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05/06/08 – Mary Ruwart – The Scott Horton Show

Mary Ruwart, author of Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression and Libertarian Party presidential candidate, discusses the similarities in how our government provoked 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor, how our militaristic over-reaction to 9/11 has hindered our apprehension of Bin Laden and increased the danger of terrorism, how America needs to nurture free trade policies to build relationships with foreigners, our misguided immigration policies, how an armed populace would reduce crime...

05/06/08 – Paul Verkuil – The Scott Horton Show

Paul Verkuil, professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and author of Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It, discusses the increasing privatization of government, the new phenomenon of the hiring out of the actual enforcement functions of the state, the lack of adequate oversight and criminal accountability and how the many domestic functions of government being privatized are making it even worse and...

The Show: Mary Ruwart and Paul Verkuil

Mary Ruwart and Paul Verkuil will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Tuesday, May 6. Mary Ruwart will be discussing her recent article on Antiwar.com, "When Will We Ever Learn?" at 12:15PM Eastern. Paul Verkuil will be discussing his recently released book, Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It at 1:15PM Eastern. Mary Ruwart is a libertarian speaker, author, activist, and candidate for...

The Show: Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Monday, May 5, at 1:15PM Eastern. Christopher Ketcham will be discussing his recent article in Radar Magazine, "The Last Roundup." Christopher Ketcham is a freelance reporter and writer for many venues including Antiwar.com, Harper's, GQ, the Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Men's Journal, Good Magazine, Radar, and National Geographic. In 2002, he was selected as a Livingston Awards finalist for his Salon.com...

An Iraq at Peace with Its Neighbors

Well it was before. Now the Turks are bombing the north again (whether actually killing PKK members or not is in dispute) and war with Iran looms. Andrew Cockburn reports in Counter Punch Bush's new "finding" authorizing more covert support for anti-Iranian and anti-Syrian terrorist groups like the MEK, Jundullah and - irony anyone? - the PKK-allied Pejak. The Sunday Times says the military is renewing plans for strikes at Quds Force targets in Iran, a further irony since the Quds Force is the...

My Speech at UT, April 28, 2008

Here is the full, glitch-free one glitch version: Or watch it at Blip.tv. (This is all but the part where I discussed the Israel Lobby's role in pushing the war, which wasn't recorded.) Anders' YouTube version here. Pupnik's AVI version here.

Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on Iran

Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops BY Andrew Cockburn, counterpunch Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope." Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area — from Lebanon to Afghanistan — but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines — up to and including the assassination of...

Iran to US: Play not with a lion’s tail

"If Washington maniacs ever seek an act of aggression against the Islamic Republic, the Iranian nation will deal them a blow so devastating they will not be able to rise from the floor," click for more