Here's an interesting piece in the New York Review of Books about how 'nevermind al Nusra, these ISIS guys are the real ball busters. And the Americans don't know what to do.' The people of Syria can thank George W. Bush and Barack Obama -- as well as the Israelis and Saudis of course -- for their misery. Without the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have just been the leader of crappy little Ansar al-Islam, terrorizing nothing and on the run. Instead an entire legion of Ayman...

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Philip Giraldi on palling around with his former CIA buddies.

Well shit. Looks like it's going to be a civil war in Egypt after all. That sucks.

Thanks Ed. Merry Christmas to you too.

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished 'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.' 'All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are...

The other day on the show I was busy dealing with the Blue Cross Nazis on the phone and so played most of the audio of Jeff Riggenbach's audiobook of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, Chapter 14 War and Foreign Policy. Like to hear it, here it go.

A Conference on Surveillance at the Center on National Security featuring: James Bamford, Author and NSA expert; Ariel Dorfman, Novelist, Playwright and Professor; Glenn Greenwald, Journalist; Bruce Schneier, Computer security and privacy specialist; and Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center

As part of the new redesign of the site I decided to add a category for recommended documentaries at ScottHorton.org/documentaries, none of which I have anything to do with, other than I thought you might like them. Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.