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The Show: Ray McGovern and Philip Giraldi
Ray McGovern and Philip Giraldi will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, November 17th. McGovern will discuss how he would advise President-elect Barack Obama at 12:15PM Eastern and Giraldi will discuss Obama's chief-of-staff...
Lindsey Graham: Dope Pusher
Says Newsweek: "Lindsey Graham mischievously enjoyed getting [Sarah Palin's 7-year-old daughter] hopped up on Mountain Dew, a beverage to which he was mildly addicted." Maybe drug use isn't bad afterall. Perhaps the only problem is using drugs that aren't manufactured...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/2/21 Andrew Cockburn on the Catastrophic Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld
Scott interviews Andrew Cockburn about his new book, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy. Scott and Cockburn discuss Rumsfeld’s ascent to power through various presidential administrations, with special focus on his role in the disastrous post-9/11 terror wars. In addition to the historical events, Cockburn shares many private anecdotes about Rumsfeld’s character from those who knew him.
Discussed on the show:
- Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
- “A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz, by Andrew J. Bacevich” (Harper’s Magazine)
- “War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)” (IMDb)
- “State Department Cables” (WikiLeaks)
- “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says” (The New York Times)
Andrew Cockburn is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins. Follow him on Twitter @andrewmcockburn.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Photo IQ; Green Mill Supercritical; Zippix Toothpicks; and Listen and Think Audio.
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09/10/07 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
‘Well, you know, the only people taking ‘marching orders’ from Osama bin Laden, as far as I can tell, are every presidential candidate, Mr. Clinton and Mr.Bush — except Mr. Paul. Mr. Paul has it very square about what the motivation of our enemy is, and it’s certainly exactly what he said it is, intervention. ”¦
‘Really, it is the American political establishment that is marching to al Qaeda’s beat, not Mr. Paul.’
Michael Scheuer, former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Imperial Hubris, discusses:
- His view of the legitimacy of the new bin Laden tape and the mention of his book
- His belief that current U.S. foreign policy is exactly what bin Laden wants and that Rep. Ron Paul M.D. has the best understanding of the enemy, their motivations and how to deal with them
- The sad fact that bin Laden wins whether America leaves Iraq now or later
- The ‘near’ and ‘far’ enemy
- The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and what he believes should be done there
- Why he believes that al Qaeda wants to detonate a nuke here
- His support for the conclusions of Robert A. Pape in his book Dying to Win that suicide bombing is caused by foreign occupation and the role of religion in the motivation of al Qaeda (they believe they’re defending theirs)
- The role of the mujahedeen in the 1999 Kosovo War
- The lack of threat posed to America by Syria and Iran and of cooperative links between Iran and al Qaeda
- The expansion of the war to Africa
- The impossibility of an ‘al Qaeda in Iraq’ takeover in the event of U.S. withdrawal
- The degree of the danger that AQI represents in the long term
- He and his CIA colleagues review of the evidence of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda for the CIA before the Iraq war and their report to George Tenet of the fact that there were none
- His view that the vast majority of post-9/11 domestic terrorism prosecutions have been bogus cases of entrapment
- Closed borders
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09/07/07 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Historian and investigative reporter Gareth Porter discusses Iran’s need for civilian nuclear power, why U.S. belligerence is the most important factor in determining whether they will eventually seek nuclear weapons technology, how the gaining of atomic weapons encouraged caution in Chinese foreign policy in the 1960’s, the fact that the Ayatollahs are no less rational than the Cheney Cabal, Cheney’s pressure on Clinton to lift sanctions against Iran in the 1990’s, the corrupting influence of power on man’s reasoning abilities, Cheney’s impossible demand that Iran prove a negative, IAEA Director ElBaradei’s attempt to take the issue back from the UN Security Council by convincing the Iranians to answer the few remaining questions about their program, the election of reformer Rafsanjani to be chairman of the Council of Experts, the bogus accusations that the government of Iran is supplying the new and improved EFP land mines in Iraq, Cheney’s plot to use them as a casus belli, the possibility that General Casey had refused to go along with the February debut of this round of lies, the traditional split between the Sadr and Hakim factions and their relative states of allegiance to Iran.
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09/05/07 – Eric Boehlert – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush, discusses the American TV and print media’s abandonment of the Iraq war story despite the fact that it remains the topic Americans are most interested in.
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09/04/07 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, discusses the Padilla case and the destruction of 800 years of Anglo-American legal tradition (and patiently listens as Scott goes on and on – sorry).
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08/31/07 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
William Norman Grigg, publisher of TheRightSource, and author of the blog Pro-Libertate, discusses America’s descent into an authoritarian fascist state, our current system’s similarity to the way things are in China and Cuba (executions, slave labor, new prisons in waiting, etc.), the Prison-Industrial-Complex, the economics of the corporate warfare/police state, its origins in the Civil and Indian wars, the solution of laissez faire, the militarization of domestic police, the American civic religion of force that makes it all possible and the push for a North American Union.
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08/31/07 – Wayne White – The Scott Horton Show
Wayne White, former Deputy Director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia and Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute, discusses America’s march to war with Iran, Secretary Rice’s enabling of Cheney’s plot, the ratcheting up of the propaganda campaign, his belief that Iran indeed does have a nuclear weapons program, but has no intent to use them once acquired, his predictions for the massive crisis that will take place, the bad news for anyone thinking they’re actually going to mount a land invasion of Persia, the recent report by British scholars saying that plans include hitting as many as 10,000 targets, the opposition of the Joint Chiefs, the weakness of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s real authority in Iran, the EFPs and whether or not they come from Iran, Sadr and Hakim’s relations with Iran, Obama and Hillary’s threats against Pakistan and severe consequences of messing around over there, the empowering of al Qaeda that would take place in the event of war in Iran, the warping of American policy around the interests of the state of Israel and the fact that American support for Israel motivated the 9/11 plotters and pilots and creates hatred for the United States among regular people around the world every day.
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08/30/07 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, discusses “The Surge: A Special Report” which he wrote for the Independent, where he is Middle East correspondent: the split between the Sadr and Hakim factions; American propaganda that Iran is behind Sadr and the Mahdi Army and the “new” EFP bombs; the widespread humanitarian catastrophe; the occupation and sectarian war it has created, divisions in Kurdistan, the crisis in Kirkuk, predictions in the event of an eventual withdrawal, the redirection toward the Sunni insurgency, the unimportance of Allawi, Maliki or anyone else America installs in power, the danger to U.S. soldiers in Iraq if Cheney bombs Iran and predictions for the short and long term.
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08/30/07 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Historian and journalist Gareth Porter, discusses the Israeli government, Israeli Lobby and neoconservative’s responsibility for pushing the United States toward war with Iran since 2002, split opinions in the run-up to war with Iraq, the neocons recently announced upcoming propaganda push and the scoop that he can prove the Cheney regime has known since before they started lying about it that the Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) are made in Iraq by Iraqis not by Iran trying to start a war with us.
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