They're both correct.
04/15/09 – Stephen Weber – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Weber, Chief Operating Officer of the Program on International Policy Attitudes, discusses a new opinion poll that indicates Americans are ready for open relations with Cuba, the Obama administration's loosening of Cuba restrictions back to Clinton-era levels and the many areas of Democrat and Republican agreement on Cuba policy.
Antiwar Radio: 04/14/09: Gordon Prather, John Basil Utley, Dahr Jamail
And torture. Listen live on 95.9 FM KAOS Radio Austin from 1-3 PM Texas time, or KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
04/13/09 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the broken deals that prompted Iran to establish an independent nuclear program, the near-impossibility of Iran making secret nuclear weapons under IAEA supervision, Carter-era restrictions on nuclear power generation and the Bush administration's attack on the international non-proliferation regime.
04/13/09 – John Basil Utley – The Scott Horton Show
John Basil Utley, associate publisher of The American Conservative, discusses the directly proportional relationship between lengthy congressional incumbency and pro-war attitudes, the left-right alliance needed to curb military spending, the military-industrial-congressional complex and the narrowing political divide in the U.S. (except the south).
04/13/09 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, writer for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the Iraqi government’s unwillingness to incorporate Sunni 'Awakening Councils' into the regular army, the walled-off autonomous conclaves within Baghdad, the decimation of Iraq’s health care system and forty years of U.S. meddling in Iraqi affairs.
How Liberalism Can Be Relevant
Thank goodness for the liberals that they have a central bank to initiate the boom-bust cycle - that way we can all suffer together! Okay, I admit this is old, but I really like it when politicians admit what depraved criminals they are. If Hart's position papers aren't yet finalized, he certainly has no trouble with the vision thing. ''The essential intellectual challenge,'' he told me, ''is how to make liberalism relevant for our time. How do you make the principles of equality and justice...
The ICRC Torture Report
A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA’s eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA’s ‘Ghost Prison’ ‘Black Sites,’ including pretty much everything the Soviet GPU would have done. In my interview with Danner on February 18th, he explained that the U.S. government granted full access to the ICRC in the understanding that...
Antiwar Radio: 4/10/09: Mark Almond, Glenn Greenwald
Today on Antiwar Radio, Mark Almond from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group will discuss events in Moldova and Georgia and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the Obama administrations' secrecy and immunity claims in regards to wiretapping and torture prosecutions. Tune in live 1-3PM Texas time on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
04/10/09 – Mark Almond – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Almond, Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, discusses the discontent about elections in Moldova, the devastation wreaked by neoliberal economics, the encroachment of NATO recruitment on former soviet states, political instability in Georgia and Kosovo and the bureaucratic inertia in NATO that seeks continual expansion.
04/10/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the nefarious origin of the state secrets privilege, the ways in which Obama has exceeded the Bush administration on secrecy invocations, the fight over releasing the few remaining Bush torture memos and the Obama administration's foot-dragging over prosecuting Bush-era crimes.
Antiwar Radio: 4/09/09: Gareth Porter
Listen live 1-3 Texas time on KAOS Radio 95.9 FM in Austin, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
04/09/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the divisions on Iran policy between the U.S. and Israel and within the Obama administration, the misleading journalism from David Sanger of the NY Times, the dangerous diplomatic leverage game the U.S. is playing and how U.S. arrogance derived from its superpower status leads to foolish foreign policy strategies.
Antiwar Radio: Kevin Zeese
Kevin Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy, discusses Nelson Rockefeller’s contribution to mandatory minimum drug sentencing, the losing proposition of continued drug prohibition, Joe Biden’s drug-warrior credentials and the successful Dutch and Swiss decriminalization and treatment programs. MP3 here.
04/08/09 – Jean MacKenzie – The Scott Horton Show
Jean MacKenzie, Program Director at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, discusses the ineffective use of foreign aid in Afghanistan, the lingering resentment of Hamid Karzai by factional groups excluded from political power, the India/Pakistan competition for influence in Afghanistan and the moral obligation of the U.S. to tidy the mess it made.
