David Spero (realignment), Joe Shansky (Costa Rica), Stephen M. Walt (Israel) 9-noon West, 12-3 East http://lrn.fm/ or http://kaosradioaustin.org.
07/20/10 – Joseph Shansky – The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Shansky, contributor to Counterpunch, UpsideDownWorld and Democracy Now! en Español, discusses the 'invited' invasion of Costa Rica by the U.S.. Navy and Marine Corps, the drug war excuse, Costa Rica’s pacifist constitution which forbids such things, the notable lack of information about the move, the widespread disapproval of the new U.S. presence among the population, the realignment across Central and South America away from U.S. power and other reasons to anticipate a new era of...
07/20/10 – David Spero – The Scott Horton Show
David Spero RN, author of the book The Art of Getting Well, writer for DissidentVoice.org, discusses his push for a left-right-libertarian realignment for liberty and against the empire, the important issues we agree on and the divisive social issues that divide us, Scott's hairbrained idea for a real two-party system, TV's best efforts to keep Americans helpless, the hopeful rise of civilian mutual support networks to decrease dependence on the central state as economic times get worse.
07/20/10 – Stephen M. Walt – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University and co-author of the article and the book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, discusses once-and-present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stubbornness in implementing the Oslo Accords, the newly released 2001 video which shows him bragging at his success, how the policies of the Likud Party and the American Israel Lobby are...
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Gareth Porter (Netanyahu, Amiri), Joe Meadors (USS Liberty, Mavi Mamara), Bruce Fein (American Empire) -- 9-Noon Pacific http://LRN.FM.
07/19/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the just released 2001 video of Benjamin Netanyahu mocking the stupidity of the 80% of Americans who support Israel and the ease with which Tel Aviv can dictate to Washington D.C., Netanyahu's history of thwarting peace deals made by his predecessors and the neoconning of the Canadian media at the expense of our guest.
07/19/10 – Bruce Fein – The Scott Horton Show
Bruce Fein, author of American Empire: Before the Fall, discusses the domestic consequences of foreign empire, the very fast transition from republic to empire in American history, the changing of the presidency from chief executive to permanent war commander, the simple truth that terrorism is a reaction to, not the reason for American interventionism in the Middle East, Faisal Shazad's explanation of how this works to a federal judge in New York recently, an example of how empire's bring...
07/19/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPSNews, discusses indications that Amiri the mysterious Iranian defector was actually a double-agent sent by Iran to learn what the CIA knew and thought about them, Amiri's role on the periphery of their nuclear program, his statements to the CIA that there is no nuclear weapons program, Porter's source who says that the National Intelligence Council will stand by their previous no-nuke-weapons-program-in-Iran stance [.pdf] from 2007 in...
07/19/10 – Joe Meadors – The Scott Horton Show
Joe Meadors, former US Navy signalman and survivor of both the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and on the Gaza Peace Flotilla, describes the details of the Liberty assault, why they believe it was intentional, the recall of the USS Saratoga‘s fighters twice that day from assisting the Liberty on orders from Lyndon Johnson, the massive cover-up, why the Israelis were unable to sink the ship despite their best efforts, different theories on the Israeli's motivations, his motive for...
Today on Antiwar Radio:
Punk Johnny Cash, Chase Madar, Elaine Cassle 9-noon Pacific http://lrn.fm/ or http://kaosradioaustin.org/
07/16/10 – Punk Johnny Cash – The Scott Horton Show
'Punk Johnny Cash,' veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and blogger at the GonzoTimes.com, discusses movie portrayals of the marines, how basic training changes one forever, the modern epidemics of shell shocked vets and on-base violence, the similarity of the mindset of an enlisted man and a battered wife, examples of how they humiliate and break down new recruits in order to rebuild them and whether or not the U.S. needs to take over the planet Earth in the first place.
07/16/10 – Chase Madar – The Scott Horton Show
New York civil rights lawyer Chase Madar discusses the case of child-soldier-turned U.S. kidnapping-torture victim Omar Khadr, lousy PR victories from convictions of cooks and a chauffeur, bogus 'war crimes' charges against someone accused of throwing a grenade on a battlefield, reasons to disbelieve that the kid threw the grenade in the first place, the tortured confession, the failure of the American people to insist on the old law, why the Canadian government doesn’t want the kid back and...
07/16/10 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show
Elaine Cassel, civil liberties attorney and author of The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft have Dismantled the Bill of Rights, returns to Antiwar Radio to discuss the case of civil liberties lawyer Lynn Stewart, whose prison sentence was recently increased to 10 years in prison (probably life for a 70-year-old woman) the guideline infractions and material support and charges against her, why mouthing off to the judge at her previous sentencing was probably a bad idea, the chilling...
07/16/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, freelance reporter, author of the book I Lost My Love in Baghdad and the article 'The Runaway General' in Rolling Stone magazine — which brought down General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the Afghan War — discusses the rules of engagement for American forces in Afghanistan, public support for a timeline for withdrawal, the failure of the operation in the small town of Marja and the reluctance of Kandahar leaders to go along with repeat of the same in their city, the...
07/16/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the creation of the Emergency Committee for Israel, UN Security Council resolutions demanding Iran cease all uranium enrichment, global support for Iran's position and the Israel Lobby's pressure to have the National Intelligence Council re-write the National Intelligence Estimate of November 2007 which held that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program and had not decided to pursue one.
