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Antiwar Radio: Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine’s Scott Horton
Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine's Scott Horton will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, April 17th. Eland will be on at 2:30PM Eastern and Horton at 3:30PM Eastern. Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace...
Antiwar Radio 4/16/09: News
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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/3/21 Danny Sjursen on Afghanistan, Veterans and Counterinsurgency
Scott interviews Danny Sjursen and gets his reaction to the Taliban victory in Afghanistan. Sjursen thinks the Taliban’s campaign to take control of the country may soon be studied in war colleges. He also thinks that Scott’s book Fool’s Errand should be studied at war colleges, or at least books just as critical of the wars. Sjursen then talks about how this is a tough time for veterans, but that that isn’t a reason to hold back criticism of the war. That the idea that being antiwar implies a hatred of the troops is ridiculous and convenient for those in power. Lastly, Sjursen reflects on the counterinsurgency mission he took part in Afghanistan.
Discussed on the show:
- The Hunt for Red October
- Redeployment by Phil Klay
- “American Purpose After the Fall of Kabul” (New Yorker)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm clip
- The Operators by Michael Hastings
- War Machine
- Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman
Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. army major and former history instructor at West Point. He is the author of Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge, Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War and A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism. Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet.
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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10/27/09 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond and writer for The eXiled, The Nation, and AlterNet, discusses U.S. style “corporate communism,” consumer spending bubble made from Fed money creation, hypocritical Randian pseudo-libertarianism versus the real kind, the extremism of U.S. political “centrists” and hope for a realignment of the true moderates, how Wall Street gangsters treat American towns like third world colonies of the empire, and then back to the business cycle again.
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10/23/09 – Robert Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Greenwald, producer of the documentary Rethink Afghanistan, discusses the false premise used to justify the war in Afghanistan, the usefulness of breaking down war costs into broadly understandable terms, why war opponents need to speak out to their Congressional Representatives and the failure of the occupying forces in their mission (some would say) to liberate Afghan women.
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10/23/09 – Nat Hentoff – The Scott Horton Show
Nat Hentoff, senior fellow at the CATO Institute, discusses the greatly lessened restrictions on domestic FBI surveillance programs, the FBI’s ‘investigative assessments’ that supplant judicial warrants and oversight, the failure of the educational system to teach the Constitution and limitations on government power and how colonial era rebellion against writs of assistance inspired the Fourth Amendment.
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10/23/09 – Sibel Edmonds and John M. Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Former FBI contract–translator–turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and former FBI counter-intelligence officer John M. Cole discuss State Department cooperation with the ‘mujahedeen’ in the Central Asian Turkic countries through the Turkish military and intelligence in the time before 9/11, a State Department order to release suspicious Uzbeks and Turks after the attack, the neocons’ and realists’ joint-attempt to negotiate the invasion of Iraq from Turkey in the summer of 2001, Edmonds’s overall credibility and level of access to information in her role as ‘language specialist’ for the FBI, espionage within the FBI and why it continues unabated, Cole’s ‘conservative estimate’ of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage in the U.S. which quashed by political pressure from above, Edmonds’s accusations that Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Marc Grossman have been participating in the stealing and fencing of nuclear secrets to Turkish and Israeli agents for years, Grossman’s outing of CIA front-company ‘Brewster-Jennings’ to a Turkish diplomat in August, 2001 — nearly 2 years before the Valerie Plame scandal — and it’s destruction as a result, the grey area where legitimate lobbying by foreign governments crosses into espionage and criminality, Cole’s call for prosecutions and Edmonds’s intention to turn her new news Website, BoilingFrogsPost.com, into a home for journalists who want to practice their craft without partisanship or political pressure.
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10/22/09 – Tim Wise – The Scott Horton Show
Tim Wise, director of the movie Soldiers of Peace, discusses the worldwide outbreak of peace (really!), reconciliation of Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, ending the vicious cycle of tribal retribution, ranking the benevolence of nations with a Global Peace Index and how free trade and open communication decrease the likelihood of war.
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10/22/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the counterproductive coercive diplomacy in U.S./Iran talks, political pressure brought to bear by U.S. allies on the 2007 Iran NIE, new evidence of manufactured controversy about the Qom facility and Iran’s well-reasoned decision to halt disclosure under the additional protocol to their Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA in 2007.
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10/21/09 – Martin Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Martin Smith, producer of the PBS Frontline documentary Obama’s War, discusses the incredible scope of a full-blown global counterinsurgency, new COIN strategies that supposedly reduce the troop levels needed to pacify Afghanistan, the missed window of opportunity for successful nation-building and the difficulty of persuading Afghan civilians to entrust their safety to foreign troops rather than the Taliban.
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10/21/09 – Tom Hayden – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Hayden, author of the article ‘Kilcullen’s Long War‘ in The Nation, discusses David Kilcullen’s advocacy for a global Phoenix Program, the emerging narrative that counterintelligence is just community policing and nation building, problems with making a 50 year war commitment in a (nominally) democratic country, Mullah Omar’s power sharing proposal and how useless wars are continued simply to avoid defeat.
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