Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the enduring myth of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki to save the lives of countless U.S. soldiers, how FDR's rejection of conditional surrender prolonged the war in Europe and the Pacific, how the US empire kicked into high gear after WWII, why purposely killing civilians is a war crime unless the Air Force does it, the firebombing of Japan that inflicted more casualties than Fat Man and Little Boy combined,...
Antiwar Radio
Listen Live to Antiwar Radio from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon Pacific time Monday - Friday on the Liberty Radio Network -- Archives here. Four days a week, Tuesday - Friday, the first two hours air live - with music instead of commercials - on KAOS Radio Austin -- Archives here. Friday nights Antiwar Radio is on at 6:30 on KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ridgcrest and China Lake --
08/05/10 – Matt Kennard – The Scott Horton Show
Matt Kennard, author of the article 'Neo-Nazis are in the Army now,' discusses the relaxed recruiting safeguards that allow neo-Nazis and gang members to join the U.S. military, how the desensitization training of soldiers — through dehumanizing their enemies — breeds bigotry, problems arising from combat-hardened veterans returning to their civilian criminal lives and why the legions of mercenaries have even larger problems brewing in them.
08/05/10 – Ali Gharib – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Gustavo Areano program of August 5th. The complete recording can be heard here. Ali Gharib, a New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy, discusses the hawkish turn taken by the middle-of-the-road think tank Council on Foreign Relations, the synchronized talking points of Iran war boosters that — like Iraq before — force antiwar opponents to prove a negative (or why the reality-based community is forever playing catch-up to history's actors),...
08/05/10 – Glen Ford – The Scott Horton Show
Glen Ford, founder of Black Agenda Report, discusses the obstacles to a Left-Right antiwar coalition, why pro-peace conservatives remain a marginal faction, irreconcilable differences between black America and the racist elements of the tea party right and how Obama destroyed the Left's ability to dissent against government misdeeds.
08/05/10 – Rep. Barbara Lee – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Barbara Lee discusses how how it felt being the only Congressperson (including Ron Paul) to vote against the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, how the AUMF continues to be used for justifying all manner of military actions, the Constitutional duty of Congress to declare war, the failure of public schools to teach foreign affairs or geography well and the need to maintain sanctions and reestablish diplomacy with Iran in order to 'play it safe' on their nuclear program.
08/04/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the last ditch effort of Omar Khadr’s military lawyer to stop his client’s war crimes trial, government use of the catch-all 'material support for terrorism' charge when all other crimes won’t stick and why the popular outcry for 'tough' military commissions trials for accused terrorists ignores the near-perfect conviction rate in federal courts.
08/04/10 – Bonnie Docherty – The Scott Horton Show
Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer at Harvard Law School and Researcher in the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the new international law banning cluster bombs (in the countries that ratified it), laudable U.K. actions on destroying cluster bomb stockpiles and advocating for universal abolition, the devastating civilian toll and glacial-paced removal of cluster bombs in Laos, the increased stigma on the largest cluster bomb manufacturing countries (U.S., Russia, Israel) and why these...
08/04/10 – The Other 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 only law explicitly defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason, why the founding fathers made treason prosecutions difficult by design, the very serious charges facing accused 'WikiLeaker' Bradley Manning (but treason and espionage aren’t among them), Mark Thiessen’s Washington Post op-ed on why 'WikiLeaks must be stopped' and the double standard that...
1/4 of an Iran Debate
On April 1, 2010 I participated in a panel discussion at the University of California at Riverside titled "Obama's challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons & the Mideast" with Reese Erlich, Larry Greenfield and Christopher Records - here is some of my part. Thanks to Mansoor Sabbagh for the video. Reese Erlich's part here.
08/03/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Obama's weasel-worded admission that combat brigades will remain in Iraq despite his promise to remove them by Sept. 1, 2010, new doubts on the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline on withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iraq and why Iraq's government still has the last word on whether the U.S. ultimately stays or leaves.
08/03/10 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses how U.S. involvement in Iraq intensified after 1958, continued U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during his worst atrocities, the April Glaspie moment and infamous Madeleine Albright soundbite, the 1990s decade of bombing a sanctions-crippled Iraq, what Obama really means by 'withdrawal' and how Nouri al-Maliki continues to wield power while the rest of Iraq’s government remains...
08/03/10 – Pardiss Kebriaei – The Scott Horton Show
Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the ACLU/CCR joint lawsuit against the Treasury Department for ignoring a request for permission to represent the father of accused terrorist (and U.S. citizen) Anwar al-Aulaqi, the dubious legal gatekeeping role assigned to the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the dozens of people on Obama's extrajudicial executive assassination hit-list, why the Obama DOJ Office of Legal Council...
08/03/10 – Karen Kwiatkowski – The Scott Horton Show
Karen Kwiatkowski, columnist at LewRockwell.com and retired USAF lieutenant colonel, discusses the neocon infiltration of the formerly decent Hudson Institute, her firsthand account of how the Office of Special Plans lied us into the Iraq War, Col. David Hackworth's pushback against OSP propaganda and why the Iraq War instigators are now directing their war cries toward Iran.
08/03/10 – Malou Innocent – The Scott Horton Show
Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute and author of the article 'Are Our Goals in Afghanistan ‘Fairly Modest’?', discusses the Center for a New American Security‘s (unofficial) motto on nation building: 'never say die!', military pundits who cherry pick the convenient aspects of COIN doctrine, why the U.S. can’t seem to tell the difference between insurgents and terrorists, the fallacy of Afghanistan as a 'safe haven' for the 9/11 terrorists (who moved freely in the U.S....
