Enemy Combatants, Neocons and Oilmen, and the Sorrows of Empire

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, civil rights attorney Elaine Cassel will return to discuss the legal status of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Greg Palast will be back to discuss his Harper’s piece about the conflict between the oilmen and the neocons over how to treat Iraq’s resources, and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson will discuss his book, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic.

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Update: Show’s over. Elaine couldn’t make it, Greg explained the neocon-oilman wars, and Chalmers expressed his sorrow.
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Author: Scott Horton

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. Scott’s Twitter, YouTube, Patreon.