New York civil rights lawyer Chase Madar discusses the case of child-soldier-turned U.S. kidnapping-torture victim Omar Khadr, lousy PR victories from convictions of cooks and a chauffeur, bogus 'war crimes' charges against someone accused of throwing a grenade on a battlefield, reasons to disbelieve that the kid threw the grenade in the first place, the tortured confession, the failure of the American people to insist on the old law, why the Canadian government doesn’t want the kid back and...
07/16/10 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
Elaine Cassel, civil liberties attorney and author of The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft have Dismantled the Bill of Rights, returns to Antiwar Radio to discuss the case of civil liberties lawyer Lynn Stewart, whose prison sentence was recently increased to 10 years in prison (probably life for a 70-year-old woman) the guideline infractions and material support and charges against her, why mouthing off to the judge at her previous sentencing was probably a bad idea, the chilling...
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...
07/16/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the creation of the Emergency Committee for Israel, UN Security Council resolutions demanding Iran cease all uranium enrichment, global support for Iran's position and the Israel Lobby's pressure to have the National Intelligence Council re-write the National Intelligence Estimate of November 2007 which held that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program and had not decided to pursue one.
07/15/10 – Leslie Lefkow – The Scott Horton Show
Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher and Horn of Africa team leader for Human Rights Watch's Africa Division, discusses the recent history of conflict in Somalia, the rise of al Shabaab, the recent bombing attacks in Uganda, claimed by al Shabaab as retaliation against Uganda for participating in the African Union military force in Somalia, the humanitarian crisis, the American government's suspension of food aid, and the blowback caused by U.S. intervention there.
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Angela Keaton, Flynt Leverett and someone from Jewish Voices for Peace 9-noon Pacific http://lrn.fm/
07/14/10 – Flynt Leverett – The Scott Horton Show
Flynt Leverett, former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, discusses how Israel is getting all its ducks in a row for a 2011-2012 attack on Iran, the lack of evidence that Iran ever had a nuclear weapons program (even prior to 2003), the unsettling prospect that the US will go to war with Iran over uranium enrichment and why the delayed release of the new Iran NIE means there is some disagreement among the intelligence agencies.
07/13/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his updated 'definitive prisoner list' for Guantanamo, how the US whisked away the real suspected terrorists to CIA black sites and used Gitmo as a catch-all and PR stunt, more reasons why torture is unjustifiable and how the Justice Department is forced to pursue terrorism charges against Yemenis who have been cleared for release.
07/13/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses her acceptance of the Andrew Exum challenge: making a case for a non-COIN strategy in Afghanistan, why talk of withdrawal is verboten in the US media and 'serious minded' think tanks, the uncertainty of Taliban dominance in a US-free Afghanistan and why Hamid Karzai’s government is doomed no matter what happens.
07/13/10 – Jeremy Sapienza – The Scott Horton Show
Jeremy Sapienza, Senior Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the temptations of liberal interventionism following the Uganda bombings , the wrongheaded conventional wisdom that Somalia's problems are due to the West's inattention, terrorism charges leveled at Minnesotan Somali-Americans who allied with Al Shabab to fight the Ethiopian army and why the Uganda bombings are a textbook case of blowback.
07/12/10 – Maria Burnett – The Scott Horton Show
Maria Burnett, senior researcher in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the possible Somalia grudge motive behind the Ugandan 'World Cup' bombing, the need for a competent and timely civilian police investigation to catch the perpetrators and Uganda’s spotty track record of adhering to the rule of law and human rights.
07/12/10 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the unsustainable expense of US empire, the 'political transaction costs' that shield government from scrutiny and protest, lack of emphasis on foreign policy at the Freedom Fest 2010 conference and why defense spending is the trillion pound gorilla in the (budget deficit) room.
07/12/10 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the military's formal charging of Bradley Manning for giving classified information to WikiLeaks, Wired‘s refusal to disclose the full chat logs between informant Adrian Lamo and Manning and why whistleblowers who embarrass government are typically subjected to the Daniel Ellsberg treatment.
07/09/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Obama's capitulation to Israeli PM Netanyahu on every issue from the West Bank to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and all the demands he never made about the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem and the Gaza blockade.
Antiwar Radio 7/08/10:
Gareth Porter, Patrick Cockburn, Jeff Huber 9-noon http://lrn.fm or http://kaosradioaustin.org.
