US: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security advisor, asked Bruce Jackson to meet with him in the White House. They met in Hadley's office on the ground floor of the West Wing, not far from the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Hadley had an exterior office with windows, an overt indicator of his importance within the West Wing hierarchy. This was months before...

What, the H-Bombs?

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

Don't worry, somebody's taking care of all that I'm pretty sure. Update: "Everybody cheats on every test that they can, and they have for decades."

Syria Chemical Attack Debunked Some More

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

This time it's a report by a former UN inspector and an MIT professor as reported by Matthew Schofield in McClatchy. A series of revelations about the rocket believed to have delivered poison sarin gas to a Damascus suburb last summer are challenging American intelligence assumptions about that attack and suggest that the case U.S. officials initially made for retaliatory military action was flawed. A team of security and arms experts, meeting this week in Washington to discuss the matter,...

01/16/14 – Peter Hart – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

Peter Hart, Activism Director for Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, discusses the overly-kind obituaries of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the media's faulty recollection of Fallujah, the lies that started the Iraq War, and Iraqi casualties.

01/16/14 – Trevor Timm – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

Trevor Timm, co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses the addition of whistleblower Edward Snowden to their board of directors; how government employees can submit leaks with SecureDrop and remain anonymous; combining tech solutions and legislation to rein in the NSA; and how the Espionage Act prevents Snowden from getting a fair jury trial if he returns to the US.

01/16/14 – Michael Ratner – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 16, 2014 |

Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the mainstream media's talk of clemency for Edward Snowden, and why Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Jeremy Hammond deserve - but aren't getting - the same recognition.

Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock 1935

by | Jan 15, 2014 |

 If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, 'agricultural adjustment,' and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can...

Santa Monica Airlines

by | Jan 14, 2014 |

Writes Bill: Hi Scott: Saw my first drones today... two of 'em... awesome, flying maybe 60 mph .... over Santa Monica.... brush fire in progress. Anyway, got me to thinking 'bout them Afghans, Yemenis etc

U.S. Continues to Stand by Bahrain

by | Jan 14, 2014 |

By Amanda Ufheil-Somers, FPIF Chuck Hagel's paeans to "political reform" in the Gulf must have sounded strange to political prisoners in repressive Bahrain, where he delivered his remarks. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard 'the free flow of energy and commerce' from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free, through the presence of 35,000 U.S. military...