Crisis and Global Leviathan

Well, if the national governments of the world - led by ours - have destroyed the global economy, there's only one way to go: a World State. Well, that's the kind of thing you'll read in the Washington Post, anyway. (Ironically, the Post featured Peter Schiff getting it right just the other day.) It really is too bad that the Republicans are such commie, lying, torturing, mass- and individual-murdering, spying, welfare whores, because now we're stuck with the Democrats, who I expect to much...

10/16/08 – Douglas Valentine – The Scott Horton Show

Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program, discusses the CIA’s Phoenix program targeting civilians during the Vietnam war, the similarities between the Phoenix program, the Nazis in France in World War II and the 'War on Terror,' the vast difference between policy and operational realities, the tragedy of our support for, and murder of Diem, CIA 'black propaganda,' the lies that initiate all American wars, the CIA’s criminal involvement in the drug trade, the corruption of the U.S....

10/16/08 – John L. Esposito – The Scott Horton Show

John L. Esposito, professor at Georgetown University and co-author of Who Speaks For Islam: What A Billion Muslims Really Think, the causes of and misconceptions about Muslim radicalism, religion as an accessory to, not motivation for terrorism, the research behind the facts in the book, the nature of bin Laden’s recruitment pitch, 'democratic exceptionalism,' the similarities between Islam and Christian values and the underlying racism of American media and many citizens.

Torturing Democracy

I think they must mean Democracy Torturing People. Anyway, read The Other Scott Horton about how State TV is suppressing this great Frontline documentary about the War Criminal Bush/Cheney regime. Hear a credible account of a man who heard a woman tortured to death a few cells down from his. Documents at their site too.

10/15/08 – Shashank Bengali – The Scott Horton Show

Shashank Bengali, reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the new U.S. African command center AFRICOM, the difficulty in finding a host country, the major crises in Somalia and Congo, China’s role in the African oil grab, the capability of U.S. Army humanitarian aide, the fight against AIDS, the Nigerian delta oil conflict and the spread of the 'war on terror' to Africa as bin Laden predicted.

10/15/08 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show

Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses voter fraud, the accusations against ACORN, the U.S. attorney firings by Karl Rove, different methods of purging voters, the rigging of computer voting machines, ballot printing computer systems and the seven ways to steal back your vote.

10/14/08 – Tim Dickinson – The Scott Horton Show

Tim Dickinson, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, discusses his article 'Make-Believe Maverick,' the early shaping of John McCain’s personality and the McCain 'brand,' his similar lineage and 'daddy complex' to that of Bush Jr., his not-so-heroic behavior as a POW, how his family connections kept him flying, his choice of Sarah Palin for vice president and how he slept his way to the top.

10/13/08 – Stan Liebowitz – The Scott Horton Show

Stan Liebowitz, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Managerial Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, discusses the history leading up to the financial crisis, weakening lending requirements in the early ‘90's, creating the bubble in the late ‘90's and the moral hazard of socialized risks.

10/13/08 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, (US Army Ret.), former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses the coalition of Oil and Israeli interests in pushing the invasion of Iraq, all the reasons that everyone should have known that the WMD and terrorism pretexts were just that, the disgrace he felt during Powell's UN speech and his surprise at the positive coverage, the status of Anar al-Islam in Kurdistan before the war, the after the fact creation of al Qaeda in Iraq by Zarqawi and...