Former CIA officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi has a new scoop at the American Conservative blog. There is considerable speculation and buzz in Washington today suggesting that the National Security Council has agreed in principle to proceed with plans to attack an Iranian al-Qods-run camp that is believed to be training Iraqi militants. The camp that will be targeted is one of several located near Tehran. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the only senior official urging delay...
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05/06/08 – Paul Verkuil – The Scott Horton Show
Paul Verkuil, professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and author of Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It, discusses the increasing privatization of government, the new phenomenon of the hiring out of the actual enforcement functions of the state, the lack of adequate oversight and criminal accountability and how the many domestic functions of government being privatized are making it even worse and...
05/06/08 – Mary Ruwart – The Scott Horton Show
Mary Ruwart, author of Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression and Libertarian Party presidential candidate, discusses the similarities in how our government provoked 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor, how our militaristic over-reaction to 9/11 has hindered our apprehension of Bin Laden and increased the danger of terrorism, how America needs to nurture free trade policies to build relationships with foreigners, our misguided immigration policies, how an armed populace would reduce crime...
Newly Revealed Photos from Hiroshima Show Devastation of Atomic Weapons
Here's the Huffington Post summary. The link to the archive seems broken, but that is almost assuredly a temporary problem. Backup link here.
An Iraq at Peace with Its Neighbors
Well it was before. Now the Turks are bombing the north again (whether actually killing PKK members or not is in dispute) and war with Iran looms. Andrew Cockburn reports in Counter Punch Bush's new "finding" authorizing more covert support for anti-Iranian and anti-Syrian terrorist groups like the MEK, Jundullah and - irony anyone? - the PKK-allied Pejak. The Sunday Times says the military is renewing plans for strikes at Quds Force targets in Iran, a further irony since the Quds Force is the...
My Speech at UT, April 28, 2008
Here is the full, glitch-free one glitch version: Or watch it at Blip.tv. (This is all but the part where I discussed the Israel Lobby's role in pushing the war, which wasn't recorded.) Anders' YouTube version here. Pupnik's AVI version here.
05/02/08 – Candace Gorman – The Scott Horton Show
Candace Gorman, Chicago lawyer representing 2 prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, discusses the release of al Jazeera cameraman, long-term Guantanamo prisoner Sami al-Hajj, some of the horrific circumstances of his capture, his 'crime' of refusing to become an informant, the continued denial of medical treatment to her client Al-Ghizzawi who has been subject to double jeopardy after even the bogus tribunal found that he was not an 'enemy combatant,' the refusal of multiple military...
05/02/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist, discusses the war party's many excuses to justify attacking Iran, how Cheney has been delayed in the attack by Sadr's ability to strike at Americans in Iraq in response, Cheney's successful gambit of trapping Rice and Gates into agreeing that the Mahdi Army must be defeated, how Admiral Fallon lost the fight with General Petraeus and his job because he wanted to bring most troops home by 2009 and how the U.S. military has it's hands full by...
Tom Woods Agrees With Me
You should read Ron Paul's new book. Update: The market demands it as well. edited by Anders.
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04/30/08 – Joshua Snyder – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Snyder, American English Professor in South Korea, discusses American involvement with North and South Korea since World War II, how the UN gave Truman the excuse to enter the conflict without declaring war, how the defeat of Robert Taft marked the end of the Old Right until Ron Paul, how 106 of America's 700+ military bases are in South Korea, how the many billions of American tax dollars being wasted on the occupation are subsidizing the booming South Korean economy, how if we left,...
