Jason Leopold discusses his duo of TruthOut articles (here and here) on the illegal and unethical drugging of US military detainees, including accused "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla; the revelatory FOIA documents Leopold obtained just after the Supreme Court's rejection of Padilla's torture lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld; and why there will be no accountability for US war crimes now or in the future.
07/11/12 – Sohail Mahmood – The Scott Horton Show
Sohail Mahmood discusses his article "The Crisis in Pakistan-US Relations;" the increasing anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Muslim world; and how the US can help broker a peace settlement in Kashmir.
07/11/12 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern discusses his article "How Iran Might See the Threats;" Israel's gambit of pushing an Iran attack before the US presidential election; why the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was such a big deal; and the Israeli government's conclusion that the West Bank is not really occupied territory.
07/10/12 – David Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson discusses US violations of international law on military recruiting of minors; how No Child Left Behind, ASVAB testing and JROTC run afoul of UN protections of children; and the under-18s held at Guantanamo and killed in Obama-authorized drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan.
07/10/12 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg discusses Edmund Burke's notion of "natural society" and "policed society;" why American police forces are servants of the state, not of the people; the botched SWAT raid in Evansville, IN; and how good cops get thrown off the force for finding alternatives to overwhelming violence.
07/10/12 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry discusses the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign's interference in the 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis, contributing to Jimmy Carter's defeat; secret deals from the Iran-Contra scandal to the Iran-Iraq War; and Richard Nixon's own "October surprise" in 1968, when he undermined LBJ's attempt to end the Vietnam War.
07/09/12 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis discusses why Yasser Arafat's unexplained death in 2004 was probably caused by Polonium 210 poisoning; Israel's penchant for using rather exotic poisons for assassinating enemies; and the 2006 murder of Russian FSB agent Alexander Litivenko.
07/09/12 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Marcy Wheeler discusses her article "Failed Overseers Prepare to Legislate Away Successful Oversight;" the US government's double standard on which leaks are prosecuted and which ignored; why cyberwarfare is a bad idea, especially when Israel's involved; and the lies about Obama's "kill list" for drone strike targets.
07/09/12 – Robert Wenzel – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Wenzel discusses the LIBOR scandal and how central banks can wreck free markets much more efficiently than Wall Street can.
07/05/12 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com.
07/05/12 – Birgitta Jonsdottir – The Scott Horton Show
Birgitta Jonsdottir discusses the US government's persecution of WikiLeaks activists and the secret grand jury waiting to indict and probably extradite Julian Assange.
07/04/12 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory discusses his article "Should We Celebrate the American Revolution;" why King George III was better than US Presidents 1-44 (except maybe Grover Cleveland); and how even Thomas Jefferson came up short as a "Jeffersonian" kind of president.
07/03/12 – William S. Lind – The Scott Horton Show
William S. Lind discusses his article "Unfriendly Fire: How the Taliban mastered the operational art of modern war;" a history of state-dominated warfare since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648; so-called "green on blue" attacks in Afghanistan; and how a rudderless foreign policy has prevented US progress in Afghanistan since November 2001.
07/03/12 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter discusses the anti-Iran propagandists in the press and the IAEA, and his article on the Parchin facility, "How a Nonexistent Bomb Cylinder Distorts the Iran Nuclear Issue."
07/03/12 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette discusses how prosperity is an offshoot of freedom, how the state is hastening America's economic collapse, why Democrats and Republicans are both "food stamp" parties; and why we need to be aware of the demagogues diverting public anger away from government and Wall Street, toward convenient scapegoats like gays and Muslims.
