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Antiwar Radio 3/03/09: Noam Chomsky and The Other Scott Horton
Listen Live 11-1PM Pacific time at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
Ron Paul Talks With Bob Sheiffer
My favorite is the part where he "admits" that he does not attend Caesar's speeches to the Congress. They are, he says, "unbearable." It's also fun to see how many edits there are in part two. Part one and Part two. Thanks to Lew.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/15/21 Ted Snider on Why the US Prefers Iranian Hardliners
Scott talks to Ted Snider about America’s relationship with Iran and Syria. Iran has just elected a new president, Ibrahim Raisi, who Snider says is much more of a hardliner than his predecessor, Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani was the one who worked with the Obama administration on the JCPOA, so on the surface it seems that Raisi’s more obstinate stance toward the U.S. will be to America’s disadvantage. But Snider goes on to explain a bizarre dynamic that pervades American—and especially neoconservative—foreign policy: the U.S. government will push for moderate leaders in Iran, then discredit their reformist positions by betraying our agreements (as President Trump did with the JCPOA), which in turn give rise to more radical, conservative leaders in their place. And Snider suspects that this pattern is deliberate. The establishment war planners in Washington want Iran to be America’s arch-nemesis, and moderate reformers stand in the way of that portrayal. Needless to say, none of this is actually good for the American people.
Discussed on the show:
- “Why Are We Still at War with Syria?” (Antiwar.com)
- “Iran’s Election: Making Your Iranian Nightmares Come True” (Antiwar.com)
- “Why I’m Rooting for the Hardliner in Iran’s Elections” (POLITICO Magazine)
- “The Redirection” (The New Yorker)
- Going to Tehran: Why America Must Accept the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear
Ted Snider has a graduate degree in philosophy and writes on analyzing patterns in U.S. foreign policy and history. He is a regular writer for Truthout, MondoWeiss and antiwar.com.
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12/07/08 – Dr. Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Nuclear physicist Dr. Gordon Prather debunks the War Party’s claims about Iran’s nuclear program.
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12/05/08 – Jesse Trentadue – The Scott Horton Show
Jesse Trentadue discusses the the events surrounding the 1995 murder of his brother while in federal custody in Oklahoma City and the connection to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the Elohim City paramilitary camp sting operation run by the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center, foreknowledge of FBI agents and complicity of FBI informants in the bombing, the ongoing court battles with the U.S. government over FOIA requests and civil lawsuits and the involvement of Obama’s appointed attorney general Eric Holder in the coverup of Kenny’s murder.
Scott’s collection of Trentadue pdf files.
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12/05/08 – Andrew Bacevich – The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, discusses the negative net returns of U.S. expansionism from the 1960s onward, the establishment of a permanent national security apparatus that made non-interventionism impossible, the Carter Doctrine’s faulty premises and continued influence in Middle East policies and the current Pentagon reassessment of U.S. military limitations that may inhibit a troop surge in Afghanistan and force a more realistic political solution.
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12/03/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., co-editor of We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, discusses the persistence of pro-war propaganda over time, the remarkably similar arguments made to justify the War of 1812 and the current Iraq war, the curious case of pro-secessionist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner, the Wilsonian provocations that ensured U.S. entry into W.W.I, the importance of forming a left-right antiwar alliance to counter the bipartisan war party and the legacy of the Bush presidency being reflected in Obama’s cabinet appointments.
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12/03/08 – Matthew Alexander – The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Alexander, former U.S. military interrogator and author of the opinion piece ‘I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq‘ published in the Washington Post, discusses how information gleaned from ethical interrogations enabled the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the relatively moderate views of most Iraqi Al-Qaeda members who joined for practical rather than ideological reasons, the moral and operational failure of torture and the enduring legacy of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as a recruiting aid for violent extremists.
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12/02/08 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, discusses the anti-occupation motives of terrorists, the similarities of extremists that transcend religion and culture, how a U.S. economic collapse could usher in a popular uprising of the Christian Right, the desperate and mostly ignored situation in the Gaza Strip and the terrible consequences of a war with Iran.
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12/02/08 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan, co-author of the article ‘Who Rules the Pentagon?’, discusses Obama’s distinctly non-reformist national security team, the need to reevaluate the meaning of ‘national defense’ amidst a U.S. empire of bases, the struggle between realists and neocons over weapons procurement dollars and the public relations campaign of defense contractors to base Pentagon funding on a percentage of GDP.
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12/01/08 – Bill Barnwell – The Scott Horton Show
Bill Barnwell, minister from Michigan and writer for LewRockwell.com, discusses the merit of the ‘Obama is the Antichrist’ rumors, how American dispensationalists influence Mideast policy, the havoc created if a Third Temple were rebuilt in Israel, the wisdom of a historical-contextual reading of the Bible and the conflict between militarist theology and Biblical scripture.
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