Last night 60 Minutes interviewed a Delta Force commander about the failure to get bin Laden at Tora Bora in December 2001. It is clear now that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Meyers should be tried for treason and left to rot in a SuperMax for the rest of their lives. Thanks to August for the link.
10/06/08 – Jennifer Daskal – The Scott Horton Show
Jennifer Daskal, senior counsel for Human Rights Watch, discusses the invasion of Somalia by U.S.-backed Ethiopian forces, renditions 'performed' by the FBI, CIA and Ethiopian forces, the major humanitarian crisis in Somalia and the lack of support for the kidnapped victims.
10/06/08 – Jon Basil Utley – The Scott Horton Show
John Basil Utley, director of Americans Against World Empire, discusses the true costs of the war and staggering defense budget, the many hidden earmarks Congress rewards itself, the role of the empire in the financial meltdown, the many new enemies being created around the world, Americans' love of war and the end of the empire.
Gregory Reviews Raimondo
What's Left of the Old Right
Pay Me
Well, pay me a little bit by way of buying some stickers from Rick McGinnis: And I've fixed the art on this one, making it much easier to read (though I suppose it is still missing a comma): Tons more at LibertyStickers.com.
10/03/08 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman, discusses the expansion of NATO and arming of Russia's neighbors, U.S. meddling in foreign elections, the likely U.S. invasion of Sudan, the myth of Herbert Hoover and the financial bailout crisis.
Russian Supremes Exonerate Czar, Commies Scream in Vain
I stuck around St. Petersburg When I saw it was a time for a change Killed the Czar and his ministers Anastasia screamed in vain -- Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil On July 17, 1918 the Czar, his wife, his son, his four daughters and a number of servants were taken into the basement of the building where they were being held and brutally shot. The Romanov family has been trying for official state recognition of the innocence of the Czar for decades, but it's finally happened. The Czar's...
10/02/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, reporter for The Nation, discusses the Iraqi resistance, the myth of the surge's responsibility for the reduction in violence, Iran's brokering of Sadr's cease-fire, Maliki's tightrope act in needing the U.S. to back him now, but leave soon, the problem of Kirkuk and Russia's role in the changing Mideast dynamic.
10/02/08 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, the most independent talk show host in America, discusses the current financial crisis, the idiocy of the bailout and the media's support of it, the cost of war, the fault of the Fed in the crisis, know-nothing madman John McCain, the end of the republic and those horrible warfare/welfare statists who dare to call themselves libertarians.
10/01/08 – Robert A. Pape – The Scott Horton Show
Robert A. Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, discusses his database of every suicide terrorist attack on earth since 1980, what it shows about the role of religion and occupation in motivating suicide terrorism, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the amount of truth discernible from social science, the suicide bombing campaign in Iraq and spread around the world since the Iraq invasion, the...
10/01/08 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
William Norman Grigg, author of the blog Pro-Libertate and the book Liberty in Eclipse: The War on Terror and the Rise of the Homeland Security State, discusses the tragic death of the old American understanding of limited constitutional government under the rule of law: the ever increasing power of the presidency, the case of Jose Padilla, the absurdity of Christians approving of torture, the Milgram torture and Zimbardo prison experiments, the militarization and federalization of American...
Paraphrasing McCain
09/30/08 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the resignation of the 5th Guantanamo prosecutor over evidence being withheld from the defense, the quite probable innocence of the accused in the case in question, one of the federal judge’s recent statement implying that the government should have known better to rely on the Detainee Treatment Act and Military Commissions Act in preparing for habeus corpus hearings, the absolute mockery that Khalid Sheik Mohammad is making of the ad...
09/30/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and reporter for IPS News, discusses the build-up to the invasion of Afghanistan, why the neocons didn’t care about al Qaeda, 'The Getaway,' why the marines had no real ability to get to Tora Bora in time to catch bin Laden, the thinking behind the neocons’ Clean Break policy and pre-9/11 determination to invade Iraq, the various degrees of stupidity and nefarious planning in the administration of the Iraq occupation, and the would-be horror of a John...
Ron Paul on the Bailout Vote
Thanks to Max Raskin.
