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Gareth Porter, historian and reporter for IPS News, explains how the American occupation only exacerbates the situation in the Iraq, how local Sunnis have always been better equipped than the U.S. to handle al Qaeda in Iraq and debunks the administration’s propaganda about Iran in Iraq.

MP3 here. (42:21)

Gareth Porter is an independent historian and foreign policy analyst. He is also a Foreign Policy In Focus scholar. His book, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam, is published in May 2005 by University of California Press.

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James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the Padilla case, torture by the Bush regime and the capacity of the general public to overlook the evidence.

MP3 here . (34:45)

James Bovard serves as a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation and is a frequent contributor to Playboy, American Spectator, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, New Republic, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Newsweek.

For my analysis of the GOP race for the White House, post-Ames, check out my latest for Taki’s Top Drawer, “Decoding the Iowa Poll.” Also, I’ve been blogging regularly over there: here‘s my take on the Hamburger Question, also here — and here‘s me wondering out loud why it is that Reason magazine and the folks over at the Cato Institute have so little to say about the Iraq war. Oh, and a note on ideological diversity.

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You’d think that someone who wrote this article would be ready if he was going to appear on Antiwar Radio.

But Scott Horton kicks his butt when he comes on to defend his position that Americans would benefit from another 9/11 attack.

MP3 here. (18:08)

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Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Boston Globe discusses his recent article, “U.S. Doles Out Millions for Street Cameras.”

MP3 here. (15:16)

Charlie Savage, a reporter for The Boston Globe’s Washington, D.C., bureau, was awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his work on presidential signing statements. His is the author of the forthcoming Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (to be released in September).

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Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan White House counsel, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and author of the book, With God On Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military discusses the American Taliban takeover the Armed Services and the I.G.’s newest whitewash.

MP3 here. (15:37)

Mikey Weinstein is an attorney and businessman who served 10 years’ active duty as an Air Force Judge Advocate (JAG) at military installations from California to Washington, D.C. The former federal prosecutor spent three years in the Reagan White House and served as the Air Force’s first Chief of Telecommunications and Information Systems Procurement Law.

Mikey’s family has deep and distinguished military-academy roots spanning nearly 60 years: His father is a Naval Academy graduate; and Mikey, his brother-in-law, eldest son and daughter-in-law are all graduates of the Air Force Academy (from where his youngest son is scheduled to graduate in 2007). Mikey and his wife of almost three decades, Bonnie, reside in Albuquerque, N.M.