Daphne Eviatar, lawyer and journalist for the Washington Independent, discusses the Bush Administration’s semantic games that are redefining torture, how John Yoo’s justification of waterboarding conveniently ignored numerous contradictory court precedents, the familiar refrain of fitting legal opinions around the policy, why the Hamdan ruling doesn’t help detainees outside of Guantanamo and how the growing Bagram prison and other 'black' detention facilities remain outside the law and hidden...
10/29/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, author of The Dreyfuss Report blog for The Nation, discusses the policy of 'hot pursuit' across international boundaries against anyone deemed an enemy, an increased military budget that encourages greater use of special forces, the prospect of a renewed UN mandate replacing a failed Iraq SOFA agreement and how it could effect the incoming U.S. administration, Iran’s decision to reduce confrontation with the U.S., how the Israeli election result will impact prospects for peace...
10/28/08 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, author of 'The Cold War that Wasn’t' in The Nation, discusses the dominant narrative and ideological underpinnings in the U.S. press regarding the recent Georgian attack on South Ossetia and subsequent Russian counterattack on Georgia, the attempt to portray Russia as the aggressor by floating the idea of a first-strike cyber war despite the lack of any evidence, the alleged poisoning of Ukraine’s Victor Yushchenko and the current dispute between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko over...
10/27/08 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show
H. Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the difficulty of being a defense attorney for detainees subject to shifting court rulings and legal designations, a paralyzed federal court system that is stalling habeas corpus hearings until after the presidential election is decided, back room repatriation deals between the Bush administration, potential host countries and Guantanamo defense attorneys in order to preempt unfavorable judicial...
10/27/08 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch and of The World According to TomDispatch, chronicles the failures of the Bush Administration and their misguided faith in the dark side of force, the state of complete catastrophe inside Afghanistan and on its border with Pakistan, the precarious situation in Iraq, Bush's failure to get Iran to stop enriching Uranium (his standard), how U.S. policy has benefited Hamas and Hezbollah, the worst crisis on earth: the U.S.-caused war in Somalia and the rise of...
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McCain’s Tawana Brawley
Ashley Todd, who John McCain called to comfort yesterday and whose campaign hyped the story as loudly as they could, has admitted that her story about a big, scary, black man who beat her up and carved - ever so lightly - a backwards "B" for Barack on her face ... was pure bullshit. Yesterday: "She also indicated she was sexually assaulted as well. She indicated that when he had her on the ground he put his hand up her blouse and started fondling her. But other than that, she says she doesn’t...
10/24/08 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and author of America's Defense Line: The Justice Department's Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, discusses the intrigue behind the AIPAC spy case, long rage patterns of neocon duplicity and criminality, the history behind the Logan Act, the complicity of the corporate media, the likely continuity of Mideast policy in an Obama administration and the War Party's shutting down of...
Sarah Palin to Fans Asking Her to Turn Up the Mic:
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10/23/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and reporter for IPS News, discusses the Status Of Forces Agreement being negotiated with Iraq, Bush's abetting of the Iranian influence in the Iraqi government, last week's massive demonstrations against the occupation, Russia and the soon to expire UN mandate, the longstanding canard of Iran's nuclear ambitions the waning likelihood of an attack on Iran and the situation in Pakistan.
10/23/08 – Matthew Rothschild – The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age, discusses the U.S. Army's NORTHCOM acquisition of part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the effective suspension of the Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus, the need for a political realignment around the most important issues of liberty and war, the use of the military at both conventions and the sadly un-exercised power of impeachment.
10/23/08 – 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 likely view of Barack Obama and John McCain's foreign policy positions from al Qaeda's perspective, how developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are too good to be true for them, the importance of the book Who Speaks for Islam, former DCI George Tenet's withholding of Scheuer's team's report debunking accusations about Saddam Hussein's ties to al Qaeda...
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10/22/08 – Jim Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard, author of many great books, most recently Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses America's abandonment of law and rising police state, many people's need to identify with a savior, the benefits of the Ron Paul candidacy, the story behind the Republicans failure to remove Bill Clinton from power in 1998, the continuing failure of the corporate media and the hope for a more humble foreign policy with Obama.
10/22/08 – Lester Ness – The Scott Horton Show
Lester Ness, friend of the show and American English teacher in China, discusses that land and it's relationship with the United States.
