Rebecca Vilkomerson, National Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, discusses the activist campaign to stop Caterpillar from selling bulldozers to Israel, what interested people can do to help promote peace, how the peace party can learn from the organizational and media saturation successes of the war party and the importance of criticizing anti-Semitism as well as those who misuse the charge (see MuzzleWatch).
09/11/09 – Adam Szyper-Seibert – The Scott Horton Show
Adam Szyper-Seibert, counselor and office manager at Courage to Resist, discusses Lt. Ehren Watada’s successful resistance to an Iraq deployment, the year-long waiting list for treatment at the VA, the fraternal bonds that keep reenlistment rates high, increased military success (since WWII) in training soldiers to be hate-driven killers and the 'Ft. Bragg 50”³ who are held without charges in degrading conditions.
09/11/09 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses the numerous liberties lost in the new millennium, the U.S.-resident Muslims held on 'material witness' grounds after 9/11, Patriot Act and FISA amendment increases to government power and how Congressional authorization for the use of force is worse than a declaration of war.
09/10/09 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses Ronald Reagan’s lip service to torture prohibition and support for atrocities in Central America, the hypocritical critiques of 'moral relativism' by amoral neocons, the inheritance of an entire generation of government-worshiping journalists, Islamic fundamentalist blowback from Reagan administration attempts to weaken the USSR and the quid-pro-quo deal that enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons.
09/09/09 – John Feffer – The Scott Horton Show
John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses a Jeffersonian-era U.S. navy suicide attack against Barbary pirates, the Western tradition of self-sacrifice for a 'greater good,' how suicide attacks are usually a desperate tactic taken against foreign occupation and not exclusive to Islam and the inability of Western claims of moral superiority to withstand scrutiny.
09/09/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Regular Antiwar.com columnist Jeff Huber discusses Bob Dole’s cheerleading for a 2012 Gen. Petraeus presidential candidacy, the constantly shifting Pentagon war slogans that distract attention from policy failures, why Obama can’t back down in Afghanistan after eschewing the Iraq war, how civilian-led nation building creates more targets for 'insurgents' and Gen. McChrystal’s tough transition from assassination squad leader to civilian casualty handwringer.
09/08/09 – Declan McCullagh – The Scott Horton Show
Declan McCullagh, senior writer for CNET News, discusses the historical decline of U.S. government involvement with the physical Internet, Jay Rockefeller’s Senate bill that gives the president broad powers during an ill-defined 'cybersecurity emergency,' the continuing struggle between government surveillance and private anonymity and how the private sector is much more capable of responding to cyber attacks than the Pentagon.
09/04/09 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to CounterPunch.org, discusses Obama's propagandized meeting with the Bizarro World Cindy Sheehan, how the antiwar Left lacks the ideological passion and clarity of libertarians, the permanent cold war mentality in Washington D.C. and the widening divide between Democratic Party leaders and rank and file activists.
09/03/09 – Michael Penn – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Penn, Executive Director of the Shingetsu Institute for the Study of Japanese-Islamic Relations, discusses the (nearly) first electoral loss for Japan's Liberal Democratic Party since 1955, the balance between Japanese resentment over U.S. troop presence and the security of military protection, Japanese energy policy in the Middle East and how warmer relations with China would mean reduced dependence on the U.S.
09/03/09 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, author of the article 'Obama Is Leading the U.S. Into a Hellish Quagmire', discusses the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan that surpasses the levels during Soviet occupation, how Russia benefits from (and is gloating about) a U.S./Taliban stalemate, the slim chance of Russia’s inclusion in NATO and George F. Will’s 'Walter Cronkite moment' on Afghanistan.
Antiwar Radio 9/2/9: Grant Smith, Juan Cole
1-3 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org or http://antiwar.com/radio
09/02/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses the void in Iraqi politics created by Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim's death, Al-Maliki's failure to reconcile with Sunni nationalist groups, shifting coalitions within the United Iraqi Alliance and the overstated increase in Iraqi violence since the U.S. troop pullback
09/02/09 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses Steven Rosen’s defamation lawsuit against AIPAC, the 'everyone else does it' excuse for divulging classified information, the DOJ’s history of capitulation to the Israel lobby and how the U.S. empire is a tempting target for foreign intelligence services.
08/28/09 – Eugene Bird – The Scott Horton Show
Eugene Bird, president of the Council for the National Interest Foundation, discusses Obama's leaked plan for a Palestinian state, evictions and house demolitions in non-Jewish areas of East Jerusalem, increasing agreement among foreign policy elites that Israel must make concessions and how Iran's nuclear issue is exaggerated by Israel to divert attention away from the Palestinian issue.
Today on Antiwar Radio: James Ostrowski, Ray McGovern
1-3 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio
