David Swanson discusses US violations of international law on military recruiting of minors; how No Child Left Behind, ASVAB testing and JROTC run afoul of UN protections of children; and the under-18s held at Guantanamo and killed in Obama-authorized drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
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Well, Antiwar.com is making budget cuts and so my gig doing Antiwar Radio and assorted assistant editor type jobs around the site is over. My thanks to Eric Garris and the rest of the crew for having me these past 7 years. Doesn't look like we've stopped any wars, but at least we told people the truth about them. Also thanks very much to all the readers, listeners and volunteers who've helped me all this time. I'll be trying to keep the show going on the Liberty Radio Network and my own...
07/09/12 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis discusses why Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 was probably caused by Polonium 210 poisoning; Israel's penchant for using rather exotic poisons for assassinating enemies; and the 2006 murder of Russian FSB agent Alexander Litivenko.
07/09/12 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Marcy Wheeler discusses her article "Failed Overseers Prepare to Legislate Away Successful Oversight;" the US government's double standard on which leaks are prosecuted and which ignored; why cyberwarfare is a bad idea, especially when Israel's involved; and the lies about Obama's "kill list" for drone strike targets.
07/09/12 – Robert Wenzel – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Wenzel discusses the LIBOR scandal and how central banks can wreck free markets much more efficiently than Wall Street can.
The Scott Horton Show Funddrive
Well folks, I'm no longer with Antiwar.com. I'll still be doing the radio show for the Liberty Radio Network, RonPaulRadio.com and Anomaly Radio Monday-Friday from 12-3 eastern time, KPFK Friday nights in L.A. and KUCR in Riverside on Sundays. All the archives will still run at ScottHortonShow.com until the new site is up and running. I'm also officially seeking donors and sponsors for the show. I'll do my best to keep it going, but I'm going to need your help. Have a company? Want to sponsor...
07/05/12 – Birgitta Jonsdottir – The Scott Horton Show
Birgitta Jonsdottir discusses the US government's persecution of WikiLeaks activists and the secret grand jury waiting to indict and probably extradite Julian Assange.
07/05/12 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com.
07/04/12 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory discusses his article "Should We Celebrate the American Revolution;" why King George III was better than US Presidents 1-44 (except maybe Grover Cleveland); and how even Thomas Jefferson came up short as a "Jeffersonian" kind of president.
07/03/12 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the anti-Iran propagandists in the press and the IAEA, and his article on the Parchin facility, "How a Nonexistent Bomb Cylinder Distorts the Iran Nuclear Issue."
07/03/12 – William S. Lind – The Scott Horton Show
William S. Lind discusses his article "Unfriendly Fire: How the Taliban mastered the operational art of modern war;" a history of state-dominated warfare since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648; so-called "green on blue" attacks in Afghanistan; and how a rudderless foreign policy has prevented US progress in Afghanistan since November 2001.
07/03/12 – Phyllis Bennis – The Scott Horton Show
Phyllis Bennis discusses her article "Syria is not Libya: it will not implode, it will explode beyond its borders" and Israel's nuanced policy on Syria and Iran.
07/03/12 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette discusses how prosperity is an offshoot of freedom, how the state is hastening America's economic collapse, why Democrats and Republicans are both "food stamp" parties; and why we need to be aware of the demagogues diverting public anger away from government and Wall Street, toward convenient scapegoats like gays and Muslims.
