Defamation
Defamation (2009) from therebel.org on Vimeo.
Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv — The Sequel to the Video YouTube Censored
Rapture Ready: The Christians United for Israel Tour
The Antiwar Comic: Diplomatic Schizophrenia
One of the main themes in any sensible antiwar world view, is how foreign policy gets contradictory when you deny that you're really running an empire. For more comics visit:
Living in Fear
05/15/13 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the scores of Guantanamo prisoners being denied the right to "escape" by starving themselves to death; how Obama could close Guantanamo - if he really wanted to; using civil disobedience to effect political change; why Americans remain almost completely ignorant of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967; and Mearsheimer and Walt's incomplete analysis of the Israel lobby.
05/14/13 – Ralph Hutchison – The Scott Horton Show
Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, discusses the three nuclear weapons protestors facing long prison sentences for symbolically defacing a building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge; the incredibly poor security at nuclear weapons facilities; why the US still has thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert decades after the Cold War; and the judge's refusal to accept the protestors' "Nuremberg defense," that citizens must prevent their...
05/14/13 – Marcy Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the DOJ's surreptitious collection of Associated Press phone records after two reporters scooped the White House on the foiled "UndieBomb 2.0" plot; the Saudi undercover infiltrator (on the payroll of the British and Saudis) at the center of the alleged AQAP terrorism plot; the Obama administration's war on (unflattering) leaks and confidential media sources; and the biometric ID proposal in the new immigration bill. (Transcript below) Scott Horton interviews...
Israel’s Man in Damascus
I've been saying for a decade or so that the Clean Break policy is, just like pretty much everything out of the Israeli right and their American neoconservative allies' brains, a really dumb policy for Israel. Yeah, okay, so I can see how it sounds plausible for a minute: Hey, let's get the Americans to overthrow all our neighboring governments and replace them with friendly Hashemite kings or, failing that, permanent, low-level chaos forever! It'll be great! No one will ever threaten us...
05/13/13 – Christopher Coyne – The Scott Horton Show
Christopher J. Coyne, F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University, discusses his paper on "The Origins of the Permanent War Economy;" and how the military, labor unions and industry have enabled "perpetual war for perpetual peace" since WWII.
05/13/13 – Tom Devine – The Scott Horton Show
Tom Devine, Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), discusses the US government's attempts to silence whistleblower Robert MacLean, a former air marshal; Maclean's exposure of critical DHS security lapses and generally stupid policies in 2003-2006; the "civil war" within the Obama administration on free speech/whistleblower protection measures; and MacLean's significant - and surprising - victory in court.
05/10/13 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, author of Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy, discusses Ron Paul's radio spots appearing on 125 stations nationwide that are giving AM radio listeners a much needed dose of sanity from the usual blowhards spouting mindless Karl Rove talking points; the Austrian school of economics on booms, busts and central banking; and how the Federal Reserve is shooting stocks to the moon and making bankers richer than ever.
05/09/13 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist Patrick Cockburn discusses why Iraq may be sliding into a civil war worse than in Syria; Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "government of thieves;" the violent crackdown on Iraqi Sunni protestors who tried staging their own Egypt-style peaceful revolution; the Al-Qaeda associated fighters traversing the porous Iraq-Syria border; and the hastening fragmentation of Iraq into sectarian enclaves.
05/09/13 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, vice president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses his satirical article "A Modest Gun-Safety Proposal;" why guns are a great equalizing force favoring the physically weak; why government prohibition doesn't work on drugs, guns, or anything else; how gun control disarms the law-abiding and leaves criminals more dangerous than ever; and the states rebelling against federal criminalization of marijuana.