraqi National Intelligence Service threat to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the myth that the 'surge' pacified Iraq, the continued scarcity of clean water and electricity in Baghdad, a likely new UN resolution by the new year and how a Shia-dominated government may be strong enough to take over from the U.S.
David T. Beito Vs. The New New Deal
All the democrat-types across the country are racing to dredge up the corpse (legacy) of America's Great Dictator, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in order to justify a whole new round of freedom destruction. (Just turn on MSNBC if you don't believe me.) Thank goodness there are Historians Against the War out there - at least one of whom, my friend David Beito, opposes wars by our government against anyone, whether Iraqi, Afghan or American. Here David smashes the myth of FDR's greatness and...
11/12/08 – Philip Hammond – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Hammond, author of 'Darfur: the Dangers of Celebrity Imperialism' in the Spiked Review of Books, discusses the folly of liberal 'humanitarian' interventionism, why complicated conflicts like that in the Darfur region of Sudan are often described as 'genocide' and why waging empire in the name of helping people never does any such thing.
11/12/08 – Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton, Senior Resident Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the origins of the housing bubble, how Bernanke, Greenspan and the rest of the Fed misled the public, the lack of dissent from macroeconomic experts, where the taxpayer-funded bailout money is going and why empires end in bankruptcy.
The Show: Michael Scheuer and Gareth Porter
Michael Scheuer and Gareth Porter will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, November 11th. Scheuer will discuss Al Qaeda and the election at 12:15PM Eastern and Porter will discuss the so-called smoking laptop at 1:15PM Eastern. Michael Scheuer is the former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. Gareth Porter is an investigative historian, author and journalist who specializes in US national...
11/11/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the important new article 'Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated' at RawStory, discusses the latest labyrinthine developments in the 'stolen laptop' documents story, how the weight of evidence indicates the documents are forgeries in the 'Nigerian yellowcake' tradition, the two oft-confused but very different IAEA investigations of Iran’s nuclear program and a future expose on Israeli involvement in the affair.
11/11/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the credibility of claims that al Qaeda is planning an attack bigger than 9/11, the logic behind suicide terrorism, why a quick withdrawal from Iraq is unlikely, how U.S. security agencies are hamstrung by porous borders and ports, the role of Nigerian oil in future U.S. intervention Somalia and why al Qaeda wanted Obama to win the presidency.
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11/10/08 – Woody Powell – The Scott Horton Show
Woody Powell, former executive director of Veterans For Peace, discusses his personal experiences serving in the Korean War, the difficulties and invective associated with anti-war activism in America and the virtues of advocating for peace rather than militarism on Armistice Day.
11/10/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributor to Harper's magazine, discusses the Obama administration's mandate to close Gitmo and defang the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the current status of unprecedented executive power, pardons from the Bush administration and possible adverse consequences for pardoned torturers under international law.
