Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the RAND Corporation’s Army-commissioned study for a militarized 'Stability Police Force,' the attempted legalized circumvention of Posse Comitatus and the end of distinction between civilian and military law enforcement, the slippery slope from a civilian criminal suspect to an enemy combatant and the tyrannical reign of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
12/14/09 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch.com, discusses the multitude of 'other' surges in Afghanistan overshadowed by the troop deployments, the costs excluded from Obama’s 30 billion dollar surge estimate, the unfounded belief that a Democratic president can’t end a war, the difficulty of defining — much less achieving — success in Afghanistan and how Bush’s wars continue even though the geopolitical strategy that created them is gone.
12/11/09 – Clifford F. Thies – The Scott Horton Show
Clifford F. Thies, the Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, discusses expanding the definition of property rights to create a market solution for environmental problems, the utility of a cap and trade system if governments are excluded from resource allocation decisions, concerns that environmental causes will take precedence over civil liberties and the unfair advantage carbon caps give to developed nations over third-world competitors.
12/10/09 – Ellen Cantarow – The Scott Horton Show
Ellen Cantarow, author of the article 'Living by the Gate From Hell' at TomDispatch.com, discusses the Israeli barrier wall’s effective annexation of Palestinian territory, the change in West Bank Jewish settlements from temporary trailers to elaborate housing developments, agricultural gates operated by Israel that control when Palestinians can access their own land, how Palestinians are denied a right of return while foreign descendants of Jews can claim citizenship and how a partial West...
12/09/09 – 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 the Seton Hall report (pdf) that casts doubt on the 'suicide' death of three Guantanamo inmates in 2006, the highly redacted and delayed release of the military’s cover-up investigation, indications that less than ten percent of all Gitmo prisoners may be serious terrorists, the legal immunity enjoyed by high governmental officials during the Bush and Obama...
12/08/09 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, our long-lost former co-contributor to Antiwar Radio and author of The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, discusses how the Iraq war went from 'paying for itself' to costing trillions, the individuals responsible for the US financial crisis, the widespread use of accounting tricks and phony balance sheets to delay bankruptcy, the declining worth of all the world’s paper currencies, India’s landmark...
12/08/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the Iraq bombings that undermine Nouri al-Maliki's claim of improved security in Baghdad, the US government spin machine that defines terrorist attacks as indicators of progress, the difficulty of fighting and winning wars against failed states, the marked decline in Iraq's Sunni population and the strange US determination to pacify Afghanistan.
12/04/09 – Jeff Frazee – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of Young Americans for Liberty, discusses YAL's mission statement of educating and promoting libertarian-minded candidates for public office, their primary focus on the Constitution, antiwar issues and limited government, Ron Paul's success at increasing public awareness of the FED and monetary policy and why avoiding divisive debates on secondary issues is essential for an inclusive organization's survival.
12/03/09 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity, discusses the skin deep congressional support for the "audit the Fed" bill, the need to eliminate rather than curtail the Federal Reserve System, why prediction of the dollar's imminent demise are probably premature, overly optimistic Fed announcements about financial recovery and the difference between the public statements and private candor...
12/03/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s compromise decision on troops for Afghanistan that pleased nobody, the divergent goals and methods of al Qaeda and the Taliban, serious logical flaws in the 'disrupting terrorist safe havens' rationale for war in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party strategy of acceding to any military demands and the obstacles to a third-party uranium encrichment deal with Iran.
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12/02/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the post-Gulf War politicization of United Nations weapons inspections, the rigid 100 percent compliance mandate that guaranteed Iraqi failure, how Madeleine Albright halted invasive inspections that could have verified Iraq's disarmament, Bill Clinton's determination to keep sanctions on Iraq until Saddam Hussein was deposed, the misuse of UN inspectors as intelligence agents and provocateurs, the attempt to assassinate Hussein during...
12/02/09 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the TSA's plan to see every air traveler naked, harsh criminal penalties for resisting body searches, the TSA's failure to discover or thwart a single terrorist and why concerned citizens and locked cockpit doors provide better security than a multi-billion dollar government agency.
12/01/09 – David Weingarten – The Scott Horton Show
David Weingarten, producer of the documentary movie Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat, discusses the 'Toronto 18”³ group of terrorist suspects accused of planning to make truck bombs and behead Canada’s Prime Minister, the role of police informants in procuring bomb-making materials and bringing the loosely affiliated group together and how extended pre-trial incarceration encourages guilty pleas.
12/01/09 – Petra Bartosiewicz – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance journalist Petra Bartosiewicz discusses the nearly guaranteed guilty verdicts for terrorism trials in federal courts, the government's ability to restrict crucial non-vetted evidence from the defense and even the prosecution, court precedents that weaken the Bill of Rights and how the political pressure on the FBI to catch terrorists often leads to prosecutions of entrapped patsies.
