Mark Ames, Lawrence Wittner 11-1pm 95.9 F 'em in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
04/29/10 – Lawrence Wittner – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, discusses the upcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations, disagreements between nuclear and non-nuclear states, creeping complacency since the Cold War's end about the dangers of nuclear weapons, how even a small nuclear exchange (between India and Pakistan, for example) could bring about nuclear winter and drastically effect life on earth and why working for a nuclear...
04/29/10 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, co-editor and writer for The eXiled, discusses the money-making business of war (for the politically connected few), why halfhearted government deregulation of the thoroughly rigged banking system does not create a free market, Alan Greenspan’s lucrative consulting business with the Paulson & Co. hedge fund and how the post-Cold War 'peace dividend' was scuttled by the neocon-inspired 'unipolar moment.'
Liberty Stickers
04/28/10 – Iloilo Marguerite Jones – The Scott Horton Show
Iloilo Marguerite Jones, Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, discusses the rights and responsibilities of jurors, why - despite popular opinion - jurors may follow their consciences and render verdicts contrary to laws they think are unjust, the incarceration of millions of Americans for victimless crimes and how American public education churns out citizens overly deferential to authority.
Hero
04/27/10 – Chris Deliso – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist and author Chris Deliso discusses the multiple conflicting claims on the (regional/national/ethnic) identity of Macedonia, economic instability that threatens the Euro currency and the EU in general, the longstanding conflict between Turkey's religious government and secular military, the lasting legacies of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires in Asia Minor and the possible incorporation of Kosovo into a Greater Albania.
New Ron Paul Stickers
Antiwar Radio 4/23/2010
Jason Ditz, Tracey Harmon, Andy Worthington 11-1 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
04/23/10 – Tracey Harmon – The Scott Horton Show
Tracey Harmon, conscientious objector member of IVAW and LOLA, discusses her poor phone reception in Iraq, her conscientious objector ordeal, working with an undisclosed NGO to investigate crimes by or against Iraqi Kurds.
04/23/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the escalation of violence in Iraq that is mostly ignored by the media, Muqtada al-Sadr's significant political clout, disputed Iraqi election results from early March and the unwillingness of Iraq's political factions to compromise and form a government.
04/23/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his website’s Guantanamo Habeas Week event that seeks to draw attention to government torture and lawlessness, the difficult-to-determine ratio of evil/incompetence at work in the Bush administration, the arbitrary roundup of 'terrorists' in Afghanistan and Pakistan following the embarrassing bin Laden Tora Bora escape, the current score card of Guantanamo Habeas hearings, scaremongering Republican politicians and the end of...
Antiwar Radio 4/22/2010
Joshua Kors and Daniel Luban 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
04/22/10 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for the foreign policy blog Lobelog, discusses Israel's postwar history, the lack of a serious peace process since Camp David, Obama's sometimes-encouraging rhetoric on a peaceful two-state settlement, common ground between the anti-occupation Left and foreign policy/military realists worried about disruption of US regional goals, why Palestinians will have a powerful appeal for one person one vote democracy should a two-state solution fail and why parsing the public...
04/22/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the military’s fraudulent 'personality disorder' discharges that deprive injured soldiers of benefits and medical care, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s mistreatment and effective incarceration by Army doctors, how the Pentagon has saved an estimated 12 billion dollars by denying care to 22,600 soldiers since 2001 and how the Feres Doctrine limits malpractice lawsuits against military doctors.
