Monthly Archives: October 2008

Antiwar Radio: Mark Ames

Mark Ames, author of “The Cold War that Wasn’t” in The Nation, discusses the dominant narrative and ideological underpinnings in the U.S. press regarding the recent Georgian attack on South Ossetia and subsequent Russian counterattack on Georgia, the attempt to portray Russia as the aggressor by floating the idea of a first-strike cyber war despite the lack of any evidence, the alleged poisoning of Ukraine’s Victor Yushchenko and the current dispute between Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko over her reaction to the Georgia war, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, the precedent set by U.S. intervention in Kosovo, the danger of putting “defensive” missiles in Eastern Europe while the U.S. foreign policy establishment contemplates first strike capability, U.S. NED support for the Russian National Bolsheviks, the “shock therapy” robbery of Russian resources under Yeltsin’s autocracy in the 1990s and the consequences.

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Antiwar Radio: Robert Dreyfuss

Robert Dreyfuss, author of The Dreyfuss Report blog for The Nation, discusses the policy of “hot pursuit” across international boundaries against anyone deemed an enemy, an increased military budget that encourages greater use of special forces, the prospect of a renewed UN mandate replacing a failed Iraq SOFA agreement and how it could effect the incoming U.S. administration, Iran’s decision to reduce confrontation with the U.S., how the Israeli election result will impact prospects for peace in the Middle East and the strategy behind al Qaeda’s attacks against America.

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Antiwar Radio: Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch and of The World According to TomDispatch, chronicles the failures of the Bush Administration and their misguided faith in the dark side of force, the state of complete catastrophe inside Afghanistan and on its border with Pakistan, the precarious situation in Iraq, Bush’s failure to get Iran to stop enriching Uranium (his standard), how U.S. policy has benefited Hamas and Hezbollah, the worst crisis on earth: the U.S.-caused war in Somalia and the rise of much more radical forces there than those whose power the invasion was meant to thwart.

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Antiwar Radio: Candace Gorman

H. Candace Gorman, Chicago civil rights attorney representing two Guantanamo detainees, discusses the difficulty of being a defense attorney for detainees subject to shifting court rulings and legal designations, a paralyzed federal court system that is stalling habeas corpus hearings until after the presidential election is decided, back room repatriation deals between the Bush administration, potential host countries and Guantanamo defense attorneys in order to preempt unfavorable judicial decisions, the ongoing struggle to obtain health care for detainee and Gorman client Abdul Al-Ghizzawi, the latest resignation of a prosecutor – Darrel Vandeveld – in protest of the Guantanamo show trials, the weakening war crimes case against detainee Omar Khadr, the relatively light sentence against “worst of the worst” David Hicks and the possibility that an Obama victory will finally mean the closure of Guantanamo.

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The Show: Daphne Eviatar

Daphne Eviatar will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Thursday, October 30th.

Eviatar will discuss her recent article in The Washington Independent, “Torture by Any Other Name” at 12:15PM Eastern.

Daphne Eviatar is a lawyer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Legal Affairs, Mother Jones, The Washington Independent and many others. She is a Senior Reporter at The American Lawyer and was an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow in 2005 and a Pew International Journalism fellow in 2002.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

The Show: Robert Dreyfuss

Robert Dreyfuss will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, October 29th.

Dreyfuss will be on at 12:15PM Eastern.

Robert Dreyfuss is an investigative journalist who writes about politics and national security while frequently contributing to The Nation, Rolling Stone, The American Prospect and Mother Jones. He is the author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalism Islam and writes the blog The Dreyfuss Report on TheNation.com.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

The Show: Mark Ames

Mark Ames will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, October 28th.

Ames will will be discussing the hype over the Russia-Georgia conflict which he recently wrote about in The Nation in his article, “The Cold War That Wasn’t” at 12:15PM Eastern.

Mark Ames is a journalist who has written for several publications including the New York Press, The Nation and GQ Russia and is the founding editor and regular contributor of the Moscow-based newspaper The eXile. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond and The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

The Show: Candace Gorman and Tom Engelhardt

Candace Gorman and Tom Engelhardt will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, October 27th.

Gorman will discuss the unraveling of the Guantanamo trials at 12:15PM Eastern and Engelhardt will be grading Bush by his own standard at 1:30PM Eastern.

Candace Gorman is a civil rights lawyer best known for representing two Guantanamo Bay detainees pro bono and can be found blogging at GtmoBlog.blogspot.com and Tom Engelhardt is an author, consulting editor and co-founder of The American Empire Project at Metropolitan Books, fellow for the Nation Institute and founder of TomDispatch.com.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

Antiwar Radio: Grant F. Smith

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy and author of America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government, discusses the intrigue behind the AIPAC spy case, long rage patterns of neocon duplicity and criminality, the history behind the Logan Act, the complicity of the corporate media, the likely continuity of Mideast policy in an Obama administration and the War Party’s shutting down of much needed U.S. trade with the Mideast.

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McCain’s Tawana Brawley

Ashley Todd, who John McCain called to comfort yesterday and whose campaign hyped the story as loudly as they could, has admitted that her story about a big, scary, black man who beat her up and carved – ever so lightly – a backwards “B” for Barack on her face … was pure bullshit.

Yesterday:

“She also indicated she was sexually assaulted as well. She indicated that when he had her on the ground he put his hand up her blouse and started fondling her. But other than that, she says she doesn’t remember anything else. So we’re adding a sexual assault to this as well.”

So, in the spirit of War Party propaganda-level reporting – as was seen all over the right-internet yesterday – this just in!:

Matt Drudge Kills Self

(Los Angeles): No longer able to live with a big, scary, black, hole where his dignity was supposed to be, Matt Drudge has shot himself to death in the face today.

The ex-communists at National Review are blaming a dark skinned mugger.

Antiwar Radio: Michael Scheuer

Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the likely view of Barack Obama and John McCain’s foreign policy positions from al Qaeda’s perspective, how developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq are too good to be true for them, the importance of the book Who Speaks for Islam, former DCI George Tenet’s withholding of Scheuer’s team’s report debunking accusations about Saddam Hussein’s ties to al Qaeda before Powell’s UN speech, the lies and omissions of the 9/11 commission and infighting between intelligence agencies in the run up to September 11th.

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Antiwar Radio: Matthew Rothschild

Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive and author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age, discusses the U.S. Army’s NORTHCOM acquisition of part of the 3rd Infantry Division, the effective suspension of the Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus, the need for a political realignment around the most important issues of liberty and war, the use of the military at both conventions and the sadly un-exercised power of impeachment.

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