Award-winning reporter Will Potter discusses the new Communication Management Unit (CMU) prisons for domestic 'second tier terrorists,' the CMU restrictions designed to silence political prisoners and the shifting definition of 'terrorism' that is used to define certain political crimes but not others.
Antiwar Radio: 6/04/09: Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Bill Brand, Laurence Vance
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06/04/09 – William Brand – The Scott Horton Show
William Brand, writer for the Krakow Post, discusses the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the USSR, the 1989 Polish open elections where communist candidates were trounced, Gorbachev's made-good promise to end military crackdowns and the flood of other Soviet bloc countries that followed Poland's lead (some not so peacefully).
06/04/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the duplicitous U.S. practice of engaging in diplomacy with Iran while clandestinely destabilizing their government, the shortsighted U.S. policy of supporting terrorist groups if they oppose the U.S. enemy du jour, the good sense foreign policy of minding your own business and how Obama seems to have ruled out military action on Iran.
06/04/09 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses USS Liberty survivor Terry Halbardier's belated Silver Star award, LBJ's personal involvement in preventing military aid from reaching the besieged USS Liberty, two major theories explaining why Israel attacked the ship and Adm. Mike Mullen's groundbreaking mention of the Liberty in an apparent attempt to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran.
06/04/09 – Laurence M. Vance – The Scott Horton Show
Laurence M. Vance, author of Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State, discusses the discouraging poll that correlates support for torture with practicing Christianity, the devotion to the military and the Republican Party that trumps religious faith, the bigotry that enables killing on a massive scale and why God doesn't need U.S. help to protect Israel.
Antiwar Radio 6/03/09: Will Grigg, Philip Giraldi, Greg Palast
Listen live on 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio/. Update: Grigg and Palast interviews are available here: http://scotthortonshow.com/ Porter here: http://antiwar.com/radio
06/03/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, writer of the blog Pro-Libertate, discusses rampant police brutality across America, the clear line emerging between civilians and law enforcement that identifies with the military, the change in doctrine from minimal to overwhelming force and the media's role as apologists for state power.
06/03/09 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show
Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse, discusses the deliberate de-industrialisation of the U.S., big bank paydays in the GM bankruptcy while shareholders and pensioners bleed, the game of international hot-potato being played w/ increasinlgy worthless U.S. dollars, the looting of U.S. by billionaires before the collapse and a look forward to Brazilian model of extreme social and economic disparity.
06/03/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the new developments in the 'smoking laptop' story and the strongest evidence yet that Israeli intelligence, using the MEK as a front, created the laptop forgery to frame Iran for pursuing nuclear weapons.
Antiwar Radio 6/02/09: Issac Luria and Eric Margolis
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A couple things
Okay, so ever since I posted my interview of Ron Paul on my site where I keep em all (including the ones too far off topic for Antiwar.com like this one), I've lost a bunch of subscribers to the podcast feed. Antiwar lefties who hate economics? Ron Paulians who can't stand hearing someone ask him a good question? What gives? Gardner Goldsmith interviews me. That fascist Glenn Beck is right, Obama is a fascist. Greg Palast on the looting of GM's pension fund by JP Morgan-Chase. Chris Hedges...
06/02/09 – Isacc Luria – The Scott Horton Show
Isaac Luria, Campaigns Director for J Street, discusses his organization's attempt to represent the majority opinion of American Jews on Israel policy, Obama's limited time to leverage his political capital and push for a 2-state solution, why a second Israel lobby is good news for progressive U.S. politicians and how evenhanded U.S. diplomacy lessens the influence of radicals in Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas.
06/02/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World, discusses the dangerous situation created by excessive U.S. and N. Korean bluster, the military-industrial complex's anticipation of profits from a conventional weapons buildup, the limited U.S. military options against N. Korea and the foreign aid extortion game played by North and South Korea, the U.S. and Japan.
