Iloilo Marguerite Jones, Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, discusses the rights and responsibilities of jurors, why - despite popular opinion - jurors may follow their consciences and render verdicts contrary to laws they think are unjust, the incarceration of millions of Americans for victimless crimes and how American public education churns out citizens overly deferential to authority.
04/27/10 – Chris Deliso – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist and author Chris Deliso discusses the multiple conflicting claims on the (regional/national/ethnic) identity of Macedonia, economic instability that threatens the Euro currency and the EU in general, the longstanding conflict between Turkey's religious government and secular military, the lasting legacies of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires in Asia Minor and the possible incorporation of Kosovo into a Greater Albania.
Antiwar Radio 4/23/2010
Jason Ditz, Tracey Harmon, Andy Worthington 11-1 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
04/23/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his website’s Guantanamo Habeas Week event that seeks to draw attention to government torture and lawlessness, the difficult-to-determine ratio of evil/incompetence at work in the Bush administration, the arbitrary roundup of 'terrorists' in Afghanistan and Pakistan following the embarrassing bin Laden Tora Bora escape, the current score card of Guantanamo Habeas hearings, scaremongering Republican politicians and the end of...
04/23/10 – Tracey Harmon – The Scott Horton Show
Tracey Harmon, conscientious objector member of IVAW and LOLA, discusses her poor phone reception in Iraq, her conscientious objector ordeal, working with an undisclosed NGO to investigate crimes by or against Iraqi Kurds.
04/23/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the escalation of violence in Iraq that is mostly ignored by the media, Muqtada al-Sadr's significant political clout, disputed Iraqi election results from early March and the unwillingness of Iraq's political factions to compromise and form a government.
Antiwar Radio 4/22/2010
Joshua Kors and Daniel Luban 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
04/22/10 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for the foreign policy blog Lobelog, discusses Israel's postwar history, the lack of a serious peace process since Camp David, Obama's sometimes-encouraging rhetoric on a peaceful two-state settlement, common ground between the anti-occupation Left and foreign policy/military realists worried about disruption of US regional goals, why Palestinians will have a powerful appeal for one person one vote democracy should a two-state solution fail and why parsing the public...
04/22/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the military’s fraudulent 'personality disorder' discharges that deprive injured soldiers of benefits and medical care, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s mistreatment and effective incarceration by Army doctors, how the Pentagon has saved an estimated 12 billion dollars by denying care to 22,600 soldiers since 2001 and how the Feres Doctrine limits malpractice lawsuits against military doctors.
Antiwar Radio: 4/21/2010
J-Street's Isaac Luria, ACLU's Jonathan Hafetz 11-1pm 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
04/21/10 – Jonathan Hafetz – The Scott Horton Show
ACLU attorney Jonathan Hafetz discusses the McCain-Lieberman bill's potential to replace the US justice system with arbitrary and indefinite military detention, Obama's confirmed policy of extrajudicial assassination of suspected American terrorists, illegal government actions shielded by invocations of national security and sovereign immunity and how the Bill of Rights degenerated from a guarantee of individual liberty to a conditional permission slip subject to the whims of government.
04/21/10 – Isaac Luria – The Scott Horton Show
Isaac Luria, Director of Communications and New Media for the pro-Israel J Street lobby, discusses J Street's increased influence in Washington since its creation two years ago, why a US-initiated two state solution for Israel/Palestine is in the best interest of all parties, polls that show American Jews support Obama's proposals even when Israel's government doesn't, the fast-approaching demographic milestone wherein Palestinians will outnumber Jews in greater Israel, why Jews still need a...
Antiwar Radio 4/20/10
David T. Hardy on the Waco Massacre and Robert Higgs and James Galbraith debate munny. 11-1pm 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
04/20/10 – David T. Hardy – The Scott Horton Show
David T. Hardy, author of This Is Not an Assault: Penetrating the Web of Official Lies Regarding the Waco Incident, discusses the regular practice of federal law enforcement agencies conducting headline-grabbing raids just before Congressional appropriations, the scandal-plagued ATF's attempt to get back in the Clinton government's good graces by cracking down on right-wing groups, how ATF 'undercover' agents — just nine days before the assault began — were granted access to the Branch...
04/20/10 – Robert Higgs vs. James Galbraith – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute and James Galbraith, Professor of Economics at the University of Texas, Austin, discuss the folly of government bailouts for insolvent banks, the creation of the Glass-Steagall Act as a means to prevent FDIC insured banks from taking excessive risks, the benefits and detriments of public and private regulation and oversight, the problems of regulatory capture and revolving door politics, divergent opinions on the...
