My letter to NH Sen. Jeanne Sheheen re. West Bank Settlements

Dear Senator Sheheen, I am writing asking you to take a stand and support President Obama on the issue of settlement expansion in the West Bank of Palestine. The Israeli government has been illegally occupying the West Bank since 1967 against UN242, and in so doing denying the native population the very rights that we as US citizens have fought wars to secure. And the Israelis do this using my hard-earned tax dollars. The current efforts to build 1600 units of Jewish-only housing in...

Freedom of Speech

Glenn Greenwald recently wrote of that hag Ann Coulter's visit to Ontario Canada to speak at the University of Ottawa, and the reminder by that university's Vice Provost to watch her words: "You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges." This is a law written for and about the brutal bigotry and social...

03/25/10 – Barrett Brown – The Scott Horton Show

Barrett Brown, regular contributor to The Onion, discusses the apparent attack on WikiLeaks by several national intelligence agencies, how hyperlinks make internet-sourced information easier to fact check than traditional media, the upcoming release (April 5 at the National Press Club) of a WikiLeaks video that reveals a Pentagon murder-coverup and why effective data encryption is now more important than ever. Transcript: I’m Scott Horton, this is Antiwar radio. Turns out that my guest on the...

Israeli intelligence, our constant companion

The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...

Israeli intelligence, our constant companion

The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...

03/24/10 – Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. – The Scott Horton Show

Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses Israel's ability to drag the US into a war with Iran, the difficulty of destroying Iran's Natanz nuclear facility even with bunker-busting bombs, Pentagon war games that exposed serious US vulnerabilities to Iranian retaliation, the need to vastly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia and why the aircraft carrier-based US Navy is becoming obsolete.

03/24/10 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show

Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, editor of the Independent Review and author of Depression, War and Cold War, discusses the many factors working against a "V" shaped economic recovery, mainstream economists who don't account for the malinvestment of government stimulus funds, shortsighted economic planning that is focused on election cycles instead of the business cycle, huge bank reserves that could cause inflation if ever lent out and why specific economic...