Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondant for the Independent, discusses the Iraqi National Intelligence Service threat to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the myth that the 'surge' pacified Iraq, the continued scarcity of clean water and electricity in Baghdad, a likely new UN resolution by the new year and how a Shia-dominated government may be strong enough to take over from the U.S.
11/13/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses the repeating of history in Afghanistan, India’s under-the-radar regional influence and sweetheart nuclear deal, ramifications of a future 'Pashtunistan', the precarious economic and political conditions in Pakistan, the possibility of Obama using Bill Clinton as Kashmir peacemaker, the need for a waxing Department of State and waning Pentagon in the foreign...
David T. Beito Vs. The New New Deal
All the democrat-types across the country are racing to dredge up the corpse (legacy) of America's Great Dictator, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in order to justify a whole new round of freedom destruction. (Just turn on MSNBC if you don't believe me.) Thank goodness there are Historians Against the War out there - at least one of whom, my friend David Beito, opposes wars by our government against anyone, whether Iraqi, Afghan or American. Here David smashes the myth of FDR's greatness and...
11/12/08 – Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton, Senior Resident Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the origins of the housing bubble, how Bernanke, Greenspan and the rest of the Fed misled the public, the lack of dissent from macroeconomic experts, where the taxpayer-funded bailout money is going and why empires end in bankruptcy.
11/12/08 – Philip Hammond – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Hammond, author of 'Darfur: the Dangers of Celebrity Imperialism' in the Spiked Review of Books, discusses the folly of liberal 'humanitarian' interventionism, why complicated conflicts like that in the Darfur region of Sudan are often described as 'genocide' and why waging empire in the name of helping people never does any such thing.
11/11/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the credibility of claims that al Qaeda is planning an attack bigger than 9/11, the logic behind suicide terrorism, why a quick withdrawal from Iraq is unlikely, how U.S. security agencies are hamstrung by porous borders and ports, the role of Nigerian oil in future U.S. intervention Somalia and why al Qaeda wanted Obama to win the presidency.
11/11/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the important new article 'Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated' at RawStory, discusses the latest labyrinthine developments in the 'stolen laptop' documents story, how the weight of evidence indicates the documents are forgeries in the 'Nigerian yellowcake' tradition, the two oft-confused but very different IAEA investigations of Iran’s nuclear program and a future expose on Israeli involvement in the affair.
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11/10/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributor to Harper's magazine, discusses the Obama administration's mandate to close Gitmo and defang the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the current status of unprecedented executive power, pardons from the Bush administration and possible adverse consequences for pardoned torturers under international law.
11/10/08 – Woody Powell – The Scott Horton Show
Woody Powell, former executive director of Veterans For Peace, discusses his personal experiences serving in the Korean War, the difficulties and invective associated with anti-war activism in America and the virtues of advocating for peace rather than militarism on Armistice Day.
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Yay. Since 2003, I have done more than 700 interviews in the interest of opposing the state and its wars. 705 to be exact, though two have been lost to computer glitches: an interview of Ivan Eland back in 2003 and one of Glenn Greenwald earlier this year. Thanks to Shauna, Chad, Eric and Justin, Dan, John, Brendan, Brandon, Angela, August, Chris, Mark, Adam, Brent, everyone at KAOS Radio, Antiwar.com, my incredible guests and listeners for everything. All interviews are available for free...
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From today's press conference: "[I]t is not going to be easy for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we are in." Will Grigg says "No. Worse."
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11/06/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, blogger at Salon.com and the author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses his optimism on civil liberties, why we might safer with Rahm Emanuel out of the House, liberal interventionism and Carl Cameron's obfuscation of information damaging to the McCain campaign.
11/06/08 – Christopher Manion – The Scott Horton Show
Christopher Manion, contributor at LewRockwell.com, discusses the leftist origins of the neoconservatives, their hypocrisy on the UN, the danger that they will find a home in the Obama administration and the early years at National Review.
