01/08/14 – Michael Maharrey – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 8, 2014 |

Michael Maharrey, the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center, discusses why the 4th Amendment Protection Act is an important first step to stopping NSA spying; nullifying federal laws with state and local-level legislation; and why the primary focus of "national security" should be protecting the Constitution.

01/07/14 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show

by | Jan 7, 2014 |

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the manslaughter-murder trial of Fullerton, CA police officers who brutally beat Kelly Thomas to death in 2011; Dr. Steven Karch's testimony that "excited delirium" killed Thomas, not the cops; the prosecutor's surprising declaration that victims of unlawful police violence have the right to resist; and the growing number of Americans fed up with above-the-law cops.

Israel government tortures Palestinian children by keeping them in cages, human rights group says

by | Jan 1, 2014 |

The Independent: An Israeli human rights organisation has accused the government of torturing Palestinian children after it emerged some were kept for months in outdoor cages during winter. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) published a report which said children suspected of minor crimes were subjected to 'public caging', threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation. It came as the government’s Public Petitions Committee held a hearing to...

The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked! The Surge Worked!

by | Jan 1, 2014 |

Yeah, great slogan and everything, but not so much. Reuters: - Islamist militants stormed police stations in several cities of Iraq's western province of Anbar on Wednesday, seizing weapon caches and freeing prisoners after security forces dismantled a Sunni Muslim protest camp on Monday. The attacks on three police stations in Falluja, Ramadi and Tarmiya represent a serious escalation in the confrontation between Iraqi Sunni groups and the Shi'ite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri...

Likud sources claim PM ready to negotiate on basis of pre-1967 lines

by | Dec 31, 2013 |

I guess I'll believe it when I see it -- in 3 years. From the right-wing Times of Israel: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to continue peace talks for another year on the basis of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s 'framework' agreement, which provides for negotiations for Palestinian statehood on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, according to Likud sources quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 news Monday night. Netanyahu is prepared to view the framework agreement, including the...

Help Support the Show for 2014

by | Dec 30, 2013 |

When I was laid off from Antiwar.com in the summer of 2012 (due to illegal FBI police state persecution of that organization) there was a real question as to whether or not the show could survive. For an ideological libertarian, I'm a pretty lousy businessman, and job opportunities in the libertarian movement are incredibly scarce. But so I decided to just try to get a handful of advertisers from within the movement -- at incredibly reasonable rates -- and then fill in the gaps with monthly...