Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. First of all, thanks very much to all y'all, for listening to the show, reading/supporting AWC, etc. - and the rest you do for peace and liberty too. By my count, the empire is killing a bunch of people and isn't about to quit any time soon. So ... In the new year I will be continuing with Antiwar Radio for Antiwar.com, KAOS in Austin and KUCR in Riverside - as well as Anomaly Radio, the Liberty Radio Network, and Revere Radio, which all run the show online....
12/18/09 – Mark Emery – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Emery the "Prince of Pot" discusses the explosion of drug offense incarcerations since the 1980s, his movement to legalize marijuana in North America, the punitive costs of openly defying anti-drug laws (as civil disobedience?) and the close association (real or imagined) between marijuana and the antiwar movement
12/18/09 – Michael Prysner and James Circello – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Prysner and James Circello, staff members of March Forward!, an antiwar organization for active duty soldiers and veterans, discuss the bigotry ingrained in military culture that dehumanizes the enemy du jour, the class struggle between enlisted soldiers and officers, the intentional 'draw fire' missions that boost an officer’s career while endangering troops, double-dipping retired generals who get paid to propagandize for more war, the continued deployment of soldiers with PTSD and...
12/17/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the media driven myth of a truly oppositional US political system, hypocritical progressive support for the same Obama policies that were denounced during the Bush administration, how conservative outrage over FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society subsided when the programs were continued by Republican presidents, the unusual upholding of the Constitution in ACORN’s lawsuit (PDF) against Congress and the...
12/17/09 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show
Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the delays in getting habeas corpus hearings for her clients, the inadequate health care afforded Gitmo inmates, Matthew Waxman’s role in having 'enemy combatant' status reviews redone until the results were favorable to the government, why detainees headed to Illinois will probably get military tribunals and Gorman’s own attempt to sue the NSA for tapping her phone.
12/16/09 – Per Bylund – The Scott Horton Show
Per Bylund discusses the confiscatory nature of "national defense," the ability of individuals to defend themselves without state intervention, common ground between Left and Right anarchism and the debate about whether private property can exist without the state.
12/16/09 – Martin Chulov – The Scott Horton Show
Martin Chulov, Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian of London, discusses the ecological disaster in Iraq, diversion of water from the Tigris and Euphrates by Syria, Turkey and Iran, the fate of Iraq's Marsh Arabs, greatly increased birth defects in Fallujah, the few remaining foreign journalists covering Iraq and the near-certainty that the US occupation will soon be over.
12/15/09 Andrew Cockburn: U.S. Support for Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses the historical and continuing US support for Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, how the CIA and State Department stymied attempts to stop A.Q. Kahn early on and how US safeguarding efforts allow Pakistan's nukes to be more fully and rapidly deployed.
12/15/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
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.
