Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses how using a Capital One credit card and/or shopping at Amazon.com (which has everything from vegan jerky to foot massagers) can help Antiwar.com raise money for operations; how money orders and other forms of payment can be sent via snail mail to 1017 El Camino Real, Redwood City, CA 94063; the availability of matching funds for donations $100 and up until November 29th and how you can reach Angela directly...
11/22/10 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, discusses the legacy of Blowback author Chalmers Johnson who died November 20, how Johnson changed from a self-described 'spear carrier for empire' to a sharp and authoritative critic of US foreign policy, learning from Blowback that covert ops have real consequences even if Americans don’t realize what is being done in their names, how positive initial book reviews of The Sorrows of Empire somehow failed to...
11/22/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the $23 thousand in matching funds available for donations of $100 or more through Novemeber 29th and the death of Libertarian Party founder and Antiwar.com friend David Nolan.
11/22/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses Steve Rosen's $20 million defamation lawsuit against AIPAC, a reminder that the whole Larry Franklin/Rosen/AIPAC cloak and dagger operation was to determine (and front-run) the Bush administration's internal deliberations on Iran policy, how Rosen's frenzied rush to warn Israel's embassy about his FBI encounter shows where AIPAC's loyalties are and why all the pretrial mudslinging is...
11/22/10 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the Transportation Security Administration’s dual purpose: to give air travelers a good show of security theater and to inure Americans to a police state, why engaging in protest is the only good reason left to visit an airport, the superficial proposals to 'privatize' TSA screeners without changing their operating methods and why it isn’t possible to prevent terrorism in a free society (but the threat can be decreased with a peaceful...
11/19/10 – Ira Chernus – The Scott Horton Show
Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies and Jewish peace activist, discusses how the Israeli/Palestinian conflict polarizes American opinion like during the Vietnam War era, the detrimental effects of occupation on the Israeli state (given that the Palestinians suffer far more), why Obama needs more political support before he can force concessions on Israel and broker a peace deal, the many Leftist activists newly-energized by Republican gains in Congress and how settlement freezes show...
11/19/10 – Donald Gilliland – The Scott Horton Show
Donald Gilliland, journalist at Central Pennsylvania local news site PennLive.com, discusses his series of articles chronicling the PA Office of Homeland Security’s practice of tracking Marcellus Shale activist groups — going far beyond their mandate of protecting infrastructure, the outsourcing of surveillance to American/Israeli security contractor ITRR, arguments between privacy advocates and the 'if you have nothing to hide there’s nothing to worry about' crowd and how the state DHS office...
11/19/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses alternative donations that are very helpful — including computer components and software and airline vouchers, the many interns and volunteers working behind the scenes to keep Antiwar.com running and how Antiwar.com webmaster Eric Garris works hard to stretch your donation dollars.
11/19/10 – Karen Tostado – The Scott Horton Show
Karen Tostado of United We Strike discusses the environmental destruction caused by US Navy war games and how she is organizing a worldwide strike against 'governments gone wild.' Further information about the military impact on the environment can be found at the Agriculture Defense Coalition.
11/19/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the fraudulent evidence that is cited as proof Iran had a nuclear weapons program and how outdated missile schematics in the MEK (or Mossad)-sourced 'smoking laptop' cast suspicion on the rest of the purloined (or fabricated) documents.
11/19/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the escalated tensions between the US and Yemen following the bizarre toner cartridge bomb plot, drone strikes and CIA intrigue in Yemen going back to 2005, how the proliferation of anti-US groups is causing a 'national nervous breakdown,' increased intervention in Africa that will soon create a new Southern Sudan nation and why the primary concern about Yemen is the threat it poses to...
11/18/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the Antiwar.com HTML buttons available to use on your own website (contact Angela to learn more), how you can help spread the word about the fundraising drive on Facebook and other networking sites and how using this link to shop at Amazon.com returns a percent of the sale (Amazon's cut, not yours!) to Antiwar.com.
11/18/10 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate in Law and Security for Human Rights First, discusses the relatively fair federal trial that ended in Ahmed Ghailani‘s conviction of a conspiracy charge related to the 1998 (US) Africa embassy bombings, another example of a civilian terrorism trial with a guilty verdict and no security threats (despite the fear-mongering of Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe group), the far harsher sentences given in federal terrorism trials than in Guantanamo's military...
11/17/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses how Antiwar.com donors can get some great swag by mentioning this show, how regular monthly donations (even small amounts) are a big help to budgeting, our commitment to bring together the best antiwar writers from the Left and the Right, the contributions of volunteers and staffers and Antiwar.com's increasingly successful efforts to get our editors and writers greater exposure on television and the press.
11/17/10 – Nick Turse – The Scott Horton Show
Nick Turse, author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives and editor of The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan, discusses US contingency plans to maintain a large Persian Gulf regional influence should the Iraq occupation ever end, Qatar’s successful $1 billion 'if you build it, he will come' gambit that the US military would be drawn to an unused air base (Qatar has no air force) and the current estimate that the US military now has over 1000 bases worldwide.
