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.
07/28/10 – Julian Assange – The Scott Horton Show
Julian Assange, co-founder and spokesperson for WikiLeaks, discusses the 15 thousand unreleased intelligence reports from Afghanistan, efforts to get the WikiLeaks Garani massacre video ready for public release, the warning from Seymour Hersh that government officials were ready to ignore the rule of law to silence him (Assange), indications that the supposedly leaked 260,000 diplomatic cables never made it to WikiLeaks, the secret rendition program from Somalia to Kenya and how Bradley...
07/27/10 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the differences between the two Jundallah terrorist groups, the easily exploited tensions between Iran's government and ethnic and religious minorities, the lack of support for Jundallah (Iran) even within the Baluchi community, the post-9/11 U.S. rejection of Iran's cooperation that crippled the moderate government and put hardliners in charge, why the U.S. won't...
07/27/10 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, former Antiwar Radio co-contributor and author of The Dollar Meltdown : Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, discusses the sacrifice of social programs to preserve the sacrosanct Pentagon budget, how American insularity breeds ignorance, the worthless 2300-page financial reform bill passed by Congress, how alternate systems of money and commerce will bypass Fed control and why oil and gold will hold their value against a...
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Eric Margolis on the Afghan Doc Dump, Michael Flynn on the Emergency Committee for Israel, James Bamford on the the totalitarian police state - 9-noon Pacific http://lrn.fm.
07/26/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Help Bradley Manning website, discusses 'Collateral Murder' leaker Bradley Manning’s bravery and risk of an effective lifelong prison sentence, media smears and misrepresentations of Manning, the Obama administration’s record-setting whistleblower prosecutions and how you can donate to Manning’s legal defense fund.
07/26/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the notable early discoveries within the huge cache of leaked documents from WikiLeaks, the impressive Afghanistan 'War Logs' spread set up by the Guardian, the leak’s effect on public opinion and Congressional war funding, roaming U.S. assassination squads in southern Afghanistan and evidence that IED attacks are as deadly and unstoppable as ever.
07/26/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the biggest intelligence leak in history courtesy WikiLeaks and (probably) Bradley Manning, the much higher Afghan civilian casualties than publicly acknowledged, much ado about Pakistan’s 'betrayal' of the U.S. by supporting the Taliban, how WikiLeaks endangers politicians but not soldiers in the field and why the Taliban’s acquisition of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles would lead to a victory over NATO forces.
07/26/10 – Michael Flynn – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Flynn, project director of IPS Right Web, discusses his website's devotion to profiling individuals who promote militarist U.S. foreign and defense policies, William Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel advocacy group, the unrelenting push for war with Iran and the close family relationships between the (relatively few) neocon true believers
07/26/10 – James Bamford – The Scott Horton Show
James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, discusses the huge advances in NSA technology and invasiveness since the Church Committee‘s 1975-76 investigation of illegal intelligence gathering, the NSA’s ominously-titled 'Perfect Citizen' cyber assault monitoring program, technology and free speech activists who fight internet censorship and how the major telecom hubs provide the NSA with enough information to fill enormous data...
07/26/10 – Eric Margolis and Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Strategy Session program of July 26th. Scott Horton separately interviews Eric Margolis and Tom Engelhardt. The audio for Tom Engelhardt begins around 17:10. The complete recording can be heard here. Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the differences between the WikiLeaks Afghan War files and the Pentagon Papers, why the media won’t press the issue and inflame public opinion against the war, the U.S. ultimatum after 9/11 that...
07/23/10 – Shelley Walden – The Scott Horton Show
Shelley Walden, international officer at the Government Accountability Project, discusses Paul Wolfowitz's girlfriend Shaha Riza, their corrupt deal with SAIC and the World Bank and the Foundation for the Future which came to nothing but kept everyone paid.
07/23/10 – Daniel McCarthy – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative magazine, discusses the principles of conservatism as he see them, the dumbing down of different political schools of thought into left and right and the convenience of such a system in lending itself toward imperialism, the problem of the red-state military belligerence and the importance of the antiwar types on the right staying open to the idea that they can be reached and the Bush/Obama plot to discredit interventionism for all time.
07/23/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, columnist for Antiwar.com, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, contributing writer utor to the Campaign for Liberty member of the American Conservative Defense Alliance, the Council for the National Interest Foundation, discusses the case of the defection of Sharam Amiri, his low-level expertise in nuclear matters and access only to rumor about the nuclear program — which said that there was no weapons program, Amiri's decision to go home and the CIA's...
07/23/10 – Paul Rogers – The Scott Horton Show
Paul Rogers, Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group, discusses Israel’s military upgrades that make a solo attack on Iran possible, why military action would prompt Iran to withdraw from the NPT and develop nuclear weapons in earnest, Israel’s strategic alliances with Azerbaijan and the Iraqi Kurds, the little-known permanent U.S. military operational presence in Israel, why the U.S. military (and not Israel) is most at risk to an Iranian counterattack and the lingering hard...
