This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Beneath the Surface program of July 23rd. Scott Horton interviews Jeremy Scahill and is himself interviewed by KPFK producer Alan Minsky. The complete recording can be heard here. Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the too little too late Washington Post exposé on 'Top Secret America,' how private contractors do the dirty (and illegal) work of state terrorism...
07/21/10 – Jeremy Kirk and Luke Hansen – The Scott Horton Show
Jeremy Kirk and Luke Hansen, both members of Witness Against Torture, discuss their trip to Burmuda to visit the 4 Uighurs recently released from the Guantanamo Bay prison, how they came to be sold to Americans in Pakistan and brought to Cuba, their inability to leave the tiny island or see their families, the Christian doctrines which motivate their help for modern victims of imperial crucifixion and a little bit about the organization Witness Against Torture.
07/21/10 – David T. Beito – The Scott Horton Show
David T. Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama and keeper of the blog Liberty and Power at the History News Network, discusses his book (with co-author Linda Royster Beito) Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s madness, his Justice Department’s witch hunt against those who opposed the New Deal regime and march to war, FDR’s direct and personal use of the IRS to persecute dissenters, widespread opening of mail,...
07/21/10 – Birgitta Jonsdottir – The Scott Horton Show
Birgitta Jonsdottir, member of the Icelandic parliament, talks about the role the financial meltdown in 2008 played in the people there's insistence on transparency in government and banking, the new whistle-blower protection law working its way through their system which would protect, computer servers, prevent judges from compelling disclosure of sources, the hero Bradley Manning‘s plight, the importance of Wikileaks, the inability of Iceland to protect whistleblowers from extradition, but...
Today on Antiwar Radio:
David Spero (realignment), Joe Shansky (Costa Rica), Stephen M. Walt (Israel) 9-noon West, 12-3 East http://lrn.fm/ or http://kaosradioaustin.org.
07/20/10 – David Spero – The Scott Horton Show
David Spero RN, author of the book The Art of Getting Well, writer for DissidentVoice.org, discusses his push for a left-right-libertarian realignment for liberty and against the empire, the important issues we agree on and the divisive social issues that divide us, Scott's hairbrained idea for a real two-party system, TV's best efforts to keep Americans helpless, the hopeful rise of civilian mutual support networks to decrease dependence on the central state as economic times get worse.
07/20/10 – Stephen M. Walt – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University and co-author of the article and the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, discusses once-and-present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stubbornness in implementing the Oslo Accords, the newly released 2001 video which shows him bragging at his success, how the policies of the Likud Party and the American Israel Lobby are...
07/20/10 – Joseph Shansky – The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Shansky, contributor to Counterpunch, UpsideDownWorld and Democracy Now! en Español, discusses the 'invited' invasion of Costa Rica by the U.S.. Navy and Marine Corps, the drug war excuse, Costa Rica’s pacifist constitution which forbids such things, the notable lack of information about the move, the widespread disapproval of the new U.S. presence among the population, the realignment across Central and South America away from U.S. power and other reasons to anticipate a new era of...
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Gareth Porter (Netanyahu, Amiri), Joe Meadors (USS Liberty, Mavi Mamara), Bruce Fein (American Empire) -- 9-Noon Pacific http://LRN.FM.
07/19/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the just released 2001 video of Benjamin Netanyahu mocking the stupidity of the 80% of Americans who support Israel and the ease with which Tel Aviv can dictate to Washington D.C., Netanyahu's history of thwarting peace deals made by his predecessors and the neoconning of the Canadian media at the expense of our guest.
07/19/10 – Bruce Fein – The Scott Horton Show
Bruce Fein, author of American Empire: Before the Fall, discusses the domestic consequences of foreign empire, the very fast transition from republic to empire in American history, the changing of the presidency from chief executive to permanent war commander, the simple truth that terrorism is a reaction to, not the reason for American interventionism in the Middle East, Faisal Shazad's explanation of how this works to a federal judge in New York recently, an example of how empire's bring...
07/19/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPSNews, discusses indications that Amiri the mysterious Iranian defector was actually a double-agent sent by Iran to learn what the CIA knew and thought about them, Amiri's role on the periphery of their nuclear program, his statements to the CIA that there is no nuclear weapons program, Porter's source who says that the National Intelligence Council will stand by their previous no-nuke-weapons-program-in-Iran stance [.pdf] from 2007 in...
07/19/10 – Joe Meadors – The Scott Horton Show
Joe Meadors, former US Navy signalman and survivor of both the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and on the Gaza Peace Flotilla, describes the details of the Liberty assault, why they believe it was intentional, the recall of the USS Saratoga‘s fighters twice that day from assisting the Liberty on orders from Lyndon Johnson, the massive cover-up, why the Israelis were unable to sink the ship despite their best efforts, different theories on the Israeli's motivations, his motive for...
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Punk Johnny Cash, Chase Madar, Elaine Cassle 9-noon Pacific http://lrn.fm/ or http://kaosradioaustin.org/
07/16/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, freelance reporter, author of the book I Lost My Love in Baghdad and the article 'The Runaway General' in Rolling Stone magazine — which brought down General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the Afghan War — discusses the rules of engagement for American forces in Afghanistan, public support for a timeline for withdrawal, the failure of the operation in the small town of Marja and the reluctance of Kandahar leaders to go along with repeat of the same in their city, the...
