Cheney’s False Flag Proposal.

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slgBrbNXrbs]

The Show: Glenn Greenwald and Lawrence Velvel

Glenn Greenwald and Dean Lawrence R. Velvel will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Thursday, July 31st. Glenn Greenwald will discuss his new web radio show and irresponsible acts committed by the media at 12:15PM Eastern. Dean Velvel will discuss war crimes prosecution at 1:15PM Eastern. Glenn Greenwald is a former attorney and current political and legal blogger and columnist at Salon.com. Lawrence R. Velvel is the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. The...

07/31/08 – Larry Velvel – The Scott Horton Show

Larry Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law and sponsor of the upcoming Justice Robert Jackson Conference On The Planning For Prosecution Of High Level American War Criminals, featuring Francis Boyle, Vincent Bugliosi, Philippe Sands and others, discusses the many crimes of the Bush administration, the history of unaccountability of our leaders, the legal gymnastics perpetrated by the Bush regime lawyers, the immunity clauses of the Military Commission Act and how they might effect...

The Show: Fred Kaplan

Journalist Fred Kaplan will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, July 30th , at 12:00PM Eastern. Fred Kaplan will discuss his article in Slate magazine, ‘How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You to Think.’ Fred Kaplan is a journalist and a contributor to Slate Magazine. Prior to writing for Slate, Kaplan was a correspondent at the Boston Globe. He has also written for other publications, including The New...

07/30/08 – Fred Kaplan – The Scott Horton Show

Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate and author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, discusses his recent article: 'How Much Does John McCain Really Know About Foreign Policy? Not As Much As He’d Like You To Think' which lays out McCain’s many foreign policy misstatements and mistakes including wanting to kick Russia out of the G8 and start a 'League of Democracies' to bypass the U.N., his wish to take policy back to the early years of the Bush administration and...

07/30/08 – John Judis – The Scott Horton Show

John B. Judis, senior editor of the New Republic and author of The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, discusses the importance of Trotskyism to neoconservative thought, John McCain's change from skeptic to cheerleader for intervention, relationship with the neocons and the dangerous mix between his volatile temperament and his views on foreign policy. MP3 Here.

U.S. to Borrow/Print More Than Entire Cost of War This Year

USA Today says the federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2009 will be approximately 490,000,000,000 dollars. That's more than twice what the wars cost this year (though still less than the entire annual cost of the hard and software of empire). Now tell me again how all this borrowing/inflation is supposed to be good for the economy again? Wait, what's that, borrowing and inflation are terrible for the economy except when it's for war, then it's good? Do I have that right?

The Show: Chalmers Johnson

Professor and author Chalmers Johnson will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, July 29th , at 1:15PM Eastern. Chalmers Johnson will discuss his article on Antiwar.com, ‘The Military-Industrial Complex.’ Chalmers Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He is the author...