03/28/09 – Lora Lumpe – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 28, 2009 |

Lora Lumpe, Legislative Representative for the US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL), discusses the campaign to end U.S. export and use of cluster bombs, the continued lethality of unexploded bomblets on civilians for decades after a war and the national call-in day to tell the U.S. Senate to 'Give Cluster Bombs the Boot.'

03/27/09 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 27, 2009 |

Pepe Escobar, writer for the Asia Times, discusses the importance of home-field advantage in the fossil fuel Great Game, how the U.S. empire of bases is used to dominate access to critical energy resources, the IPI (Iran, Pakistan, India) pipeline proposal that defies U.S. influence and the increasing cooperation of Russia and China on energy issues.

03/27/09 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 27, 2009 |

Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell during his tenure as Secretary of State, discusses how the Bush administration ignored the perfectly adequate Geneva Conventions guidelines for classifying war-zone detainees, the ethical and practical considerations of detaining and interrogating innocent civilians to 'fight terror,' the counterclaim to Dick Cheney’s assertion that torture prevents terrorism and the end of an Israel/Palestine two state solution. Wilkerson also says he...

03/26/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 26, 2009 |

Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses the new Robert Kagan/William Kristol think-tank Foreign Policy Initiative, how a relatively small number of neocons use their positions in media as an echo chamber to increase their influence and his view of the ideological similarity between isolationists and neoconservatives.

03/26/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 26, 2009 |

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the latest campaign promise broken by Barack Obama, the semantic removal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by calling them 'advisory and assistance' brigades and Obama’s inability to say 'no' to the military or to be truthful about his equivocations.

03/25/09 – Nebojsa Malic – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 25, 2009 |

Nebojsa Malic, author of the 'Moments of Transition' column on Antiwar.com, discusses the unacceptable-by-design Rambouillet Agreement, how the U.S.-led NATO war against Serbia set a precedent for future extralegal wars, the realpolitik goals behind U.S. interest in the Balkans and the current condition of the gangster state known as Kosovo.

03/24/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 24, 2009 |

Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, discusses the humanitarian crisis caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Arab/Kurd disagreement over national governmental authority in Iraq, how U.S. air support and logistics will remain even if ground forces withdraw, the relatively large contingent of Islamic-majority countries that are unofficial U.S. allies and the misinformation at the heart of most anti-Islam rhetoric.

03/23/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

by | Mar 23, 2009 |

Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the disposition of U.S. diplomacy in the Obama administration, the role Dick Cheney played in scuttling a Syria/Israel peace agreement, Obama's use of unofficial envoys to float diplomatic trial balloons in Iran and Russia, the fate of Hamid Karzai and why the Pyrrhic nature of the Israel lobby's recent victory over the realists has been greatly exaggerated.