Antiwar Radio 6/11/09: Anthony Gregory
Listen live 1-3 central on 95.9 in Austin or stream from http://antiwar.com/radio.
James W. Von Brunn and the Poison of Racist Collectivism By Anthony Gregory
On Wednesday, according to news reports, James W. Von Brunn, a longtime belligerent racist and anti-Semite, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and opened fire, murdering a security guard before he himself was shot and neutralized. Good people everywhere recognize the vicious criminality of his attack, and the particular insidiousness of his motivation to lash out where he did. In reflecting on this tragedy, it is an appropriate time to contemplate the sanctity of innocent life, the...
06/11/09 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses the DHS's report's (.pdf) overly broad characterization of right wing extremism, ideological profiling that debases individual rights, the conflation of anti-government sentiment with violent extremism and how the best way to prevent mass violence is to limit centralized government power.
06/11/09 – Ben Manski – The Scott Horton Show
Ben Manski, Executive Director of Liberty Tree, discusses the Bring the Guard Home! campaign that seeks to end the illegal use of national guard units deployed abroad, the historical U.S. change from a republican system of state militias to an imperial army and the reassertion of state governor control over the guard.
Antiwar Radio 6/10/09: Bill Kelsey, Ken Ballen
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06/10/09 – Kenneth Ballen – The Scott Horton Show
Kenneth Ballen, president of the non-profit Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion, discusses the polling results of the Iranian public that show a large majority of Iranians have favorable opinions of Jews and Christians and want a more democratic society.
06/10/09 – Bill Kelsey – The Scott Horton Show
Bill Kelsey, libertarian activist and former NGO-employed international relief pilot, discusses the dangers of overzealous and naive humanitarianism, the political and economic forces that determine which Afghan poppy fields are eradicated and which are left alone, the increasingly impersonal nature of combat with remote controlled drone aircraft and how slow evolutionary social change is more sustainable than quick-fix NGO plans.
Antiwar Radio 6/9/09: Shane Bauer, Howard Jones, Juan Cole, The Other Scott Horton
That's US-backed death squads in Iraq, The Bay of Pigs, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and torture. Listen live on KAOS 95.9 in Austin from 1-3 PM Central, or Antiwar.com/radio.
06/09/09 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, discusses Hezbollah's electoral defeat in Lebanon, the influence Obama's Cairo speech may have had in getting moderates elected, Hezbollah's popular decline after it put on a domestic show of military force in 2008Â and the contrast between Obama's acknowledgment of Iran's right to a civilian nuclear power program and Hillary Clinton's no-nukes bellicosity.
06/09/09 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer, professor and contributing editor at Harper's magazine, discusses the ACLU's ongoing legal action to get torture photos released, another bogus 16 words in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, the propaganda value of executing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed vs. giving him a full and fair trial and how Dick Cheney browbeat DOJ lawyers into giving permissive torture legal opinions before hiding behind them.
06/09/09 – Shane Bauer – The Scott Horton Show
Shane Bauer, freelance journalist and Arabic speaker living in the Middle East, discusses civilian abuse claims against the Iraq Special Operations Forces (ISOF), the actual Salvadoran paramilitary trainers in Iraq that made the 'Salvador option' more than analogy, the plight of Iraqi refugees abroad and how Maliki is using the ISOF - which is accountable only to him - to consolidate his power.
06/09/09 – Howard Jones – The Scott Horton Show
Howard Jones, history professor at the University of Alabama, discusses the lesson of blowback not learned from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, how JFK's attempt to maintain plausible deniability increased the invasion plan's potential to fail, Castro's post-invasion conversion to communism and alliance with the USSR and the tangled web of JFK assassination theories.
Dorgan on Colbert
M writes: "I'm probably more suspicious of the free market than you are, but I share all of your anti-war views. "Did you see Byron Dorgan on Colbert the other night? Worth a look." Me: Actually, it's not that I think markets are perfect or anything (people are a mixed bag after all), it's just that I think they are much harder on the biggest criminal corporations than government will ever be. Re: Dorgan: The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cByron Dorgancolbertnation.comColbert Report...
Antiwar Radio 6/05/09
Obama's speech, Will Potter, your calls. 1-3pm 95.9 in Austin, or http://antiwar.com/radio
