News Round-Up:
The Deafness Before the Storm
The Persecution of John Kiriakou
Why is Georgia Secretly Giving Student Test Scores to Military Recruiters?
Israeli Leader Sharpens Call on U.S. to Set Limits on Iran
How We Became Israel
Remember When Obama Thought the FISA Amendments Act Was Imperfect?
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America’s refusal to extradite Bolivia’s ex-president to face genocide charges
Forget Iran, it’s Israel’s Nuclear Gun Pointed at Obama’s Head The Greatest Myth of American Politics?
The tug o’ war at Bagram
India and Pakistan sign landmark visa deal
China’s Presumptive New Leader Is Mysteriously Absent
Turkey puts 44 journalists on trial for terrorism and backing pro-Kurd group
Today on The Scott Horton Show – Listen Live – Author and scholar John Feffer will be on to discuss the dumbing down of U.S. foreign policy. The Scott Horton Show airs 12-2 PM EST.
John Feffer of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses "The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy;" how Obama (as bad as he is) could be much worse on Iran and Israel; the Iranian cancer patients effected by sanctions; Obama's refusal to spend political capital to back up his big talk on Palestine and nuclear weapons abolition; how liberal internationalism provides a facade for the military-industrial complex; changes in N. Korea policy over the last few administrations; and Ben Swann's...
Chapter 1. The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets. Penguin, 2003. On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent cable for my boss. He'd been running. The secretaries told him Assistant Secretary John McNaughton was out of the office; he was down the hall with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. They pointed him to me, his new special assistant. The courier handed me the cable and left....
Just wanted to make sure you saw all these this week: Gareth Porter on Iran: IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity, After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat, Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention to Iran Military Site, Analysts Say John Glaser: Rumored Netanyahu Tantrum to US Amb. Did Occur, Says US Rep. Phil Giraldi: Two New Wars for Us Reuters: Analysis: Chastised Israel seeks way forward with U.S. over Iran Jason Ditz: Israeli DM: Military Ready to ‘Conquer and...
FBI Launches $1 Billion Face Recognition Project The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics "FACE recognition is 'now'," declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals. It will form part of...
Tonight on Antiwar Radio: Andy Worthington on Obama's Guantanamo Nightmare 6:30-7:00 Pacific KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.
Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he did not mention the war in Afghanistan during his convention speech because he doesn’t think it’s important, even though more than 2,100 American soldiers have fought and died there. ...Fox News host Bret Baier ... noted that Democrats are 'essentially saying you don’t care about the U.S. military because you didn’t mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech.' 'We...
Now that the Haqqani Network is officially on the U.S. terrorist list, does that mean we are going to give them more money?
They're just a bunch of gang-rapists, basically.
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation discusses the controversial voice vote on "God and Jerusalem" at the Democratic National Convention; more evidence that democracy has no place in American party politics; successive Republican and Democratic administrations that pay lip service to Israel by declaring Jerusalem the true capital - while the US embassy stays put in Tel Aviv; and Obama's surprisingly strong stance against an Israeli-led war on Iran.
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses his article "Eleven Years after 9/11, Guantánamo Is a Political Prison;" the many Gitmo prisoners still held despite being long-ago cleared for release; why liberals give Obama a pass on his broken promise to close the prison; Attorney General Eric Holder's decision not to prosecute Bush-era torture; and how a corrupted US justice system invites terrorist blowback.
Since being laid off from Antiwar.com, I've decided to try to keep the show going on my own, putting it to a real market test to see if it's worth it to you all. So far, the response has been incredibly generous and greatly appreciated. I am also thrilled to have had the show sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation, Dagney and Lane Skin and Haircare Products, as well as my old company LibertyStickers.com. Unfortunately I'm going to need many more sponsors and donors than that to survive....
