Jim Fine, Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), discusses the effort to add an exit strategy and withdrawal deadline to the Afghanistan supplemental spending bill in the Senate, the US push for Iran sanctions despite broad agreement they won't work, Hillary Clinton's tough talk on Pakistan and Gen. McChrystal's admission that nearly nine years of US occupation has only produced a draw in Afghanistan.
Antiwar Radio: 5/19/10
Patrick Cockburn, Gareth Porter, Will Grigg 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org
05/19/10 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the failure of Iraqi elections to create a functional government, inadequate basic services in Iraq after seven years of occupation, the tendency of countries with oil-based economies to become dictatorships and why the Kurds are better served in the short term by continued autonomy rather than an independent state.
05/19/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the just-disclosed US demand that Iran must stop all uranium enrichment before any negotiations are conducted, why further UN Security Council sanctions would need to be toothless to gain support from Russia and China, Hillary Clinton's bad faith diplomacy that is weakening the US sphere of influence, parallels between US mission creep in Vietnam and Afghanistan and increasing evidence that US foreign policy...
05/19/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police killing of seven year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in Michigan, how the presence of a 'First 48”³ A&E Network film crew influenced police tactics and priorities, why the media has a statist (not liberal or conservative) bias and how military rules of engagement in Afghanistan are more strict than those governing SWAT raids in the US .
Antiwar Radio 5/18/10:
Antiwar Radio 5/18/10: Margaret Roberts, Muhammad Sahimi, James Bovard, Bob Murphy and Debra Sweet 11-1pm 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org
05/18/10 – Margaret Roberts – The Scott Horton Show
Margaret Roberts, author of the foreword to Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, discusses the security lockdown on David Paul Hammer since his recent death row radio interviews, Hammer's concern about being murdered or "suicided" in custody and the history of suspicious deaths of other inmates associated with the Oklahoma City Bombing.
05/18/10 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses why hundreds of trillions in derivatives contracts are not as big a deal as they seem, the economic stalemate from competing deflationary and inflationary forces, a revisionist history of Paul Volcker's term as Fed chairman, innovative entrepreneurs making the best of the Haitian disaster and why charity and libertarianism are not mutually exclusive.
05/18/10 – Debra Sweet – The Scott Horton Show
Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait, discusses why crimes under Bush are crimes under Obama, the rapidly escalating US occupation of Afghanistan and the upcoming protest scheduled during Obama's West Point commencement address.
05/18/10 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses Bill Clinton's definition of terrorism: when regular people act like governments do, the Republican Party's inability to criticize law enforcement during the Waco Congressional hearings, why the libertarian movement is stuck in limbo and the large portion of tea party protesters that love government when it is warring, wiretapping or waterboarding.
05/18/10 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the Iran/Turkey/Brazil enriched uranium swap agreement, the predictable negative reception from Europe and the US, further demands upon Iran and continuing sanctions meant to queer the deal, Hillary Clinton's last minute attempt to dissuade Turkey and Brazil from cooperating with Iran and why arguing for Iran's rights under the NPT is not an endorsement of Ahmadinejad or...
Antiwar Radio 5/14/10
Max Keiser, Matthew Harwood, Chris Hedges 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org
05/14/10 – Matthew Harwood – The Scott Horton Show
Washington DC-based writer Matthew Harwood discusses the degraded moral principles in the US evident from the American public’s assent to torture, the prohibition against torture by Washington and Lincoln in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the limited investigations focused on 'a few bad apples' instead of the torture choreographers in the Bush administration.
05/14/10 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, discusses the antiwar movement's many mistakes that have rendered it ineffective, the slow-motion fascist coup d'etat in the US, the dangers of unfettered capitalism, the pros and cons of secession movements and the near-unanimous Congressional approval of the extrajudicial assassination of US citizens.
Antiwar Radio 5/13/10
Max Keiser, rerun of Buchanan on WWII 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org
