12/03/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 3, 2008 |

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., co-editor of We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, discusses the persistence of pro-war propaganda over time, the remarkably similar arguments made to justify the War of 1812 and the current Iraq war, the curious case of pro-secessionist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner, the Wilsonian provocations that ensured U.S. entry into W.W.I, the importance of forming a left-right antiwar alliance to counter the bipartisan war party and the...

12/03/08 – Matthew Alexander – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 3, 2008 |

Matthew Alexander, former U.S. military interrogator and author of the opinion piece 'I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq' published in the Washington Post, discusses how information gleaned from ethical interrogations enabled the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the relatively moderate views of most Iraqi Al-Qaeda members who joined for practical rather than ideological reasons, the moral and operational failure of torture and the enduring legacy of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as a...

12/02/08 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 2, 2008 |

Frida Berrigan, co-author of the article 'Who Rules the Pentagon?', discusses Obama’s distinctly non-reformist national security team, the need to reevaluate the meaning of 'national defense' amidst a U.S. empire of bases, the struggle between realists and neocons over weapons procurement dollars and the public relations campaign of defense contractors to base Pentagon funding on a percentage of GDP.

12/02/08 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 2, 2008 |

Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, discusses the anti-occupation motives of terrorists, the similarities of extremists that transcend religion and culture, how a U.S. economic collapse could usher in a popular uprising of the Christian Right, the desperate and mostly ignored situation in the Gaza Strip and the terrible consequences of a war with Iran.

Keith Preston’s “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”

by | Dec 1, 2008 |

I wanted to pass along a link to an essay that I think you all should read. Preston is what I guess he would call a "left-libertarian" or "anarcho-socialist", or perhaps he has another term. Anyway, the piece is brilliantly constructed and it won the Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize. I think it would be interesting to read the end, and then backtrack to see how he gets there. Here's a paragraph that not many people here would be inclined to fully agree with: An economy organized on the basis of...

12/01/08 – Bill Barnwell – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 1, 2008 |

Bill Barnwell, minister from Michigan and writer for LewRockwell.com, discusses the merit of the 'Obama is the Antichrist' rumors, how American dispensationalists influence Mideast policy, the havoc created if a Third Temple were rebuilt in Israel, the wisdom of a historical-contextual reading of the Bible and the conflict between militarist theology and Biblical scripture.

12/01/08 – Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Scott Horton Show

by | Dec 1, 2008 |

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher for The Nation magazine, discusses the incoming Obama Administration, the popular backlash against corporate power, the ethical and practical necessity of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how an escalation in Afghanistan would ruin the promise of change and hope from the Obama campaign, the impotence of conventional military power against the contemporary threats of asymmetrical warfare and piracy and why NATO should be disbanded and a new...

Talk at UT Monday 12/01/08

by | Nov 29, 2008 |

Local friends of the show: Norman Horn and Andrew Glass of the The Longhorn Libertarians have invited me back to give a talk concerning the foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush and what to expect from Barack Obama. It will be Monday, December 1, 2008 at (I think) 7:00 at the Engineering Teaching Center Building at 26th and San Jacinto.

11/28/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

by | Nov 28, 2008 |

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses the Mumbai terrorist attacks, India's numerous enemies both foreign and domestic, the 2002 Gujarat province massacre of Indian Muslims, the sixty year long battle over Kashmir and the risk of an India-Pakistan nuclear war.