The Show: Gareth Porter and Seymour Hersh

Gareth Porter and Seymour Hersh will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Tuesday, July 1. Gareth Porter will be discussing his recent articles on Antiwar.com, ‘Fear of U.S.-Sunni Ties Undercut Security Talks,’ ‘Anti-Iran Arguments Belie Fearmongering,’ and the anti-Iran resolutions in Congress at 12:15PM Eastern. Update: Robert Parry of ConsortiumNews.com will join us at 1:30pm Eastern to discuss, Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter.' Seymour Hersh will be discussing...

Hey Ozymandias,

Stress looks way cooler in Opera than Fire Fox 3. What gives? -Scott Well Scott, I’ve been using an instruction called ‘text-shadow’ to create glow effects and drop shadows on titles for a couple of years. It’s a CSS3 property that isn’t implemented fully yet. At the time I put it in, KHTML/Webkit browsers like Safari and Konqueror could use it, but others couldn’t. It was planned for Gecko 1.8/Firefox 2, but did not even make it into Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 a couple of years later. It is...

06/30/08 – Brian Doherty – The Scott Horton Show

Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason magazine and author of Radicals for Capitalism, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on gun control in Washington D.C., how the court avoids issues it finds discomforting, the history of the court's rulings on gun laws and the question of to what degree the 2nd Amendment pertains to self defense from other private citizens and to defense from tyranny in government.

06/30/08 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show

Anthony Gregory, writer for the Independent Institute, the Future of Freedom Foundation, and LewRockwell.com, discusses the Republican crimes which increase the warfare/welfare/police state and how the Congressional Democrats go along, not out of fear that they'll be called cowards, but because they simply want the power for themselves.

06/30/08 – Seymour Hersh – The Scott Horton Show

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, author of the book Chain of Command and many important articles about the Bush administration’s Iran policy, discusses his new one for The New Yorker magazine, 'Preparing the Battlefield,' Secretary Gates’s warning about long term consequences of an air attack, the turning over of much of America’s covert action under the control of the Joint Special Operations Command to avoid oversight, the backing of Sunni radicals in Iran, Baluchistan, Kurdistan etc....

The Show: Brian Doherty and Anthony Gregory

Update: Brian Doherty interview here Brian Doherty and Anthony Gregory will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Monday, June 30. Brian Doherty will be discussing his recent article in the Los Angeles Times, ‘The gun-rights fight isn’t over’ at 12:15PM Eastern. Anthony Gregory will be discussing the Democrats and the Iraq war at 1:15PM Eastern. Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is the author of the books, This is Burning...

Covert Ops

U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran - report Here's the new Seymor Hersh piece for the New Yorker: [A] lesson was learned in the [speedboat] incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’ he said. Update: Israel: They'll nuke us within a year!...

The Supreme Court, Summarized

So there's the fascist faction, the communist faction, and Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy is overall a libertarian-leaning moderate. He agrees with the liberals on certain gay rights, and with the conservatives on the right of the Boy Scouts to exclude gays. He agrees with the left of habeas corpus and with the right on the Second Amendment. On the other hand, Kennedy is terrible on the drug war, the 4th amendment rules on searches and seizures, and the federal government's authority to override...