Monday, August 31, 2009

General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq


First Aired: May 4, 2009

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's special military correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Prior to joining the Washington Post in 2000, Ricks was a reporter with the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years. He discusses why the surge failed and what's in the future for that swamp in the desert we call Iraq. Source: http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16445




Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson on March 27th, 2009

Lawrence Wilkerson is former chief of staff to Colin Powell, Secretary of State. He discusses Dick Cheney's assertion that torture prevents terrorism. Wilkerson also says he would cooperate with the prosecution of Dick Cheney for war crimes.
Source: http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/03/27/lawrence-wilkerson-2/


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Monday, August 24, 2009

Kevin Phillips on the economy and Scott Horton on torture

From April 26, 2009, Kevin Phillips interviewed by Bob McChesney

Kevin Phillips is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.
Source: Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism


Scott Horton Interviews Scott Horton on April 18th, 2009

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the torture memos and the legal precedents for prosecuting crime-enabling lawyers.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Scott Horton





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Monday, August 17, 2009

Cornel West and Ron Paul speak out

Cornel West is an American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, and civil rights activist. West currently is a Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion.

Cornel West, Ph.D., was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The grandson of a preacher, West marched as a young man in civil rights demonstrations and organized protests demanding Black Studies courses at his high school. After graduating from John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, California, where he served as president of his high-school class, he enrolled at Harvard University at age 17.

Scott Horton Interviews Ron Paul on February 18th, 2009

Rep. Ron Paul discusses the slippery slope from government-mandated national service to military conscription, and why the richly deserved criminal investigation of key Bush administration officials won't happen. Source: Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Ron Paul



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Monday, August 10, 2009

Juan Cole and Dahr Jamail talk about the Middle East

Juan Cole was interviewed by Bob McChesney on March 01, 2009
As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. Prof. Cole specializes in study of the Middle East and South Asia.
Source: Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan








Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail on April 13th, 2009

Dahr Jamail discusses the Iraqi government's unwillingness to incorporate Sunni "Awakening Councils" into the regular army and forty years of U.S. meddling in Iraqi affairs.
Source: Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail


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Monday, August 3, 2009