New Comment System

I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and with it comes a new comments system that makes it possible to, amongst other things, have author-specific comment styles. I altered my own and Scott's styles which took effect retroactively so you can go back in previous posts and see how they look different. I can control font, font-color, background-color, and other things. I will accept submission from you all as to what kind of style you want to use. Note: this only works if you are signed in to the...

12/07/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Investigative reporter and historian Gareth Porter debunks the War Party's claims that Iran's government is killing American soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, neocrazy media sycophant Michael R. Gordon's lies on behalf of the Vice-President's office and its stovepipe, the truth about Iran's attempted grand bargain of 2003 [.pdf] and the threat of America and Iran's friends in Iraq turning on U.S. troops in the event of war.

12/07/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.

The Show: Andrew Bacevich and Jesse Trentadue

Andrew Bacevich and Jesse Trentadue will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, December 5th. Bacevich will be on at 12:15PM Eastern and Trentadue will be on at 1:15PM Eastern. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel,  is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and author of Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism and The New American Militarism. Jesse Trentadue is a lawyer from Utah who's suing the government over...

12/05/08 – Andrew Bacevich – The Scott Horton Show

Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, discusses the negative net returns of U.S. expansionism from the 1960s onward, the establishment of a permanent national security apparatus that made non-interventionism impossible, the Carter Doctrine's faulty premises and continued influence in Middle East policies and the current Pentagon reassessment of U.S. military limitations that may inhibit...

12/05/08 – Jesse Trentadue – The Scott Horton Show

Jesse Trentadue discusses the the events surrounding the 1995 murder of his brother while in federal custody in Oklahoma City and the connection to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the Elohim City paramilitary camp sting operation run by the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center, foreknowledge of FBI agents and complicity of FBI informants in the bombing, the ongoing court battles with the U.S. government over FOIA requests and civil lawsuits and the involvement of Obama's...

12/03/08 – Matthew Alexander – The Scott Horton Show

Matthew Alexander, former U.S. military interrogator and author of the opinion piece 'I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq' published in the Washington Post, discusses how information gleaned from ethical interrogations enabled the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the relatively moderate views of most Iraqi Al-Qaeda members who joined for practical rather than ideological reasons, the moral and operational failure of torture and the enduring legacy of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as a...

12/03/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., co-editor of We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, discusses the persistence of pro-war propaganda over time, the remarkably similar arguments made to justify the War of 1812 and the current Iraq war, the curious case of pro-secessionist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner, the Wilsonian provocations that ensured U.S. entry into W.W.I, the importance of forming a left-right antiwar alliance to counter the bipartisan war party and the...

The Show: Thomas Woods

Thomas Woods will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, December 3rd. Woods will be on at 12:15PM Eastern. Thomas Woods is an American historian and New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. He is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, co-editor of We Who Dared to Say No to War, co-author of Who Killed the Constitution?, and author of the upcoming book Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the...