Scott Horton I'll be hosting the first regular episode of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles this evening at 6:30. http://kpfk.org if you want to listen from east of the Arizona state line.
11/12/10 – James Bamford – The Scott Horton Show
James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, discusses the National Security Agency's surveillance infrastructure, how the 2008 FISA Amendments Act eliminated any meaningful oversight or accountability for wiretapping, Obama's broken promise to oppose retroactive telecom lawsuit immunity, the Catch-22 of surveillance legal challenges where a litigant can't sue without evidence of illegal wiretapping but all such records are...
11/12/10 – Ali Gharib – The Scott Horton Show
Ali Gharib, New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy and LobeLog writer, discusses his article that challenges the conventional wisdom about Iranian interference in Iraq (supposedly verified by the WikiLeaks revelations), the New York Times' (and former Judith Miller collaborator) Michael Gordon's career transition from ginning up war with Iraq to writing inflammatory articles on Iran, the rapidly changing negotiations on seating a coalition government in Iraq and how the NYT gives...
11/12/10 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the resurgent popular belief - in line with thousands of years of precedence - that gold is money, Europe's introduction to paper money from The Travels of Marco Polo, how the familiar demand that even war opponents have to "support the troops" is analogous to asking anti drug war activists to support DEA agents and how the US government enforces a currency double standard: dollar depreciation is the free market at...
11/12/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the very-delayed 2010 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, the clouding of Iran’s clear NPT right to uranium enrichment for civilian nuclear power with talk about ambiguous 'breakout' capabilities, the US rejection of Iran’s fair 3-party uranium swap proposal with Turkey and Brazil, how the constantly moving US diplomatic goalposts make it clear Iran’s nuclear program will never be tolerated and the warm Washington welcome for members of...
11/11/10 – Jim Powell – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Powell, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II, discusses how US entry into WWI broke a three year stalemate and gave the allied forces a decisive victory, how the punitive Treaty of Versailles and crippling hyperinflation from war reparations provoked a defiant German nationalist reaction creating an environment receptive to Hitler's rise to power, Woodrow Wilson's arrogant creation...
11/11/10 – Meryl Nass – The Scott Horton Show
Meryl Nass, practicing physician and blogger on anthrax-related issues, discusses the one-third of Gulf War veterans with Gulf War Syndrome, the re-instituted requirement for soldiers to accept potentially dangerous anthrax and small pox vaccines, why the VA's typical treatment for Gulf War Syndrome is to prescribe psychiatric drugs, tests on depleted uranium that discovered an unsafe mix containing radioactive isotopes, the lack of evidence in the FBI's conclusion that Bruce Ivins was behind...
11/11/10 – Rae Abileah – The Scott Horton Show
Rae Abileah, national organizer with CODEPINK Women for Peace and a member of Jewish Voice for Peace, discusses her participation in a nonviolent protest (YouTube video here) during Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in New Orleans, the angry and violent response from the audience who wouldn't tolerate Jewish voices of dissent against Israel's policies and why young Jews are increasingly at odds with the right-wing Israeli agenda that has no interest in the traditional pursuit of social justice.
11/11/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses Antiwar.com's fundraising drive and how you can make a donation in a multitude of ways including calling Angela directly at 323-512-7095.
11/10/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses Bradley Manning friend and website supporter David House's detainment and questioning by FBI and DHS officials who also confiscated his laptop, nearly complete fundraising efforts for Manning's legal defense, chances the new Congress will draft legislation similar to the UK's law against withholding encryption passwords from law enforcement and proof that WikiLeaks doesn't only pick on the US government: upcoming releases...
11/10/10 – Katherine Gallagher – The Scott Horton Show
Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the disappointing end to John Durham’s multi-year investigation into CIA torture tape destruction (coinciding exactly with the expiring statute of limitations), why half-assed limited investigations may not be enough to placate European judges from prosecuting US government officials under universal jurisdiction, low expectations for Durham’s remaining preliminary investigation into 'unauthorized'...
11/10/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the big cutbacks from Antiwar.com's more generous donors that make small monthly donations more important than ever and how the Amazon.com and Capital One credit card programs let you help Antiwar.com by shopping at Amazon and using your credit card as usual.
11/09/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses newly declassified documents from the US Senate’s 1963 investigation of foreign agents following the Israeli false flag 'Lavon Affair,' how enforcement of FARA prompted the American Zionist Council to reorganize as a non-registered lobby (now called AIPAC), the hundreds of quashed FBI and DOJ investigations into the Israel lobby’s routine lawbreaking, how the biggest scandals involving...
11/08/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the emergency fundraising drive to keep Antiwar.com going strong, Scott Horton's new Antiwar Radio gig on KPFK Los Angeles and our promise to fight the war party no matter who occupies the White House and Congress.
11/08/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses George W. Bush’s admission that he emphatically approved of waterboarding — with the unsupported caveat that it saved lives, the post-9/11 US torture regime designed to extract 'evidence' linking al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, tracing DHS orange alerts back to false confessions of torture victims, how Congress essentially jails scheduled-for-release Guantanamo prisoners for 2 weeks while vetting their releases, the abolition of...
