(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
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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...
Antiwar Radio: 6/25/09: Ira Chernus and Andy Worthington
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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.
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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....
