08/05/10 – Matt Kennard – The Scott Horton Show

Matt Kennard, author of the article 'Neo-Nazis are in the Army now,' discusses the relaxed recruiting safeguards that allow neo-Nazis and gang members to join the U.S. military, how the desensitization training of soldiers — through dehumanizing their enemies — breeds bigotry, problems arising from combat-hardened veterans returning to their civilian criminal lives and why the legions of mercenaries have even larger problems brewing in them.

08/04/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the last ditch effort of Omar Khadr’s military lawyer to stop his client’s war crimes trial,  government use of the catch-all 'material support for terrorism' charge when all other crimes won’t stick and why the popular outcry for 'tough' military commissions trials for accused terrorists ignores the near-perfect conviction rate in federal courts.

08/04/10 – Bonnie Docherty – The Scott Horton Show

Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer at Harvard Law School and Researcher in the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the new international law banning cluster bombs (in the countries that ratified it), laudable U.K. actions on destroying cluster bomb stockpiles and advocating for universal abolition, the devastating civilian toll and glacial-paced removal of cluster bombs in Laos, the increased stigma on the largest cluster bomb manufacturing countries (U.S., Russia, Israel) and why these...

08/04/10 – The Other 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 only law explicitly defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason, why the founding fathers made treason prosecutions difficult by design, the very serious charges facing accused 'WikiLeaker' Bradley Manning (but treason and espionage aren’t among them), Mark Thiessen’s Washington Post op-ed on why 'WikiLeaks must be stopped' and the double standard that...

1/4 of an Iran Debate

On April 1, 2010 I participated in a panel discussion at the University of California at Riverside titled "Obama's challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons & the Mideast" with Reese Erlich, Larry Greenfield and Christopher Records - here is some of my part. Thanks to Mansoor Sabbagh for the video. Reese Erlich's part here.

08/03/10 – Malou Innocent – The Scott Horton Show

Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute and author of the article 'Are Our Goals in Afghanistan ‘Fairly Modest’?', discusses the Center for a New American Security‘s (unofficial) motto on nation building: 'never say die!', military pundits who cherry pick the convenient aspects of COIN doctrine, why the U.S. can’t seem to tell the difference between insurgents and terrorists, the fallacy of Afghanistan as a 'safe haven' for the 9/11 terrorists (who moved freely in the U.S....

08/03/10 – Karen Kwiatkowski – The Scott Horton Show

Karen Kwiatkowski, columnist at LewRockwell.com and retired USAF lieutenant colonel, discusses the neocon infiltration of the formerly decent Hudson Institute, her firsthand account of how the Office of Special Plans lied us into the Iraq War, Col. David Hackworth's pushback against OSP propaganda and why the Iraq War instigators are now directing their war cries toward Iran.

08/03/10 – Pardiss Kebriaei – The Scott Horton Show

Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the ACLU/CCR joint lawsuit against the Treasury Department for ignoring a request for permission to represent the father of accused terrorist (and U.S. citizen) Anwar al-Aulaqi, the dubious legal gatekeeping role assigned to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the dozens of people on Obama's extrajudicial executive assassination hit-list, why the Obama DOJ Office of Legal Council...

08/03/10 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show

Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses how U.S. involvement in Iraq intensified after 1958, continued U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during his worst atrocities, the April Glaspie moment and infamous Madeleine Albright soundbite, the 1990s decade of bombing a sanctions-crippled Iraq, what Obama really means by 'withdrawal' and how Nouri al-Maliki continues to wield power while the rest of Iraq’s government remains...

08/03/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Obama's weasel-worded admission that combat brigades will remain in Iraq despite his promise to remove them by Sept. 1, 2010, new doubts on the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline on withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iraq and why Iraq's government still has the last word on whether the U.S. ultimately stays or leaves.

08/02/10 – Mike Ludwig – The Scott Horton Show

Truthout contributor Mike Ludwig discusses the U.S. military’s missed opportunity to minimize the health risks from depleted uranium munitions, the Department of Defense’s policy of 'don’t look, don’t find' regarding a link between DU and Gulf War Veterans Illness, the 40-year late Congressional action on Agent Orange related illnesses and why the health and safety of enlisted troops is a secondary concern to the generals in charge.

08/02/10 – Jacob H. Huebert – The Scott Horton Show

J.H. Huebert, professor of law at Ohio Norther University School of Law, scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of Libertarianism Today, discusses the truth in Randolph Bourne's old maxim "War is the health of the state," the fallacy of pro-war libertarianism, conservative politicians who give lip service to free markets come election time and profit from government controlled competetion afterward, the origin of the war on (some) drugs and its disastrous results for the U.S....