Listen live 1-3 central 95.9 in Austin or Antiwar.com/radio.
06/10/09 – Kenneth Ballen – The Scott Horton Show
Kenneth Ballen, president of the non-profit Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion, discusses the polling results of the Iranian public that show a large majority of Iranians have favorable opinions of Jews and Christians and want a more democratic society.
06/10/09 – Bill Kelsey – The Scott Horton Show
Bill Kelsey, libertarian activist and former NGO-employed international relief pilot, discusses the dangers of overzealous and naive humanitarianism, the political and economic forces that determine which Afghan poppy fields are eradicated and which are left alone, the increasingly impersonal nature of combat with remote controlled drone aircraft and how slow evolutionary social change is more sustainable than quick-fix NGO plans.
Antiwar Radio 6/9/09: Shane Bauer, Howard Jones, Juan Cole, The Other Scott Horton
That's US-backed death squads in Iraq, The Bay of Pigs, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and torture. Listen live on KAOS 95.9 in Austin from 1-3 PM Central, or Antiwar.com/radio.
06/09/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses Hezbollah's electoral defeat in Lebanon, the influence Obama's Cairo speech may have had in getting moderates elected, Hezbollah's popular decline after it put on a domestic show of military force in 2008Â and the contrast between Obama's acknowledgment of Iran's right to a civilian nuclear power program and Hillary Clinton's no-nukes bellicosity.
06/09/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the ACLU's ongoing legal action to get torture photos released, another bogus 16 words in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, the propaganda value of executing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed vs. giving him a full and fair trial and how Dick Cheney browbeat DOJ lawyers into giving permissive torture legal opinions before hiding behind them.
06/09/09 – Shane Bauer – The Scott Horton Show
Shane Bauer, freelance journalist and Arabic speaker living in the Middle East, discusses civilian abuse claims against the Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF), the actual Salvadoran paramilitary trainers in Iraq that made the 'Salvador option' more than analogy, the plight of Iraqi refugees abroad and how Maliki is using the ISOF - which is accountable only to him - to consolidate his power.
06/09/09 – Howard Jones – The Scott Horton Show
Howard Jones, history professor at the University of Alabama, discusses the lesson of blowback not learned from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, how JFK's attempt to maintain plausible deniability increased the invasion plan's potential to fail, Castro's post-invasion conversion to communism and alliance with the USSR and the tangled web of JFK assassination theories.
Antiwar Radio 6/05/09
Obama's speech, Will Potter, your calls. 1-3pm 95.9 in Austin, or http://antiwar.com/radio
06/05/09 – Will Potter – The Scott Horton Show
Award-winning reporter Will Potter discusses the new Communication Management Unit (CMU) prisons for domestic 'second tier terrorists,' the CMU restrictions designed to silence political prisoners and the shifting definition of 'terrorism' that is used to define certain political crimes but not others.
Antiwar Radio: 6/04/09: Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, Bill Brand, Laurence Vance
Listen live 1-3 central on 95.9 in Austin or http://antiwar.com/radio
06/04/09 – Laurence M. Vance – The Scott Horton Show
Laurence M. Vance, author of Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State, discusses the discouraging poll that correlates support for torture with practicing Christianity, the devotion to the military and the Republican Party that trumps religious faith, the bigotry that enables killing on a massive scale and why God doesn't need U.S. help to protect Israel.
06/04/09 – William Brand – The Scott Horton Show
William Brand, writer for the Krakow Post, discusses the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the USSR, the 1989 Polish open elections where communist candidates were trounced, Gorbachev's made-good promise to end military crackdowns and the flood of other Soviet bloc countries that followed Poland's lead (some not so peacefully).
06/04/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the duplicitous U.S. practice of engaging in diplomacy with Iran while clandestinely destabilizing their government, the shortsighted U.S. policy of supporting terrorist groups if they oppose the U.S. enemy du jour, the good sense foreign policy of minding your own business and how Obama seems to have ruled out military action on Iran.
06/04/09 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses USS Liberty survivor Terry Halbardier's belated Silver Star award, LBJ's personal involvement in preventing military aid from reaching the besieged USS Liberty, two major theories explaining why Israel attacked the ship and Adm. Mike Mullen's groundbreaking mention of the Liberty in an apparent attempt to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran.
