Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the continuous 18 year history of the U.S. bombing of Iraq, the Guantanamo Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) that brutalizes prisoners and even a U.S. soldier, Obama's failure to improve detention facilities and how the Spanish Guantanamo torture investigation is proceeding apace while the U.S. dawdles.
05/20/09 – David Rose – The Scott Horton Show
David Rose, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, discusses the torture case of Binyam Mohamed, why the over-the-top U.S. threats to the UK over torture documents in his case may be at the request of the British government, the '007”³ agent that exposes British claims of ignorance about torture as lies and the story behind the U.S. rejection of a 2004 reconciliation with Iraq’s Sunni leaders which led to the deaths of a million people.
Antiwar Radio 5/19/09: Daphne Eviatar and Chalmers Johnson
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05/19/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses Obama's plan to keep Bush's Military Commissions Act powers over the American people and bring the Guantanamo legal system to the U.S. and the recent Supreme Court ruling
05/19/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of the indispensable Blowback trilogy, discusses the evolution of his view of the Cold War and American empire since the fall of the Soviet Union, the inevitable collapse of the U.S. dollar and world empire, Obama's LBJ guns and butter trap, the kicking-out of the empire by the people of Latin America, the danger of further intervention in Pakistan, the ongoing rape of Okinawa and America's relationship with Russia.
Antiwar Radio 5/15/09: Jeff Riggenbach
Plus the news and your phone calls. Listen live from 1-3 central on 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
05/15/09 – Rand Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul and 2010 Senatorial candidate, discusses the war in Afghanistan, reducing corruption by making lobbying and bidding on government contracts mutually exclusive, the excess federal authority derived from the commerce clause, prosecutions of Bush administration officials for war crimes and the need for withdrawal from Iraq.
05/15/09 – Jeff Riggenbach – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Riggenbach, author of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, discusses the role of Charles Beard and Harry Elmer Barnes in advancing revisionist U.S. history, court historians who fight to preserve a mythology of benevolent government actions, drastic changes in the meaning of politically descriptive terms like 'liberal' and 'conservative' and moving away from a war/presidential perspective of history to a focus on economic/social science issues.
Antiwar Radio 5/14/09: Scott Ritter, Kelly Vlahos
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05/14/09 – Kelly B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos, longtime political reporter for FoxNews.com, discusses her controversial article 'Gian Gentile: Exposing Counterfeit COIN,' the enduring myth of the Petraeus 'surge' success story, the re-emergence of a counterintelligence cult devoted to the clear-build-hold doctrine and the prominent role the neoliberal CNAS plays in the Obama administration.
05/14/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the newly assertive U.S. role in relations with Israel, how ending nationalism-inspiring threats against Iran will allow a moderate government to take hold, Israel's inability to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities without U.S. help, how missile defense provokes nuclear proliferation and why nuclear weapons can and should be abandoned in our lifetimes.
McChrystal, Copper Green, Torture and Assassination
Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal's role. How'd I miss this in '06? Muriel Kane wonders whether McChrystal ran Cheney's global assassination hit squads. Hersh: "...let’s say Yemen, let’s say Peru, let’s say Colombia, let’s say Eritrea, let’s say Madagascar, let’s say Kenya, countries like that..." Thanks to Douglas Valentine.
05/13/09 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, journalist for The Nation and eXiled Online, discusses recent history leading up to the current mess in former Soviet Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili's downward spiral, the broken Georgian economy, rumors that U.S. advisers participated to some extent in Georgia's invastion of S. Ossetia last summer, Georgia's relationship with Israel and America's relationship with Russia.
05/13/09 – Tom Hayden – The Scott Horton Show
Former California State Senator Tom Hayden discusses the newest wave of think-tanks competing for influence in the White House, the U.S. trend of fighting generational 'long wars' instead of short decisive conflicts, the increased secrecy and ruthlessness Gen. McChrystal will surely bring to AfPak and how special operations forces use PR to maintain public support while behaving badly abroad.
05/13/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on torture memos, the blatant U.S. coverup and blackmail attempt to prevent Britain from releasing information on Binyam Mohamed's torture, the too-convenient suicide of 9/11 conspirator Al-Libi and how the argument for an independent torture investigation keeps getting stronger.
