Jim Lobe, Washington Bureau Chief for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s current timidity in addressing the Palestinian problem despite his initial assertiveness, how Hillary Clinton’s lack of diplomatic skill has weakened Obama’s leverage with Israel, increased Palestinian and US interest in a 'one state' solution and why ordinary Israelis won’t support a peace process unless the US is firmly committed to it.
03/03/10 – Nat Hentoff – The Scott Horton Show
Nat Hentoff, senior fellow at the CATO Institute, discusses the Elizabeth Cheney and William Kristol-backed Keep America Safe ad that implies Attorney General Eric Holder is a jihadist, widespread contempt and ignorance of protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, Obama’s 'looking forward not backward' anti-prosecution policy that validates Richard Nixon’s thoughts on presidential impunity and why the Constitution can’t be preserved without an active and informed citizenry.
Eric Garris – Building Websites and Alliances
Trent Hill has a great write-up about Antiwar.com founder Eric Garris for the Campaign for Liberty here.
More Liberty Stickers
Antiwar Radio for 3/02/10:
Thomas E. Woods, Gareth Porter and Eric Margolis; 1-3 PM 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from kaosradioaustin.org or antiwar.com/radio.
Would an American DA Send an Innocent Man to the Gas Chamber?
Yes, of course, if it could benefit him professionally.
03/02/10 – Thomas E. Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, author of Meltdown and senior fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses "The Birth and Death of the Fed" Mises Institute conference at infamous Jekyll Island, GA, the Fed's failure to stop the financial panics that were the impetus for its creation in the first place, the gathering of the world's powerbrokers at the original 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that laid the groundwork for the Fed's creation in 1913 and the article "The Fed's Dismal Record" that rebuts the typical...
03/02/10 – Gareth Porter and Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter and Eric Margolis discuss Gen. McChrystal’s 'government in a box' plan for Afghanistan, military actions that are motivated more by a desire to influence US public opinion than to achieve strategic gains, Obama’s secondary role in formulating foreign policy, the Pentagon’s exaggeration of 'rogue state' threats in order to justify an enormous 'defense' budget, the influence of oil pipeline politics on US policy in Central Asia and how the Pakistani government’s partial...
03/02/10 – Helen Thomas – The Scott Horton Show
Longtime White House Press Corps reporter Helen Thomas discusses the culture of 'softball' political journalism, Obama’s continuance of the US 'nuclear ambiguity' policy regarding Israel and John Brennan’s ridiculous response to the question, 'Why do the terrorists attack us?'
Liberty Stickers
Frank Rich Poops His Pants
Goodness-gracious. Via Lew Rockwell is this ridiculous rant by Frank Rich essentially naming the entire populist right and libertarian movements as culprits in the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, the recent Austin Kamikaze attack and, well, pretty much anything bad that happens from here on. I have about as much truck for these torture, war, George Bush-mongering Tea Party idiots, who've seemed to discover the danger of state power only in the last year-and-one-month, as I have for the current...
got gulf war illness?
19 years after the first war against Iraq - or the start of the current one, depending on your point of view - U.S. veterans with various Gulf War illnesses are still in the lurch. Says here now John D. Rockefeller the IV (D-W.VA) is going to set everything right. How about this for another good reason why your son shouldn't join the military? "Every so often they say ,'We're going to look into this, look into that. We'll do a study,' " said Heath, who lives in Tampa. "I don't put much hope in...
Stress Lives!
Nuts to Facebook. The Stress Blog is now re-opened for bidness. Any of y'all in the authors' list over there, please feel free to start posting whatever you want again. I'll do the same.
02/26/10 – Ryan Dawson – The Scott Horton Show
Ryan Dawson, keeper of the Website Anti-Neocons, discusses his website’s designation of February 26 as 'Hate Richard Perle Day,' Perle’s leading role in inventing a Saddam Hussein/al Qaeda link and lying the American people into the Iraq War and how professional war agitators like Perle profit from the revolving door between government and defense contractor employment.
02/26/10 – Allison Kilkenny – The Scott Horton Show
Allison Kilkenny, regular contributor to the Huffington Post, discusses the CNN poll that found a large majority of Americans believe Iran has nuclear weapons, not-so-covert US actions in Iran that make diplomacy impossible, Republicans who are unwilling to admit the cause and effect between US empire and terrorism and the Democrats who hypocritically defend Obama over the same policies they excoriated Bush for.
