Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, discusses how the Carmel wildfire reveals Israel's singular focus on militarization at the expense of basic public services like firefighting (necessitating humbling assistance from Turkey and the Palestinian Authority); how millions of trees hide the evidence of razed villages and the mass expulsion of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba; touring the new bohemian village of Ein Hod where the mosque of the...
12/09/10 – John Lomax – The Scott Horton Show
Houston Press journalist John Nova Lomax discusses his article 'WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops;' how Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar’s extreme concern about the incident casts doubt on DynCorp’s version of events; informative sources on the Pashtun practice of bacha bazi (banned by the Taliban but now resurgent); questioning the moral righteousness of nation building; and DynCorp’s record of human trafficking in Bosnia in the late 1990s.
12/09/10 – Mike Gogulski – The Scott Horton Show
Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the false rumor of Bradley Manning's suicide; why the Cablegate documents look like dispatches to an emperor; the shortcoming in fundraising for Manning's legal defense (due in part to WikiLeaks' unfulfilled pledge); and fighting back against VISA, MasterCard, Amazon.com and other WikiLeaks suppressors through boycotts and cyber attacks.
12/08/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the difficulty of repairing relations between Turkey and Israel while right-wing political pressure on Netanyahu keeps him from apologizing for the flotilla massacre; how further significant releases make it clear WikiLeaks is indeed performing a valuable public service (in contrast with Giraldi's previous skepticism); how the US provides material support for terrorism — in terms of money and weapons for the PKK; and why the US is just asking for...
12/08/10 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Weiss, investigative journalist and author of the blog MondoWeiss, discusses the group of Israeli Rabbis advocating against leasing property to non-Jews (including Israeli Arab citizens); the end of the halfhearted US push for a West Bank settlement freeze; why the US can't be an honest Israeli/Palestinian broker while Dennis Ross is more influential than George Mitchell; and why US Mideast policy won't change while pro-Zionist American Jews remain empowered, outspoken and free from...
12/08/10 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the dismissal of the CCR/ACLU lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's authority to order the targeted killing of US citizen Anwar Al-Aulaqi; the legal paradox that requires the government to obtain a warrant for wiretapping but allows summary execution with no judicial oversight; why the government will probably make limited use of extrajudicial...
12/08/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses why the corrupted Fourth Estate (traditional mainstream US media) needs to be supplanted by the Fifth Estate (WikiLeaks) to preserve our liberty; the State Department's successful interference with Spanish and German courts seeking to indict US officials; how the general tenor of Cablegate documents suggests an empire falling apart; the oft-forgotten lesson of history that nothing good comes from an Afghanistan invasion; how a...
12/07/10 – Robert Stinnett – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses how FDR provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in order to rally the American people to support US entry in WWII; the provocative McCollum memo that proposed an 8-part strategy to isolate and weaken Japan; new evidence that shows Admiral Kimmel was indeed privy to FDR’s plans; and how — despite what some skeptics say — the Japanese naval and diplomatic codes were broken before the Pearl...
12/07/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the dominant (and false) narrative of MSM coverage of WikiLeaks‘ Cablegate; why a US war with Iran is not justified simply because some Arab rulers (in complete opposition to their citizens) say they are threatened by Iran’s nuclear program; how the New York Times dutifully and predictably spins the news to promote the US government’s agenda; why King Abdullah’s line on 'cutting off the head' of the Iranian snake is...
12/07/10 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, former Antiwar Radio co-contributor and author of The Dollar Meltdown : Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, discusses Ben Bernanke’s 60 Minutes interview where he declares (with lip-quivering certitude) a '100 percent confidence' the Fed can control inflation; how the Fed filled up on bad assets full of 'mystery meat' in their quantitative easing program(s); Republican deficit reduction plans that will be decimated from...
12/06/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the worldwide crackdown on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange; why — despite the government’s uproar about 'dangerous' leaks — there’s not even a pretense of holding State Department officials accountable for their criminal actions; how Cablegate shows the US government is well aware how badly the Afghanistan occupation is going; why European governments believe Afghanistan is a lost cause but continue support out of deference to the US; and...
12/06/10 – Eli Clifton – The Scott Horton Show
Eli Clifton, U.S. foreign policy writer at the Washington bureau of IPS News, discusses Lobelog’s Daily Talking Points feature that keeps tabs on the war party’s Iran hawks; contradictory evidence to the MSM’s claim that Arab governments want war with Iran; neocon efforts to scuttle the diplomatic 'linkage' of the Palestine problem with other regional affairs; why Hillary Clinton’s softened rhetoric on Iran’s civilian nuclear energy program doesn’t indicate a policy shift; and how establishing...
12/06/10 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the Obama administration's claim that they have the right to kill American citizens without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object; the unfortunate American tendency toward blind deference to the law even (and especially) when it is unjust; how George W. Bush was given a GOP standing ovation as a reward for trashing the Constitution; and why the WikiLeaks issue is an excellent yardstick for...
12/04/10 – Hillary Mann Leverett – The Scott Horton Show
This interview is from the KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles broadcast of December 3rd, available here. Hillary Mann Leverett, former State Department official and co-founder of The Race For Iran, discusses Obama's campaign rhetoric about diplomatic engagement with enemy states and his subsequent appointment of advisers with contrary views; WikiLeaks cables that clearly show the duplicity of Obama's dealings with Iran; how the 3-party enriched uranium swap deal was deliberately sabotaged — in part by...
12/03/10 – Melvin Goodman – The Scott Horton Show
Melvin Goodman, former senior Soviet analyst at the CIA, discusses why WikiLeaks' Cablegate is a big data-dump and not the work of foreign intelligence services; documents that show inaccurate information flowing from the US embassy in Georgia back to Washington during the S. Ossetia conflict; disagreements about the quality and honesty of journalism in the NYT and Washington Post; and the question why — if these cables are so ordinary and unremarkable — are so many of them...
