Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses evidence that Robert McNamara never told LBJ the August 4, 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack on the USS Maddox and Turner Joy never happened, information revealed in recorded phone conversations between LBJ and McNamara released in 2006 and Gareth Porter's own phone conversation with McNamara. (Note: recorded on June 22, 2009)
06/22/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the events leading to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, earlier CIA attempts to provoke N. Vietnam retaliation, Robert McNamara's role in hiding evidence that the second Tonkin Gulf incident never happened, the possibility an earlier leak of the Pentagon Papers would have prevented the Vietnam War and saved millions of lives, the sociological explanation of how government secrects are kept and the U.S....
Antiwar Radio 6/19/09: Glenn Greenwald, Joshua Frank
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Antiwar Radio: 6/18/09: Michael Boldin and Walter Block
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Antiwar Radio 6/17/09: Philip Weiss, Jason Ditz
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06/17/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses Netanyahu's right-wing biblical rhetoric in response to Obama's groundbreaking Cairo speech, the U.S. media's long-awaited questioning of Israeli settlements, Israel's accelerating departure from Western values and the sub-human living conditions forced on Gaza residents.
06/17/09 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses how the Iranian election news is dominated by state-run media, Iran's high voter turnout that was thought to favor opposition candidates - who had surprisingly poor showings - and Ahmedinejad's pronouncement in Russia that the U.S. empire is economically unsustainable.
Antiwar Radio 6/16/09: Robert Murphy, Patrick Doherty
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06/16/09 – Patrick Doherty – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Doherty, Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the Iranian government crackdown that reinforces the perception of electoral fraud, the popular Iranian discontent with autocracy, the dearth of legitimate polling in Iran that increases uncertainty and how Ahmedinejad's tough negotiating with the U.S. is seen by some as the Persian equivalent of Nixon going to China.
Antiwar Radio: 6/12/09: Winslow T. Wheeler and Daniel Luban
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06/12/09 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for IPS news via Jim Lobe’s blog, discusses the neocon preference for Ahmadinejad over his moderate rivals, the aborted attempt by congressional leaders to fast-track sanctions just prior to Iran’s election, the continuance of 'Obama is a secret Muslim' as a staple of right-wing propaganda and how a viable Palestinian state requires the dismantling of Israeli settlements.
06/12/09 – Winslow T. Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Winslow T. Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, discusses the fight between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Congress over the Pentagon budget, the neglect of U.S. combat training in favor of expensive weapons systems, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst study of military spending and job creation and how Congress would rather chase Pentagon pork than perform its oversight obligations.
Antiwar Radio 6/11/09: Anthony Gregory
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06/11/09 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses the DHS's report's (.pdf) overly broad characterization of right wing extremism, ideological profiling that debases individual rights, the conflation of anti-government sentiment with violent extremism and how the best way to prevent mass violence is to limit centralized government power.
06/11/09 – Ben Manski – The Scott Horton Show
Ben Manski, Executive Director of Liberty Tree, discusses the Bring the Guard Home! campaign that seeks to end the illegal use of national guard units deployed abroad, the historical U.S. change from a republican system of state militias to an imperial army and the reassertion of state governor control over the guard.
