Washington Post reporter David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers, discusses his year-long embedded Iraq War reporting in 2007 with Army infantry battalion 2-16, his book’s reliance on first-hand accounts and unclassified information, how the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' video missed the big picture and why the ground-level view of war bears little resemblance to the one imagined in Washington strategy sessions.
08/16/10 – Josh Stieber – The Scott Horton Show
Josh Stieber, conscientious objector and former U.S. Army Specialist, discusses the explicit direct order from Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich (featured in David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers) to open fire on any Iraqis in the vicinity of an IED attack, the 'magic 8-ball' type randomness to daily patrols in 2007 Baghdad, soldiers who resisted or refused orders that imperiled civilians and where veterans and active duty soldiers can find support groups.
08/16/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the overlooked messages that undermine the premise of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Iran fear-mongering article, the recent history of Israel pretending Iran is an 'existential threat' as revealed in Trita Parsi’s Treacherous Alliance and Israel’s (real) intense fear of friendly relations between the U.S. and Iran.
08/12/10 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the State Department’s unintentionally hilarious report on global terrorism, the government’s steadfast refusal to see the underlying grievances that motivate terrorist actions, how Congressional Resolution 1553 defers Iran war-making decisions to Israel and how countries designated 'state sponsors of terrorism' are placed on the State Department’s 'ignore' list.
08/12/10 – Zack Mellette – The Scott Horton Show
Zack Mellette, cofounder of Give Us Names, discusses his organization's short films that showcase the plight of displaced Colombian farmers, the U.S. creation of multi-billion dollar Plan Colombia in 1998 to continue the failed supply-side War on Drugs, the devastating effect of aerial fumigation on food crops (and lesser effect on the targeted coca plants), the economic incentives for Colombians to grow coca instead of food and the heavily-armed paramilitary groups that seize land and kill...
08/12/10 – Stephan Salisbury – The Scott Horton Show
Stephan Salisbury, author of Mohamed’s Ghosts: An American Story of Love and Fear in the Homeland, discusses the 'Mosque at Ground Zero' that is neither a mosque nor at ground zero, how most 'Not in MY NYC' protesters are from out of town and don’t reflect the tolerance of Manhattan residents, the hostile sendoff of NYC cultural center representative Feisal Abdul Rauf on his State Department-sponsored Middle East religious tolerance tour, the deep rooted xenophobia in the U.S. exacerbated by...
Antiwar Radio: Chris Busby
Chris Busby, co-author of the epidemiological study "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005 - 2009" discusses the difficulties of carrying out a door-to-door survey of skeptical and hostile Fallujah residents, the severe birth deformities in regions where depleted uranium munitions were used, the study's focus on infant mortality rates, the military's outdated risk modeling for battlefield uranium exposure and why a dramatically lower male birth rate is a telling...
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08/05/10 – Matt Kennard – The Scott Horton Show
Matt Kennard, author of the article 'Neo-Nazis are in the Army now,' discusses the relaxed recruiting safeguards that allow neo-Nazis and gang members to join the U.S. military, how the desensitization training of soldiers — through dehumanizing their enemies — breeds bigotry, problems arising from combat-hardened veterans returning to their civilian criminal lives and why the legions of mercenaries have even larger problems brewing in them.
08/05/10 – Ali Gharib – The Scott Horton Show
This recording is excerpted from the KPFK Gustavo Areano program of August 5th. The complete recording can be heard here. Ali Gharib, a New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy, discusses the hawkish turn taken by the middle-of-the-road think tank Council on Foreign Relations, the synchronized talking points of Iran war boosters that — like Iraq before — force antiwar opponents to prove a negative (or why the reality-based community is forever playing catch-up to history's actors),...
08/04/10 – The Other Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the only law explicitly defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason, why the founding fathers made treason prosecutions difficult by design, the very serious charges facing accused 'WikiLeaker' Bradley Manning (but treason and espionage aren’t among them), Mark Thiessen’s Washington Post op-ed on why 'WikiLeaks must be stopped' and the double standard that...
08/04/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the last ditch effort of Omar Khadr’s military lawyer to stop his client’s war crimes trial, government use of the catch-all 'material support for terrorism' charge when all other crimes won’t stick and why the popular outcry for 'tough' military commissions trials for accused terrorists ignores the near-perfect conviction rate in federal courts.
08/04/10 – Bonnie Docherty – The Scott Horton Show
Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer at Harvard Law School and Researcher in the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, discusses the new international law banning cluster bombs (in the countries that ratified it), laudable U.K. actions on destroying cluster bomb stockpiles and advocating for universal abolition, the devastating civilian toll and glacial-paced removal of cluster bombs in Laos, the increased stigma on the largest cluster bomb manufacturing countries (U.S., Russia, Israel) and why these...
08/03/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses Obama's weasel-worded admission that combat brigades will remain in Iraq despite his promise to remove them by Sept. 1, 2010, new doubts on the Dec. 31, 2011 deadline on withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iraq and why Iraq's government still has the last word on whether the U.S. ultimately stays or leaves.
08/03/10 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, discusses how U.S. involvement in Iraq intensified after 1958, continued U.S. support for Saddam Hussein during his worst atrocities, the April Glaspie moment and infamous Madeleine Albright soundbite, the 1990s decade of bombing a sanctions-crippled Iraq, what Obama really means by 'withdrawal' and how Nouri al-Maliki continues to wield power while the rest of Iraq’s government remains...
