Independent journalist Dahr Jamail discuses the mistreatment of conscientious objectors on U.S. military bases, systemic 'warehousing' of AWOL and injured soldiers, the redeployment pressure faced by soldiers with serious brain injuries or PTSD and the support network available for those seeking conscientious objector status.
09/29/09 – Melvin Goodman – The Scott Horton Show
Melvin Goodman, former senior Soviet analyst at the CIA, discusses the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) response to torture investigation naysayers, early indications that the investigation will focus on low-level operatives instead of policy makers, the Washington Post’s role as CIA apologist and how the U.S. occupation of Iraq is shaping up to be this generation’s 'Forgotten War.'
09/29/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the overblown 'gotcha' revelation of the 'secret' Iranian nuclear facility, how the wonkish debate over IAEA Additional Protocol minutiae turned into accusations that Iran is building nukes, the secret Saudi, U.K. and U.S. funding of opposition candidates in the Iranian election and the likely disastrous results of a war with Iran.
09/25/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the high success rate of Gitmo detainees in habeas corpus hearings, the legal uncertainty over the extent of U.S. government powers, Obama's use of the AUMF as a one-size-fits-all legal justification, how a unilateral executive branch is preferable to Congressionally codified bad behavior and the $200 million dollar bribe needed to offload former Gitmo Uighur prisoners on Palau.
09/25/09 – Jean MacKenzie – The Scott Horton Show
Jean MacKenzie, Afghanistan reporter for GlobalPost.com, discusses how the Taliban protection racket takes a cut of U.S. reconstruction funds, the Afghan dislike of (even the kinder, gentler U.S. version) all foreign occupations, the Afghanistan opium trade that is too deeply entrenched to stop and Gen. McChrystal's assessment that 500 thousand more troops will be needed over 5 years.
09/23/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses the divide between establishment foreign policy realists and neocons on Israel/Palestine issues, the Goldstone fact-finding mission's conclusion on Israeli crimes in Gaza, the ability of narrowly focused interest groups to dominate U.S. policy and the hard reality of life in the Gaza Strip.
09/23/09 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the overwhelming popular support for auditing the FED, the surreptitious method of funding wars through inflation instead of direct taxation, the case for withdrawing from Afghanistan and Ben Bernanke's refusal to change course and acknowledge flaws in his economic theory.
09/22/09 – Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria discuss the MSM's refusal to investigate Sibel Edmonds's blockbuster allegations, the wide and deep bipartisan corruption at the highest levels of U.S. government, how big media's money and influence is needed to assist in pushing the story forward, the close working relationship between the American-Turkish Council and AIPAC and how Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped turn U.S. government officials into foreign intelligence assets.
09/22/09 – Jim Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the post 9/11 roundup and detention of innocents, the FBI practice of searching the phonebook to find Muslim 'suspected terrorists,' the minor immigration violations turned into long prison terms through coerced confessions, how John Ashcroft expanded the definition of 'treason' to include criticism of government actions and the persistence of 'sovereign immunity' claims in the post-Enlightenment Western world.
09/17/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses his new film 'The Most Dangerous Man in America,' simulations that indicate nuclear war would be more destructive than previously thought, how the practice of killing civilians en masse in WWII became the premise of U.S. nuclear war planning, cancellation of the European missile defense shield and the staggering difference in destructive force between an H-bomb and every other weapon preceding it.
09/16/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet, discusses the massing of Indian troops on the India/China border, how nearly every border dispute outside the Western world stems from British imperialism, the little-known Chinese presence in Kashmir and the difficulty in keeping tabs on the 'finger in every pie' U.S. foreign policy.
Antiwar Radio 9/15/09: Eric Margolis, Daniel Lakemacher, Gareth Porter and Rebecca Vilkomerson
Today on Antiwar Radio: Eric Margolis, Daniel Lakemacher, Gareth Porter and Rebecca Vilkomerson 1-3 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://KAOSRadioAustin.org or http://antiwar.com/radio
09/15/09 – Daniel Lakemacher – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lakemacher, founder of the website WarIsImmoral.com, discusses his conscientious objector (CO) discharge from the U.S. Navy, how the experience of working at Guantanamo and (independently) learning about the libertarian 'non-aggression principle' changed his mind about war and justice, the process of becoming a CO and how the military defines morality in terms of obedience/disobedience.
09/15/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the terrorist safe-haven and failed state of Somalia, U.S. mission creep on the African continent, the questionable legal authority of assassination via airstrike, Afghanistan's fraudulent election and popular discontent in Pakistan against U.S. influence.
09/15/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his article 'IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged,' the admission of an IAEA official that the 'smoking laptop' contents were compiled from multiple sources and the mainstream media’s tendency to play fast and loose with the facts on Iran.
