The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the Seton Hall report (pdf) that casts doubt on the 'suicide' death of three Guantanamo inmates in 2006, the highly redacted and delayed release of the military’s cover-up investigation, indications that less than ten percent of all Gitmo prisoners may be serious terrorists, the legal immunity enjoyed by high governmental officials during the Bush and Obama...
12/08/09 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, our long-lost former co-contributor to Antiwar Radio and author of The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, discusses how the Iraq war went from 'paying for itself' to costing trillions, the individuals responsible for the US financial crisis, the widespread use of accounting tricks and phony balance sheets to delay bankruptcy, the declining worth of all the world’s paper currencies, India’s landmark...
12/08/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the Iraq bombings that undermine Nouri al-Maliki's claim of improved security in Baghdad, the US government spin machine that defines terrorist attacks as indicators of progress, the difficulty of fighting and winning wars against failed states, the marked decline in Iraq's Sunni population and the strange US determination to pacify Afghanistan.
12/04/09 – Jeff Frazee – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of Young Americans for Liberty, discusses YAL's mission statement of educating and promoting libertarian-minded candidates for public office, their primary focus on the Constitution, antiwar issues and limited government, Ron Paul's success at increasing public awareness of the FED and monetary policy and why avoiding divisive debates on secondary issues is essential for an inclusive organization's survival.
12/03/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s compromise decision on troops for Afghanistan that pleased nobody, the divergent goals and methods of al Qaeda and the Taliban, serious logical flaws in the 'disrupting terrorist safe havens' rationale for war in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party strategy of acceding to any military demands and the obstacles to a third-party uranium encrichment deal with Iran.
12/02/09 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the TSA's plan to see every air traveler naked, harsh criminal penalties for resisting body searches, the TSA's failure to discover or thwart a single terrorist and why concerned citizens and locked cockpit doors provide better security than a multi-billion dollar government agency.
12/02/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the post-Gulf War politicization of United Nations weapons inspections, the rigid 100 percent compliance mandate that guaranteed Iraqi failure, how Madeleine Albright halted invasive inspections that could have verified Iraq's disarmament, Bill Clinton's determination to keep sanctions on Iraq until Saddam Hussein was deposed, the misuse of UN inspectors as intelligence agents and provocateurs, the attempt to assassinate Hussein during...
12/01/09 – David Weingarten – The Scott Horton Show
David Weingarten, producer of the documentary movie Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat, discusses the 'Toronto 18”³ group of terrorist suspects accused of planning to make truck bombs and behead Canada’s Prime Minister, the role of police informants in procuring bomb-making materials and bringing the loosely affiliated group together and how extended pre-trial incarceration encourages guilty pleas.
12/01/09 – Petra Bartosiewicz – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance journalist Petra Bartosiewicz discusses the nearly guaranteed guilty verdicts for terrorism trials in federal courts, the government's ability to restrict crucial non-vetted evidence from the defense and even the prosecution, court precedents that weaken the Bill of Rights and how the political pressure on the FBI to catch terrorists often leads to prosecutions of entrapped patsies.
11/25/09 – Robert Czernik – The Scott Horton Show
Environmental and political activist Robert Czernik discusses the RNC8 group of activists arrested and charged with violating the Minnesota PATRIOT Act during the 2008 Republican National Convention, the criminalization of political dissent, the use of conspiracy charges to justify preemptive arrests and the RNC8's ongoing legal battle.
11/25/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Regular Antiwar.com writer Jeff Huber discusses his article 'Dumb and Dumber Wars,' the vulnerability of remote military outposts in Afghanistan, the folly of sending additional troops to support the corrupt Karzai government, the U.S. bombing campaign that eviscerated al-Qaeda and how Obama’s unwise campaign rhetoric tied his hands on foreign policy.
Antiwar Radio: Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald
Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald were guests for the 11/17/09 KPFK Pacifica Radio edition of Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio show. The show is about an hour long and can be listened to here, beginning at 1:29 into the recording. Scott Ritter discusses the Iranian nuclear program, James Bamford discusses the national surveillance state and Glenn Greenwald discusses what the upcoming Khalid Sheikh Muhammad trial in New York means for the rule of law.
11/20/09 – Leslie Lefkow – The Scott Horton Show
Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division, discusses the worsening situation in Somalia since the 2006 Ethiopian invasion, the media's preference for reporting on piracy instead of humanitarian disasters, the appearance that the U.S. helped destabilize Somalia simply to apprehend a few suspects from the 1998 embassy bombings, how the U.S. is more careful distributing food-aid than weapons, increasing Al Shabaab radicalism, Ethiopia's hosting of extraordinary...
11/20/09 – David Swanson – The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, discusses the myth of Constitutionally-derived presidential supremacy in foreign affairs, why Congress prefers acting like an executive advisory committee instead of a co-equal branch of government, the Tenth Amendment’s losing battle against the Commerce Clause, progress in civil and foreign court cases against Bush administration crimes that Obama steadfastly ignores, the neglected subpoena...
11/18/09 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the embarrassing information likely to be revealed during Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial, the media's willful ignorance of the motivation of 9/11 terrorists, the self-defeating U.S. anti-terrorism strategy of targeted assassination without regard for the underlying grievances and the need for regional diplomatic solutions to energy resource conflicts.
