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Antiwar Radio 4/21/09: Jeff Stein, Michael Hastings, Sauvik Chakraverti
On Harman and Gonzales's obstruction of justice, what the war in Afghanistan is really like, and the elections in India. Plus a ton of news and your calls. Tune in to KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin or stream live from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio from 1-3 PM Texas...
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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/6/21 Clive Stafford Smith on Ahmed Rabbani and the Other Innocent Men Being Held at Guantanamo Bay
Scott interviews Clive Stafford Smith about a recent article written by his client Ahmed Rabbani. Rabbani has been in custody for 19 years without a single charge being brought against him. In 2002 he found himself in the hands of the CIA who allegedly believed he was a man named Hassan Ghul. But even after the real Ghul was captured and brought to the same prison Rabbani was being kept in, the CIA kept trying to extract information from Rabbani. Ghul cooperated and was freed. But Rabbani was sent to Guantanamo Bay where he remains today. Smith explains some of the difficulties facing him as he argues Rabbani’s case and sheds some light on how common his story really is.
Discussed on the show:
- “The U.S. Has Held Me For 19 Years Without A Charge. I Have Just One Chance To Be Freed” (Huffington Post)
- The Senate Torture Report
Clive Stafford Smith is founder of Reprieve, and is now director of his new non-profit the 3DCentre. He is the author of Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons and Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America. Follow him on Twitter @CliveSSmith.
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; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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11/25/09 – Robert Czernik – The Scott Horton Show
Environmental and political activist Robert Czernik discusses the RNC8 group of activists arrested and charged with violating the Minnesota PATRIOT Act during the 2008 Republican National Convention, the criminalization of political dissent, the use of conspiracy charges to justify preemptive arrests and the RNC8’s ongoing legal battle.
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11/25/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Regular Antiwar.com writer Jeff Huber discusses his article ‘Dumb and Dumber Wars,’ the vulnerability of remote military outposts in Afghanistan, the folly of sending additional troops to support the corrupt Karzai government, the U.S. bombing campaign that eviscerated al-Qaeda and how Obama’s unwise campaign rhetoric tied his hands on foreign policy.
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11/24/09 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman, discusses the French pre-Marxist origins of class war theory, how outrage at welfare handouts distracts attention from much larger corporate welfare payments, industry “watchdog” regulatory agencies that help favored businesses consolidate power and eliminate competition, the burden of eminent domain on the poor and powerless, how the 1930s labor laws designed to diminish the destabilizing effect of strikes on big business, and a recommendation of Gabriel Kolko’s Triumph of Conservatism.
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11/24/09 – Scott Horton: Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama’s broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal indefinite detention of innocent prisoners, endemic racism that makes torture less objectionable and the dangerous legal precedents established by failing to prosecute Bush administration crimes.
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11/24/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s decision to send another 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, the inevitability of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban despite military escalation, how bureaucratic propagation and policy momentum keep the Afghanistan disaster moving along and the RAND Corporation’s role as think tank and cheerleader for the U.S. Air Force.
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Antiwar Radio: Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald
Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald were guests for the 11/17/09 KPFK Pacifica Radio edition of Scott Horton’s Antiwar Radio show.
The show is about an hour long and can be listened to here, beginning at 1:29 into the recording.
Scott Ritter discusses the Iranian nuclear program, James Bamford discusses the national surveillance state and Glenn Greenwald discusses what the upcoming Khalid Sheikh Muhammad trial in New York means for the rule of law.
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11/20/09 – Leslie Lefkow – The Scott Horton Show
Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch’s Africa division, discusses the worsening situation in Somalia since the 2006 Ethiopian invasion, the media’s preference for reporting on piracy instead of humanitarian disasters, the appearance that the U.S. helped destabilize Somalia simply to apprehend a few suspects from the 1998 embassy bombings, how the U.S. is more careful distributing food-aid than weapons, increasing Al Shabaab radicalism, Ethiopia’s hosting of extraordinary rendition victims and the extreme risks journalists and human rights activists take in Somalia.
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11/20/09 – David Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, discusses the myth of Constitutionally-derived presidential supremacy in foreign affairs, why Congress prefers acting like an executive advisory committee instead of a co-equal branch of government, the Tenth Amendment’s losing battle against the Commerce Clause, progress in civil and foreign court cases against Bush administration crimes that Obama steadfastly ignores, the neglected subpoena and impeachment powers of Congress and the public pressure that is the driving force behind the ‘Audit the Fed‘ amendment.
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