Former CIA and DIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the cloak-and-dagger media spectacle of a former CIA agent claiming to have knowledge of secret Iranian weapons, the possibility of an Israeli air strike on Iran this summer, how Israel sabotages US relations with Mideast rival countries, why it has become politically impossible for the US to rein in Israel and how the cost of maintaining US empire is the constant threat of blowback.
05/05/10 – Jack Hunter – The Scott Horton Show
Jack Hunter, talk radio host and newspaper columnist, discusses the Barry Goldwater foundation of the modern American conservative movement, why Sean Hannity is too stupid to realize he's a neocon, how Obama's election has made conservatives easier to talk to about foreign policy and how neocons are losing their tightly held grip on Republican talking points.
05/04/10 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Independent investigative journalist Joe Lauria discusses the ongoing U.N. conference on nuclear nonproliferation, the Obama administration's attempt to propose a nuclear-free Middle East without acknowledging Israel's nuclear weapons, Hillary Clinton's pronounced lack of diplomatic acumen, why South African-style nuclear disarmament might be in Israel's future and how US foreign policy encourages nuclear proliferation.
04/30/10 – David Paul Hammer – The Scott Horton Show
Death row inmate David Paul Hammer, author of Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, discusses the mysterious 'Major' and 'Poindexter' characters that Timothy McVeigh claimed help instigate and advance the Oklahoma City bombing plot, Andreas Strassmeir’s role in leading the Aryan Republican Army’s military wing, why McVeigh believed that his execution would be faked — and therefore didn’t want an autopsy, Hammer’s claim that FBI agents offered him a life sentence in...
04/30/10 – Peter Lance – The Scott Horton Show
Peter Lance, author of Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI—and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him, discusses Ali Mohamad's infiltration of the U.S. government, the Egyptian core of al Qaeda, how the FBI could have prevented the 1993 WTC bombing, informant Emad Salem's heroic attempt to infiltrate the Blind Sheik's cell and later get him convicted of the bombing, FBI manager Carson Dunbar's unbelievable arrogance and incompetence,...
04/29/10 – Mark Ames – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Ames, co-editor and writer for The eXiled, discusses the money-making business of war (for the politically connected few), why halfhearted government deregulation of the thoroughly rigged banking system does not create a free market, Alan Greenspan’s lucrative consulting business with the Paulson & Co. hedge fund and how the post-Cold War 'peace dividend' was scuttled by the neocon-inspired 'unipolar moment.'
04/29/10 – Lawrence Wittner – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, discusses the upcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations, disagreements between nuclear and non-nuclear states, creeping complacency since the Cold War's end about the dangers of nuclear weapons, how even a small nuclear exchange (between India and Pakistan, for example) could bring about nuclear winter and drastically effect life on earth and why working for a nuclear...
04/28/10 – Iloilo Marguerite Jones – The Scott Horton Show
Iloilo Marguerite Jones, Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, discusses the rights and responsibilities of jurors, why - despite popular opinion - jurors may follow their consciences and render verdicts contrary to laws they think are unjust, the incarceration of millions of Americans for victimless crimes and how American public education churns out citizens overly deferential to authority.
04/27/10 – Chris Deliso – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist and author Chris Deliso discusses the multiple conflicting claims on the (regional/national/ethnic) identity of Macedonia, economic instability that threatens the Euro currency and the EU in general, the longstanding conflict between Turkey's religious government and secular military, the lasting legacies of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires in Asia Minor and the possible incorporation of Kosovo into a Greater Albania.
04/23/10 – Tracey Harmon – The Scott Horton Show
Tracey Harmon, conscientious objector member of IVAW and LOLA, discusses her poor phone reception in Iraq, her conscientious objector ordeal, working with an undisclosed NGO to investigate crimes by or against Iraqi Kurds.
04/23/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the escalation of violence in Iraq that is mostly ignored by the media, Muqtada al-Sadr's significant political clout, disputed Iraqi election results from early March and the unwillingness of Iraq's political factions to compromise and form a government.
04/23/10 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his website’s Guantanamo Habeas Week event that seeks to draw attention to government torture and lawlessness, the difficult-to-determine ratio of evil/incompetence at work in the Bush administration, the arbitrary roundup of 'terrorists' in Afghanistan and Pakistan following the embarrassing bin Laden Tora Bora escape, the current score card of Guantanamo Habeas hearings, scaremongering Republican politicians and the end of...
04/22/10 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for the foreign policy blog Lobelog, discusses Israel's postwar history, the lack of a serious peace process since Camp David, Obama's sometimes-encouraging rhetoric on a peaceful two-state settlement, common ground between the anti-occupation Left and foreign policy/military realists worried about disruption of US regional goals, why Palestinians will have a powerful appeal for one person one vote democracy should a two-state solution fail and why parsing the public...
04/22/10 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, writer for The Nation, discusses the military’s fraudulent 'personality disorder' discharges that deprive injured soldiers of benefits and medical care, Sergeant Chuck Luther’s mistreatment and effective incarceration by Army doctors, how the Pentagon has saved an estimated 12 billion dollars by denying care to 22,600 soldiers since 2001 and how the Feres Doctrine limits malpractice lawsuits against military doctors.
04/21/10 – Jonathan Hafetz – The Scott Horton Show
ACLU attorney Jonathan Hafetz discusses the McCain-Lieberman bill's potential to replace the US justice system with arbitrary and indefinite military detention, Obama's confirmed policy of extrajudicial assassination of suspected American terrorists, illegal government actions shielded by invocations of national security and sovereign immunity and how the Bill of Rights degenerated from a guarantee of individual liberty to a conditional permission slip subject to the whims of government.
