Do you or your government seek the destruction of the state of Israel as a Jewish state?

(cross-posted from my blog) Excerpt of the exchange between President Ahmadinejad and Mr Coatsworth at Columbia University: MR. COATSWORTH: Mr. President, your statements here today and in the past have provoked many questions which I would like to pose to you on behalf of the students and faculty who have submitted them to me. Let me begin with the question to which you just -- PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: (In English.) It is one by one, one by one. MR. COATSWORTH: One by one, it is, yes....

09/25/07 – Joseph Cirincione – The Scott Horton Show

Joseph Cirincione, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, discusses the true nature of Syria, North Korea and Iran's nuclear programs, the neoconservatives lies about them, their motives, the Cheney Cabal's attempted end run around the president, the willingness of the mass media to continually repeat whatever the government says about Iran, the fragility of the UN's non-proliferation regime and the possibility of...

The Show

for today: There's not one. I gotta take care of some shit. Shauna is going to play some reruns. Listen here. 11am-1pm Central.

Guys, if you missed this listen to Goyette skewering Ledeen

Micheal Ledeen, ‘Freedom Scholar’ at AEI explains why America ought to help the people of Iran overthrow our government, falsely claims he was opposed to the war in Iraq, argues that Bush will not attack Iran, denies any connection to the Niger uranium forgeries, and falsely denies advocating war against Iraq again. MP3 here. (24:27) Michael Ledeen writes at the National Review Online and advocates regime change from the American Enterprise Institute. (Scott - next time you talk to Charles,...

Did a non-member of the IAEA really attack an IAEA member?

(cross posted from my blog) The Times Online has published an interesting story which claims that the Israeli Air Force overflight of Syria in early September was part of a complex military operating aimed at seizing and destroying nuclear materials shipped from the DPRK to Syria: Israeli commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit — almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms — made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria. They were looking...

The Show

for today: Andrew Patel and Greg Palast. Listen live here 11am-1pm Central. MP3 here.

Federal Prosecutor Tries to Kill Himself After Arrest in Pedophile Case

Federal Prosecutor John David Roy Atchison travels across the country in an attempt to rape a 5 year old girl, attempts, fails to hang self to death. I don't say "allegedly" because he is a government employee and so is rightfully presumed guilty of being a child rapist and should have no more chance to defend himself from the charges as the kid he thought he was going to have the chance to rape would have had. He bragged to the cops setting him up — court papers claim to have an electronic...