04/17/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the torture memos [.pdf] released at Obama's behest, delays in the Spanish war crimes case against Bush administration lawyers, the Orwellian torture procedures revealed in the memos and the legal precedents for prosecuting crime-enabling lawyers.

04/15/09 – Stephen Weber – The Scott Horton Show

Stephen Weber, Chief Operating Officer of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, discusses a new opinion poll that indicates Americans are ready for open relations with Cuba, the Obama administration's loosening of Cuba restrictions back to Clinton-era levels and the many areas of Democrat and Republican agreement on Cuba policy.

04/13/09 – John Basil Utley – The Scott Horton Show

John Basil Utley, associate publisher of The American Conservative, discusses the directly proportional relationship between lengthy congressional incumbency and pro-war attitudes, the left-right alliance needed to curb military spending, the military-industrial-congressional complex and the narrowing political divide in the U.S. (except the south).

04/13/09 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show

Dahr Jamail, writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the Iraqi government’s unwillingness to incorporate Sunni 'Awakening Councils' into the regular army, the walled-off autonomous conclaves within Baghdad, the decimation of Iraq’s health care system and forty years of U.S. meddling in Iraqi affairs.

04/13/09 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show

Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the broken deals that prompted Iran to establish an independent nuclear program, the near-impossibility of Iran making secret nuclear weapons under IAEA supervision, Carter-era restrictions on nuclear power generation and the Bush administration's attack on the international non-proliferation regime.

How Liberalism Can Be Relevant

Thank goodness for the liberals that they have a central bank to initiate the boom-bust cycle - that way we can all suffer together! Okay, I admit this is old, but I really like it when politicians admit what depraved criminals they are. If Hart's position papers aren't yet finalized, he certainly has no trouble with the vision thing. ''The essential intellectual challenge,'' he told me, ''is how to make liberalism relevant for our time. How do you make the principles of equality and justice...

The ICRC Torture Report

A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA’s eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA’s ‘Ghost Prison’ ‘Black Sites,’ including pretty much everything the Soviet GPU would have done. In my interview with Danner on February 18th, he explained that the U.S. government granted full access to the ICRC in the understanding that...

Antiwar Radio: 4/10/09: Mark Almond, Glenn Greenwald

Today on Antiwar Radio, Mark Almond from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group will discuss events in Moldova and Georgia and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the Obama administrations' secrecy and immunity claims in regards to wiretapping and torture prosecutions. Tune in live 1-3PM Texas time on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.