Jonathan Schell, author of The Fate of the Earth, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger and visiting lecturer at Yale University, discusses the case against nuclear weapons, the destructive power and military obsolescence of America and Russia’s nuclear arsenals, the treaties the U.S. government has signed promising to dismantle our nukes, the administration’s war against the non-proliferation regime, missile 'defense' in Eastern Europe and the first strike option, NATO...
April Glaspie on the Record
for the first time in a long time: Part one. Part two.
04/03/08 – Nick Turse – The Scott Horton Show
Nick Turse, associate editor and research director of TomDispatch.com, discusses the future weaponization of animals by the Pentagon, the new cyborg-insects, moves by different local police agencies to deploy Predator drones, the 'hey, it’s simply value-free research going on here' attitude of the DARPA researchers and the rise of the military industrial-everything complex.
04/02/08 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette and Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio discuss the use of the pejorative 'conspiracy theorist,' to shut down debate of controversial issues, the continuing danger of war with Iran, the Federal Reserve Board’s war against the American people, their total lack of accountability, vast new power grab over ever larger sectors of the economy, the (un)willingness of most Americans to face up to the truth of the corruption in DC, the danger that when the economy really gets bad, the state...
04/02/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, contributing writer for Harper's magazine and author of their blog No Comment, discusses the release of the full text of the infamous Yoo-Bybee torture memo, the bogus defensive arguments invoking unlimited power contained therein, how the law is supposed to work instead, the Pinochet precedent for prosecution of the highest level officials in this case, the sad story of Dilawar the Afghan cab driver, the scapegoating of the lowest...
04/01/08 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Alan Bock, senior editorial writer at the Orange County Register and author of the regular column 'Eye on the Empire' for Antiwar.com, discusses the media sycophants who got it wrong, why we got it right, the military’s resistance to Cheney’s war with Iran, how Somalia was before the American-Ethiopia invasion, the case against the central state, the counterproductive and unwinnable 'war on terror,' John McCain’s militarist mindset, and the bogus excuses for staying in Iraq and the personal...
Update to WordPress 2.5
The site has been updated to WordPress 2.5, which has changed the dashboard considerably, and for the better. I am staying with the default WordPress dashboard theme for the forseeable future. WordPress's lead designer, Matt Mullenweg, created a short screencast of himself using the new dashboard to post and add images or galleries to a post. This may answer any questions you have about how this is done. I encourage you all to take advantage of the new features. The screencast can be found...
03/31/08 – Michael Schwartz – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Schwartz, journalist and Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook, discusses the history of the U.S. military’s various policies for and against various religious and political factions in Iraq over the past 5 years, Dick Cheney’s oil 'control' motive for the war and the necessity of American withdrawal.
Amy Goodman Calls Out Borat O’Bomb-Ya
March 28, 2008 Amy Goodman Questions Sen. Obama on Heeding Iraqis’ Call for Full US Withdrawal Following his speech on the economy at New York’s Cooper Union, Amy Goodman asks Sen. Barack Obama why he is not calling for a total withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in accordance with the 70 percent of Iraqis who say they want the US out. [includes rush transcript] Sen. Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate. ----------------------------------------------------- AMY GOODMAN: Obama was...
03/28/08 – David Case – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance journalist David Case discusses the U.S. government’s program of 'targeted assassination' of terrorist suspects and Iraqi enemies, the results of the two major studies of the program (total failure), the U.S. war in Somalia, the lack of legal oversight, the more restrictive Israeli legal precedent, the difficulty of covering the story and overall counter-productive nature of the 'War on Terror.'
03/28/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Iraqi Army's targeting of the Mahdi Army, his suspicion that Cheney arranged this with Maliki on his recent trip, the doom this could spell for the occupation, Iran's relative influence with the Mahdi Army and the Badr Corps of the Hakim faction and the neoconservative propaganda that Iran backs al Qaeda.
New KAOS Radio Website
The Resinous Bastard, DJ No Home and the gang have set up a new website for KAOS Radio. Check it out. Looks like they got the archives of the whole show going fer ya too.
03/27/08 – Jenny Eliscu – The Scott Horton Show
Jenny Eliscu, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and host of 'Left of Center' on Sirius Radio, discusses the real life of the James Blake Miller, the 'Marlboro Man' in the iconic photo from the 2nd Battle of Fallujah, the War Party’s spin which used him as a poster boy and the reality of the real man — broken by and opposed to the war, his PTSD symptoms, survivors guilt and the difficulty of getting help from the VA.
The Entire Archive of Frontline Interviews from These Horrible Bush Years and Terror Wars
Is available here. Their newest documentary "Bush's War," is here.
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