History professor Alfred McCoy discusses how the Bush and Obama administrations have created a torture regime with "impunity at home, rendition abroad;" Bush's policy change after the Iraq Abu Ghraib embarrassment, when Iraqis and Afghans took over torture duty and American soldiers kept their mouths shut about it; the pathology of impunity that's endemic among high government officials; the torture debate between FBI agent Ali Soufan and Dick Cheney/CIA; and how universal jurisdiction could...
08/14/12 – Marjorie Cohn – The Scott Horton Show
Law professor Marjorie Cohn discusses the legacy of Agent Orange on millions of Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers; the lawsuits and cleanup efforts still underway (or just beginning); and why you should pressure Congress to pass HR 2634 - The Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2011.
08/14/12 – Daniel Larison – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative discusses Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's terrible foreign policy views; the bipartisan consensus on worldwide interventionism and American exceptionalism; and the prospects for war and peace in a Romney administration.
08/13/12 – Nick Pinto – The Scott Horton Show
Nick Pinto, reporter for the Village Voice, discusses Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, et al.'s lawsuit asking the court to enjoin the president from exercising the powers in the National Defense Authorization Act to detain Americans indefinitely with military power, the judges defiant tone toward the government's position and preliminary temporary injunction, Obama's argument that a simple Boumediene habeus hearing will be good enough for you, the Milligan case after the Civil War, and the lack of...
08/13/12 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Weiss of the MondoWeiss blog discusses his recent trip to Israel and Palestine where he spoke with Sheldon Adelson, Romney's bomb at the King David Hotel, the spectacle of American presidential candidates bowing and scraping before the leaders of a foreign state, the martial law atmosphere in East Jerusalem, the impossibility of a two-state solution now, and the leading "intellectuals" like Thomas Friedman and David Brooks who were never held accountable for their role in the Iraq...
08/10/12 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, discusses Ehud Barak's bogus intel, the danger of Israel getting us into a war with Iran, supporting al Qaeda-ish rebels in Syria, parallels to the disasters in Libya and Iraq and the pathetic weakness of Barack Obama.
08/10/12 – Thomas C. Mountain – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas C. Mountain , American journalist in Eritrea, discusses the empire's economic interest in the Horn of Africa, the dying sock-puppet tyrant and tyranny in Ethiopia, the CIA's scramble to find a replacement for the reportedly-comatose Meles Zenawi, Gayle Smith's warmongering from the White House, Plan B, the new naval installations to be put in in Djibouti, the US-Ethiopian-AU proxy war in Somalia and the major nationalist rebel army massing in Ethiopia.
08/09/12 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his article "Obama, Romney Are Reckless on Iran," Obama's sabotage of his own possible Iran deals, and why Romney is probably even worse.
08/09/12 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, USC professor and writer for PBS and Antiwar.com, discusses the widespread effects of the "targeted" U.S. sanctions against Iran, massive shortages in vital medicines due to central bank sanctions, massive dislocations due to oil sanctions, the resulting benefits for the IGRC and comparisons to the anti-Iraq sanctions of the 1990s.
08/08/12 – John Glaser – The Scott Horton Show
John Glaser, assistant editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush Jr. administration's decision to turn against Iran and Syria instead of allying with them against al Qaeda after 9/11, the stupidity of the Israel-first neocons in and out of government, U.S. support for al Qaeda in Syria, and the complete lack of any real vetting of which rebels are getting the arms.
08/08/12 – Ali Winston – The Scott Horton Show
Ali Winston from ColorLines.com discusses brutality and murder inflicted on Californians by their police "protectors," from Aneheim to Oakland.
08/07/12 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Marcy Wheeler, AKA "emptywheel," discusses the Obama administration's unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the government's admission that keeping secrets from the American people is more important to them than keeping it from the Chinese or any other foreign state actor as revealed by its pretension that whistleblowing to the newspaper is even worse than leaking secrets to a foreign government, the renewed internal clampdown on secrets in the government,
08/07/12 – Naomi Roht-Arriaza – The Scott Horton Show
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, discusses her article "Deadly Aid," about the unintended consequences of American foreign aid passed out without care as to who will receive it, from Colombia to Ethiopia, and whether or not we should just stop.
08/07/12 – Karen Kwiatkowski – The Scott Horton Show
Karen Kwiatkowski, Pentagon whistleblower and LewRockwell.com regular, discusses the lack of veteran support for the militarist Tea Party, the march to war in Syria, hard times coming for Americans after having blown all their money on empire, how terrible Bob Goodlatte is, the bureaucrat's fatal conceit, the wisdom of individual voters versus the stupidity of the ubiquitous opinion poll.
08/06/12 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, heroic liberator of the Pentagon Papers and author of the memoir Secrets, discusses the U.S. government's use of nuclear weapons against Japanese civilians in World War II, the fake "Missile Gap" with the Soviets of the late 50s-early 60s, and the dire consequences for all of humanity from any nuclear war. Transcript here.
