Dahr Jamail, author of the article 'Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military,' discusses the increasing disillusionment among soldiers for Iraq and Afghanistan war justifications, the tactics of evading dangerous and pointless 'IED lottery' patrols, Pentagon estimates of 25-40 thousand AWOL soldiers since 2003 and how the U.S. economic downturn is preventing a large organized war resistance from taking hold within the military.
Antiwar Radio 7/02/09: Kelly B. Vlahos and David Albright
1-3 on 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio.
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The Motorhome Diaries:
07/02/09 – David Albright – The Scott Horton Show
David Albright, founder and President of the Institute for Science and International Security, discusses the propaganda value of half-truth descriptions of Iran's nuclear program, the details of IAEA/NPT compliance requirements and loopholes for avoiding them, the CIA's smear campaign against Oak Ridge National Laboratory for disputing the Iraqi aluminum tube/uranium enrichment story, issues relating to the nuclear weapons of Israel, India, Pakistan and N. Korea, how the Bush administration's...
07/02/09 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos, contributing editor at The American Conservative, discusses the health problems caused by open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ingrained military habit of underreporting injuries and illnesses, multiple lawsuits against KBR for endangering the health of soldiers and the bureaucratic games played by the military and VA to avoid paying health care costs.
Antiwar Radio 7/01/09: Michael Scheuer, Dilip Hiro
1-3 95.9 in Austin, or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio
07/01/09 – Dilip Hiro – The Scott Horton Show
Dilip Hiro, author of the article 'The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran,' discusses the cyclical problems typical of aging revolutions, Iran’s younger generation that doesn’t remember the Shah, the history of the coup and revolution and the current democratic election protests.
07/01/09 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the government's reliance on CIA covert action instead of conventional military force to protect the U.S., how the Congress and President fail to take meaningful action because they seek the adulation of the media and Europe, the wisdom in leaving Afghanistan ASAP and how Americans won't realize their government isn't protecting them until Osama bin Laden...
Antiwar Radio: 6/30/09: Jim Lobe, Scott Ritter
And maybe Bruce Fein. 1-3 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from Antiwar.com/radio.
06/30/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama's declaration that the Honduran military coup is illegal, Manuel Zelaya's closer resemblance to an elitist than a Chavez-style leftist and how the U.S. would hate to lose a base in Honduras, but very likely did not provoke the coup.
06/30/09 – Bruce Fein – The Scott Horton Show
Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under Ronald Reagan, discusses restoring the rule of law to the executive branch of government, the unprosecuted torture and FISA violations that are piling up, Obama's impeachable neglect of his duty to faithfully execute the law and why a presidential pardon and not selectively ignoring the law is the way to deal with politically sensitive crimes.
06/30/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the withdrawal caveats that could keep U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely, the Iraqi army's inability to maintain order, Maliki's pursuit of short-term oil profits at the expense of Iraq's future, the Obama administration's lack of moral courage for a messy withdrawal and how the acceptance of U.S. funding by Iranian opposition groups destroys their credibility.
06/29/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
(This interview was recorded on June 29, 2009) Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his 5-part series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) examining the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the near certainty al-Qaeda and not Iran was responsible for the bombing, the existence of an Iran-backed Saudi Arabia Hezbollah, former FBI Director Louis Freeh's overly cozy relationship with Saudi Prince Bandar and Bill Clinton's disastrous foreign policy that helped instigate 9-11.
Antiwar Radio 6/26/09: Tom Woods
http://antiwar.com/radio
06/26/09 – Thomas E. Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, author of Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, discusses Seymour Melman's [.pdf] research into the societal repercussions of a military economy, the diversion of research scientists from the private sector to Cold War military programs, the transformation of the U.S. university system into a DOD jobs program and the corruption of defense contractors into companies that can't compete...
