Regular Antiwar.com writer Jeff Huber discusses his article 'Dumb and Dumber Wars,' the vulnerability of remote military outposts in Afghanistan, the folly of sending additional troops to support the corrupt Karzai government, the U.S. bombing campaign that eviscerated al-Qaeda and how Obama’s unwise campaign rhetoric tied his hands on foreign policy.
11/25/09 – Robert Czernik – The Scott Horton Show
Environmental and political activist Robert Czernik discusses the RNC8 group of activists arrested and charged with violating the Minnesota PATRIOT Act during the 2008 Republican National Convention, the criminalization of political dissent, the use of conspiracy charges to justify preemptive arrests and the RNC8's ongoing legal battle.
11/24/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama's decision to send another 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, the inevitability of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban despite military escalation, how bureaucratic propagation and policy momentum keep the Afghanistan disaster moving along and the RAND Corporation's role as think tank and cheerleader for the U.S. Air Force.
11/24/09 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman, discusses the French pre-Marxist origins of class war theory, how outrage at welfare handouts distracts attention from much larger corporate welfare payments, industry "watchdog" regulatory agencies that help favored businesses consolidate power and eliminate competition, the burden of eminent domain on the poor and powerless, how the 1930s labor laws designed to diminish the destabilizing effect of...
11/24/09 – Scott Horton: Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama's broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal indefinite detention of innocent prisoners, endemic racism that makes torture less objectionable and the dangerous legal precedents established by failing to prosecute Bush administration crimes.
Angela Keaton’s speech to the L.A. End the Fed! rally 11/22/09
When Nick Hankoff asked me to speak here today, I was immensely flattered..for a moment. Then I thought to myself, "Gee, just what the Ron Paul youth needs, an aging anarchist hipster "rotly" reciting the Austrian catechism, "sustained period of low interest rates, excessive credit creation results in a volatile and unstable imbalance between saving and investment -- boom-bust. Boom-bust, boom--bust--cist-BOOM -- BAH, counterfeit, fiat, fractional rah, rah , rah..." We aren't gathered here...
Antiwar Radio: Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald
Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald were guests for the 11/17/09 KPFK Pacifica Radio edition of Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio show. The show is about an hour long and can be listened to here, beginning at 1:29 into the recording. Scott Ritter discusses the Iranian nuclear program, James Bamford discusses the national surveillance state and Glenn Greenwald discusses what the upcoming Khalid Sheikh Muhammad trial in New York means for the rule of law.
Justice, at Last, for Cory Maye?
Writes Will Grigg: Cory Maye, a young father from Prentiss, Mississippi, was asleep in his home when it was invaded by a pack of armed intruders. Maye grabbed a firearm and fatally shot one of the marauders, unaware that the intruders were a SWAT team conducting a narcotics raid on the wrong address. Despite the fact that the police raided the wrong house, and Maye was acting in what he believed to be self-defense, Maye was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Persistent...
Bob Bestani
I interviewed Bob Bestani on my local TV program. He is running for the New Hampshire 1st Congressional District, and is a surprisingly smart guy who worked in Bush Sr.'s administration. Actually, Gietner used to report to him. Bestani is of Lebanese heritage and speaks fluent Arabic. He has actually heard of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, yet feels that the Fed did have a role; though it was dangerously overplayed. He believes that Congress should have forced the Fed to be accountable and to...
11/20/09 – David Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, discusses the myth of Constitutionally-derived presidential supremacy in foreign affairs, why Congress prefers acting like an executive advisory committee instead of a co-equal branch of government, the Tenth Amendment’s losing battle against the Commerce Clause, progress in civil and foreign court cases against Bush administration crimes that Obama steadfastly ignores, the neglected subpoena...
11/20/09 – Leslie Lefkow – The Scott Horton Show
Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division, discusses the worsening situation in Somalia since the 2006 Ethiopian invasion, the media's preference for reporting on piracy instead of humanitarian disasters, the appearance that the U.S. helped destabilize Somalia simply to apprehend a few suspects from the 1998 embassy bombings, how the U.S. is more careful distributing food-aid than weapons, increasing Al Shabaab radicalism, Ethiopia's hosting of extraordinary...
11/18/09 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the embarrassing information likely to be revealed during Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial, the media's willful ignorance of the motivation of 9/11 terrorists, the self-defeating U.S. anti-terrorism strategy of targeted assassination without regard for the underlying grievances and the need for regional diplomatic solutions to energy resource conflicts.
11/18/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses longstanding Iranian contingency plans for a U.S. attack on their nuclear industry, the Qom facility’s use as a symbol of deterrence to Israel and the U.S., the likely failure of multiple party uranium processing agreements and how Iran’s potential nuclear 'breakout' capability creates leverage in U.S. negotiations.
11/18/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses the upcoming release of the DOJ misconduct investigation OCR report, the possible impeachment of federal judge (and former White House OLC lawyer) Jay Bybee, the numerous excuses Obama and Eric Holder invent to avoid prosecuting Bush administration officials, the Republican fear of public trials for terrorism suspects and how Holder's guarantee of terrorist convictions suggests that the justice system is rigged.
11/17/09 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author of the article 'Afghanistan: Does this make Obama a chickenhawk?' discusses MoveOn’s halfhearted criticism of Obama’s Afghanistan War escalation, how hawkish rhetoric fails to disassociate Democrats from their 'mommy party' image, jargon-filled war policy discussions that ignore real-life suffering and why the seemingly mysterious motivations of U.S. occupation are best understood as a convergence of self-interested parties.
