Wednesday Mornin’ Coffee

News Round-Up:

U.S. to send Marines to Libya to bolster security: official

Is Privacy Dead? 4 Government and Private Entities Conspiring to Track Everything You Do Online and Off

US Embassies in Algeria, Tunisia Warn of Protests

The Case Against War: Ten Years Later

Is there no Plan B for Iran?

The Scott Horton Show 9/12/12

Today on The Scott Horton Show – Listen Live -Acclaimed journalist Eric Margolis will be on to talk about the two big stories of the last 24 hours: the revelation that FDR administration helped cover up Soviet war crimes during WWII; and the murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Libertarian author Anthony Gregory will be on to talk about the drug war, both from the left perspective and the right perspective.

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09/12/12 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj, discusses the assaults on US embassies in Libya and Egypt; the anti-Islam movie Innocence of Muslims that was apparently financed by an Israeli American; the shared propaganda techniques of Nazi Germany and today's pro-Israel extremists; why Jews should be wary of inciting bigots into Islamophobic rages; Churchill and FDR's coverup of "Uncle Joe" Stalin's massacre of Polish officers in 1940; and why WWII wasn't the "necessary" war we're all led to believe.

09/12/12 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show

Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute discusses why American conservatives are changing their minds about the War on Drugs; the hypocrisy of drug-warrior presidents (especially Obama) who previously used illegal drugs themselves; why the Democratic Party is no friend to civil liberties and the Bill of Rights; and how unjust drug laws are largely responsible for institutionalized racism and The New Jim Crow in America.

Tuesday Mornin’ Coffee

News Round-Up:

The Deafness Before the Storm

The Persecution of John Kiriakou

Why is Georgia Secretly Giving Student Test Scores to Military Recruiters?

Israeli Leader Sharpens Call on U.S. to Set Limits on Iran

How We Became Israel

Remember When Obama Thought the FISA Amendments Act Was Imperfect?

Monday Mornin’ Coffee

America’s refusal to extradite Bolivia’s ex-president to face genocide charges
Forget Iran, it’s Israel’s Nuclear Gun Pointed at Obama’s Head The Greatest Myth of American Politics?
The tug o’ war at Bagram
India and Pakistan sign landmark visa deal
China’s Presumptive New Leader Is Mysteriously Absent
Turkey puts 44 journalists on trial for terrorism and backing pro-Kurd group

The Scott Horton Show 9/10/12

Today on The Scott Horton Show – Listen Live – Author and scholar John Feffer will be on to discuss the dumbing down of U.S. foreign policy. The Scott Horton Show airs 12-2 PM EST.

09/10/12 – John Feffer – The Scott Horton Show

John Feffer of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses "The Dumbing Down of American Foreign Policy;" how Obama (as bad as he is) could be much worse on Iran and Israel; the Iranian cancer patients effected by sanctions; Obama's refusal to spend political capital to back up his big talk on Palestine and nuclear weapons abolition; how liberal internationalism provides a facade for the military-industrial complex; changes in N. Korea policy over the last few administrations; and Ben Swann's...

Daniel Ellsberg Secrets Chapter One

Chapter 1. The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets. Penguin, 2003. On Tuesday morning, August 4, 1964, my first full day on my new job in the Pentagon, a courier came into the outer office with an urgent cable for my boss. He'd been running. The secretaries told him Assistant Secretary John McNaughton was out of the office; he was down the hall with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. They pointed him to me, his new special assistant. The courier handed me the cable and left....

Weekly Roundup

Just wanted to make sure you saw all these this week: Gareth Porter on Iran: IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity, After Dempsey Warning, Israel May Curb War Threat, Pink Shrouds Aimed to Draw Attention to Iran Military Site, Analysts Say John Glaser: Rumored Netanyahu Tantrum to US Amb. Did Occur, Says US Rep. Phil Giraldi: Two New Wars for Us Reuters: Analysis: Chastised Israel seeks way forward with U.S. over Iran Jason Ditz: Israeli DM: Military Ready to ‘Conquer and...

“Facial Recognition is ‘Now'”

FBI Launches $1 Billion Face Recognition Project The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics "FACE recognition is 'now'," declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals. It will form part of...

Romney: Afghan war not ‘important’ enough for convention speech

Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he did not mention the war in Afghanistan during his convention speech because he doesn’t think it’s important, even though more than 2,100 American soldiers have fought and died there. ...Fox News host Bret Baier ... noted that Democrats are 'essentially saying you don’t care about the U.S. military because you didn’t mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech.' 'We...