I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and with it comes a new comments system that makes it possible to, amongst other things, have author-specific comment styles. I altered my own and Scott's styles which took effect retroactively so you can go back in previous posts and see how they look different. I can control font, font-color, background-color, and other things. I will accept submission from you all as to what kind of style you want to use. Note: this only works if you are signed in to the...
12/07/08 – Justin Raimondo – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo debunks the War Party's claims that there is anything conservative about neoconservatism.
12/07/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative reporter and historian Gareth Porter debunks the War Party's claims that Iran's government is killing American soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, neocrazy media sycophant Michael R. Gordon's lies on behalf of the Vice-President's office and its stovepipe, the truth about Iran's attempted grand bargain of 2003 [.pdf] and the threat of America and Iran's friends in Iraq turning on U.S. troops in the event of war.
12/07/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss explains why America supports the Iran factions in Iraq against the Shia and Sunni nationalists who are attempting to create a multi-ethnic coalition government.
12/07/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.
12/07/08 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan, debunks the War Party’s claim that the president of Iran has threatened to 'wipe Israel off the map.'
12/07/08 – Dr. Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Nuclear physicist Dr. Gordon Prather debunks the War Party's claims about Iran's nuclear program.
12/05/08 – Jesse Trentadue – The Scott Horton Show
Jesse Trentadue discusses the the events surrounding the 1995 murder of his brother while in federal custody in Oklahoma City and the connection to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the Elohim City paramilitary camp sting operation run by the FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center, foreknowledge of FBI agents and complicity of FBI informants in the bombing, the ongoing court battles with the U.S. government over FOIA requests and civil lawsuits and the involvement of Obama's...
12/05/08 – Andrew Bacevich – The Scott Horton Show
Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, discusses the negative net returns of U.S. expansionism from the 1960s onward, the establishment of a permanent national security apparatus that made non-interventionism impossible, the Carter Doctrine's faulty premises and continued influence in Middle East policies and the current Pentagon reassessment of U.S. military limitations that may inhibit...
The Show: Joseph Salerno
11-1 central KAOS. Update: Sorry. Joseph Salerno has been postponed until next Tuesday.
12/03/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., co-editor of We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, discusses the persistence of pro-war propaganda over time, the remarkably similar arguments made to justify the War of 1812 and the current Iraq war, the curious case of pro-secessionist and abolitionist Lysander Spooner, the Wilsonian provocations that ensured U.S. entry into W.W.I, the importance of forming a left-right antiwar alliance to counter the bipartisan war party and the...
12/03/08 – Matthew Alexander – The Scott Horton Show
Matthew Alexander, former U.S. military interrogator and author of the opinion piece 'I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq' published in the Washington Post, discusses how information gleaned from ethical interrogations enabled the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the relatively moderate views of most Iraqi Al-Qaeda members who joined for practical rather than ideological reasons, the moral and operational failure of torture and the enduring legacy of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as a...
12/02/08 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan, co-author of the article 'Who Rules the Pentagon?', discusses Obama’s distinctly non-reformist national security team, the need to reevaluate the meaning of 'national defense' amidst a U.S. empire of bases, the struggle between realists and neocons over weapons procurement dollars and the public relations campaign of defense contractors to base Pentagon funding on a percentage of GDP.
12/02/08 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, discusses the anti-occupation motives of terrorists, the similarities of extremists that transcend religion and culture, how a U.S. economic collapse could usher in a popular uprising of the Christian Right, the desperate and mostly ignored situation in the Gaza Strip and the terrible consequences of a war with Iran.
Keith Preston’s “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”
I wanted to pass along a link to an essay that I think you all should read. Preston is what I guess he would call a "left-libertarian" or "anarcho-socialist", or perhaps he has another term. Anyway, the piece is brilliantly constructed and it won the Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize. I think it would be interesting to read the end, and then backtrack to see how he gets there. Here's a paragraph that not many people here would be inclined to fully agree with: An economy organized on the basis of...
