05/14/09 – Kelly B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 14, 2009 |

Kelley B. Vlahos, longtime political reporter for FoxNews.com, discusses her controversial article 'Gian Gentile: Exposing Counterfeit COIN,' the enduring myth of the Petraeus 'surge' success story, the re-emergence of a counterintelligence cult devoted to the clear-build-hold doctrine and the prominent role the neoliberal CNAS plays in the Obama administration.

McChrystal, Copper Green, Torture and Assassination

by | May 13, 2009 |

Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? Muriel Kane wonders whether McChrystal ran Cheney's global assassination hit squads. Hersh: "...let’s say Yemen, let’s say Peru, let’s say Colombia, let’s say Eritrea, let’s say Madagascar, let’s say Kenya, countries like that..." Thanks to Douglas Valentine.

05/13/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 13, 2009 |

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on torture memos, the blatant U.S. coverup and blackmail attempt to prevent Britain from releasing information on Binyam Mohamed's torture, the too-convenient suicide of 9/11 conspirator Al-Libi and how the argument for an independent torture investigation keeps getting stronger.

05/13/09 – Tom Hayden – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 13, 2009 |

Former California State Senator Tom Hayden discusses the newest wave of think-tanks competing for influence in the White House, the U.S. trend of fighting generational 'long wars' instead of short decisive conflicts, the increased secrecy and ruthlessness Gen. McChrystal will surely bring to AfPak and how special operations forces use PR to maintain public support while behaving badly abroad.

05/13/09 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 13, 2009 |

Mark Ames, journalist for The Nation and eXiled Online, discusses recent history leading up to the current mess in former Soviet Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili's downward spiral, the broken Georgian economy, rumors that U.S. advisers participated to some extent in Georgia's invastion of S. Ossetia last summer, Georgia's relationship with Israel and America's relationship with Russia.

05/12/09 – Jeff Sharlet – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 12, 2009 |

Jeff Sharlet, author of the article 'Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military,' discusses the widespread Christian fundamentalist evangelism among U.S. military officers, how a soldier’s perception of a war on Islam in Iraq trumps politically correct Bush and Obama administration rhetoric, the process behind the influx of intolerant evangelical military chaplains and Christianity’s usurpation of the Constitution at premier military academies.

Antiwar Radio: Burton Folsom

by | May 10, 2009 | ,

Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of the book New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, discusses the disastrous legacy of America's Great Dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Listen here.

05/08/09 – Mark Manning – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 8, 2009 |

Documentary filmmaker Mark Manning discusses his film The Road to Fallujah, the events leading up to the 2004 murders of Blackwater contract employees in Fallujah, the terrible toll collective punishment takes on civilians and how open dialogue makes peace possible.