Plus a ton of new, and your calls. 1-3 central KAOS Radio, 95.9 in Austin, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
05/05/09 – Marjorie Cohn – The Scott Horton Show
Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses the illegality of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of torture to extract false confessions linking Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, the embarrassment of Spain investigating U.S. war crimes while Obama sidesteps the issue and Condi Rice's comeuppance at Stanford.
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Antiwar Radio 5/01/09: Greg Mitchell
Plus the news and your calls. Listen live on 95.9 FM in Austin from 1-3 Central time, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
05/01/09 – Greg Mitchell – The Scott Horton Show
Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, discusses the sixth year anniversary of Bush’s 'Mission Accomplished' stunt, the spread of revisionist history claiming that everyone was for the Iraq war when it started, the abject failure of mainstream media on the biggest issues of the day and how online resources are challenging traditional media’s stranglehold on the truth.
Antiwar Radio: 4/30/09: Gareth Porter, Philip Weiss
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04/30/09 – Andy Behlen – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Behlen, philosophy student at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, discusses his class project Website devoted to exposing and preventing torture.
04/30/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the connection between PNAC and the U.S. empire of bases, how beltway foreign policy advisers changed Obama's antiwar rhetoric, the rumors of a U.S.-sponsored Iraqi coup d'etat to replace Nouri al-Maliki and the tendency of empires to enter costly military quagmires that bring their downfall.
04/30/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses all the implications of the Jane Harman wiretap story the MSM hasn't run with yet, the evidence of Israeli attempts to dominate U.S. policy decisions on Iran to start a war, the J Street lobby's moderating influence and how Israeli leaders are oblivious of the political re-evaluation of Israel by American Jews.
Antiwar Radio: 4/29/09: Patrick Cockburn
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04/29/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the duplication of (illusory) successful U.S. strategies in Iraq for use in Afghanistan, the U.S. drone missile strikes that kill a few Taliban but anger millions of Pakistanis, Nouri al-Maliki's continued assertion of Iraqi sovereignty and how the Iraqi Sunnis are squeezed between contradictory political pressures from Islamic radicals and the Iraqi government.
Antiwar Radio 4/28/09: George McGovern, Eric Margolis
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04/28/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the causes of instability in Pakistan, the unrealistic expectations the U.S. places on its puppet governments, the Taliban's inability to fill the Pakistan power vacuum and why the U.S. can't resist the lure of imperialism.
04/28/09 – George McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former senator George McGovern discusses the danger to the U.S. in continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, why the damage to Iraq is already done and can't be fixed by the U.S., Eisenhower ended the Korean war as promised, the lessons he learned flying a B-24 in World War II, the extraordinary cost of maintaining a world empire and the difficulty of unraveling the influence of the permanent warfare economy.
