This interview is excerpted from Scott Horton’s January 7th guest host appearance on KPFK’s Daily Briefing radio show. The full show is here. Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the infighting between intelligence agencies trying to deflect blame for the Detroit 'underbomber,' the inordinate number of innocent civilians killed in predator drone missile strikes, the resonance of Osama bin Laden’s message with opponents of US imperialism and why the US would be wise to...
01/01/10 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses the losing battle of Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy (who both presided as senators over the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964) to defeat the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, LBJ’s decision to escalate the Vietnam War despite the prescient predictions of disaster by advisor Clark Clifford, the doublethink prospect of destabilizing Pakistan in order to stabilize it, how 'effective' counterinsurgencies often provoke civil war, the...
Antiwar Radio: Philip Giraldi
Former CIA and DIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses evidence that documents touted by the London Times contradicting the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran are forgeries, the history of Rupert Murdoch-owned media passing along propaganda from Israeli and British intelligence, how bogus news stories create a deeply ingrained false narrative and distort public perception, the overwhelming Congressional support for warlike sanctions on Iran, the possibility Osama bin Laden is...
12/31/09 – Kurt Haskell – The Scott Horton Show
Kurt Haskell, Detroit area attorney and passenger on the 'Christmas bomber' flight 253, discusses the arrest of a second man that an FBI agent insinuated was carrying a bomb, the inconsistent statements from the FBI and US Customs — particularly from spokesman Ron Smith — and an account of the sharply dressed man of Indian appearance who helped suspected bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab board the plane in the Netherlands.
12/31/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the structure of a thoroughly propagandized populace, the al Qaeda moniker’s usefulness as the media’s lazy shorthand for 'evildoers,' Yemen’s emergence as the 'Afghanistan of the Arabian Peninsula,' the sovereign state of British intelligence otherwise known as the Sultanate of Oman, why Pakistan is wary of attacks on its nuclear installations, how Iranian protests are indicative of some level of political freedom — as compared to...
12/30/09 – George Maschke – The Scott Horton Show
George Maschke, professional Persian/English legal translator and co-founder of Antipolygraph.org, discusses the evidence that the Iranian nuclear documents disclosed by the London Times are forgeries, the lack of dates, signatures or classification stamps on a purportedly top-secret governmental document, how the bombshell accusation against Iran is based on the suspicious juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated memos and why 'lie detector' tests continue to be used for security screenings...
12/29/09 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Brian Ross's ABC News report linking released Gitmo inmates with the Northwest Airlines bomb attempt, the popular belief that both guilty and innocent Gitmo inmates can never be released, blowback from US airstrikes in Yemen and the fading John Durham CIA torture tape investigation.
12/18/09 – Michael Prysner and James Circello – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Prysner and James Circello, staff members of March Forward!, an antiwar organization for active duty soldiers and veterans, discuss the bigotry ingrained in military culture that dehumanizes the enemy du jour, the class struggle between enlisted soldiers and officers, the intentional 'draw fire' missions that boost an officer’s career while endangering troops, double-dipping retired generals who get paid to propagandize for more war, the continued deployment of soldiers with PTSD and...
12/17/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the media driven myth of a truly oppositional US political system, hypocritical progressive support for the same Obama policies that were denounced during the Bush administration, how conservative outrage over FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society subsided when the programs were continued by Republican presidents, the unusual upholding of the Constitution in ACORN’s lawsuit (PDF) against Congress and the...
12/17/09 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show
Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the delays in getting habeas corpus hearings for her clients, the inadequate health care afforded Gitmo inmates, Matthew Waxman’s role in having 'enemy combatant' status reviews redone until the results were favorable to the government, why detainees headed to Illinois will probably get military tribunals and Gorman’s own attempt to sue the NSA for tapping her phone.
12/16/09 – Martin Chulov – The Scott Horton Show
Martin Chulov, Baghdad correspondent for the Guardian of London, discusses the ecological disaster in Iraq, diversion of water from the Tigris and Euphrates by Syria, Turkey and Iran, the fate of Iraq's Marsh Arabs, greatly increased birth defects in Fallujah, the few remaining foreign journalists covering Iraq and the near-certainty that the US occupation will soon be over.
12/15/09 Andrew Cockburn: U.S. Support for Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses the historical and continuing US support for Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, how the CIA and State Department stymied attempts to stop A.Q. Kahn early on and how US safeguarding efforts allow Pakistan's nukes to be more fully and rapidly deployed.
12/15/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the RAND Corporation’s Army-commissioned study for a militarized 'Stability Police Force,' the attempted legalized circumvention of Posse Comitatus and the end of distinction between civilian and military law enforcement, the slippery slope from a civilian criminal suspect to an enemy combatant and the tyrannical reign of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
12/14/09 – Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch.com, discusses the multitude of 'other' surges in Afghanistan overshadowed by the troop deployments, the costs excluded from Obama’s 30 billion dollar surge estimate, the unfounded belief that a Democratic president can’t end a war, the difficulty of defining — much less achieving — success in Afghanistan and how Bush’s wars continue even though the geopolitical strategy that created them is gone.
12/10/09 – Ellen Cantarow – The Scott Horton Show
Ellen Cantarow, author of the article 'Living by the Gate From Hell' at TomDispatch.com, discusses the Israeli barrier wall’s effective annexation of Palestinian territory, the change in West Bank Jewish settlements from temporary trailers to elaborate housing developments, agricultural gates operated by Israel that control when Palestinians can access their own land, how Palestinians are denied a right of return while foreign descendants of Jews can claim citizenship and how a partial West...
