Ex-Spokes-pimp Calls Out White House Johns, Media Whores

From NYT coverage of Scott "Son of Carol Keaton-Tax Collector" McClellan's new book: [McClellan] calls the news media ‘complicit enablers’ in the White House’s ‘carefully orchestrated campaign to shape and manipulate sources of public approval’ in the march to the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. Not sure when "sources of public approval" became a suitable substitute term for "the public," but whatever.

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for today: Anthony Gregory. Listen live from 11am-1pm Texas time on 92.7 FM in Austin or stream it from KAOSRadioAustin.org.

Clinton Slams Obama for Noticing She Said She’s Waiting Around in the Hopes Someone Murders Him

How dare that uppity boy respond to such old news - and so soon?! On ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday on CBS, [Clinton Shill Howard] Wolfson said, ‘It was unfortunate and unnecessary, and in my opinion, inflammatory, for the Obama campaign to attack Senator Clinton on Friday for these remarks, without obviously knowing the full facts or context.’ ... Mrs. Clinton said she was ‘deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for -...

05/26/08 – Michael Schwartz – The Scott Horton Show

Michael Schwartz, Professor Sociology at Stony Brook University and author of the new book War Without End: The Iraq War in Context, discusses his latest TomDispatch article, 'River of Resistance,' the true scale of the destruction of Iraq, various studies of Iraqi casualties, direct responsibility of the U.S. military for the majority of the hundreds of thousands of violent Iraqi deaths since 2003, the plight of the refugees and the dire poverty of many of those who remain, the West...

LP Nominates Barr

As Wayne Allen Root threw his support to Barr on the 6th ballot, he explained that he had not left the Republicans at all, only that "the Republican Party left me." Barr seconded, "Boy, me too." No word yet whether conservatism has left either of them. Drink up.

05/23/08 – Christopher Coyne – The Scott Horton Show

Christopher Coyne, author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, discusses the economics of American empire, the true motivations behind the slogan of 'spreading democracy,' the domestic problems of intervention including bloated budgets, bureaucracies and lost liberty, how politicians, bureaucrats, and government contractors’ incentives are the opposite of private business - success is punished and failure is rewarded, leading to increased budgets, more employees and more...

Friday on Antiwar Radio: John Cusack and Christopher Ketcham

Friday on Antiwar Radio, I'll be talking with actor John Cusack about his new satire War Inc. and investigative reporter Christopher Ketcham about the police state's list of 8 million American dissidents to be rounded up in the event of a "national emergency" (uh... that's you). 11am-1pm Texas time, 92.7 in Austin or stream it from KAOSRadioAustin.org.