Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque - High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses how the Obama administration maintains the Bush policy of using a 'state secrets' privilege to prevent torture lawsuits, the suspension of British torture trials following U.S. threats of withholding terrorism information, the new business-as-usual CIA chief Leon Panetta and the little-known history and disastrous consequences of U.S. meddling in Somalia.
02/11/09 – Aaron Glantz – The Scott Horton Show
Aaron Glantz, co-author of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, discusses the war experiences of common soldiers ignored by mainstream media, the military's suicide epidemic and the vast increase in military advertising/recruiting spending.
02/10/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Independent historian and journalist Gareth Porter briefly discusses his article last week, 'Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision' and his follow up 'Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans' his interaction with a General Petraeus go-between who leaked a different account of the reportedly contentious meeting between President Obama and Generals Odierno and Petreaus, and a subsequent White House denial of the account
02/09/09 – James Bamford – The Scott Horton Show
James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, discusses the PBS Nova program The Spy Factory, the legality and efficacy of the NSA's communications monitoring, the massive amounts of permanent archived data that required a new NSA data storage facility in Texas and the Israeli companies involved in intercepting highly sensitive communications for the U.S. government.
02/09/09 – Steve Clemons – The Scott Horton Show
Steve Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and proprietor of the blog The Washington Note, discusses the upcoming Israeli elections, the possible analogue between Nixon going to China and Netanyahu making peace with Palestine, the futility of propping up Mahmoud Abbas and the realpolitik motivations behind a U.S. push for normalized Israel/Arab relations.
Antiwar Radio Returns to KAOS
Tuesday at 11AM Pacific, 1PM Central time. Call in number: 512-646-6446. Update: MP3 here.
Ron Paul’s HR 833: Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act
HR 833 IH To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes. 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 833 To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, to repeal the Federal Reserve Act, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 3, 2009 Mr. PAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial...
Antiwar Radio: Lew Rockwell
My interview of Mises Institute president Lew Rockwell from the morning of the 5th of February: MP3 here.
World Iranologists ask Obama to bar seizure of Achaemenid tablets
02/05/09 – Saul Landau – The Scott Horton Show
Saul Landau, author of the article 'Repudiating the Monroe Doctrine,' discusses the history of the Monroe Doctrine from its origin in 1823 to the present, the little known reciprocity that the U.S. would not meddle in European spheres of influence if the European colonial nations did the same in the Western hemisphere, the evolution of U.S. power projection from military force to CIA-led coups to the IMF and neoliberal wealth schemes, the total failure of the war on drugs and the increasing...
Bonnie and Clyde Incarnate
Bonnie and Clyde had a love affair based on murder, mayhem and running from the law. Today, there are two countries in the world whose torrid affair bears a glaring resemblance: America and Israel. Our’s is really a dysfunctional, one-way relationship, though. We helped them seize Palestine and drive out its residents; we have stood alone supporting their oppression of the Palestinians; and even though our country is bankrupt, the U.S. taxpayers shower them with $5 Billion per year in weapons...
We gotta make stickers out of these
Thanks to Thaddeus Russell and David Beito at the Historians Against the War blog. Update: Done.
02/04/09 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Alan Bock, senior editorial writer at the Orange Country Register, discusses how Alan Greenspan's easy-money policy created a war bubble concurrent with the housing/consumer spending bubble, the unfortunate historical victory of Hamiltonian central banking over the Jeffersonian decentralized model, Afghanistan's well-earned reputation as the graveyard of empires and the merits of a South Africa style truth and reconciliation commission for the Bush administration.
02/03/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, discusses the enormous and expanding U.S. defense budget amidst a general economic collapse, the army of defense lobbyists ready to fight against any spending cuts, how military spending diverts economic resources away from beneficial uses and how defense contractors make the largest and most dubious defense projects into sacred cows by spreading production to as many congressional districts as possible.
02/03/09 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the Bush administration’s foreign policy legacy, why maintaining a U.S. military presence in S. Korea makes less sense than ever, the difficulty of negotiating alternative U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan while taking a hard line on Russia and Iran, the high cost in Iraqi lives for their 'liberation' from one authoritarian government to another and the demise of Bush’s two-state solution for Israel and...
