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Antiwar Radio: Eric Margolis

Scott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:07:48 +0000

Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent and author of War at the Top of the World and American Raj, discusses the appalling lack of knowledge displayed by the U.S. occupation forces in Afghanistan, how Americans are too uneducated and impatient to rival the British Empire’s colonial skills, the problem with exporting democracy to Muslim countries whose people [...]

Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton

Scott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:06:39 +0000

The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses spreading American ideas through education instead of with bombs, democratic growing pains (or death throes) in the Kyrgyz Republic, how the wide ideological divisions in the Cold War have since converged in a mash-up of state capitalism and [...]

Antiwar Radio: Josh Ruebner

Scott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:05:32 +0000

Josh Ruebner, National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, discusses burning his Israeli military deferment papers in protest, reasons to be skeptical of the newest attempt at Israel-Palestinian peace talks, the unfair foundation for negotiations that requires equal concessions from drastically unequal partners, why the U.S. never uses its substantial [...]

Antiwar Radio: Will Grigg

Scott — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:04:08 +0000

Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the consequence of successfully resisting law enforcement: escalation of state violence until you are destroyed, cop priorities that place self preservation far ahead of “protect and serve,” the double standards of when a taser gun is considered a deadly weapon and why it is no longer a [...]

Antiwar Radio: Michael Scheuer

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:17:12 +0000

Michael Scheuer, 22-year veteran of the CIA and former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, discusses the mostly-unknown motivation for 9/11: bin Laden’s 1996 fatwa, the U.S. media’s Israel bias that prevents them from explaining the link between terrorism and foreign policy, the 14 missed chances to kill bin Laden from 1998 to [...]

Antiwar Radio: Anthony Gregory

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:16:18 +0000

Anthony Gregory, Editor in Chief of Campaign for Liberty, discusses his article “The Persistence of Red-State Fascism” that recalls Lew Rockwell’s 2004 groundbreaking original, how 9/11 removed the last vestiges of libertarian anti-statism from the Republican Party, why the Left should be as obsessive about the entire Bill of Rights as conservatives are about the [...]

Antiwar Radio: Patrick Cockburn, Michael Hastings and Andy Worthington

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:14:44 +0000

These interviews are excerpted from the KPFK broadcast of September 2nd. The entire show can be heard here. Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the embarrassing performance of what was supposed to be an impressive display of U.S. military power in Iraq, the bitter sectarian divide remaining from Iraq’s civil war of [...]

Antiwar Radio: Aaron Glantz

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:13:46 +0000

Aaron Glantz, author of The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle against America’s Veterans, discusses the U.S. media’s eager participation in selling the Iraq War and hyping Colin Powell’s infamous U.N. presentation, how Obama made good on troop reductions but is too quick to claim credit for the war’s end, increased funding for the VA that [...]

Antiwar Radio: Jason Ditz and Kelley B. Vlahos

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:12:26 +0000

Antiwar.com’s Jason Ditz and Kelley B. Vlahos discuss Obama’s substitution of meaningless buzzwords for unpleasant truths in his “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over” speech, the media’s fixation on Iraq’s “cell phone index” to measure progress while ignoring water and electricity shortages, why nobody bothers to mention that Iraqi politics are dominated by Shia fundamentalists and [...]

Antiwar Radio: Mike Gogulski

Scott — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:11:29 +0000

Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the successful legal-defense fundraising effort that has landed attorney David Coombs, substantial monetary pledges from Michael Moore and WikiLeaks and the establishment of a mail delivery agreement with the Quantico brig so Manning can read the letters from his many supporters.

Antiwar Radio: Lew Rockwell

Scott — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:10:31 +0000

Lew Rockwell, founder and Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses how central banks print fiat money to pay for world wars that would otherwise be impossible to finance, the enormous resources at the U.S. government’s disposal to delay an economic reckoning, why WalMart is a net gain to society, the division between those [...]

Antiwar Radio: Robert Naiman

Scott — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:09:21 +0000

Robert Naiman, Policy Director at Just Foreign Policy, discusses Obama’s commendable follow-through on reducing troop levels in Iraq and (at least rhetorically) standing by the 2011 withdrawal date, the huge increase in troop numbers and casualties in Afghanistan since the Bush administration, the end of finite wars as U.S. foreign policy remains on a permanent [...]

Antiwar Radio: Haroon Siddiqui

Scott — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:08:07 +0000

Haroon Siddiqui, editorial writer for the Toronto Star, discusses Canada’s military role in Afghanistan that is due to end in 2011, why ending foreign wars will stop domestic terrorism, how the U.S. has lost the capacity to do good, the bogus argument of “we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them [...]

Antiwar Radio: Max Blumenthal

Scott — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:06:13 +0000

Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, discusses the religious justifications for killing non-Jews in the “King’s Torah” by Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the tenuous far-right political alliance that makes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu hold his tongue on the eve of Palestinian peace talks (lest he have to negotiate land-for-peace), [...]

Antiwar Radio: Fred Branfman

Scott — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:04:48 +0000

Fred Branfman, author of the Alternet article “Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America’s Military Strategy in the Muslim World,” discusses several common-sense reasons “why they hate us” (it isn’t our freedom), how the “McChrystal ratio” exposes the bankruptcy of COIN strategy, the incredibly broad scope – both in number of forces employed and [...]