Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research of Middle East Policy and author of America’s Defense Line: , discusses the real reason for Israel’s policy of 'strategic ambiguity,' about their nuclear weapons, his conference on Israeli nuclear weapons, Israel’s offer to sell nuclear missiles to apartheid South Africa, Obama’s pretended push for a two state settlement, the leaked Luntz poll indicating that the American people are finally beginning to see through Israel’s ridiculous...
07/06/10 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Weiss, author of the blog MondoWeiss, discusses the role of the Israeli government and the neoconservative movement in lying the American people into war in Iraq, the woeful dishonesty of the American media on all issues related to the occupations of the West Bank and Gaza strip, the pathetic belly crawling of 'a$%-kissing little chicken-sh*t' Gen. David Petraeus before the feet of his neocon masters as he accidentally revealed to an anti-neocon activist with a careless email forward,...
07/05/10 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Renowned unembedded reporter Dahr Jamail discusses the already-horrifying consequences of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on the American Indians of the Louisiana bayou.
07/05/10 – 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 how the UK courts are forcing the government to open up their torture files detailing how the CIA helped torture Binyam Mohammed, Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's prosecution of Chicago police prolific torturer John Burge and his witch-hunt against Gitmo defense attorneys, how the Obama administration is just pretending to close down Gitmo and why...
07/05/10 – Thomas E. Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods Jr., scholar at the Mises Institute and author of Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, discusses the constitutional power of the U.S. government to raise armies and declare wars, the modern nullification represented by the Bring the Guard Home movement, the evolution of the constitutional system from union to nation, Tom's idea of reviving the principles of 1798 — nullification and interposition of unconstitutional laws by the states against the...
Antiwar Radio 7/02/10
Eric Garris, Lawrence Wilkerson, Joy Gordon 9-noon Pacific, http://lrn.fm or http://kaosradioaustin.org.
07/02/10 – Eric Garris – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Garris, founder and director of Antiwar.com, discusses the convoluted House votes on multiple Afghan War bills and amendments, Obama's broken pledge to stop using emergency supplemental bills for war funding, how House Reps can now somewhat credibly claim either support or opposition to the war and why China seems to have won the Iraq war.
07/02/10 – Joy Gordon – The Scott Horton Show
Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, discusses the comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iraq in the 1990s that killed 500,000 children, the US led effort to literally starve Iraq by cutting off food importation, how the Gulf War and subsequent sanctions destroyed Iraq’s modern infrastructure and prevented rebuilding, contradictory US and UN policies on rewarding compliance of Security Council resolutions and how the US 'reverse veto' power guaranteed the...
07/02/10 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military's inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, Cheney's reversal of the Blackstone formulation on the wrongful imprisonment of innocents, how Colin Powell and others were kept out of the loop about intelligence based on tortured confessions, how the intelligence failures on Iraq WMD were in part due...
07/01/10 – Kenneth O’Keefe – The Scott Horton Show
Human rights activist Kenneth O'Keefe discusses his reasons for joining the Gaza aid flotilla, his disillusionment with the vaunted Marine Corps honor code, the use of experimental vaccines on unwitting soliders in the Gulf War, terrorist accusations leveled at him and associated organizations by Israel's defenders and why he will keep trying to run the Gaza blockade until it ends.
07/01/10 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses the tiresome rants of gloom and doom survivalists, why those who long for a government or economic collapse should be careful what they wish for, why federal spending can't continue at the current level without a bond market revolt, the none-too-encouraging result of the Soviet Union's collapse and why the US empire may face gradual cutbacks instead of outright abolition.
06/30/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the hype surrounding a seemingly benign Russian spy ring in the US, the sorely needed FBI public relations boost from their apparent counter-espionage success, CIA director Leon Panetta's disincentive for changing the 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate and why Iran really was pursuing a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003.
06/30/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Iraqi factional divisions that have prevented a Prime Minister from being seated from the March elections, the regained prominence of former PM's Ayad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, violent popular protests against Iraq's incompetent government, persistent rumors of Saudi airspace authorization for an Israeli attack on Iran and CIA director Leon Panetta's misleading claim that Iran has enough uranium for 2 nukes.
06/29/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the cultural meaning of WWII for Americans, nostalgia in Russia for Soviet times, the US and British capitulation to Stalin at the Yalta Conference, why FDR was a senile fool and/or a communist and how the Security Council nations use the UN as a fig leaf for their aggressive actions.
06/29/10 – Fred Branfman – The Scott Horton Show
Fred Branfman, author of the article '5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced ”” Think That Bothers War Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens?' discusses the demonstrably false assertion that Iraqis are 'better off' now than under Saddam Hussein, why liberal warhawks like Hitchens bear a moral burden for Iraqi civilian deaths, the ongoing class war in America (that the billionaires are winning) and why holding elections does not qualify Iraq as a democracy.
