Sheldon Richman discusses the spectacle of last year's big government loving conservatives complaining about Obama's health care plan, the ability of the free market - including the elimination of the AMA and patent protection - to lower health care costs, etc.
08/06/09 – Greg Mitchell – The Scott Horton Show
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, discusses the suppressed documentary color footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation, today's casual threats to use nuclear weapons without a serious understanding of the consequences, the continuing disagreement over the need to use atomic weapons to quickly defeat Japan in WWII and the surprising cast of characters (MacArthur, Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles) who were against using the bomb.
08/05/09 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, discusses the discontent in Iran's business community with sanctions and an unstable pariah government, the possibility Iranian political opposition leaders may soon be arrested (or worse), Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's inextricable association with Ahmedinejad and the shift in U.S. war and propaganda effort from Iraq to Afghanistan.
08/03/09 Gordon Prather: Iran and North Korea’s Nuclear Programs
Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses unsubstantiated claims Iran is secretly building nukes, the IAEA going beyond the scope of their mandate in Iran dealings, Bill Clinton's broken promises regarding N. Korea's nuclear program, accusations that Iran is pioneering new nuclear weapons designs, overstated dangers of EMP attacks and the indignant U.S. attitude toward Iran designed to provoke withdrawal from the NPT and IAEA programs.
08/03/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the troop surge increase and mission creep in Afghanistan, U.S. alliances with Central Asian despots, the subservience of the State Department to the Pentagon in foreign policy and consequences of the sanctions on Iran.
07/31/09 – Jeremy Scahill – The Scott Horton Show
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, discusses the dwindling ranks of antiwar Democrats in Congress, the 'cruise missile' liberals that support war in Darfur without questioning the aims of U.S. imperialism, the mercenary surge accompanying the troop surge in Afghanistan, the history of bipartisan executive assassination programs and the 'birther' conspiracy theories that completely miss the point.
07/31/09 – Michael Paterniti – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Paterniti, author of the article 'Never Forget' in GQ Magazine, discusses the Khmer Rouge’s four year reign of terror, Cambodia’s ongoing trials of Khmer regime crimes, the notoriously brutal S-21 death camp, the destruction of individuality including the banning of smiles in the Khmer Rouge’s anti-society and the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia initiated by Nixon.
07/30/09 – Eric Stoner – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Stoner, freelance journalist based in New York, discusses the use of nonviolence to force political changes, the decline in the antiwar movement after Obama's election, the need for more creative and assertive protests, the replacement of soldiers with remote controlled robots and why there is no such thing as a humanitarian war.
07/30/09 – Antiwar Radio, Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses Washington’s treatment of the Constitution as a legal suggestion, why real patriots are civil liberties extremists, evolving Democratic excuses for not prosecuting Bush administration war crimes and how governmental powers 'temporarily' increased during emergencies never fully recede.
07/29/09 – Robert P. Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert P. Murphy, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism and The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and the New Deal, discusses modern warfare dependent on central bank money creation, Austrian economic theory entering mainstream vocabulary, the FED's argument against a congressional audit, the consumer-driven economic theory that misses the production component, a new era of stagflation coming.
07/29/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the Iraqi government's more aggressive stance on the Mujahedin-e Khalq, how the Bush administration's wishful thinking and ignorance guaranteed a disastrous Iraq policy, the de-emphasis of the MEK's Islamic Marxism in U.S. Congress lobbying efforts and the political scheming behind the Iraq/U.S. Status of Forces Agreement.
07/28/09 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show
Pepe Escobar, writer for the Asia Times, discusses the Pentagon’s 'arc of instability' that follows the same path as a potential Western-dominated oil pipeline, how U.S. aggression abroad has united Russia, China and Iran, the internal economic-fueled strife in China and Joe Biden’s wacky rant against Russia.
07/28/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses the origin and meaning of the Taliban, the conflicting messages Obama and the U.S. military give on why staying in Afghanistan is a good idea, the benefits of an 'Egypt solution' billion dollar yearly payoff to stabilize and allow withdraw from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s low popular support and territorial control.
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