Cole Miller, Founding Director of No More Victims, discusses his organization's efforts to provide medical care for Iraqi children injured by the US military, the mainstream media's refusal to cover the effects of war on individuals, the deeply rooted humanitarian instincts of Americans for children in need and how you can help.
02/09/10 – Anand Gopal – The Scott Horton Show
Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses the miniature Bagram-type prisons popping up on US military outposts in Afghanistan, loopholes that render prisoner treatment rules meaningless, limited US intelligence operations that rely on dubious tips from score-settling Afghans and how US night raids in rural Afghanistan turn ordinary Pashtuns against the occupation.
02/09/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the quickly removed AP article from George Jahn that blatantly exaggerates Iran's nuclear program, Iran's tentative agreement to third-party uranium enrichment for medical applications and the big difference between highly enriched and weapons grade uranium.
02/09/10 – Francis Boyle – The Scott Horton Show
Francis Boyle, Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, discusses his legal Complaint demanding the prosecution of Bush administration officials for crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes committed by the US in ICC-member countries, the 'Marty' report that catalogs the US practice of 'extraordinary rendition' and how a less-desirable international prosecution is the result of the Obama administration’s failure to uphold the...
02/02/10 – Kurt Haskell – The Scott Horton Show
Kurt Haskell, Detroit area attorney and passenger on 'Christmas bomber' Northwest Airlines flight 253, discusses the change in the official narrative that now acknowledges the 'sharply dressed' Indian man who helped bombing suspect Abdulmutallab board the plane in the Netherlands, the official US policy of helping terrorism suspects into the country in order to catch the entire 'terror network,' the possibility that the 'sharply dressed' man was acting on behalf of the US government and...
02/02/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the Obama administration’s inability to negotiate an Afghan peace deal, differing opinions on whether the troop surge will ultimately help or hurt U.S. diplomatic leverage with the Taliban, the possibility a constitutional rewrite will bring back Sharia law and snuff out Afghanistan’s fledgling 'democracy', the high likelihood of renewed civil war even with a U.S.-brokered peace deal and the slightly...
02/02/10 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the newest round of proposed US sanctions on Iran, the odd idea that choking off supplies of refined petroleum will pressure Iran to give up uranium enrichment, how sanctions will effectively impose a gasoline tax on ordinary Iranians and consolidate the power of the Revolutionary Guard, generous concessions made by moderate Iranian presidents that were rebuffed by the...
01/29/10 – 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 journalists attempting to rebut his Guantanamo 'suicides' expose, the strong resemblance of Joe Carter’s critiques to those of a Department of Defense public affairs officer, the hassle of dealing with straw man arguments, more evidence that Camp 'No' does indeed exist, the ease of controlling the flow of information within a secure military...
01/29/10 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses the Justice Department’s proposal to keep 50 Guantanamo inmates imprisoned forever without trial, the current 3-tiered justice system that provides the most generous legal forum that still guarantees a conviction, the problem with conferring 'prisoner of war' status on Guantanamo detainees and the unaccountable 'presidential assassinations' authorized by the Bush and Obama administrations.
01/28/10 – David Bromwich – The Scott Horton Show
David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale University, discusses American ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry's recommendation against a troop surge that Obama ignored, Eikenberry's concern that continued US assistance will indefinitely delay Afghan independence and self sufficiency, Obama's decision to forgo an Iraq Study Group-type reevaluation of policy on Afghanistan, the odd NYT note (end of article) that Robert Gates watched the military-coup movie Seven Days in May, Obama's...
01/27/10 – Kelly B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the latest attempt by anti-Hugo Chavez members of Congress to get Venezuela on the 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' list, unlikely allegations of collusion between al Qaeda and the FARC in drug smuggling operations, Israel’s promotion of a Hamas/Hezbollah/S. America link, the terrible New Yorker articles of Jeffrey Goldberg and the big logical leap of inferring government sponsorship of terrorism from the...
01/27/10 – Maj. Todd E. Pierce – The Scott Horton Show
Major Todd E. Pierce, a Judge Advocate General representing Guantanamo inmate Ali al-Bahlul, discusses the appeal of his client’s conviction for — among other things — making al Qaeda propaganda videos, how Congress exceeding its authority by passing the Military Commissions Act (MCA), pertinent First Amendment and court precedent issues, the misuse of the 'define and punish' clause in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, the effective worldwide criminalization of any expression of...
01/26/10 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, author of The Dreyfuss Report blog for The Nation, discusses the conflict between Obama and Gen. Petraeus over an Afghanistan withdrawal timetable, why a left-right alliance is unlikely because of intransigence on domestic issues and disinterest in foreign policy, the shifting Iraqi political coalitions that may indicate another poor electoral showing for Shiite religious parties and why the shut-out of US oil companies vying for Iraqi oil contracts lessens the incentive for...
01/26/10 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, regular writer for The eXiled, discusses Russia’s transition from neoliberal Yeltsin to nationalist Putin, the US 'economic hit men' advisers to Yeltsin who facilitated the rise of the oligarchs, the huge decline in Russian life-expectancy rates in the 1990s, the trail of economic disasters left in Larry Summers‘ wake, how the 'cakewalk' victory of Gulf War I increased American bravado and militarism, the end of US meritocracy and why a more vigorous opposition is needed to stop the...
01/22/10 – Daphne Eviatar – The Scott Horton Show
Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate in Law and Security for Human Rights First, discusses the Brookings Institution study that recommends codifying indefinite detention without trial, the government’s refusal to release some Guantanamo detainees who won their habeas corpus hearings and how the never ending 'war on terror' complicates the traditional practice of holding prisoners 'for the duration.'
