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.
10/18/10 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, Editor in Chief of Campaign for Liberty, discusses the goings-on at the recent Libertopia festival in Hollywood, CA, how the facade of democracy makes government predation socially acceptable and why Islamic fear-mongering gets worse during Democratic administrations.
10/18/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the scant evidence used to justify U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, a possible CIA destabilization campaign to weaken Pakistan and seize its nukes and why the Afghanistan 'Potemkin' War continues even though everyone knows it’s a lost cause.
10/18/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses current events in Yemen, the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and U.S. opposition to an Iraqi government power-sharing deal that includes Muqtada al-Sadr.
10/01/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the Israel-Palestine peace talks that exist only as a U.S. midterm election political sideshow, the quick and effective legal solution to the problem of excessive Israel-lobby influence, the pattern of generous treatment toward spies Marc Rich and Ben-Ami Kadish that could mean a Jonathan Pollard pardon is in the works and why learning the identity of super-spy 'Mega' isn’t very...
10/01/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the establishment of CIA front companies in Yemen and Somalia that may presage military incursions, the exorbitant price we pay to maintain an empire at permanent war, the 180 degree divergence between Obama's rhetoric and actions and why terrorism itself can't destroy the U.S. but decades of overreaction can.
Interview on RT 9/23/10
09/27/10 – Jess Sundin – The Scott Horton Show
Jess Sundin, member of the Anti-War Committee and an FBI raid target, discusses the FBI’s raid of her home that included the confiscation of personal items and the serving of a grand jury subpoena, the notoriously broad 'material support' for terrorism statute that was used to justify the search warrant and the nationwide solidarity protests in support of the raid victims and the First Amendment.
09/27/10 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the huge growth in the Department of Justice since its inception and its current questionable role as a legal defender of government crimes, the double standard where — for domestic propaganda purposes — the government can talk about hit-lists for U.S. citizens but when the practice is challenged in court the topic becomes a state secret, the end of any...
09/27/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the popular fear that an all-powerful global Islamic Caliphate is impending — despite the fact nearly all Muslim countries are controlled by U.S.-friendly authoritarian governments, the displacement of ancient Christian communities during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the resemblance of America's increasing paranoia about Muslims to German antipathy toward Jews in the interwar period.
09/27/10 – Reese Erlich – The Scott Horton Show
Reese Erlich, author of Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire, discusses his firsthand account of Iranian street protests following the disputed 2009 election, why the CIA will have trouble co-opting the agendas of Iran's opposition political parties, the Western tendency to ignore the existence of moderates and focus on the most radical element in Iran (oscillating from the ayatollahs to the president) and how the 1953 coup proves that U.S....
09/24/10 – Ali Gharib – The Scott Horton Show
Ali Gharib, New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy and LobeLog writer, discusses the FBI raids on antiwar activists’ homes, how Israel put Iran in 'Axis of Evil' after 9/11, the Global War on Terror’s conflation of national resistance groups (and any enemy of Israel) with international terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, neoconservative warmongers re-using the Iraq War playbook to gin up support for an attack on Iran, the tangled neocon web of familial relationships and the new cottage...
09/24/10 – Dilip Hiro – The Scott Horton Show
Dilip Hiro, author of After Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World, discusses the terminal decline of the still-mighty U.S. empire, the frequent defeat of American strong-arm tactics in foreign affairs and the rise of competing powers in the BRIC countries.
09/23/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Gen. Petraeus's decision to double down in Afghanistan rather than deescalate and blame the quagmire on his predecessors, evidence of a civilian-military rift on war decisions with Obama failing to control policy and his generals near open rebellion, how the media love fest over Gen. Petraeus gives him unprecedented influence in the political process and why — for the sake of the republic — the permanent U.S. war...
09/23/10 – Jeff Paterson – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Paterson, Project Director of Courage to Resist, discusses the work being done by the Bradley Manning Support Network, Ehren Watada‘s successful war refusal based on the Iraq War's illegality (and the Pentagon's fear of bad press), pending Canadian legislation that would force the government to accept American Iraq War resisters and how the Pentagon repeatedly deploys soldiers who are physically or mentally damaged and unfit to fight.
