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.
Antiwar Radio 3/17/09: Philip Weiss, Anthony Gregory and Gareth Porter
Live 11-1pm on 95.9 FM in Austin or online at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
03/17/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses the aftermath of Chas Freeman's withdrawal from NIC chairman consideration, the alienation of liberal American Jews from the Israeli government, the opportunity to break up the monolithic AIPAC lobby and the conflict between Zionism and democracy.
Be Like Anthony Gregory!
Put an anti-government sticker on your car.
Shame the State!
Put an anti-government sticker on your car.
The final proof that there is, in fact, no God:
Vice President Cheney charged Sunday morning on CNN that President Obama is using the recession ‘to try to justify’ what is probably the largest expansion of federal authority ‘in the history of the Republic.’
The Onion: CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine
WASHINGTON—In his first meeting with President Barack Obama, CIA crime and counternarcotics analyst Timothy R. McIntire haltingly explained to the nation's first African-American commander in chief the highly classified origin of crack cocaine and the resultant epidemic that swept across U.S. inner cities. "Well, you see, sir...thing is, we needed money to help those Contras back in '85, and we never really expected...so we distributed it, and...shortsighted...and, ha, well, Christ—is it hot...
New York Times Still Covering for Walter Duranty
The Soviets murdered the Ukranians and lied about it, and yet the Times still can't admit that THEY lied about it to cover for their hero Stalin too.
03/16/09 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses the freedom-infringing U.S. War on Drugs, the racist origins of prohibition laws, the due-process violations inherent in civil asset forfeiture and the failure of drug courts to stem the non-violent prison population.
03/16/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service News Agency, discusses the Obama administration’s attempted duplication of Gen. Petraeus’s Iraq 'success' in Afghanistan, the difficulty foreign occupiers have in overcoming the Pashtunwali code, the possible changes in U.S. military planning when the Quadrennial Defense Review is completed and Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic attempt to separate the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Ron Paul on the Drug War
His so-called debate partner gave up in the face of a real libertarian argument against prohibition: Thanks to Lew Rockwell.
Antiwar Radio 3/13/09: Eric Margolis and Frida Berrigan
Listen live on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas or stream it live from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio. 1-3 Texas time. Call in number: 512-646-6446.
03/13/09 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan, columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the frantic U.S. defense contractors lobbying for stimulus money while promising job creation, the prospect of a militarized outer space, Lockheed Martin's overpriced and unnecessary F-22 Raptor and why the commonly held assumption that World War II ended the Great Depression must be challenged.
03/13/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the contradictory U.S. policy of supporting Pakistan's government while continuing drone airstrikes that foment popular rebellion, the growing ranks of the Taliban and other assorted militants in Pakistan and Afghaninstan, the status of plans for a Caspian oil pipeline, India's development of ICBM's that can reach North America and how Iran's uranium enrichment is an assertion of technological and economic independence.
