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Antiwar Radio 4/16/09: News
Lots of it. And your calls. Tune in to 95.9 FM in Austin or stream live online from 1-3 Texas time at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
Antiwar Radio 4/15/09: Stephen Weber
Stephen Weber on American attitudes toward Cuba, tons of news, your calls. Listen live on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, or tune in 1-3 Texas time at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
11/19/21 Samantha Melamed on the Epidemic of Coerced Confessions in the Philadelphia Police Department
Scott is joined by Samantha Melamed of the Philadelphia Inquirer to talk about a series of articles she wrote called The Homicide Files. Since 2018, a total of 22 people convicted of murder have been exonerated. Melamed tells a couple of these stories and ties them into the broader historical context of the decades of gross misconduct in the Philadelphia Police Department.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Homicide Files” (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Samantha Melamed has been a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013. She covers issues of identity, race, social justice, as well as prisons and the legal system. Follow her on Twitter @samanthamelamed
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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12/03/09 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity, discusses the skin deep congressional support for the “audit the Fed” bill, the need to eliminate rather than curtail the Federal Reserve System, why prediction of the dollar’s imminent demise are probably premature, overly optimistic Fed announcements about financial recovery and the difference between the public statements and private candor of government officials.
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12/03/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s compromise decision on troops for Afghanistan that pleased nobody, the divergent goals and methods of al Qaeda and the Taliban, serious logical flaws in the ‘disrupting terrorist safe havens’ rationale for war in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party strategy of acceding to any military demands and the obstacles to a third-party uranium encrichment deal with Iran.
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12/02/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the post-Gulf War politicization of United Nations weapons inspections, the rigid 100 percent compliance mandate that guaranteed Iraqi failure, how Madeleine Albright halted invasive inspections that could have verified Iraq’s disarmament, Bill Clinton’s determination to keep sanctions on Iraq until Saddam Hussein was deposed, the misuse of UN inspectors as intelligence agents and provocateurs, the attempt to assassinate Hussein during Operation Desert Fox, Ritter’s personal attempts to debunk the propaganda leading up to the 2003 Iraq War, Colin Powell’s much ballyhooed and easily disproven (even at the time) 2003 UN presentation and why the US is populated with sheep instead of citizens.
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12/02/09 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the TSA’s plan to see every air traveler naked, harsh criminal penalties for resisting body searches, the TSA’s failure to discover or thwart a single terrorist and why concerned citizens and locked cockpit doors provide better security than a multi-billion dollar government agency.
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12/01/09 – David Weingarten – The Scott Horton Show
David Weingarten, producer of the documentary movie Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat, discusses the ‘Toronto 18”³ group of terrorist suspects accused of planning to make truck bombs and behead Canada’s Prime Minister, the role of police informants in procuring bomb-making materials and bringing the loosely affiliated group together and how extended pre-trial incarceration encourages guilty pleas.
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12/01/09 – Petra Bartosiewicz – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance journalist Petra Bartosiewicz discusses the nearly guaranteed guilty verdicts for terrorism trials in federal courts, the government’s ability to restrict crucial non-vetted evidence from the defense and even the prosecution, court precedents that weaken the Bill of Rights and how the political pressure on the FBI to catch terrorists often leads to prosecutions of entrapped patsies.
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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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