McCain on Israel, Iran and the Holocaust

How can one man lie so much in such a short space of time? JG: There’s no rationale for sitting down with Iran? JM: Yes. I could see a situation hopefully in the future if the Iranians would change the policies that you and I have just talked about, but there would have to be negotiations and discussions and all kinds of things happening before you lend them the prestige of a face-to-face meeting with the President of the United States of America. As you know, our ambassador in Iraq, Ryan...

05/30/08 – Victor Navasky – The Scott Horton Show

Victor Navasky discusses his new book Mission Accomplished: Or How We Won the War in Iraq, how all of the 'experts,' including John McCain, got it all wrong on the Iraq invasion, the war’s dozens of 'turning points' according to the White House and it’s pundits and how the same propaganda tactics are being used against Iran.

05/30/08 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show

Dr. Gordon Prather, nuclear physicist and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush administration’s hegemonic aspirations and the obstacle posed by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation regime, he details the NPT and IAEA procedures and mechanics, the recent confirmation from former White House spokesman Scott McClellan of the White House Iraq Group and their propaganda blitz to convict Iraq during the lead-up to the invasion, the pentagon’s ex-general cheerleading squad hired to promote...

Gordon Prather and Victor Navasky on Antiwar Radio

Gordon Prather, physicist and Antiwar.com columnist, and Victor S. Navasky, chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review and co-author of Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the Iraq War, will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, 12:15PM Eastern, Friday, May 30th. Gordon Prather will be discussing the recent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program and Victor Navasky will be discussing the politicians and media clowns who lied us into war. Physicist James Gordon Prather...

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for today: Andy Worthington. Listen live on 92.7 FM in Austin, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.

05/29/08 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, discusses his recent article on the trials of sixteen Guantanamo 'detainees,' how Australian David Hicks is too traumatized to tell his story, Omar Khadr, the Canadian child soldier being held despite international law, how Salim Hamdan’s legal case caused the Supreme Court to rule the original incarnation of the military commissions illegal, Mohamed Jawad, another minor, charged...

Go See War Inc.!

My blurb for this excellent film: "WAR, INC.'s dark and unapologetic humor smashes through layers of lies with such ferocity and with such precision as to lay waste to years of imperial miseducation in moments. Perhaps only through such satire can the cynical brutality of the War Party be revealed to those of us who pay its way. My outrage has been reclaimed. Three cheers!" - SCOTT HORTON, Antiwar.com My interview of John Cusack: MP3, YouTube.

Yes, I Have More to Say

I have been asked by readers for more analysis of what happened at the Denver Libertarian Convention. I have some more to say, but I need a few days to formulate my ideas (and I am busy with other things). For now, I will say that I am neither thrilled with the LP's direction nor as crestfallen as many of my ideologically radical brethren. While we all must make our own choices about how to promote liberty, the struggle for liberty transcends party and faction, and we will also never agree on...

Ex-Spokes-pimp Calls Out White House Johns, Media Whores

From NYT coverage of Scott "Son of Carol Keaton-Tax Collector" McClellan's new book: [McClellan] calls the news media ‘complicit enablers’ in the White House’s ‘carefully orchestrated campaign to shape and manipulate sources of public approval’ in the march to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. Not sure when "sources of public approval" became a suitable substitute term for "the public," but whatever.

Why We Choose to Defend Liberty

The following is based on a talk that Anthony Gregory gave at the Libertarian National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday, May 24, 2008. People often look upon those of us who choose to defend liberty with some curiosity. What could be our motivation? Those who see everything political purely in terms of economic motivations and personal gain have some trouble grappling with our ideas for society. They look at our position on Social Security and they think we must not care about the...