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06/25/09 – Ira Chernus – The Scott Horton Show
Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses the dominant narrative of Israel: a vulnerable Western-style democracy in a sea of hostile Arab nations, the destructiveness of race and class based stereotypes, the Israeli and Palestinian peace groups ignored by the media and the lessening stigma of publicly criticizing Israel.
06/25/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses longtime CIA ghost-prisoner Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Guantanamo habeas corpus cases that reveal most 'evidence' is from confessions by other prisoners made under duress, Bagram’s function as a SCOTUS-free zone and Dick Cheney’s supposed 9-11 transformation into, well, Dick Cheney.
Antiwar Radio 6/24/09: Daphne Eviatar and Rachel Morris
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06/24/09 – Rachel Morris – The Scott Horton Show
Rachel Morris, author of 'Shock and Audit: The Hidden Defense Budget,' discusses the real defense budget numbers, Obama’s promise to stop using supplemental bills to pay for U.S. wars, the lack of penalties against defense contractors that don’t perform and the overriding power of Congress to save endangered weapons programs.
06/24/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Daphne Eviatar, writer for The Washington Independent, discusses the torture evidence against Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad that Obama’s DOJ won’t drop, routine torture at Bagram, Eric Holder’s use of verbal gymnastics to avoid explicitly calling the Bush wiretapping policy a crime and the disappearance of the 'enemy combatant' designation but not the policy of indefinite detention.
New Liberty Stickers!
Antiwar Radio 9/23/09: Patrick Cockburn, Eric Margolis
Antiwar Radio 9/23/09: Patrick Cockburn on Iraq, Eric Margolis on Iran. Live 1-3 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio
06/23/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the Western media's hyping of a new color-coded revolution in Iran, the recent history of the U.S. rigging elections abroad, cultural and political divides in Iran exacerbated by a youthful population, U.S. mission creep from Afghanistan into Pakistan, hypocritical U.S. complaints about Iran's crackdown while Middle East allies don't allow elections at all and how Kabul is becoming the new Saigon.
06/23/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the emphatically relative phrase 'Baghdad is better,' imminent U.S. withdraw from Iraqi cities, former Sunni insurgents — gone mainstream — that can’t go back again, the status of Kurdish post-invasion land grabs and the awarding of Iraqi oil contracts to foreign corporations.
06/22/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses evidence that Robert McNamara never told LBJ the August 4, 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack on the USS Maddox and Turner Joy never happened, information revealed in recorded phone conversations between LBJ and McNamara released in 2006 and Gareth Porter's own phone conversation with McNamara. (Note: recorded on June 22, 2009)
06/22/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the events leading to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, earlier CIA attempts to provoke N. Vietnam retaliation, Robert McNamara's role in hiding evidence that the second Tonkin Gulf incident never happened, the possibility an earlier leak of the Pentagon Papers would have prevented the Vietnam War and saved millions of lives, the sociological explanation of how government secrects are kept and the U.S....
900 interviews.
http://scotthortonshow.com/ Update: 3/07/2010: Now > 1,150.
Antiwar Radio 6/19/09: Glenn Greenwald, Joshua Frank
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Ron Paul: Best Congressman Ever.
For making the Federal Reserve an issue. May it cease to exist. What an amazing article. Pelosi poses as for transparency, but claims to have never heard of Ron Paul's audit the Fed bill (which has more than half of the entire House signed on as co-sponsors), some nobody from the "libertarian" Cato institute complains that the Fed could lose its "independence," and Lamar Alexander compares auditing the Federal Government's central bank to taking over the auto industry. Love the picture...
