11/06/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, blogger at Salon.com and the author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses his optimism on civil liberties, why we might safer with Rahm Emanuel out of the House, liberal interventionism and Carl Cameron's obfuscation of information damaging to the McCain campaign.
11/06/08 – Christopher Manion – The Scott Horton Show
Christopher Manion, contributor at LewRockwell.com, discusses the leftist origins of the neoconservatives, their hypocrisy on the UN, the danger that they will find a home in the Obama administration and the early years at National Review.
Today’s Show
Post election musings, great calls from the Stress Blog Posse and an interview with my favorite, Dr. Gareth Porter. MP3 here.
site:antiwar.com Rahm
Giraldi: "Much has been made of the pressure AIPAC successfully exerted to drop a clause in the recent defense appropriation bill for Iraq and Afghanistan prohibiting an attack on Iran without congressional approval. One Democratic congressman, Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, even promised prior to any debate on the matter that the offensive language would be removed." Raimondo: "[E]xamine the CNN photo of Nancy's coronation and notice its composition: Rahm Emanuel to the left of her, Hoyer to her...
11/05/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses how the Maliki government surprised everyone by aggressively pressing for a U.S. withdrawal, the possible political landscape in a post-U.S. controlled Iraq, the delay of a Status of Forces Agreement, the difficulty of maintaining a bankrupt empire, the possibility that Obama's bellicose statements about Iran's nuclear program are due to ignorance rather than hawkishness, updates on the infamous stolen laptop and four...
This Just In
McCain Loses!
Do You Hate the State?
Update: Fox exit poll: 10% say Iraq war top issue. I guess the Surge┞¢ worked after all.
11/04/08 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, discusses advances in biometric surveillance technology, the use of DARPA computer algorithms in identifying militants from afar, how the military rules of engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan allow the spontaneous execution of suspected insurgents, the historical tendency of governments to use technology designed for foreign battlefields on lawful domestic opposition, the dangerous...
Fuck Hope.
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. ’¦ "Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it...
11/03/08 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and proprietor of LewRockwell.com, discusses how voting propagates the myth of a representative participatory democracy, the virtue of not voting, the continuation of election fraud from ballot stuffing to computerized tampering, voting as sacrament to the state religion, why imposing higher thresholds of voting eligibility would be an improvement and how Ron Paul's prescience about the economy and his widely heard public criticism of...
11/03/08 – Justin Raimondo – The Scott Horton Show
Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com, discusses the 2008 presidential election, how transitions in government tend toward continuity instead of radical change, the competing policy influences in an Obama administration where Dennis Ross and Anthony Zinni are possible National Security Advisor appointments, how the only difference in foreign intervention between Democratic and Republican administrations is rhetorical, how the neocon parasite feeding on the Republican party will...
KAOS Benefit Saturday at the Broken Neck
Benefit for KAOS Radio at the Broken Neck: 5 dollars, all ages, BYOB, 10pm Condemned Unit Human Struggle (Dallas, TX) ex Spazm 151 Curse The Heavens (ex Manchurian Candidates) S. U. S. (Corpus Christi, TX) Criminal Mischief -- Update: Dang. That shit was crazy.
The Show for Today:
Just you and me. KAOSRadioAustin.org - 11-1 central.
10/30/08 – Chris Calabrese – The Scott Horton Show
ACLU lawyer Chris Calabrese discusses the government-defined 100 mile wide 'Constitution-free zone' border area that extends inland from the U.S. external boundary and covers nearly 2/3 of the U.S. Population, how the traditional exception of Fourth Amendment protections for border searches now applies to nearly all major U.S. metropolitan cities, why the current system ought to feel like home to anyone who lived in Communist East Germany and how advances in technology and a large DHS budget...
