George W. Bush’s Somalia Legacy

Suicide Terrorism. Also, here, the Post, which supported and helped lie on behalf of each and every one of Bush/Cheney's acts of mass murder, now admits to the public that, "The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group. ... 'They're highly uncertain about what they're getting in this new adversary,' said Paul Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official who lectures on national security at...

01/24/09 – Kathy Kelly – The Scott Horton Show

Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, discusses her recent visit to Gaza at the end of Israel's incursion, the systematic damage done to civilian infrastructure, the mounting evidence that the Israelis used white phosphorus and committed war crimes, the large volume of images and reporting broadcast by Al-Jazeera in Gaza compared to the Western media's near-blackout of coverage and the hopeful possibility that new U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell can broker a peace...

01/24/09 – Dean Ahmad – The Scott Horton Show

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, founder of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, discusses how the Israel/Palestine issue seen from a libertarian perspective defines the central conflict in terms of individual property rights, the difficulty in determining the motivation behind Israel's recent - seemingly fruitless - military endeavors, the precipitous decline in non-Jewish land ownership in Israel from 1948 to the present day and the looming prospect of a democratic Jewish Israel with an Arab majority...

01/24/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of the January 24th article 'For Detainees, Obama Off to Good Start', discusses Barack Obama’s initial executive orders regarding the closure of Gitmo and secret CIA prisons, the lengthy year-long review process for detainee trials, how the Bush administration’s torture policy ruined any opportunity to prosecute the few legitimate terrorism cases, the propaganda potential in the Pentagon’s loaded phrase 'returned to the battlefield' and the relatively low recidivism...

Interviews of Me

Here's one from the 12th on Free Talk Live with Ian, Mark and Sam. (Last hour). And here's one from (very early) this morning on Break the Matrix radio with Kurt Wallace. (starts at approximately 63:30)

Robert Pape Was Right

Suicide terrorism is a reaction to foreign occupation. And Israelis are real smart - but apparently only after they run out of bombs and bullets. Two days after their last soldiers returned from Gaza, Israelis are asking increasingly whether the offensive had achieved anything other than spawning a new generation of potential suicide bombers. The three-week war enjoyed massive popular support at the time but, with the guns silent, scathing criticism is emerging from the Left and the Right of...

A Great Start

Sure Ron Paul would have done much more and much better, but I gotta hand it to the new emperor, his first day of executive orders banned torture, rescinded all memos regarding prisoner treatment written since 9/11/01, mandated an immediate return to Common Article III of the Geneva Convention, closed the CIA ghost prisons and granted access to the Red Cross, closed Guantanamo Bay, mandated a halt to the military commissions and instructed the job-holders to come up with a way to put actual...

Antiwar Radio: Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Bush/Olmert plan to force Hamas to take all power in Gaza in order to try to provide an excuse for undoing the election results of 2006, how Hamas followed by and Israel broke the cease-fire of June, 2008, backlash against Bush’s capitulation to every Israeli demand, implications of Obama’s appointment of Jim Jones for National Security Advisor, the military’s push to rename all the combat forces in Iraq and stay...

Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the possibility of war crimes trials for the Bush administration, Sen. Cornyn’s attempted obstruction of Attorney General nominee Eric Holder on the basis of the threat of prosecution for former administration members, the appointment of Horton’s former colleagues from the Balkinization blog to the Office of Legal Council and other high level Justice Department positions, the...

01/22/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Bush/Olmert plan to force Hamas to take all power in Gaza in order to try to provide an excuse for undoing the election results of 2006, how Hamas followed by and Israel broke the cease-fire of June, 2008, backlash against Bush's capitulation to every Israeli demand, implications of Obama's appointment of Jim Jones for National Security Advisor, the military's push to rename all the combat forces in Iraq and stay...

01/21/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the possibility of war crimes trials for the Bush administration, Sen. Cornyn’s attempted obstruction of Attorney General nominee Eric Holder on the basis of the threat of prosecution for former administration members, the appointment of Horton’s former colleagues from the Balkinization blog to the Office of Legal Council and other high level Justice Department positions, the...