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Antiwar Radio 3/13/09: Eric Margolis and Frida Berrigan
Listen live on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas or stream it live from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio. 1-3 Texas time. Call in number: 512-646-6446.
Antiwar Radio: Robert Murphy
Last week I twice spoke with Robert Murphy of the Free Advice blog and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. The archive of both interviews has finally arrived. Here.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/30/21 Kevin Gosztola and John Kiriakou on the Sentencing of Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale
Scott talks to Kevin Gosztola and John Kiriakou about the trial of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale, who was just sentenced to 45 months in prison for crimes under the espionage act. Hale’s case is unlike some other recent whistleblowers, in that he freely pled guilty to an espionage charge but maintained that his actions were morally justified. Kiriakou stresses that with good behavior, time served and substance abuse recovery programs, 45 months really means more like a year and a half. And while that’s a long time to sit in prison, he says this is a big victory for Hale, considering what could have happened. In fact, the judge in his case seemed not to buy the prosecution’s bogus case at all, namely that Hale was a petty self-aggrandizer, who leaked these documents for reasons of personal ambition. The judge dismissed four other charges that the prosecution might have tried to bring against Hale, securing a relative victory compared to what could have been.
Discussed on the show:
- The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program
- “The Drone Papers: Secret documents detail the U.S. assassination program.” (The Intercept)
- “National Bird (2016)” (IMDb)
Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure.” Follow him on Twitter @kgosztola.
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.
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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03/28/09 – Lora Lumpe – The Scott Horton Show
Lora Lumpe, Legislative Representative for the US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL), discusses the campaign to end U.S. export and use of cluster bombs, the continued lethality of unexploded bomblets on civilians for decades after a war and the national call-in day to tell the U.S. Senate to ‘Give Cluster Bombs the Boot.’
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03/27/09 – Pepe Escobar – The Scott Horton Show
Pepe Escobar, writer for the Asia Times, discusses the importance of home-field advantage in the fossil fuel Great Game, how the U.S. empire of bases is used to dominate access to critical energy resources, the IPI (Iran, Pakistan, India) pipeline proposal that defies U.S. influence and the increasing cooperation of Russia and China on energy issues.
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03/27/09 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell during his tenure as Secretary of State, discusses how the Bush administration ignored the perfectly adequate Geneva Conventions guidelines for classifying war-zone detainees, the ethical and practical considerations of detaining and interrogating innocent civilians to ‘fight terror,’ the counterclaim to Dick Cheney’s assertion that torture prevents terrorism and the end of an Israel/Palestine two state solution. Wilkerson also says he would cooperate with the prosecution of Dick Cheney for war crimes – not that that would ever happen.
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03/26/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses the new Robert Kagan/William Kristol think-tank Foreign Policy Initiative, how a relatively small number of neocons use their positions in media as an echo chamber to increase their influence and his view of the ideological similarity between isolationists and neoconservatives.
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03/26/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the latest campaign promise broken by Barack Obama, the semantic removal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by calling them ‘advisory and assistance’ brigades and Obama’s inability to say ‘no’ to the military or to be truthful about his equivocations.
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03/25/09 – Nebojsa Malic – The Scott Horton Show
Nebojsa Malic, author of the ‘Moments of Transition‘ column on Antiwar.com, discusses the unacceptable-by-design Rambouillet Agreement, how the U.S.-led NATO war against Serbia set a precedent for future extralegal wars, the realpolitik goals behind U.S. interest in the Balkans and the current condition of the gangster state known as Kosovo.
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03/24/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, discusses the humanitarian crisis caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Arab/Kurd disagreement over national governmental authority in Iraq, how U.S. air support and logistics will remain even if ground forces withdraw, the relatively large contingent of Islamic-majority countries that are unofficial U.S. allies and the misinformation at the heart of most anti-Islam rhetoric.
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03/23/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the disposition of U.S. diplomacy in the Obama administration, the role Dick Cheney played in scuttling a Syria/Israel peace agreement, Obama’s use of unofficial envoys to float diplomatic trial balloons in Iran and Russia, the fate of Hamid Karzai and why the Pyrrhic nature of the Israel lobby’s recent victory over the realists has been greatly exaggerated.
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