The Show: Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Friday, April 11, at 12:15PM Eastern. Patrick Cockburn will be discussing his recent article on Antiwar.com titled, "Petraeaus' Ghost." Cockburn has written four books on Iraq including The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, Two, Out of the Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession. The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS...

American War Criminals

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and Ashcroft are war criminals. ABC News details their direct participation in the detailed choreographing of the torture of multiple al Qaeda suspects including the crazy and harmless Abu Zubaydah. "According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: 'Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.'" How about the jury? Those "Principals" remaining in power must be removed from office and they all must...

04/10/08 – Bruce Schneier – The Scott Horton Show

Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, computer security specialist, writer, and author, discusses the Justice Department's bogus prosecutions of barely-terrorists in the JFK, Ft. Dix, Lackawanna, Miami and other cases, the increasing danger to Americans' liberties due to the large numbers of new Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country and their temptation to entrap the innocent, the rise of the domestic security industrial complex, the economics of airline security, information as the answer...

The Show: Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show, Thursday, April 10, at 12:15PM Eastern. Bruce Schneier will be discussing his article on Wired.com from June 14th, 2007 titled, "Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot." Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, writer, and author. He is the author of several books on computer security and cryptography including Applied Cryptography and Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an...

04/09/08 – Ira Chernus – The Scott Horton Show

Ira Chernus, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses Americans’ religious devotion to the state and its wars, the narratives of victory and defeat which supplant the facts as the terms of debate over foreign policy - including within the highest circles of power, the Democrats’ fear of being portrayed as weak and inability to control the debate, the magic word 'stability' for calling people into line, the long history of American dissent against war...

The Show: Ira Chernus

Ira Chernus will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show, Wednesday, April 9, at 1:15PM Eastern. Ira Chernus will be discussing his recent article on Tomdispatch.com titled, ‘The General and the Trap’ and his most recent book, Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Ira Chernus is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on the discourse of peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States....

Crocker to Clinton: Thanks for the blank check!

from the WaPo transcript: CLINTON: With respect to our long-term challenges, Ambassador Crocker, the administration has announced that it will negotiate an agreement with the government of Iraq by the end of July that would provide the legal authorities for U.S. troops to continue to conduct operations in Iraq. Let me ask you: Do you anticipate that the Iraqi government would submit such an agreement to the Iraqi parliament for ratification? U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ RYAN CROCKER: The Iraqi...

The Unbeatable Case?

Well it was long... I am sad to say that the following is my impatient and lazy point by point thrashing (in lieu of an actual article) of Fred Kagan from the American Empire Institute and the stupid lies that he puked up on a recent page of the Weekly Standard. A friend of mine says that someone he cares very much about found Kagan's essay incredible and irrefutable. I find that laughable, but not very funny. Sorry for all the cursing and insults below. It was late when I did this... (and for...

04/08/08 – Aran MacKinnon – The Scott Horton Show

Aran S. MacKinnon, associate professor of South African History at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, discusses the history of the Rhodesian independence movement, the post-colonial period in Zimbabwe and the rise of the Mugabe regime, disputes between different ethnic and tribal groups and white landowners, the relative legitimacy of different factions to land claims, Mugabe's distribution of confiscated land to political cronies and their inability to make productive use of them,...

04/08/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, civil libertarian, blogger and author, discusses the themes in his new book Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, conservatives' bogus anti-government rhetoric as they preside over the biggest growth of government ever, their contempt for the Constitution they claim to venerate as they consolidate all power constitutional and otherwise in the presidency, the legacy of William F. Buckley in destroying what was once conservatism with the...

Someone please help me shred this so-called argument.

A relative of mine thinks the Iraq War was (and remains) a good idea.  He is continually brainwashed by Weekly Standard and NRO balderdash.   This is what he calls an unbeatable case for his views.  He must be shown the error of his ways.  It is a family affair.   Somebody help me show him the light with a good rebuttal.

The Show: Aran S MacKinnon and Glenn Greenwald

Aran S. MacKinnon and Glenn Greenwald will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show on Antiwar Radio, Tuesday, April 8. Aran MacKinnon will be discussing the contested presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe at 12:15PM Eastern. Glenn Greenwald will be discussing Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s deceptions on domestic spying at 1:15PM Eastern. Aran MacKinnon is an associate professor of South African History, African Rural Political Economy, and Zulu Ethnicity at the...

The Formula for a Police State

[NB: I wrote this piece for the Libertarian Perspective over a week ago. It hasn't gone online yet, so I'm posting it here.] The Formula for a Police State by Anthony Gregory On the night of March 15 in an Oceanside, California, parking lot, after a dispute over one car cutting off another, Frank White, an off-duty San Diego police officer, shot five bullets into Rachel Silva’s car, hitting her in the arm twice, shattering a bone, and striking her eight-year-old son in the leg. She was...