Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses Bradley Manning friend and website supporter David House's detainment and questioning by FBI and DHS officials who also confiscated his laptop, nearly complete fundraising efforts for Manning's legal defense, chances the new Congress will draft legislation similar to the UK's law against withholding encryption passwords from law enforcement and proof that WikiLeaks doesn't only pick on the US government: upcoming releases...
11/10/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the big cutbacks from Antiwar.com's more generous donors that make small monthly donations more important than ever and how the Amazon.com and Capital One credit card programs let you help Antiwar.com by shopping at Amazon and using your credit card as usual.
11/10/10 – Katherine Gallagher – The Scott Horton Show
Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the disappointing end to John Durham’s multi-year investigation into CIA torture tape destruction (coinciding exactly with the expiring statute of limitations), why half-assed limited investigations may not be enough to placate European judges from prosecuting US government officials under universal jurisdiction, low expectations for Durham’s remaining preliminary investigation into 'unauthorized'...
11/09/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses newly declassified documents from the US Senate’s 1963 investigation of foreign agents following the Israeli false flag 'Lavon Affair,' how enforcement of FARA prompted the American Zionist Council to reorganize as a non-registered lobby (now called AIPAC), the hundreds of quashed FBI and DOJ investigations into the Israel lobby’s routine lawbreaking, how the biggest scandals involving...
11/08/10 – John Feffer – The Scott Horton Show
John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Fo13cus at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses the original Islamic caliphate that was hardly world-conquering even at its peak around 1000 years ago, how periodic US alliances with 'radical' Islam (in opposition to the USSR for example) shows that realpolitik transcends religious concerns, the multiple schisms between different sects and state-less/national powers in Islamic countries and the broad divergence between rhetoric and reality...
11/08/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses George W. Bush’s admission that he emphatically approved of waterboarding — with the unsupported caveat that it saved lives, the post-9/11 US torture regime designed to extract 'evidence' linking al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, tracing DHS orange alerts back to false confessions of torture victims, how Congress essentially jails scheduled-for-release Guantanamo prisoners for 2 weeks while vetting their releases, the abolition of...
11/08/10 – Angela Keaton – The Scott Horton Show
Angela Keaton, Antiwar.com Development Director and Antiwar Radio producer, discusses the emergency fundraising drive to keep Antiwar.com going strong, Scott Horton's new Antiwar Radio gig on KPFK Los Angeles and our promise to fight the war party no matter who occupies the White House and Congress.
11/04/10 – Matthew Duss – The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Duss, National Security Researcher/Blogger at American Progress, discusses new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman/hardliner Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, victorious Republicans declaring the end of Obama’s supposed 'appeasement' of Iran, Congressional bipartisanship masquerading as righteousness and why Iran really is a threat to US interests (when you consider the grand ambitions of a global hegemon).
11/04/10 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses the 'myth of the two party system,' the curious case and recent conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Rahm Emanuel’s attempt to purge antiwar candidates from the 2006 Democratic primary elections, why only poor people need to worry about austerity measures and coming to the realization that the fight isn’t between Democrats and Republicans but between the government and you.
11/04/10 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the 'Railroading of Omar Khadr,' the 15-year old Khadr’s travel to Afghanistan with his al-Qaeda associated father, disputed accounts of a US raid during which Khadr was seriously injured and arrested for killing a medic, the torture Khadr endured while incarcerated at Guantanamo for 8 years and his Military Commission plea deal for time served plus eight more years (7 of those in a Canadian prison).
11/03/10 – Josh Ruebner – The Scott Horton Show
Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, discusses Caterpillar's reported cancellation of bulldozer shipments to Israel for the duration of the Rachel Corrie trial, how Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes works as slow motion ethnic cleansing, keeping up the appearance of a viable Palestinian government so the international community can pretend the conflict isn't completely one-sided and how Jewish settlements physically cut off East...
11/03/10 – Jeanne Theoharis – The Scott Horton Show
Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and co-founder of Educators for Civil Liberties, discusses Syed Fahad Hashmi's years of pretrial solitary confinement on extremely tenuous material support for al-Qaeda charges, how Syed's supposed accomplice became a government witness against him for a reduced sentence, classified evidence defendants can't see and lawyers need to be vetted for, Syed's acceptance of a 15-year plea deal one day before the trial's start,...
11/02/10 – Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods and Charles Goyette, authors of Meltdown and The Dollar Meltdown (respectively), discuss Washington Post writer David Broder’s assertion that a war with Iran would save Obama’s legacy and the economy, why it’s still important to fight against the myth that WWII caused the end of the Great Depression, how surging commodity prices and a falling dollar signal serious consumer price inflation by next year, the post-9/11 economic sugar high engineered by Alan 'Maestro' Greenspan’s...
11/02/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the Frago 242 'ignore Iraqi torture' order in the context of vigorous US support for Shi’ite militias battling the exploding Sunni insurgency, the influence of David Wurmser‘s 'Coping With Crumbling States' on original US plans to replace Iraq’s centralized nation state with a federation and how Mideast policy can best be described as a somewhat equal mix of stupidity and attempts to advance Israel’s interests.
11/02/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the recent Congressional hearings on bogus 'personality disorder' military discharges of injured soldiers, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s Congressional testimony about his confinement and torture for refusing to accept his personality disorder diagnosis, the billions of dollars in health care improperly denied to veterans and how the Pentagon was caught lying about an outreach program that was supposed to help veterans without medical care.
