Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the U.N. fact finding mission that concluded Israeli commandos executed flotilla-activist and U.S. citizen Furkan Dogan, the media blackout (and silence from the Obama administration) on the U.N. report and any discussion of Israel's culpability and how the threshold for using lethal force was lowered after initial boarding attempts by the Israeli commandos were thwarted.
10/20/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the longstanding corruption of Pakistan's civilian leadership and judicial system, the hidden and undemocratic method of U.S. war funding and why it's long past time to bring the troops home from their myriad places of occupation.
10/20/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses the waning popularity of COIN strategy even among its strongest former proponents, the return of heavy air strikes and conventional warfare tactics in Afghanistan, the limited effectiveness of backroom negotiations with the Taliban due to missing key players, the increasingly difficult search for a face-saving exit strategy from Afghanistan and the liberal interventionist Democrats who dream of exporting freedom and democracy via...
Okay, I’m back.
Sorry for the extended break there folks. I had some bidness to take care of which required some traveling. Now I'm here and will be doing radio shows for you to hear again.
10/19/10 – Jason Leopold – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Leopold, investigative reporter and Deputy Managing Editor of Truthout, discusses how Paul Wolfowitz provided legal cover for human experimentation on 'enemy combatant' prisoners, leaked torture notes that clearly indicate a focus on technique refinement rather than intelligence gathering, the Bush administration’s liberal use of since-discredited torture 'evidence' obtained from Abu Zubaydah and the many missing pieces of the torture story yet to be found.
10/19/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the 2010 revision of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, how the final version will admit there's no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program while leaving enough room for interpretation to keep the neocons happy, the replacement of National Security Advisor James Jones and why a Gulf of Tonkin-style provocation may be in store for Iran.
10/19/10 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
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 – 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.
