Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses how Gen. David Petraeus's political skills and reputation could enable a compromise settlement in Afghanistan, speculation that Gen. Stanley McChrystal got fired on purpose, the August deadline for significant US troop reduction in Iraq and why even war boosters aren't talking about victory in Afghanistan anymore.
06/28/10 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that will end Chicago's handgun ban, the Slaughterhouse cases in 1873 that set legal precedent on the Fourteenth Amendment's limitations, the common interpretation of the Second Amendment as the right to armed self defense rather than protection from government tyranny, open questions on what gun rights limitations the SCOTUS will find reasonable and why the radicalism of the...
06/28/10 – Anand Gopal – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses his interview with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar about peace talks with the Karzai government, the probable short tenure of whatever political entity (including the Taliban) fills the void after US departure, why COIN-inspired night raids that succeed in killing Taliban commanders are still counterproductive and why Hamid Karzai’s dominion is even less than his derogatory 'Mayor of Kabul' title suggests.
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Gareth Porter, Will Grigg, Larry Siems (ACLU), Rep. Alan Grayson 9-noon on the West coast http://lrn.fm/ http://kaosradioaustin.org/
06/25/10 – Larry Siems – The Scott Horton Show
Larry Siems, principal author on the ACLU project The Torture Report, discusses his effort to summarize the thousands of Bush administration torture documents obtained through FOIA requests, the dozens of US citizens targeted for extrajudicial assassination by the Obama administration, John Durham's long investigation into the CIA's destruction of torture tapes and the massive opposition within the FBI and other agencies against torture.
06/25/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police assault on bedridden 86-year old Lona Varner, the dissolution of the chronically-troubled Maywood CA police department and the trend toward military-style civilian law enforcement.
06/25/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Afghanistan policy with Gen. David Petraeus in charge, how the military has achieved ideological hegemony in the US, Obama's window of opportunity to deflect blame for failure in Afghanistan and why Petraeus was close to declaring defeat in Iraq before his 2007 testimony to Congress.
06/24/10 – Bruce Schneier – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier discusses Joe Lieberman’s proposal for an internet 'kill switch,' why shutting down the internet during a crisis would cause more harm than good and how controversial websites like WikiLeaks use data redundancy spread out in different countries to prevent being shut down.
06/24/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the nearly 75% success rate of Guantanamo detainee habeas hearings, why Gitmo inmate Mohammed Hassan Odaini — despite winning his habeas case and being cleared for release by the Bush and Obama administrations — remains in custody, the government’s incredibly flimsy evidence against the so called 'worst of the worst' and how Washington political games and moral cowardice prevents justice from being served.
06/23/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author of the article 'The Runaway General' in Rolling Stone magazine, discusses the controversy surrounding his profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal (who has now been relieved of command in Afghanistan).
Antiwar Radio 6/22/10
Ann Wright, Shane Kadidal 9-noon Pacific, http://lrn.fm. (The KAOS stream is broken today.)
06/22/10 – Shayana Kadidal – The Scott Horton Show
Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the Supreme Court decision on the ‘material support’ for terrorism case Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court’s continued deference to ‘wartime’ decisions made by the executive and legislative branches, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s lead role in arguing the government’s position in the case, why teaching the Tamil Tigers about...
06/22/10 – Ann Wright – The Scott Horton Show
Former State Department diplomat Ann Wright discusses her reasons for joining the Gaza aid flotilla, her firsthand account of the Israeli raid on the MV Mavi Marmara and Challenger 1, the use of collective punishment to effect regime change and Obama's silence on the death of nine activists including a US citizen.
06/21/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Israel’s revised list of goods allowed into Gaza, smuggling tunnels from Egypt that provide 'luxury' goods for a few politically connected Gazans, running the clock out on an international flotilla investigation, Obama’s gutless presidency and why Turkey is at a crossroads.
06/21/10 – Antiwar Radio:Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, discusses American ignorance of the unprecedented US empire of bases, fighting one-sided impersonal wars by remote control, forgotten lessons from George Orwell’s 1984, why the USAF plan to run the world from Guam and Diego Garcia won’t be easy, another Green Zone-style US 'embassy' planned for Islamabad in Pakistan and why the Obama administration seems to be floundering without the intense (if deluded)...
