Pepe Escobar, writer for the Asia Times, discusses the importance of home-field advantage in the fossil fuel Great Game, how the U.S. empire of bases is used to dominate access to critical energy resources, the IPI (Iran, Pakistan, India) pipeline proposal that defies U.S. influence and the increasing cooperation of Russia and China on energy issues.
03/27/09 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell during his tenure as Secretary of State, discusses how the Bush administration ignored the perfectly adequate Geneva Conventions guidelines for classifying war-zone detainees, the ethical and practical considerations of detaining and interrogating innocent civilians to 'fight terror,' the counterclaim to Dick Cheney’s assertion that torture prevents terrorism and the end of an Israel/Palestine two state solution. Wilkerson also says he...
Antiwar Radio 3/26/09: Jim Lobe, Gareth Porter
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03/26/09 – Jim Lobe – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses the new Robert Kagan/William Kristol think-tank Foreign Policy Initiative, how a relatively small number of neocons use their positions in media as an echo chamber to increase their influence and his view of the ideological similarity between isolationists and neoconservatives.
03/26/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the latest campaign promise broken by Barack Obama, the semantic removal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by calling them 'advisory and assistance' brigades and Obama’s inability to say 'no' to the military or to be truthful about his equivocations.
Antiwar Radio 3/25/09: Nebojsa Malic
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03/25/09 – Nebojsa Malic – The Scott Horton Show
Nebojsa Malic, author of the 'Moments of Transition' column on Antiwar.com, discusses the unacceptable-by-design Rambouillet Agreement, how the U.S.-led NATO war against Serbia set a precedent for future extralegal wars, the realpolitik goals behind U.S. interest in the Balkans and the current condition of the gangster state known as Kosovo.
Antiwar Radio 3/24/09: Juan Cole, Philip Giraldi
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03/24/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, discusses the humanitarian crisis caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Arab/Kurd disagreement over national governmental authority in Iraq, how U.S. air support and logistics will remain even if ground forces withdraw, the relatively large contingent of Islamic-majority countries that are unofficial U.S. allies and the misinformation at the heart of most anti-Islam rhetoric.
03/23/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the disposition of U.S. diplomacy in the Obama administration, the role Dick Cheney played in scuttling a Syria/Israel peace agreement, Obama's use of unofficial envoys to float diplomatic trial balloons in Iran and Russia, the fate of Hamid Karzai and why the Pyrrhic nature of the Israel lobby's recent victory over the realists has been greatly exaggerated.
Antiwar Radio: 3/20/09 Robert Murphy
Robert Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the inevitability of severe inflation due to the increase in the money supply, the speculation that a new world reserve currency will replace the U.S. dollar, and takes live questions from listeners to the show. MP3 here. Bob Murphy runs the blog Free Advice and is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. His articles are archived at Lewrockwell.com
03/20/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the inevitability of severe inflation due to the increase in the money supply, the speculation that a new world reserve currency will replace the U.S. dollar, and takes live questions from listeners to the show.
Antiwar Radio 3/19/09: Pratap Chatergee, Tomas Young, Muhammad Sahimi
Today on Antiwar Radio Pratap Chatergee of CorpWatch.org will be discussing his recent TomDispatch article, ‘Unknown Afghanistan,’ Tomas Young will discuss the war in Iraq and Muhammad Sahimi will discuss David Albright's role as rumor monger for the War Party. Listen live from 11-1PM Pacific, KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, TX, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
03/19/09 – Pratap Chatterjee – The Scott Horton Show
On the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of Corpwatch.org, discusses the ideology of the Bush administration's Iraq War brain trust, the pervasive culture of corruption engendered by throwing money into Iraq's reconstruction without oversight and Ahmed Chalabi's role in lying the American people into war.
03/19/09 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the known facts about Iran's uranium enrichment program, the impossible task asked of Iran to prove the non-existence of a secret program, the difficulty of converting low-enriched uranium to weapons grade and the persistent misinformation of media darling David Albright on Iran's nuclear program.
