I don’t know y’all, it really is a tough one

Are the Democrats more stupid or condescending? I know it's a difficult choice, but if there was a gun to my head, I guess I'd have to say... Condescending. Hey Democratic Party, I know I speak for literally dozens of people when I say, go and fuck yourselves. (You don't realize this, so I'll tell you: Actually, it turns out, it's us average "white trash" Americans who work for voluntary pay rather than parasitically sucking off the state our whole lives like you, who are the shit, while you...

Police State Minnesota

Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher document tyranny on the eve of the American National Socialist Workers' Party convention in Minneapolis. Thanks to Lew.

08/27/08 – Luke Ryland – The Scott Horton Show

Luke Ryland discusses the A.Q. Kahn nuclear secrets peddling network, its correlation to the Sibel Edmonds case, the CIA's knowledge of the network since the mid ‘70's, the six years of deafening silence by Congress and the media about Sibel's case and how the nuclear black market, neocons, and the Israeli and Turkish lobbies are connected. MP3 Here.

08/27/08 – Abdulkadir Abdirahman – The Scott Horton Show

Abdulkadir Abdirahman, president of Somali Cause, discusses the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from America’s proxy war waged by Ethiopian forces there since December, 2006, the million-plus refugees from Mogadishu and surrounding areas, America’s alliance with the brutal warlords from the days of 'Operation Restore Hope' and 'Black Hawk Down,' and the rotting corpses they leave wherever they go, the American excuse of al Qaeda terrorism and 'Islamic extremism,' the former Soviet-, now...

Best. Churchill Quote. Ever.

"America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn’t entered the war the Allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no breakdown in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned Nazism in Germany. If America had stayed out of the war, all these ’isms’ wouldn’t to-day be sweeping the...

08/26/08 – Adam Isacson – The Scott Horton Show

Adam Isacson, director of programs at the Center for International Policy, discusses the history of Plan Columbia, the terrible humanitarian situation there, the murderous criminality of the government, right-wing paramilitary death squads and FARC guerrillas alike, the FARC's choice in the mid-nineties to go ahead and align themselves with cocaine traffickers, Joe Biden's role in pushing military aid through the U.S. Senate, the economic illiteracy behind the coca spraying projects in Latin...

08/26/08 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show

Lew Rockwell, founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses his new podcast interview program, Joe Biden’s long term and central role in promoting the warfare state, demagoguery and omission at the Democratic convention, the reality of America’s empire and the elective emperor who rules it, the important new book We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, why murder is still murder even if a government employee does it, the big lie of...

08/25/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter, independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and Antiwar.com, discusses the themes in his article 'Georgia War Rooted in US Self-Deceit on NATO,' how the national security bureaucracy dominates American policy to the detriment of the rest of Americans’ interests, the rise of the empire after World War II, how American Cold War policy pushed China toward Russia until the 1970s, the imperial bureaucrats desire to expand NATO up to the Russian border to weaken...

08/22/08 – Ed Fremer – The Scott Horton Show

Ed Fremer, whose son Michael was crushed to death in an Army training accident, discusses the Army’s repeated lies about the cause of his death, the fact that one cannot sue the Army over such incidents due to the Supreme Court invented 'Feres doctrine' and details the Army’s negligence that led to his son’s senseless death. MP3 Here.

08/22/08 – Daniel Levy – The Scott Horton Show

Daniel Levy, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the need for Israel to adopt a diplomatic foreign policy, prominent Israeli officials opposed to attacking Iran, the remaining danger of an Israeli attack, how hard-line rhetoric empowers Iran's hawks in return, the disastrous effects any attack on Iran would have, the process for the upcoming Israeli election, the consequences of conflating all of Israel and America's enemies and the...