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.
11/04/10 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the 'Railroading of Omar Khadr,' the 15-year old Khadr’s travel to Afghanistan with his al-Qaeda associated father, disputed accounts of a US raid during which Khadr was seriously injured and arrested for killing a medic, the torture Khadr endured while incarcerated at Guantanamo for 8 years and his Military Commission plea deal for time served plus eight more years (7 of those in a Canadian prison).
11/04/10 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses the 'myth of the two party system,' the curious case and recent conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Rahm Emanuel’s attempt to purge antiwar candidates from the 2006 Democratic primary elections, why only poor people need to worry about austerity measures and coming to the realization that the fight isn’t between Democrats and Republicans but between the government and you.
11/04/10 – Matthew Duss – The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher/Blogger at American Progress, discusses new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman/hardliner Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, victorious Republicans declaring the end of Obama’s supposed 'appeasement' of Iran, Congressional bipartisanship masquerading as righteousness and why Iran really is a threat to US interests (when you consider the grand ambitions of a global hegemon).
My Interview on Russia Today 11/03/2010
My PressTV Interview from 10/26/2010
They edited out the part about the Badr Brigade (of course).
11/03/10 – Josh Ruebner – The Scott Horton Show
Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, discusses Caterpillar's reported cancellation of bulldozer shipments to Israel for the duration of the Rachel Corrie trial, how Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes works as slow motion ethnic cleansing, keeping up the appearance of a viable Palestinian government so the international community can pretend the conflict isn't completely one-sided and how Jewish settlements physically cut off East...
11/03/10 – Jeanne Theoharis – The Scott Horton Show
Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties, discusses Syed Fahad Hashmi's years of pretrial solitary confinement on extremely tenuous material support for al-Qaeda charges, how Syed's supposed accomplice became a government witness against him for a reduced sentence, classified evidence defendants can't see and lawyers need to be vetted for, Syed's acceptance of a 15-year plea deal one day before the trial's start,...
11/02/10 Darwin BondGraham: the New START Treaty
Darwin Bond Graham, member of the Los Alamos Study Group, discusses the massive giveaways to weapons manufacturers that will occur after the Senate ratifies the New START Treaty, the 'prompt global strike' capability that will let Obama rain death on anyone in the world in 30 minutes or less [insert pizza delivery joke here], billions budgeted for new nuclear weapons infrastructure, the loophole in START accounting methods that makes a joke of mandatory weapons reductions and why...
11/02/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the recent Congressional hearings on bogus 'personality disorder' military discharges of injured soldiers, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s Congressional testimony about his confinement and torture for refusing to accept his personality disorder diagnosis, the billions of dollars in health care improperly denied to veterans and how the Pentagon was caught lying about an outreach program that was supposed to help veterans without medical care.
11/02/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Frago 242 'ignore Iraqi torture' order in the context of vigorous US support for Shi’ite militias battling the exploding Sunni insurgency, the influence of David Wurmser‘s 'Coping With Crumbling States' on original US plans to replace Iraq’s centralized nation state with a federation and how Mideast policy can best be described as a somewhat equal mix of stupidity and attempts to advance Israel’s interests.
11/02/10 – Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette, authors of Meltdown and The Dollar Meltdown (respectively), discuss Washington Post writer David Broder’s assertion that a war with Iran would save Obama’s legacy and the economy, why it’s still important to fight against the myth that WWII caused the end of the Great Depression, how surging commodity prices and a falling dollar signal serious consumer price inflation by next year, the post-9/11 economic sugar high engineered by Alan 'Maestro' Greenspan’s...
11/01/10 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses how WikiLeaks is shouldering the increasingly dangerous process of leaking and publishing classified documents, why a UK-style Official Secrets Act may be coming soon to America, how broad interpretation of the Espionage Act could make criminals of those who just read WikiLeaks or lend support, the mainstream media's half-serious cheerleading for Julian Assange's assassination, reams of evidence on war crimes in the Iraq War...
11/01/10 – Gary Brecher – The Scott Horton Show
The Exiled writer Gary Brecher, a.k.a. The War Nerd a.k.a. John Dolan, discusses his stint teaching English at the American University of Iraq Sulaimaniya, the pitched battles and million-plus casualties in 'The War Nobody Watched' Iran-Iraq War, how the US used Saddam Hussein as a proxy for revenge against Iran’s Revolution and the Hostage Crisis, Hussein’s slaughter of Jalal Talabani‘s Iran-allied Kurdish faction and how Iran’s larger population allowed them to outlast Iraq’s superior...
11/01/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the many suspicious details in the Yemen printer bomb plot, Obama's declaration of war on al-Qaeda's Arabian Peninsula franchise, a recent-history lesson on Yemeni civilian casualties from US drone strikes and why the somewhat decentralized and anarchic state of Yemen may be another nation-building candidate.
