Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the U.S. pressure behind Pakistan army attacks in the northwest tribal region, the exaggerated threat of global terrorism, British and U.S. efforts to thwart a European competitor to NATO and U.S. threats to Canada of a trade embargo if it didn't contribute troops to Iraq or Afghanistan.
05/26/09 – Jeff Frazee – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of Young Americans for Liberty, discusses his attempt to build an inclusive youth organization that produces politicians in the mold of Ron Paul, the importance of a political education based on liberty and individual rights and how the Right is ripe for a revival of limited government and antiwar ideals.
05/26/09 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the Russian influenced history of N. Korea's nuclear program, broken U.S. promises in the 1994 Agreed Framework, the Bush administration shutdown of diplomatic relations with N. Korea and the current NPT/IAEA-free environment that facilitated a N. Korean nuclear weapon test.
05/26/09 – Clive Hamilton – The Scott Horton Show
Clive Hamilton, author of the article 'Bush, God, Iraq and Gog' at Counterpunch.org, discusses G.W. Bush’s seemingly sincere desire to fight Iraqi and al-Qaeda incarnations of the biblical bogeymen Gog and Magog, the possibility that the U.S. does indeed fight religious wars and the increasingly diverse but still exclusive Skull and Bones society at Yale.
Antiwar Radio 5/21/09: David Bromwich
1-3 central on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio
05/21/09 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show
David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale University, discusses Edmund Burke's warnings on excessive concentrations of power, misleading coverage of the Obama/Netanyahu conference in which the New York Times exaggerated Obama's hawkishness on Iran and the administration's position on a Palestinian state.
Antiwar Radio 5/20/09: Jeremy Scahill, David Rose
95.9 in Austin 1-3 Central, http://antiwar.com/radio
05/20/09 – Jeremy Sachill – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the continuous 18 year history of the U.S. bombing of Iraq, the Guantanamo Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) that brutalizes prisoners and even a U.S. soldier, Obama's failure to improve detention facilities and how the Spanish Guantanamo torture investigation is proceeding apace while the U.S. dawdles.
05/20/09 – David Rose – The Scott Horton Show
David Rose, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, discusses the torture case of Binyam Mohamed, why the over-the-top U.S. threats to the UK over torture documents in his case may be at the request of the British government, the '007”³ agent that exposes British claims of ignorance about torture as lies and the story behind the U.S. rejection of a 2004 reconciliation with Iraq’s Sunni leaders which led to the deaths of a million people.
Antiwar Radio 5/19/09: Daphne Eviatar and Chalmers Johnson
1-3 Central 95.9 in Austin http://antiwar.com/radio
05/19/09 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Lawyer and freelance journalist Daphne Eviatar discusses Obama's plan to keep Bush's Military Commissions Act powers over the American people and bring the Guantanamo legal system to the U.S. and the recent Supreme Court ruling
05/19/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of the indispensable Blowback trilogy, discusses the evolution of his view of the Cold War and American empire since the fall of the Soviet Union, the inevitable collapse of the U.S. dollar and world empire, Obama's LBJ guns and butter trap, the kicking-out of the empire by the people of Latin America, the danger of further intervention in Pakistan, the ongoing rape of Okinawa and America's relationship with Russia.
Antiwar Radio 5/15/09: Jeff Riggenbach
Plus the news and your phone calls. Listen live from 1-3 central on 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
05/15/09 – Rand Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul and 2010 Senatorial candidate, discusses the war in Afghanistan, reducing corruption by making lobbying and bidding on government contracts mutually exclusive, the excess federal authority derived from the commerce clause, prosecutions of Bush administration officials for war crimes and the need for withdrawal from Iraq.
05/15/09 – Jeff Riggenbach – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Riggenbach, author of Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism, discusses the role of Charles Beard and Harry Elmer Barnes in advancing revisionist U.S. history, court historians who fight to preserve a mythology of benevolent government actions, drastic changes in the meaning of politically descriptive terms like 'liberal' and 'conservative' and moving away from a war/presidential perspective of history to a focus on economic/social science issues.
