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.
05/12/09 – Jeff Sharlet – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Sharlet, author of the article 'Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military,' discusses the widespread Christian fundamentalist evangelism among U.S. military officers, how a soldier’s perception of a war on Islam in Iraq trumps politically correct Bush and Obama administration rhetoric, the process behind the influx of intolerant evangelical military chaplains and Christianity’s usurpation of the Constitution at premier military academies.
Antiwar Radio: Burton Folsom
Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of the book New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, discusses the disastrous legacy of America's Great Dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Listen here.
Defending Libertarianism
Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, defends libertarianism from the Devil’s advocate.
A couple new ones
Antiwar Radio 5/8/09: Today’s show: Murray Rothbard, Burton Folsom, Mark Manning
2-4 eastern antiwar.com/radio
05/08/09 – Mark Manning – The Scott Horton Show
Documentary filmmaker Mark Manning discusses his film The Road to Fallujah, the events leading up to the 2004 murders of Blackwater contract employees in Fallujah, the terrible toll collective punishment takes on civilians and how open dialogue makes peace possible.
05/08/09 – Burton Folsom – The Scott Horton Show
Burton Folsom, professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of the book New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, discusses the disastrous legacy of America's Great Dictator, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Antiwar Radio: 5/7/09: Eric Margolis, Sibel Edmonds, Jacob Hornberger, Lew Rockwell
Listen live on KAOS Radio 95.9 FM in Austin from 1-3 central, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
05/07/09 – Sibel Edmonds – The Scott Horton Show
Sibel Edmonds, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, discusses the hypocrisy of free speech invocations in defense of Rosen/Weissman while whistle-blowers endure gag orders, the numerous cover-ups of unspecified Congressional misdeeds caught on wiretaps, the dedication of rank-and-file FBI agents to investigate crimes despite political implications and how she is ready to tell her story to a publisher willing to fight government censorship.
05/07/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the many internal factions rebelling against the Pakistani government, Hillary Clinton's unfounded fears of a Taliban takeover of Pakistan, the geography and significance of Pakistan's provinces and how the U.S. risks creating more events akin to the Iranian Revolution.
05/07/09 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, defends libertarianism from the Devil's advocate.
05/07/09 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the legal maneuvers that prevented a Supreme Court ruling on enemy combatants, the difference between regular and extraordinary rendition, how the U.S. asserts the right to detain anyone in the world indefinitely and how the mission of the CIA is incompatible with a free society.
