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The Stress Blog
Interview with Antiwar.com Co-Founder, Eric Garris
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Antiwar Radio: 4/10/09: Mark Almond, Glenn Greenwald
Today on Antiwar Radio, Mark Almond from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group will discuss events in Moldova and Georgia and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the Obama administrations' secrecy and immunity claims in regards to wiretapping and torture prosecutions. Tune...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/8/21 John Kiriakou on the Torture of Abu Zubaydah
Scott interviews former CIA Officer John Kiriakou about a recent article he wrote. Kiriakou was personally involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan. At the time, the CIA believed Zubaydah to be Al Qaeda’s third highest-ranking member. In truth, he was simply a logistician. Still, the Bush Administration used Zubaydah to make it look like dangerous terrorists were being captured and were handing over information thanks to “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Scott and Kiriakou observe that the Americans executed Japanese soldiers after WWII for using those very same techniques on American POWs. Kiriakou details the torture that Abu Zubaydah has been put through since his capture, all without a single charge being brought against him. Scott and Kiriakou also discuss other victims of the torture program, some of whom were killed without even being charged. Finally, Kiriakou explains the legal action Zubaydah is attempting to take against certain CIA contractors.
Discussed on the show:
- “Supreme Court to hear whether Abu Zubaydah’s torture is ‘secret’” (Responsible Statecraft)
- A Question of Torture by Alfred McCoy
- Murder at Camp Delta by Joseph Hickman
John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies and Doing Time Like A Spy. He is the host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik Radio. Follow him on Twitter @JohnKiriakou.
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10/07/09 – Adam Kokesh – The Scott Horton Show
New Mexico Republican Congressional candidate Adam Kokesh discusses the voter’s remorse felt by antiwar Obama supporters, how Christian Just War theory can turn conservatives against the Afghanistan war, the tiresome ‘can’t let the troops die in vain’ argument and the wide divide between Republican national leadership and the party’s grassroots.
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10/07/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses newly discovered interrogation video of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani, how Obama’s ‘move forward’ rhetoric undermines Eric Holder’s torture investigation, the broad application and abuse of increased law enforcement powers meant to specifically combat terrorism, John Durham’s glacial-paced investigation of missing CIA tapes and the minimal protests in Congress against renewing the Patriot Act.
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10/07/09 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the 60 year history of Israeli espionage against the U.S., Obama’s ‘assumption of openness’ decree that has made FOIA requests more successful, the inauspicious start of the 1985 U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement and how the 1979 Iranian Revolution cost Israel an important export market.
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10/06/09 – Brad Friedman – The Scott Horton Show
Brad Friedman, Publisher and Executive Editor of The Brad Blog, discusses the ‘too big to bust’ problem with Sibel Edmonds’ far-reaching accusations, compromised investigative entities (FBI, Congress, MSM) that risk self-implication by doing their jobs, former FBI manager John Cole’s corroboration of Edmonds’ claims, the continued Brewster Jennings mystery, failures of the 9/11 Commission and the buried FBI investigation of Marc Grossman.
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10/06/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the first diplomatic engagement between the U.S. and Iran in a generation, plans to outsource the higher enrichment of Iran’s uranium to Russia, the constant assault on the 2007 Iran NIE by NYT columnists Broad and Sanger and anti-Iran propaganda based on a 1987 A.Q. Kahn brochure and ‘smoking laptop’ documents.
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10/02/09 – Jeffrey Rogers Hummel – The Scott Horton Show
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, associate professor of economics at San Jose State University, discusses the major points of contention on U.S. Civil War history, the inextricable link between the Union and liberty in Northern doctrine, why moral rights should supersede constitutional limitations, how the North could have ended slavery in the South without contesting secession, the inability of chattel slavery-based economies to cope with runaways, the numerous bad precedents set while central governmental power grew during the Civil War and why the Articles of Confederation are better than the Constitution.
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10/02/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the decreasing number of ‘worst of the worst’ Guantanamo prisoners, Congressional intransigence on allowing Gitmo prisoners to be held and tried in the U.S., initial court challenges to Bagram prison’s extralegal status and how Obama picks and chooses which Geneva Convention rules he abides by.
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10/02/09 – David R. Henderson – The Scott Horton Show
David R. Henderson, author of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, discusses the anti-Afghanistan war demonstration he organized in Monterey, California, the effectiveness of hypothesizing a role reversal to demonstrate the hypocrisy of U.S. exceptionalism, winning over conservatives by showing the economic consequences of war and how punitive sanctions designed to instigate regime change inevitably fail.
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