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....
08/02/10 – Jacob H. Huebert – The Scott Horton Show
J.H. Huebert, professor of law at Ohio Norther University School of Law, scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of Libertarianism Today, discusses the truth in Randolph Bourne's old maxim "War is the health of the state," the fallacy of pro-war libertarianism, conservative politicians who give lip service to free markets come election time and profit from government controlled competetion afterward, the origin of the war on (some) drugs and its disastrous results for the U.S....
08/02/10 – Mike Ludwig – The Scott Horton Show
Truthout contributor Mike Ludwig discusses the U.S. military’s missed opportunity to minimize the health risks from depleted uranium munitions, the Department of Defense’s policy of 'don’t look, don’t find' regarding a link between DU and Gulf War Veterans Illness, the 40-year late Congressional action on Agent Orange related illnesses and why the health and safety of enlisted troops is a secondary concern to the generals in charge.
07/30/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the U.S. fight for diplomatic leverage in Afghanistan, why extreme militarization signals the final stage of empire, the many tragedies created by Democrats acting tough and why we need a president like Eisenhower who won't jump headfirst into every foreign conflict.
07/30/10 – Mikey Weinstein – The Scott Horton Show
Mikey Weinstein, author of With God on Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military, discusses the 'fundamentalist Christian parachurch military corporate proselytizing complex' that Eisenhower never warned about, the 'American Taliban' Christian dominionists within the military who want to replace the Constitution with religious edicts, the danger of a military indoctrinated in end-times theology and equipped with a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and why...
07/30/10 – Isaac Luria – The Scott Horton Show
Isaac Luria, Director of Communications and New Media for J Street, discusses a primary J Street goal: changing what it means to be pro-Israel, why a one-state solution is really a one-state delusion, how Avigdor Lieberman undermines Israel's status as a democracy and natural ally of the U.S., indications Bibi Netanyahu will concede part of E. Jerusalem and the short 6-12 month window of opportunity for serious Palestinian/Israeli negotiations.
07/30/10 – Aaron Glantz – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman program of July 30th. The complete recording can be heard here. Aaron Glantz, author of The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans, discusses the lawsuit against Prudential Insurance Co. of America for stealing the interest earned from veterans' life insurance policies, the increasing expense and lowered expectations required to meet military recruitment goals, the long history of...
07/30/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Beneath The Surface with Suzi Weissman program of July 30th. The complete recording can be heard here. Mike Gogulski, founder of the Help Bradley Manning website, discusses Manning's brig transfer from Kuwait to Virginia and his status on suicide watch, the involvement of Courage to Resist in fundraising efforts for Manning's legal defense and how sympathizers can donate or volunteer to help Bradley Manning.
07/29/10 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the FBI's flagrant abuse of national security letters that apparently entitles them to even more eavesdropping power, the lawsuits and sabotage efforts likely heading WikiLeaks' way, how media sycophancy enables the know-nothing Congress and why Bob Barr's 2008 Presidential Committee needs help paying its bills.
07/28/10 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses the myriad official reasons why the Afghan War Diary is endangering soldiers and/or completely irrelevant, how WikiLeaks has changed the face of journalism and government transparency, the scapegoating of Pakistan for the failing Afghanistan War effort and why now is the time for other whistleblowers/leakers to come forward.
