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For those suffering from me withdrawals, Bianca Oblivion says she's going to play some reruns for at least the next few weeks... Tha'd be sometime around 11 central, weekdays, at KAOSRadioAustin.org.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/4/21 Muntadhar al-Zaidi on the Infamous George Bush Shoe-Throwing Incident
Scott talks to Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who famously threw his shoes at George W. Bush in 2008. At the time, Al-Zaidi hoped to bring awareness to the suffering inflicted on the Iraqi people by Bush’s war. He has continued his activism in the years since, especially his efforts to help the roughly five million orphans of America’s Iraq War.
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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05/30/08 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Dr. Gordon Prather, nuclear physicist and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush administration’s hegemonic aspirations and the obstacle posed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation regime, he details the NPT and IAEA procedures and mechanics, the recent confirmation from former White House spokesman Scott McClellan of the White House Iraq Group and their propaganda blitz to convict Iraq during the lead-up to the invasion, the pentagon’s ex-general cheerleading squad hired to promote the invasion, the new IAEA report declaring Iran has no nuclear weapons program [.pdf] — just like the many compiled for Iraq and the suspicious ‘stolen laptop‘ provided to the IAEA indirectly by Israeli intelligence.
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05/29/08 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, discusses his recent article on the trials of sixteen Guantanamo ‘detainees,’ how Australian David Hicks is too traumatized to tell his story, Omar Khadr, the Canadian child soldier being held despite international law, how Salim Hamdan’s legal case caused the Supreme Court to rule the original incarnation of the military commissions illegal, Mohamed Jawad, another minor, charged with harmlessly throwing a grenade, there’s Ahmed al-Darbi who’s giving the commissions a hard time by refusing to play a part in his show trial, KSM, Ramzi bin al Shib, the reasons behind the dropping of the charges against al Qatani, the ‘requestioning’ of the tortured in a ridiculous attempt to wipe the torture slate clean, how the whole military commission system resembles a patchwork of lies to excuse lies, the hundreds of years it has taken to develop Anglo-American traditions of law to protect liberty, the shame of its abandonment and necessity of its return, the results of the fake terror scares tortured out of the innocent, half-wit, crazy man, Abu Zabayduh, the superiority of the FBI’s good cop approach to interrogation, the DoJ IG report [.pdf] about the FBI’s ‘War Crimes’ file on the Guantanamo and the sordid details of several of the other eleven trials now in process.
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05/27/08 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
The Independent Institute’s Anthony Gregory explains why we’re libertarians.
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05/26/08 – Michael Schwartz – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Schwartz, Professor Sociology at Stony Brook University and author of the new book War Without End: The Iraq War in Context, discusses his latest TomDispatch article, ‘River of Resistance,’ the true scale of the destruction of Iraq, various studies of Iraqi casualties, direct responsibility of the U.S. military for the majority of the hundreds of thousands of violent Iraqi deaths since 2003, the plight of the refugees and the dire poverty of many of those who remain, the West Bank-ization of Baghdad with life-strangling concrete walls, various past neocon fantasies about the position the Empire would be in by now, the complete destruction of the Iraqi economy by Viceroy Bremer and his edicts, the wreaking of the empire over the backs of the people of Iraq, the abuse of the term ‘free market’ by American imperialists and leftists who oppose them and the responsibility of the major media in America for denying the humanity of those our government murders.
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05/23/08 – Christopher Coyne – The Scott Horton Show
Christopher Coyne, author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, discusses the economics of American empire, the true motivations behind the slogan of ‘spreading democracy,’ the domestic problems of intervention including bloated budgets, bureaucracies and lost liberty, how politicians, bureaucrats, and government contractors’ incentives are the opposite of private business – success is punished and failure is rewarded, leading to increased budgets, more employees and more power, the thoroughly bipartisan crony capitalism in Washington DC, the reasons why Germany and Japan were ‘successful’ interventions and the urgent need for renewed skepticism towards the government among the American population.
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05/22/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Dr. Gareth Porter discusses his article: ‘Where are those Iranian weapons in Iraq?‘ and how the U.S. war party has had to de-emphasize their assertions that EFP’s in Iraq are coming from Iran, he exposes as total lies the U.S. claims of Iran arming the Shi’ite militias in Iraq, how the White House continues to divulge preposterous propaganda reports, the role of the compliant media in continuing these false allegations, how the Sunni resistance in Iraq is patiently waiting for the opportune moment to re-emerge, and how Iran would not try to destabilize the Maliki government since he is their servant.
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05/22/08 – John Cusack – The Scott Horton Show
Actor, writer and producer John Cusack discusses his new satire War Inc., which opens Friday, May 23rd, in New York and Los Angeles, his outrage at the criminality of modern American war profiteers, the need for a grassroots bumrush of the first showings to guarantee national distribution, some critics’ complaints that the movie ‘hits too close to home,’ the great journalists whose work has inspired him, the socialization of the costs of all these private armies onto the American tax payer, the outsourcing of interrogation, the betrayals of the Democrats, the banality of evil, the short-changing of the troops while private mercenaries cash in and militarism in the movies. (Watch out! A few bad words.)
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05/22/08 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the upcoming ‘Restoring The Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties‘ conference on June 6-8 in Reston Virginia, why libertarianism ought to be the real center of Left and Right, how libertarian views are those of the founders and the only hope to save America from statism and empire, the importance of habeas corpus in a free society, the backgrounds of the conference speakers and the problem of conservative state worship.
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