Thomas Nash, Coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (StopClusterMunitions.org), discusses the encouraging progress being made on the internationally-binding Convention on Cluster Munitions treaty, the devastating bombing campaign against Laos during the Vietnam War that left behind some 280 million cluster munitions that continue to kill and maim decades later, the refusal of the most prolific cluster bomb using-and-producing countries (U.S., China, Russia, Israel) to sign the treaty...
10/22/10 – Nat Hentoff – The Scott Horton Show
Nat Hentoff, senior fellow at the CATO Institute, discusses the media’s narrow spectrum of allowable opinions reflected in the firing/retiring of Juan Williams, Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, the dangers lurking within the massive Obamacare bill, the bipartisan uproar against a judicial ruling excluding evidence obtained by torture in the terrorism prosecution of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and how the government torture apparatus’s continued use explains Obama’s 'look forward not back'...
10/22/10 – Jim Hanon – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Hanon, writer and director of the documentary Little Town of Bethlehem, discusses his film (the story of three men of different faiths who grew up in Israel and the occupied territories who put aside their differences to work toward a non-violent solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict), why the term 'settlements' does not adequately describe the Israeli homes built atop stolen Palestinian land, a reminder to American evangelicals that there are indeed Palestinian Christians and why...
10/22/10 – Nick Turse – The Scott Horton Show
Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan, discusses the construction boom in U.S. military bases that puts the scheduled 2011 Afghanistan drawdown in doubt, how Obama has abdicated his role of commander in chief to his generals and why it remains difficult to understand the purpose of the huge waste of blood and treasure in Afghanistan.
10/21/10 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, author of the blog Free Advice and ConsultingByRPM.com, as well as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the bearish economic indicators that contradict the official "recovering" story, why relatively stable consumer prices could be the calm before an inflationary storm, how government regulation often benefits big business through regulatory capture and increased barriers to competitors and how the Republicans give the free market a bad name when they don't...
10/21/10 – Roger Charles – The Scott Horton Show
Roger Charles, a freelance journalist and investigator, discusses the two dozen Oklahoma City bombing witnesses who saw a John Doe #2 and contradict the Timothy McVeigh lone-wolf theory, the possibility John Doe #1 is not McVeigh and why the tangled web of government lies and coverups could prevent the truth about OKC from ever emerging.
10/21/10 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show
Asia Times columnist Pepe Escobar discusses his article 'And the winner is ”¦ Muqtada,' whether an Iraqi civil war will commence if and when a coalition government excluding Sunnis is formed, hopes that national identity can trump factional and religious schisms and the pie-in-the-sky neoconservative dreams of winning hearts and minds throughout the Middle East.
10/20/10 – Andrew Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses his review of Joy Gordon's Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, how innocuous-sounding sanctions fail to engender the popular opposition that a war does even though the death and destruction levels are on par and how the Clinton administration changed the requirements to end sanctions to depose Saddam Hussein and score domestic political points.
10/20/10 – Robert A. Pape – The Scott Horton Show
Robert A. Pape, coauthor of Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It, discusses the evidence that (still) shows suicide attacks are much more closely related to foreign military occupations than religious extremism, why U.S. efforts to date have been more effective at provoking terrorism than preventing it, the inverse correlation between troop levels and suicide attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and how Pape's thesis is finally catching on in media and...
10/20/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the U.N. fact finding mission that concluded Israeli commandos executed flotilla-activist and U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan, the media blackout (and silence from the Obama administration) on the U.N. report and any discussion of Israel's culpability and how the threshold for using lethal force was lowered after initial boarding attempts by the Israeli commandos were thwarted.
10/20/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the longstanding corruption of Pakistan's civilian leadership and judicial system, the hidden and undemocratic method of U.S. war funding and why it's long past time to bring the troops home from their myriad places of occupation.
10/20/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses the waning popularity of COIN strategy even among its strongest former proponents, the return of heavy air strikes and conventional warfare tactics in Afghanistan, the limited effectiveness of backroom negotiations with the Taliban due to missing key players, the increasingly difficult search for a face-saving exit strategy from Afghanistan and the liberal interventionist Democrats who dream of exporting freedom and democracy via...
Okay, I’m back.
Sorry for the extended break there folks. I had some bidness to take care of which required some traveling. Now I'm here and will be doing radio shows for you to hear again.
10/19/10 – Jason Leopold – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Leopold, investigative reporter and Deputy Managing Editor of Truthout, discusses how Paul Wolfowitz provided legal cover for human experimentation on 'enemy combatant' prisoners, leaked torture notes that clearly indicate a focus on technique refinement rather than intelligence gathering, the Bush administration’s liberal use of since-discredited torture 'evidence' obtained from Abu Zubaydah and the many missing pieces of the torture story yet to be found.
10/19/10 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, author of The Dreyfuss Report blog for The Nation, discusses why the U.S. is scared of Moqtada al-Sadr's participation in an Iraqi coalition government, how the prolonged political stalemate threatens to fracture Iraqi society and why the U.S. must use long-neglected diplomatic skills and play nice with Pakistan and Iran to achieve peaceful resolutions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
