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.
Ron Paul: Thousands of Armed Thugs Headed Your Way
The States’ Rights Challenge, Tom Woods on NPR
Hilarious. Listen to the archive here.
Ron Paul, Antiwar.com’s man on the banking committee
(Which makes Geithner JP Morgan's man.) Thanks to Lew for the link.
Antiwar Radio 3/23/10
Michael Hastings, Ivan Eland 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream live from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
03/23/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the US contribution to violence and political instability in Somalia, how al Qaeda affiliate groups are primarily concerned with local issues and simply use the moniker for prominence and fundraising, nationalist movements that are mislabeled 'Islamic' because mosques are often the only available forum for political dissent and how the US government characterizes Osama bin Laden as irrational in order to dismiss his stated...
03/23/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the unusual US/Israel public dispute following Israel's snub of Joe Biden, credibility problems for US Middle Eastern client states that must pretend to care about the plight of Palestinians, the increasingly fragile fiction that the US and Israel have identical interests, the failure of the US to enforce the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act and how AIPAC seeks to control US trade...
03/23/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author and contributor to True/Slant.com, discusses the backlash against religious political parties in Iraq, why Ayad Allawi's thuggish past has increased his popularity, the massive security apparatus that enables an Iraqi Prime Minister to act like a strongman and why Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to become an independent state in the not-too-distant future.
