James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, discusses the huge advances in NSA technology and invasiveness since the Church Committee‘s 1975-76 investigation of illegal intelligence gathering, the NSA’s ominously-titled 'Perfect Citizen' cyber assault monitoring program, technology and free speech activists who fight internet censorship and how the major telecom hubs provide the NSA with enough information to fill enormous data...
07/26/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Help Bradley Manning website, discusses 'Collateral Murder' leaker Bradley Manning’s bravery and risk of an effective lifelong prison sentence, media smears and misrepresentations of Manning, the Obama administration’s record-setting whistleblower prosecutions and how you can donate to Manning’s legal defense fund.
07/26/10 – Michael Flynn – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Flynn, project director of IPS Right Web, discusses his website's devotion to profiling individuals who promote militarist U.S. foreign and defense policies, William Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel advocacy group, the unrelenting push for war with Iran and the close family relationships between the (relatively few) neocon true believers
07/26/10 – Eric Margolis and Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Strategy Session program of July 26th. Scott Horton separately interviews Eric Margolis and Tom Engelhardt. The audio for Tom Engelhardt begins around 17:10. The complete recording can be heard here. Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the differences between the WikiLeaks Afghan War files and the Pentagon Papers, why the media won’t press the issue and inflame public opinion against the war, the U.S. ultimatum after 9/11 that...
07/23/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, columnist for Antiwar.com, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, contributing writer utor to the Campaign for Liberty member of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, the Council for the National Interest Foundation, discusses the case of the defection of Sharam Amiri, his low-level expertise in nuclear matters and access only to rumor about the nuclear program — which said that there was no weapons program, Amiri's decision to go home and the CIA's...
07/23/10 – Jeremy Scahill – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Beneath the Surface program of July 23rd. Scott Horton interviews Jeremy Scahill and is himself interviewed by KPFK producer Alan Minsky. The complete recording can be heard here. Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the too little too late Washington Post exposé on 'Top Secret America,' how private contractors do the dirty (and illegal) work of state terrorism...
07/23/10 – Shelley Walden – The Scott Horton Show
Shelley Walden, international officer at the Government Accountability Project, discusses Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza, their corrupt deal with SAIC and the World Bank and the Foundation for the Future which came to nothing but kept everyone paid.
07/23/10 – Daniel McCarthy – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative magazine, discusses the principles of conservatism as he see them, the dumbing down of different political schools of thought into left and right and the convenience of such a system in lending itself toward imperialism, the problem of the red-state military belligerence and the importance of the antiwar types on the right staying open to the idea that they can be reached and the Bush/Obama plot to discredit interventionism for all time.
07/23/10 – Paul Rogers – The Scott Horton Show
Paul Rogers, Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group, discusses Israel’s military upgrades that make a solo attack on Iran possible, why military action would prompt Iran to withdraw from the NPT and develop nuclear weapons in earnest, Israel’s strategic alliances with Azerbaijan and the Iraqi Kurds, the little-known permanent U.S. military operational presence in Israel, why the U.S. military (and not Israel) is most at risk to an Iranian counterattack and the lingering hard...
07/21/10 – Jeremy Kirk and Luke Hansen – The Scott Horton Show
Jeremy Kirk and Luke Hansen, both members of Witness Against Torture, discuss their trip to Burmuda to visit the 4 Uighurs recently released from the Guantanamo Bay prison, how they came to be sold to Americans in Pakistan and brought to Cuba, their inability to leave the tiny island or see their families, the Christian doctrines which motivate their help for modern victims of imperial crucifixion and a little bit about the organization Witness Against Torture.
07/21/10 – David T. Beito – The Scott Horton Show
David T. Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama and keeper of the blog Liberty and Power at the History News Network, discusses his book (with co-author Linda Royster Beito) Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s madness, his Justice Department’s witch hunt against those who opposed the New Deal regime and march to war, FDR’s direct and personal use of the IRS to persecute dissenters, widespread opening of mail,...
07/21/10 – Birgitta Jonsdottir – The Scott Horton Show
Birgitta Jonsdottir, member of the Icelandic parliament, talks about the role the financial meltdown in 2008 played in the people there's insistence on transparency in government and banking, the new whistle-blower protection law working its way through their system which would protect, computer servers, prevent judges from compelling disclosure of sources, the hero Bradley Manning‘s plight, the importance of Wikileaks, the inability of Iceland to protect whistleblowers from extradition, but...
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07/20/10 – Joseph Shansky – The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Shansky, contributor to Counterpunch, UpsideDownWorld and Democracy Now! en Español, discusses the 'invited' invasion of Costa Rica by the U.S.. Navy and Marine Corps, the drug war excuse, Costa Rica’s pacifist constitution which forbids such things, the notable lack of information about the move, the widespread disapproval of the new U.S. presence among the population, the realignment across Central and South America away from U.S. power and other reasons to anticipate a new era of...
07/20/10 – Stephen M. Walt – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University and co-author of the article and the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, discusses once-and-present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stubbornness in implementing the Oslo Accords, the newly released 2001 video which shows him bragging at his success, how the policies of the Likud Party and the American Israel Lobby are...
