Alan Bock, senior editorial writer at the Orange County Register and regular Antiwar.com columnist, discusses the escalating drug-related violence in Mexico, how the Prohibition regulatory framework idled by the 21st Amendment found a second life policing marijuana use, the allure of black-market profits and the counterproductive and predictable results of the war on drugs.
03/04/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Huber, regular Antiwar.com columnist, discusses the confusion among U.S. policy makers on Afghanistan strategy, the excessive praise given Gen. Petraeus for producing a temporary stalemate by bribing Iraqi Sunnis, the re-branding of Gen. Ray Odierno as a strategic mastermind and the slippery slope of extended Iraq withdrawal deadlines.
Antiwar Radio 3/03/09: Noam Chomsky and The Other Scott Horton
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03/03/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the Justice Department's release of post-9/11 Bush administration legal opinion memos, the assertion of executive supremacy over the first and fourth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the possible scope of unknown Bush legal shenanigans and why blue-ribbon investigative committees aren't always bipartisan cover-ups.
03/03/09 – Noam Chomsky – The Scott Horton Show
Noam Chomsky, author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, discusses the roots of U.S. imperialism, the often overlooked opportunity costs of empire, the exaggerated strength of U.S. economic rivals, the continuation of the Great Game into the 21st century, how the Western World’s observance of the Durand Line exacerbates problems in Afghanistan, the empire’s loss in Iraq, the U.S. doctrine of punishing Iran just to make an example out of them and the Israeli...
03/02/09 – Amna Akbar – The Scott Horton Show
Amna Akbar, Clinical Fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic, discusses her legal team’s representation of Mohamed Farag Bashmilah in the 'extraordinary rendition' lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. and the ongoing collaborative FOIA lawsuit against U.S. government secrecy on torture issues.
03/02/09 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, discusses the Obama administration's Iraq withdrawal plan, the survivability of Iraq's central government without U.S. support, the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran and why the doctrine of preventive war left town with the Bush administration.
Ron Paul Talks With Bob Sheiffer
My favorite is the part where he "admits" that he does not attend Caesar's speeches to the Congress. They are, he says, "unbearable." It's also fun to see how many edits there are in part two. Part one and Part two. Thanks to Lew.
Senator Whitehouse Warns Nation
Absolute horror to be revealed by torture hearings. Via the Daily Kos, which notes that Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees.
