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83-Year-Old Nun to Be Sentenced for Sabotage
Hey. Wait a minute. Are you certain things are supposed to be this way? ABC: An 83-year-old Catholic nun convicted in a protest and break-in at the primary U.S. storehouse for bomb-grade uranium will find out Tuesday whether she spends what could be the rest of her life in prison. Sister Megan Rice is one of three Catholic peace activists convicted of sabotage last year after they broke into the nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sentencing for all three is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday...
Today’s Show: Ray McGovern, John Feffer
Today's Show: Ray McGovern, John Feffer 3-5 eastern time http://libertyexpressradio.com http://scotthorton.org/listen http://scotthorton.org/chat
Social Costs of the War on Drugs
Radley Balko, now at the Washington Post, ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS Michael Gerson's evil conservative argument for the Drug War.
01/28/14 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
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.
01/28/14 – John Feffer – The Scott Horton Show
John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses why Iraqis deserve restitution from the US government for destroying their country, and why the "Pacific pivot" strategic rebalance is really a US retreat from Asia.
D.C. Man on Trial for One Shotgun Shell
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...
01/27/14 Full Show
You are listening to the Scott Horton Show. 01/27/14 Full Show
The Progressive Hires Former Raw Story Investigative Reporter Larisa Alexandrovna
That's my girl! This is her first new piece: "Welcome to the American Plutocracy"
Brand New Snowden, Greenwald: Snowden Docs Reveal British Spies Snooped on YouTube and Facebook
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...
Today’s Show: Stephen Zunes and Eric Margolis
Today's Show: Stephen Zunes and Eric Margolis 3-5 eastern http://libertyexpressradio.com http://scotthorton.org/listen http://scotthorton.org/chat
Snowden German Interview (English version)
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A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm by David Wurmser 1996
[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
[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. Related reading: "Balance of Power," by Richard Perle, Wall Street Journal - Europe, July 10, 1996 "Just as Saddam's Power is Under Assault," by David Wurmser, Wall Street Journal - Europe, September 11, 1996 "Ultimate 'peace process' prize," by Robert J. Loewenberg, Washington Times,...
01/27/14 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
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.
