Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the Supreme Court decision on the ‘material support’ for terrorism case Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the Court’s continued deference to ‘wartime’ decisions made by the executive and legislative branches, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s lead role in arguing the government’s position in the case, why teaching the Tamil Tigers about...
06/22/10 – Ann Wright – The Scott Horton Show
Former State Department diplomat Ann Wright discusses her reasons for joining the Gaza aid flotilla, her firsthand account of the Israeli raid on the MV Mavi Marmara and Challenger 1, the use of collective punishment to effect regime change and Obama's silence on the death of nine activists including a US citizen.
06/21/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Israel’s revised list of goods allowed into Gaza, smuggling tunnels from Egypt that provide 'luxury' goods for a few politically connected Gazans, running the clock out on an international flotilla investigation, Obama’s gutless presidency and why Turkey is at a crossroads.
06/21/10 – Antiwar Radio:Tom Engelhardt – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Engelhardt, author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, discusses American ignorance of the unprecedented US empire of bases, fighting one-sided impersonal wars by remote control, forgotten lessons from George Orwell’s 1984, why the USAF plan to run the world from Guam and Diego Garcia won’t be easy, another Green Zone-style US 'embassy' planned for Islamabad in Pakistan and why the Obama administration seems to be floundering without the intense (if deluded)...
06/18/10 – Edward Peck – The Scott Horton Show
Former US Ambassador Edward Peck discusses his participation in the Gaza aid flotilla and his subsequent deportation from Israel, bogus excuses that impede progress toward a free Palestine, Joe Biden's unwavering devotion to Israel, American ignorance about foreign affairs and why (if they really do hate us for our freedoms) the disposition of terrorists is improving.
06/18/10 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the hope for a new political realignment around the issues of peace, the Bill of Rights and ending corporate welfare, his support for the 'War is Making You Poor' Act, how government insolvency can lessen restrictions on individual liberty and why the US only needs a small defensive military supplemented by volunteer militias.
06/17/10 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com blogger and former constitutional lawyer, discusses the SCOTUS decision not to hear the case of Canadian rendition/torture victim Maher Arar, the triumph of John Yoo's theory of nearly unlimited executive power and the defeat of constitutional judicial oversight, how the Obama administration continues the Bush legacy of avoiding governmental accountability, how Wikileaks fills the government watchdog role abdicated by the overly deferential press corps and the...
06/16/10 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses the mainstream media's persecution of journalist Gary Webb for daring to investigate the CIA/contra 1980s drug trafficking connection, how the empowered right wing media and associated personal-attack groups have created a generation of self-censoring and timid journalists, alternative media that can contest conventional wisdom but can't compete with the MSM budget-wise and the recent hit pieces on classified documents leaker SPC. Bradley...
06/16/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the lies and half truths in Israel’s propaganda campaign against the Gaza aid flotilla, the media’s narrative change from 'Israel attacks aid ship' to 'Terrorists ambush Israeli soldiers,' how outlandish Israeli accusations capture media attention while rebuttals are mostly ignored, military censorship of news stories in Israel proper and evidence that the Gaza blockade is intended as collective punishment and not to 'keep the weapons...
06/15/10 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Featured Antiwar.com columnist Kelley B. Vlahos discusses her coverage of the mainstream Democratic interventionist CNAS conference, the unprecedented politicization of military policy, public relations stunts disguised as war strategy initiatives and why think tanks that function only as echo chambers are not part of the reality-based community.
06/15/10 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses the impending 'Iraq 2006 moment' Gen. McChrystal faces in Afghanistan, the political 'fix' discussed at the June CNAS conference: Republican pressure on Obama to scrap the 2011 withdrawal timetable, the dogged American determination to continue unwinnable wars and the difference between Iran’s NPT comprehensive safeguards obligations and its temporary voluntary compliance with the much-ballyhooed Additional...
06/14/10 – Pierre Tristam – The Scott Horton Show
Pierre Tristam, editor of Flaglerlive.com, discusses his article 'From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard,' scant press coverage of the firebombing outside a Jacksonville, FL mosque, bigotry and ignorance at work in local government and the lucrative business of Islamic terrorism fearmongering.
06/14/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the brief and unproductive first session of Iraq's new parliament, Muqtada al-Sadr's feud with Nouri al-Maliki, Iran's considerable influence in Iraqi politics and why US efforts to export democracy often end in disaster.
06/14/10 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses the isolation of neoconservatives due to Israel's bad behavior, Senator Charles Schumer's odd justification for the Gaza blockade, why Hamas can and should be negotiated with.
06/09/10 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses Specialist Bradley Manning’s arrest for passing classified information to Wikileaks, the unfortunate negative connotations of the 'whistleblower' moniker, how Obama has decriminalized torture, 260,000 possible sources of embarrassment for the State Department and the Obama administration’s eager prosecution of whistleblowers.
