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Antiwar Radio: 6/04/09: Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Bill Brand, Laurence Vance
Listen live 1-3 central on 95.9 in Austin or http://antiwar.com/radio
Antiwar Radio 6/03/09: Will Grigg, Philip Giraldi, Greg Palast
Listen live on 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio/. Update: Grigg and Palast interviews are available here: http://scotthortonshow.com/ Porter here: http://antiwar.com/radio
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/22/21 Gareth Porter on the Self Licking Ice Cream Cone
Scott is joined once again by Gareth Porter to discuss a piece he wrote at the beginning of the month for Responsible Statecraft. But before talking about the article, Porter gives a quick update on the developing situation in Lebanon. The article Porter wrote talks about the “self licking ice cream cone,” a saying used to describe the self-perpetuating nature of the military-industrial-congressional complex. Porter explains how these perverse incentives kept us embroiled in war for two full decades.
Discussed on the show:
- “How the ‘self licking ice cream cone,’ prolonged the 20-year war” (Responsible Statecraft)
- “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose)
- Joe Kent on Fox News
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state. He is the author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and, with John Kiriakou, The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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05/25/10 – Spencer Thayer – The Scott Horton Show
Spencer Thayer, member of Chicago Cop Watch and the Jail Jon Burge Committee, discusses the numerous torture accusations against former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, the torture tactics used by the US in Vietnam that have since made a home in civilian law enforcement, the longstanding practice of Chicago politicians and prosecutors ignoring complaints against police abuse and the real physical dangers faced by activist proponents of alternative policing methods.
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05/21/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA and DIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses press reports that attempt to link Iran with al-Qaeda and build the case for war, the danger of a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran based on perceived intentions rather than facts, neocon Frank Gaffney’s tireless warmongering and why Israel may have an opportunity to attack Iran in August.
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05/21/10 – Jim Fine – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Fine, Legislative Secretary for Foreign Policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), discusses the effort to add an exit strategy and withdrawal deadline to the Afghanistan supplemental spending bill in the Senate, the US push for Iran sanctions despite broad agreement they won’t work, Hillary Clinton’s tough talk on Pakistan and Gen. McChrystal’s admission that nearly nine years of US occupation has only produced a draw in Afghanistan.
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05/21/10 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the secret ‘second prison’ at Bagram in Afghanistan, changes made to the Army Field Manual (Appendix M) that allow the abuse of prisoners, Seymour Hersh’s upcoming exposé on US battlefield executions, civilian contractors providing intel for AfPak drone missile strikes, Christianity and just-war theory and Rand Paul’s disappointing stance on foreign policy.
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05/19/10 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the failure of Iraqi elections to create a functional government, inadequate basic services in Iraq after seven years of occupation, the tendency of countries with oil-based economies to become dictatorships and why the Kurds are better served in the short term by continued autonomy rather than an independent state.
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05/19/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the just-disclosed US demand that Iran must stop all uranium enrichment before any negotiations are conducted, why further UN Security Council sanctions would need to be toothless to gain support from Russia and China, Hillary Clinton’s bad faith diplomacy that is weakening the US sphere of influence, parallels between US mission creep in Vietnam and Afghanistan and increasing evidence that US foreign policy decisions are made without regard for consequences.
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05/19/10 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police killing of seven year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in Michigan, how the presence of a ‘First 48”³ A&E Network film crew influenced police tactics and priorities, why the media has a statist (not liberal or conservative) bias and how military rules of engagement in Afghanistan are more strict than those governing SWAT raids in the US .
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05/18/10 – Margaret Roberts – The Scott Horton Show
Margaret Roberts, author of the foreword to Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, discusses the security lockdown on David Paul Hammer since his recent death row radio interviews, Hammer’s concern about being murdered or “suicided” in custody and the history of suspicious deaths of other inmates associated with the Oklahoma City Bombing.
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