04/15/10 Lt. General Robert G. Gard: Loose Nukes and Iran’s Program

Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses the 'terrorists with nukes' rhetoric at the Nuclear Security Summit, unsecured fissile material in countries that are beyond the limited scope of Nunn-Lugar, the less-than-stellar security at many US and Russian nuclear sites and how getting the facts right on Iran’s nuclear program is difficult even for the well-informed.

04/15/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show

Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses the resurgence of Bacha Bazi and the sexual exploitation of boys in Afghanistan, Canadian soldiers who were rebuffed by superiors when reporting abuse by their Afghan comrades, US withdrawal from a long-held remote Afghan outpost and the increasingly obvious futility of US and NATO humanitarian efforts and the occupation in general.

04/15/10 – Julian Assange – The Scott Horton Show

Julian Assange, co-founder and spokesperson for WikiLeaks, discusses the chain of events shown on the 'Collateral Murder' WikiLeaks video, military rules of engagement that have enough flexibility to make them essentially unenforceable, how the Apache pilots exaggerated threats in order to obtain permission to open fire and why in Iraq — a country where nearly everyone owns an AK-47 — an Iraqi carrying a weapon is all the justification needed by the US military to kill everyone in the...

04/14/10 – Roger Charles – The Scott Horton Show

Roger Charles, freelance journalist and investigator, discusses the challenge of sifting through the lies and disinformation to find the truth about the Oklahoma City bombing, the mysterious pickup truck that pulled over during McVeigh's well known traffic stop/arrest, McVeigh's likely involvement with a neo-Nazi group of bank robbers (including Richard Lee Guthrie) and the federal prosecutor's decision not to use witnesses to place McVeigh at the crime scene - for fear they would also ID John...

04/14/10 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show

The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the public grievances that motivated Kyrgyzstan’s second revolution in five years, Russian ambivalence about the US regional presence, the critical strategic importance of the US airbase at Manas, evidence of CIA intervention with Gitmo hunger-strikers at the infamous 'Camp No' and the ominous McCain/Lieberman detention bill.

04/13/10 – Josh Stieber – The Scott Horton Show

Josh Stieber, conscientious objector and former U.S. Army Specialist, discusses the all-too-ordinary events shown on the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' video, the video’s failure to show the ground patrol units being protected by the helicopters, soldiers who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later and why criticism should be directed at the policy of occupation instead of the actions of individual soldiers.

04/13/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show

Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Israel's persecution of Haaretz journalist Uri Blau, leaked documents that show the Israeli Defense Forces maintained a policy of assassinating Palestinians — in defiance of a court order — during the 2008 Gaza offensive and U.S. General Keith Dayton's little-known task of building a Palestinian army.

The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants

by (the heroic) Chris Floyd Let us hear no more excuses for Barack Obama. Let us hear no more defenses, no more special pleading, no more extenuations. Let us have no more reciting of the "pressures" he is under, of the "many obstacles" that balk him in his quest to do us good, of the "bad advisors" who are swaying him to unworthy acts against his will. Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a...