Are you struggling with a population reluctant to send their sons off to murder people and perhaps get exploded in someone else's campaign of imperial aggression? Are there brave, patriotic Michael New types in your country who refuse to fight under the flag of another power? Well, just tell them it's for the good of the women-folk and that they could get killed by terrorists at home if they don't fight them "over there." Sound familiar? Well, it's the CIA manual on how to keep the French and...
Antiwar Radio 3/26/10
Stan Hemry, Glenn Greenwald and possibly Philip Weiss 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://kaosradioaustin.org
That Robert Higgs Interview From The Other Day
Here.
03/26/10 – Stan Hemry – The Scott Horton Show
Stan Hemry, member of the Arizona Counter-Recruitment Coalition, discusses the private information made available to military recruiters through the No Child Left Behind Act, the best way to limit access to student records and opt-out of aggressive recruitment, the effective tactics of counter-recruitment and the role Gen. Stanley McChrystal played in the manipulation of Pat Tillman's image and the coverup of his death.
03/26/10 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the support among Leftists for criminalizing political 'hate speech,' Attorney General Eric Holder’s preliminary investigation of detainee torture, the potentially unlimited scope of the 'executive assassination ring' continued under Obama, why the word 'terrorism' is too politicized to be usefully descriptive and how the recent US/Israel row has prompted many Americans to rethink their support for...
Stickers
Antiwar Radio 3/25/10
Looks like just you and me. 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
03/25/10 – Barrett Brown – The Scott Horton Show
Barrett Brown, regular contributor to The Onion, discusses the apparent attack on WikiLeaks by several national intelligence agencies, how hyperlinks make internet-sourced information easier to fact check than traditional media, the upcoming release (April 5 at the National Press Club) of a WikiLeaks video that reveals a Pentagon murder-coverup and why effective data encryption is now more important than ever. Transcript: I’m Scott Horton, this is Antiwar radio. Turns out that my guest on the...
That One Rapper Dude Was Wrong
George W. Bush hates black people.
Israeli intelligence, our constant companion
The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...
Israeli intelligence, our constant companion
The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...
Dick Cheney and the National Review on Rand Paul
If he was half as good as they seem to think he is, I'd support him.
Antiwar Radio: 3/24/10
News, Robert Higgs. 11-1 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
03/24/10 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, editor of the Independent Review and author of Depression, War and Cold War, discusses the many factors working against a "V" shaped economic recovery, mainstream economists who don't account for the malinvestment of government stimulus funds, shortsighted economic planning that is focused on election cycles instead of the business cycle, huge bank reserves that could cause inflation if ever lent out and why specific economic...
03/24/10 – Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. – The Scott Horton Show
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses Israel's ability to drag the US into a war with Iran, the difficulty of destroying Iran's Natanz nuclear facility even with bunker-busting bombs, Pentagon war games that exposed serious US vulnerabilities to Iranian retaliation, the need to vastly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia and why the aircraft carrier-based US Navy is becoming obsolete.
