01/28/14 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 28, 2014 |

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, discusses how CIA analysts helped prevent wars against Iran and Syria; the story of Robert Gates' rise to Secretary of Defense by schmoozing and failing upwards; and why Gates has blood on his hands from cynically promoting the "surge" in Iraq and Afghanistan.

D.C. Man on Trial for One Shotgun Shell

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

America: Mr. Witaschek, a successful financial adviser with no criminal history, is the first known case of a citizen being prosecuted in D.C. for inoperable ammunition. Washington police and prosecutors have spent a year and a half trying to nail him for the possession of so-called unregistered ammunition. A hunter and gun owner, Mr. Witaschek has always kept his firearms at his sister's house in Virginia. If convicted, he faces a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for having a single, inoperable...

Brand New Snowden, Greenwald: Snowden Docs Reveal British Spies Snooped on YouTube and Facebook

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

The latest from the Snowden documents: The British government can tap into the cables carrying the world’s web traffic at will and spy on what people are doing on some of the world’s most popular social media sites, including YouTube, all without the knowledge or consent of the companies. Documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News detail how British cyber spies demonstrated a pilot program to their U.S. partners in 2012 in which they were able...

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by David Wurmser 1996

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

[Having recently received a 404 error at the IASPS site's version of this piece, I figured it better be saved from the Google cache before it's gone forever. -Scott] Companion piece "Coping With Crumbling States" here. Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies' "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James...

Coping with Crumbling States: A Western and Israeli Balance of Power Strategy for the Levant by David Wurmser 1996

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

[Having recently received a 404 error at the IASPS site's version of this piece, I figured it better be saved from the Google cache before it's gone forever. -Scott] Companion piece "A Clean Break" is here. For related reading: "Ultimate 'peace process' prize," by Robert J. Loewenberg, The Washington Times, October 13, 1996 "Just as Saddam's Power is Under Assault," by David Wurmser, The Wall Street Journal - Europe, September 11, 1996 "Balance of Power," by Richard Perle, The Wall Street...

01/27/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist, discusses how the mayhem in Kiev, Ukraine is stirring up conflict between Europe, Russia and the US; the Saudi's successful influence-buying game in Washington; and second thoughts on regime change policy in Syria.

01/27/14 – Stephen Zunes – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 27, 2014 |

Stephen Zunes, a Professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses the left-right political alignment on war and civil liberties; the US role in Iraq's upsurge in violence; and why Iraq's sectarian strife isn't derived from unavoidable religious differences.