Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the inhumane detention conditions of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning; eyewitness accounts of Manning’s deteriorating mental and physical condition; studies that show severe isolation has long term psychological consequences and is akin to torture; the government’s domestic 'shock and awe' campaign of fear and intimidation against dissidents and whistleblowers; why Manning’s draconian imprisonment may be a...
12/16/10 Scott Horton: War and the Boom-Bust Cycle
Scott Horton explains the connection between central banking, empire and the boom-bust cycle at a Peace & Prosperity Rally in Santa Monica on December 16th, 2010.
12/15/10 – Kevin Zeese – The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Zeese, Executive Director and co-founder of VotersForPeace, discusses the December 16th White House protest designed to kick start the antiwar movement; what the Veterans for Peace organization is all about; the WikiLeaks is Democracy signed statement of support for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks; and uniting Left and Right around the core values of peace and the Bill of Rights.
12/15/10 – Thomas E. Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, discusses the few Leftists and many libertarians working to shift the balance of power away from Washington and toward local control; why it's still hard to shake the nearly 150-year old misconception that secessionists are slavery sympathizers; why an ignorant population is much more likely to inherit an authoritarian state than a libertarian paradise following a government and economic collapse; and...
12/15/10 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism and the blog Free Advice and ConsultingByRPM.com, discusses David Frum's concern that the Austrian School of economics is rapidly gaining favor over the Chicago School, Frum's faulty recollections of monetary policy in the Reagan administration, how the Fed's war on recessions prevents the market from self-healing by redistributing resources where needed, and the right-wingers who supported bailouts under Bush but oppose...
12/14/10 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, Editor in Chief of Campaign for Liberty, discusses the partisan hypocrisy of Leftists who support Obama even though his presidency could just as well be Bush’s third term; the decimated ranks of activists opposed to the government’s 'war on terror' premise; and how, every so often, someone takes the red pill and discovers the false paradigm of Republican/Democrat politics.
12/13/10 – Rob Prince – The Scott Horton Show
Rob Prince, publisher of the Colorado Progressive Jewish News and lecturer at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, discusses the WikiLeaks Cablegate document that shows the Bush administration twisted Ethiopia's arm to invade Somalia; how former Under Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer threw Ethiopia under the bus when the invasion turned sour; how the US used Ethiopia as a proxy army against the Union of Islamic Courts (presumably hated because of...
12/13/10 – Coleen Rowley – The Scott Horton Show
Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower, discusses her work as Chief Division Counsel at the Minneapolis FBI office; how FBI headquarters acted criminally negligent in preventing agents from properly investigating Zacarias Moussaoui before 9/11; how sloppy FISA legislation created a wall within and between intelligence agencies; why government transparency benefits the public far more than excessive secrecy; and the deeply flawed Whistleblower Protection Act that fails to cover...
12/13/10 – Chris Deliso – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Deliso, journalist, travel writer and author concentrating on the Balkans and Southeast Europe, discusses how WikiLeaks is turning traditional journalism on its head and making plenty of enemies along the way; the risk of deliberate media distortion when huge caches of primary sources are released at once and can’t be effectively vetted; the danger of false leaks receiving mass dissemination; how the future of journalism is tending toward interpretation of facts rather than investigative...
12/10/10 – Robert Stinnett – The Scott Horton Show
This interview is excerpted from the KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles broadcast of December 10th. The entire half hour segment can be heard here. This interview of Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, covers much of the same material from his previous interview of December 7th. There are additional discussions about Stinnett’s 1982 discovery of Pearl Harbor’s cryptographic listening station, the reclassification of WWII era documents following the PATRIOT...
12/09/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the false rumor of Bradley Manning's suicide; why the Cablegate documents look like dispatches to an emperor; the shortcoming in fundraising for Manning's legal defense (due in part to WikiLeaks' unfulfilled pledge); and fighting back against VISA, MasterCard, Amazon.com and other WikiLeaks suppressors through boycotts and cyber attacks.
12/09/10 – John Lomax – The Scott Horton Show
Houston Press journalist John Nova Lomax discusses his article 'WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops;' how Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar’s extreme concern about the incident casts doubt on DynCorp’s version of events; informative sources on the Pashtun practice of bacha bazi (banned by the Taliban but now resurgent); questioning the moral righteousness of nation building; and DynCorp’s record of human trafficking in Bosnia in the late 1990s.
12/09/10 – Max Blumenthal – The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, discusses how the Carmel wildfire reveals Israel's singular focus on militarization at the expense of basic public services like firefighting (necessitating humbling assistance from Turkey and the Palestinian Authority); how millions of trees hide the evidence of razed villages and the mass expulsion of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba; touring the new bohemian village of Ein Hod where the mosque of the...
12/09/10 – William Buppert – The Scott Horton Show
Bill Buppert, retired US Army officer and blogger, discusses the near-revolt of junior officers in the US armed forces over the bogus reasons given for war in Iraq and Afghanistan; COIN‘s failure against Islamic insurgencies dating back to WWII; how the immature antics of young soldiers deployed abroad make winning 'hearts and minds' all but impossible; fascism in the form of the American Protective League during the Woodrow Wilson administration; the danger an unforeseen 'black swan' event...
12/08/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses why the corrupted Fourth Estate (traditional mainstream US media) needs to be supplanted by the Fifth Estate (WikiLeaks) to preserve our liberty; the State Department's successful interference with Spanish and German courts seeking to indict US officials; how the general tenor of Cablegate documents suggests an empire falling apart; the oft-forgotten lesson of history that nothing good comes from an Afghanistan invasion; how a...
