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09/29/09 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail discuses the mistreatment of conscientious objectors on U.S. military bases, systemic 'warehousing' of AWOL and injured soldiers, the redeployment pressure faced by soldiers with serious brain injuries or PTSD and the support network available for those seeking conscientious objector status.
09/29/09 – Melvin Goodman – The Scott Horton Show
Melvin Goodman, former senior Soviet analyst at the CIA, discusses the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) response to torture investigation naysayers, early indications that the investigation will focus on low-level operatives instead of policy makers, the Washington Post’s role as CIA apologist and how the U.S. occupation of Iraq is shaping up to be this generation’s 'Forgotten War.'
09/29/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the overblown 'gotcha' revelation of the 'secret' Iranian nuclear facility, how the wonkish debate over IAEA Additional Protocol minutiae turned into accusations that Iran is building nukes, the secret Saudi, U.K. and U.S. funding of opposition candidates in the Iranian election and the likely disastrous results of a war with Iran.
09/25/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the high success rate of Gitmo detainees in habeas corpus hearings, the legal uncertainty over the extent of U.S. government powers, Obama's use of the AUMF as a one-size-fits-all legal justification, how a unilateral executive branch is preferable to Congressionally codified bad behavior and the $200 million dollar bribe needed to offload former Gitmo Uighur prisoners on Palau.
09/25/09 – Jean MacKenzie – The Scott Horton Show
Jean MacKenzie, Afghanistan reporter for GlobalPost.com, discusses how the Taliban protection racket takes a cut of U.S. reconstruction funds, the Afghan dislike of (even the kinder, gentler U.S. version) all foreign occupations, the Afghanistan opium trade that is too deeply entrenched to stop and Gen. McChrystal's assessment that 500 thousand more troops will be needed over 5 years.
09/24/09 – Sauvik Chakraverti – The Scott Horton Show
Indian Austro-libertarian Sauvik Chakraverti discusses India's election law which only admits socialist parties, their problem of having too few urban centers that become overcrowded and expensive, the disastrous transportation infrastructure, his hope to one day open an Austrian economic institute in India, the need to open borders and trade with Pakistan and China.
09/23/09 – Brad Friedman – The Scott Horton Show
Brad Friedman, author of BradBlog.com, discusses, war, peace and our bogus left-right political spectrum.
09/23/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses the divide between establishment foreign policy realists and neocons on Israel/Palestine issues, the Goldstone fact-finding mission's conclusion on Israeli crimes in Gaza, the ability of narrowly focused interest groups to dominate U.S. policy and the hard reality of life in the Gaza Strip.
09/23/09 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the overwhelming popular support for auditing the FED, the surreptitious method of funding wars through inflation instead of direct taxation, the case for withdrawing from Afghanistan and Ben Bernanke's refusal to change course and acknowledge flaws in his economic theory.
09/22/09 – Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria discuss the MSM's refusal to investigate Sibel Edmonds's blockbuster allegations, the wide and deep bipartisan corruption at the highest levels of U.S. government, how big media's money and influence is needed to assist in pushing the story forward, the close working relationship between the American-Turkish Council and AIPAC and how Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped turn U.S. government officials into foreign intelligence assets.
09/22/09 – Jim Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the post 9/11 roundup and detention of innocents, the FBI practice of searching the phonebook to find Muslim 'suspected terrorists,' the minor immigration violations turned into long prison terms through coerced confessions, how John Ashcroft expanded the definition of 'treason' to include criticism of government actions and the persistence of 'sovereign immunity' claims in the post-Enlightenment Western world.
Sibel Edmonds’s Big Day
Sibel Edmonds, former contract-FBI translator/whistleblower and "most gagged person in U.S. history" has finally told all - to Antiwar.com's Philip Giraldi. It's all in the cover story for November's issue of The American Conservative magazine, "Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?" which hits the stands on Tuesday. Last month, Edmonds was deposed in a civil lawsuit for 6 hours (video and transcript here), and told as much of her story as she ever has, and all together in one place. Now, however,...
09/18/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of the blog Pro-Libertate and the book Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the rise of the American police state, how Nixon's war on crime/drugs changed law enforcement culture, why the drug war must end, and 21st century fascism and class warfare.
09/17/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses his new film 'The Most Dangerous Man in America,' simulations that indicate nuclear war would be more destructive than previously thought, how the practice of killing civilians en masse in WWII became the premise of U.S. nuclear war planning, cancellation of the European missile defense shield and the staggering difference in destructive force between an H-bomb and every other weapon preceding it.
