05/07/09 – Jacob Hornberger – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 7, 2009 |

Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the legal maneuvers that prevented a Supreme Court ruling on enemy combatants, the difference between regular and extraordinary rendition, how the U.S. asserts the right to detain anyone in the world indefinitely and how the mission of the CIA is incompatible with a free society.

05/06/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 6, 2009 |

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the necessity of prosecuting the handful of real 9-11 conspirators even though they were tortured, the unsupported claim that numerous released Guantanamo prisoners 'returned to the battlefield,' the ill-advised revival of Cheney/Addington military commissions and how the U.S. Bagram air base remains outside the scope of Obama’s 'reforms.'

05/06/09 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 6, 2009 |

David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale University, discusses the standard Israeli practice of making incongruous conditional demands to avoid serious discussion of a Palestinian state, the propaganda and fundraising boon Ahmadinejad has been to AIPAC, the radicalizing effect recent Russian immigrants have had on Israeli politics and how the Iranian nuclear scaremongering may be designed for American consumption.

05/05/09 – Marjorie Cohn – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 5, 2009 |

Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses the illegality of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the use of torture to extract false confessions linking Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, the embarrassment of Spain investigating U.S. war crimes while Obama sidesteps the issue and Condi Rice's comeuppance at Stanford.

05/01/09 – Greg Mitchell – The Scott Horton Show

by | May 1, 2009 |

Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, discusses the sixth year anniversary of Bush’s 'Mission Accomplished' stunt, the spread of revisionist history claiming that everyone was for the Iraq war when it started, the abject failure of mainstream media on the biggest issues of the day and how online resources are challenging traditional media’s stranglehold on the truth.

04/30/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 30, 2009 |

Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the connection between PNAC and the U.S. empire of bases, how beltway foreign policy advisers changed Obama's antiwar rhetoric, the rumors of a U.S.-sponsored Iraqi coup d'etat to replace Nouri al-Maliki and the tendency of empires to enter costly military quagmires that bring their downfall.

04/30/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 30, 2009 |

Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses all the implications of the Jane Harman wiretap story the MSM hasn't run with yet, the evidence of Israeli attempts to dominate U.S. policy decisions on Iran to start a war, the J Street lobby's moderating influence and how Israeli leaders are oblivious of the political re-evaluation of Israel by American Jews.

04/29/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show

by | Apr 29, 2009 |

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the duplication of (illusory) successful U.S. strategies in Iraq for use in Afghanistan, the U.S. drone missile strikes that kill a few Taliban but anger millions of Pakistanis, Nouri al-Maliki's continued assertion of Iraqi sovereignty and how the Iraqi Sunnis are squeezed between contradictory political pressures from Islamic radicals and the Iraqi government.