"Thailand's constitutional court on Tuesday disbanded the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and two of its coalition partners for electoral fraud. The parties' leaders, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, have been banned from politics for five years. The announcement came hours after an antigovernment protester was killed at a Bangkok airport." http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1202/p99s01-duts.html Imagine if this whole situation had taken place here in America or in the 'first world'...
The Show: Frida Berrigan and Chris Hedges
Frida Berrigan and Chris Hedges will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, December 2nd. Berrigan will be on at 12:15PM Eastern and Hedges will be on at 1:15PM Eastern. Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus and a contributing editor of In These Times magazine. Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, columnist for Truthdig.com...
12/02/08 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan, co-author of the article 'Who Rules the Pentagon?', discusses Obama’s distinctly non-reformist national security team, the need to reevaluate the meaning of 'national defense' amidst a U.S. empire of bases, the struggle between realists and neocons over weapons procurement dollars and the public relations campaign of defense contractors to base Pentagon funding on a percentage of GDP.
12/02/08 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, discusses the anti-occupation motives of terrorists, the similarities of extremists that transcend religion and culture, how a U.S. economic collapse could usher in a popular uprising of the Christian Right, the desperate and mostly ignored situation in the Gaza Strip and the terrible consequences of a war with Iran.
No not McCaffrey…again
Steve Newton of the Delaware Libertarian is having a bit of fun with liberals who have only recently noticed that General Barry McCaffrey is a tool.
Keith Preston’s “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”
I wanted to pass along a link to an essay that I think you all should read. Preston is what I guess he would call a "left-libertarian" or "anarcho-socialist", or perhaps he has another term. Anyway, the piece is brilliantly constructed and it won the Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize. I think it would be interesting to read the end, and then backtrack to see how he gets there. Here's a paragraph that not many people here would be inclined to fully agree with: An economy organized on the basis of...
The Show: Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, December 1st. Heuvel will discuss her latest article on TheNation.com, "Smart Defense" at 12:15PM Eastern. Katrina vanden Heuvel, a graduate of Princeton University, is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine and co-editor of Taking Back America: And Taking Down the American Right. She can be found frequently commentating on politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS and writing the blog "Editor's...
12/01/08 – Bill Barnwell – The Scott Horton Show
Bill Barnwell, minister from Michigan and writer for LewRockwell.com, discusses the merit of the 'Obama is the Antichrist' rumors, how American dispensationalists influence Mideast policy, the havoc created if a Third Temple were rebuilt in Israel, the wisdom of a historical-contextual reading of the Bible and the conflict between militarist theology and Biblical scripture.
12/01/08 – Katrina vanden Heuvel – The Scott Horton Show
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher for The Nation magazine, discusses the incoming Obama Administration, the popular backlash against corporate power, the ethical and practical necessity of ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, how an escalation in Afghanistan would ruin the promise of change and hope from the Obama campaign, the impotence of conventional military power against the contemporary threats of asymmetrical warfare and piracy and why NATO should be disbanded and a new...
