Here‘s a video of a band called Bright Eyes playing a pretty cool antiwar song on Leno.
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Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s.
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Nuke Iran?
Tuesday at 5pm eastern time, I will be filling in on the boss’s show, and talking with former CIA man Philip Giraldi about this curious bit he wrote in the American Conservative (not online) among other things:
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing–that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack–but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.
Thanks to Justin Logan.
Update: Show’s over. To listen to the interview, click here, to download mp3, click here
Archives
Corruption of the NPT and Corruption of the War Culture
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, Gordon Prather explained all about the IAEA/Non-Proliferation Treaty/Nuclear Suppliers Group non-proliferation regime, and how George W. Bush is undermining it, and Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, talked about the effects of war on individuals and cultures.
Archives at weekendinterviewshow.com
Juan Cole and Robert Pape Interviews
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I will be asking Juan Cole many questions about the situation in Iraq and in the second hour, I’ll be talking with Robert A. Pape about his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.
Saturday 4-6 pm eastern time.
Update: Show’s over, archives
War is the Health of the State
Saturday (4-6 eastern time) on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Paul Craig Roberts about the causes of the London bombings, and their consequenses for the government’s terror war.
In the second hour Nat Hentoff will be on to discuss the effect of all this violence on our liberty, particularly Patriot act expansions and the CIA’s kidnapping squads.
Update: Show’s over, archives here
The View from Japan and Two Draft Resisters
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show: First up will be Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers on his new book Schizophrenic in Japan : An American Ex-Pat’s Guide to Japanese and American Society/Politics & Humor.
In the second hour, I’ll be discussing a possible renewal of the slavery known as conscription and how to resist it with Debbie Hopper from mothersagainstthedraft.org, and Scott Kohlhaas from draftresistance.org.
Update: Show’s over: Archives