Jeff Huber, Antiwar.com regular and author of Bathtub Admirals, discusses the diminishing likelihood of war with Iran or success in Afghanistan, the crazy Kagan-O'Hanlon plan to invade Pakistan and seize their nukes and why it would be completely unnecessary anyway.
07/08/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPSNews, discusses the recent rumors of war against Iran, why he thinks violent military confrontation unlikely in the short to medium term, continuing opposition from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the central role of the American Israel Lobby in pushing for a war certain to be detrimental to the United States and the American/Israeli pathology toward aggressive war against helpless opponents.
07/08/10 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent and author of the book Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, discusses the recent bombing attacks against Shia pilgrims in Iraq, the continued political impasse over which alliance of parties will be able to form a government, the question of whether whoever comes to power will insist upon the Dec. 2011 deadline for U.S. withdrawal or bow to Pentagon plans to retain bases there and the...
07/07/10 – Stephan Salisbury – The Scott Horton Show
Stephan Salisbury, author of Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland, discusses the sordid history of bogus domestic terrorism cases since 9/11, an egregious example in Philadelphia, the difficulty the entrapping feds cause the local police in their attempts to build trust in their local Muslim communities, the long history of undercover provocateurs in the pay of the national government, Dick Cheney’s 1% Doctrine, the case of the 'Newburg Four,' the Albany pizza...
07/07/10 – Cynthia McKinney – The Scott Horton Show
Former congresswoman and peace activist Cynthia McKinney discusses her participation in a 2008 attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip to deliver humanitarian aid there, the Israeli navy's ramming of their boat, the accurate coverage provided by a CNN anchor on scene and the power the Israeli Lobby has over the congress of the United States.
07/06/10 – Sunita Patel – The Scott Horton Show
Sunita Patel, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses various things people need to know about their civil rights and restrictions on the power of police over suspects, the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination, the CCR's suit against the NYPD for stopping and frisking thousands of people without any suspicion,
07/06/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
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...
