Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the overlooked messages that undermine the premise of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Iran fear-mongering article, the recent history of Israel pretending Iran is an 'existential threat' as revealed in Trita Parsi’s Treacherous Alliance and Israel’s (real) intense fear of friendly relations between the U.S. and Iran.
08/12/10 – David Culp – The Scott Horton Show
David Culp, Legislative Representative for the Friends Committee on National Legislation — Quaker Nuclear Disarmament Program, discusses the START Treaty's origin in the Reagan administration, how Senate Republicans and the Heritage Foundation are delaying the latest iteration of START to deprive Obama of a legislative success, the military's preference for conventional rather than nuclear weapons and why the U.S. and Russian arsenals of 2200 deployed missiles each could be greatly reduced and...
08/12/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the State Department’s unintentionally hilarious report on global terrorism, the government’s steadfast refusal to see the underlying grievances that motivate terrorist actions, how Congressional Resolution 1553 defers Iran war-making decisions to Israel and how countries designated 'state sponsors of terrorism' are placed on the State Department’s 'ignore' list.
08/12/10 – Zack Mellette – The Scott Horton Show
Zack Mellette, cofounder of Give Us Names, discusses his organization's short films that showcase the plight of displaced Colombian farmers, the U.S. creation of multi-billion dollar Plan Colombia in 1998 to continue the failed supply-side War on Drugs, the devastating effect of aerial fumigation on food crops (and lesser effect on the targeted coca plants), the economic incentives for Colombians to grow coca instead of food and the heavily-armed paramilitary groups that seize land and kill...
08/12/10 – Stephan Salisbury – The Scott Horton Show
Stephan Salisbury, author of Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland, discusses the 'Mosque at Ground Zero' that is neither a mosque nor at ground zero, how most 'Not in MY NYC' protesters are from out of town and don’t reflect the tolerance of Manhattan residents, the hostile sendoff of NYC cultural center representative Feisal Abdul Rauf on his State Department-sponsored Middle East religious tolerance tour, the deep rooted xenophobia in the U.S. exacerbated by...
08/11/10 – Carlos Miller – The Scott Horton Show
Multimedia journalist Carlos Miller discusses his arrest and court ordeal stemming from photographing police in public, cops who use wiretap laws to arrest videographers (because of the audio capability), the use of trumped-up charges (that are dropped or greatly reduced when contested) for intimidation and why the Anthony Graber 'wiretapping' case is so blatantly unjust even the MSM sides against the cops.
08/11/10 – Tim Cavanaugh – The Scott Horton Show
Reason columnist Tim Cavanaugh discusses the Georgia/Russia/South Ossetia conflict of 2008 and the Georgia-biased misinformation spewed by the Obama and McCain campaigns, former McCain foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann‘s conflict of interest, how the U.S. media continued to get the South Ossetia story wrong for months, evidence that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s attack was a spontaneous 'loose canon' event and not the result of an April Glaspie-style wink and nod and how...
08/11/10 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show
David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale University, discusses the American style of sleepwalking from one war to another, The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg‘s effective role as public relations frontman for Israel, the ill-defined and loosely applied terms 'existential threat' and 'breakout capability,' Hillary Clinton’s inadvertent admission of how tenuous are U.S. claims on Iran’s nuclear threat, the fallacy of a limited war with Iran, how the simultaneous counterterrorism and...
08/10/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the progress being made on fundraising for Manning's legal defense, another below-the-belt hit piece from the New York Times, the help of partner site Courage to Resist and Manning's knowledge and appreciation of his support network.
08/10/10 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses the still-elusive 'noble cause' soldiers are supposedly dying for, why consumers of mainstream media might reasonably conclude the Iraq War is over, the GI Bill’s under-utilization and why the election of a Democratic president prompts the antiwar movement to take a four year vacation.
08/10/10 – Anthony Weller – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Weller, editor of First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War, discusses his father's (George Weller) WWII reporting for the Chicago Daily News, George's defiance of Gen. MacArthur's travel restrictions in post-war southern Japan, firsthand accounts of radiation poisoning (Disease X) in Nagasaki, the severe mistreatment of prisoners in Japanese POW camps and how military censorship and George's haphazard record-keeping kept the...
08/09/10 – Jason Zanon – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Zanon, founder of the quirky biographical website Executed Today (in the Find A Death model), discusses the facts behind Antiwar.com columnist Jon Basil Utley‘s father's execution by firing squad in a Soviet gulag, the top 10 executions of the 2000”²s, Thomas Edison's pioneering of the electric chair during his PR campaign against Tesla's alternating current, Cameron Willingham‘s execution in a Texas prison for the questionable arson murders of his three children and how groups of...
08/09/10 – Andrew Bacevich – The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University and author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, discusses the end of (military) history, the bipartisan business of war-making, the destructive patriotism of Washington power elites, why military power is useless at effecting positive social change and how formerly mainstream war skeptics have been relegated to the lunatic fringe.
Antiwar Radio: Chris Busby
Chris Busby, co-author of the epidemiological study "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005 - 2009" discusses the difficulties of carrying out a door-to-door survey of skeptical and hostile Fallujah residents, the severe birth deformities in regions where depleted uranium munitions were used, the study's focus on infant mortality rates, the military's outdated risk modeling for battlefield uranium exposure and why a dramatically lower male birth rate is a telling...
08/06/10 – Kevin Zeese – The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Zeese, Executive Director and co-founder of VotersForPeace, discusses why the Antiwar movement needs to dissociate from the major political parties, how popular pressure really does affect change, the cozy relationship between corporate media and the defense industry and how creating an effective antiwar movement requires rethinking previous failures and realistically assessing the (very formidable) opposition.
