Down the Rabbit Hole in Afghanistan by Alan Bock, March 15, 2010
Francis E. Dec Esq., Call Your Office
Hat tip to Lew.
Another State-mandated power trip sends people to earlier graves
Daylight savings time. see http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/359/18/1966.pdf The 'nejm' stands for New England Journal of Medicine, so this is not a crackpot notion.
Police Steal Whatever They Want
And deserve no respect from any decent person.
Charles Krauthammer is Right
For perhaps the first time ever, the sick, evil, warmongering liar Charles Kruthammer has got his facts straight, though, of course, he remains on the wrong side of every issue. In his new piece for the Post, "In praise of the rotation of power," Kruthammer writes: As the Afghanistan war intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's become America's war. When the former opposition party --...
Larisa Alexandrovna on Antiwar Radio/you-tube.
The Subjective Theory of Value
Mr. Horton, My name is **** and I am a graduate of VMI (Jacob Hornberger's alma mater) and a 1LT in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort [something, USA.] I want to thank you and also encourage you and your colleagues at AntiWar Radio and antiwar.com to continue to do OUTSTANDING WORK. I rarely miss any of the AntiWar podcasts on my drive to and from the empire's training ground (work). Additionally, my current mornings consist of reading a few more pages of Human Action immediately followed by...
David Henderson on Antiwar Radio/you-tube.
Antiwar Radio 3/12/10
Angela Keaton will be here, along with guests Patrick Cockburn, Coleen Rowley, Jeff Frazee, Brian Beyer, Christina Tobin 1-3 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
03/12/10 – Jeff Frazee and Brian Beyer – The Scott Horton Show
This interview was jointly conducted by Scott Horton and Antiwar Radio producer Angela Keaton. Jeff Frazee and Brian Beyer of Young Americans for Liberty discuss the current state of the youth antiwar movement, the establishment of YAL chapters in high schools and colleges across the country and the March 16 'moneybomb' fundraising event.
03/12/10 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the four major political coalitions vying for power in Iraq, why sectarian conflicts (despite what most Iraqi's say) remain the basis for Iraq's political disputes, the multitude of forces working against a US presence in Iraq beyond 2011 and how the Marjah offensive marks a return to propagandized embedded journalism.
03/12/10 – Coleen Rowley – The Scott Horton Show
Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower, discusses the myth that FISA restrictions (and not incompetence at FBI and CIA headquarters) prevented critical intelligence sharing prior to 9/11, CIA Director George Tenet’s August 2001 'Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly' powerpoint briefing about Zacarias Moussaoui and why the creation of the DHS and increased centralization of intelligence organizations did nothing to fix 9/11 failures.
03/12/10 – Christina Tobin – The Scott Horton Show
Christina Tobin, CEO of the ballot access consulting firm Free and Equal, Inc., discusses the onerous ballot access procedures that marginalize third-party candidates and enforce the two-party duopoly and how 'top-two' primary reforms only make things worse.
Antiwar Radio 3/11/10: Larisa Alexandrovna, Dahr Jamail, Raed Jarrar
Iraq, news, old rap 1-3 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
03/11/10 – Larisa Alexandrovna – The Scott Horton Show
Larisa Alexandrovna, Managing Editor of investigative news for RawStory, discusses the lies told about the US push for war with Iraq in Karl Rove’s new book, how the Bush administration 'fixed the facts' around their Iraq policy, US bellicosity on Iran that is meant to assuage Israel’s fears of a competing regional power, Russian geopolitical successes against lightweight US strategists, why purple fingers are not necessarily indicative of democracy, the media’s obsession with 'balance' at the...