Gaza War Crimes Chic

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009 - Ha'aretz The office at the Adiv fabric-printing shop in south Tel Aviv handles a constant stream of customers, many of them soldiers in uniform, who come to order custom clothing featuring their unit's insignia, usually accompanied by a slogan and drawing of their choosing. Elsewhere on the premises, the sketches are turned into plates used for imprinting the ordered items, mainly T-shirts and baseball caps, but also hoodies,...

Antiwar Radio: 3/20/09 Robert Murphy

Robert Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the inevitability of severe inflation due to the increase in the money supply, the speculation that a new world reserve currency will replace the U.S. dollar, and takes live questions from listeners to the show. MP3 here. Bob Murphy runs the blog Free Advice and is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism. His articles are archived at Lewrockwell.com

03/20/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show

Robert Murphy, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the inevitability of severe inflation due to the increase in the money supply, the speculation that a new world reserve currency will replace the U.S. dollar, and takes live questions from listeners to the show.

Antiwar Radio 3/19/09: Pratap Chatergee, Tomas Young, Muhammad Sahimi

Today on Antiwar Radio Pratap Chatergee of CorpWatch.org will be discussing his recent TomDispatch article, ‘Unknown Afghanistan,’ Tomas Young will discuss the war in Iraq and Muhammad Sahimi will discuss David Albright's role as rumor monger for the War Party. Listen live from 11-1PM Pacific, KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, TX, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.

03/19/09 – Pratap Chatterjee – The Scott Horton Show

On the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of Corpwatch.org, discusses the ideology of the Bush administration's Iraq War brain trust, the pervasive culture of corruption engendered by throwing money into Iraq's reconstruction without oversight and Ahmed Chalabi's role in lying the American people into war.

03/19/09 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show

Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the known facts about Iran's uranium enrichment program, the impossible task asked of Iran to prove the non-existence of a secret program, the difficulty of converting low-enriched uranium to weapons grade and the persistent misinformation of media darling David Albright on Iran's nuclear program.

03/19/09 – Tomas Young – The Scott Horton Show

Tomas Young, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, discusses his injuries sustained during military service in Iraq, his featured role in the documentary Body of War, the mission of IVAW and the advice a potential military enlistee needs to hea

03/18/09 – Mark Danner – The Scott Horton Show

Mark Danner, Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the leaked torture report from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the clear ICRC pronouncement that CIA interrogation techniques amounted to torture and the untenable stalemate between Attorney General Eric Holder's declaration that waterboarding is torture and Dick Cheney's admission of same.

Bush Plans “Authoritarian” History

Plagiarized entirely from Jim Bovard: Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir ‘so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.’ Bush did not reveal if John Yoo would be the co-author. Bush spoke to an ‘invited audience of Calgary businessmen,’ according to a report in the Examiner. The paper noted that ‘Bush was full of jokes throughout his speech.’ Since...

A Real New Global Currency?

This Telegraph article is not entirely clear. What is this "super-currency"? Is it backed by something other than U.S. debt? Which countries have agreed to treat it as legitimate? Is this bullshit for real or what? Thanks to David Kramer. Update: Why bother when Helicopter Ben is the monetary dictator of the earth as it is?

Antiwar Radio 3/18/09: Mark Danner and Pratap Chatergee

Wednesday on Antiwar Radio Mark Danner of the New York Review of Books will discuss the recently released Red Cross report on CIA torture at their "ghost prisons" and Pratap Chatergee of CorpWatch.org will be discussing his recent TomDispatch article, "Unknown Afghanistan." Listen live on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, or stream it live from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.