William Astore, professor of history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, discusses his career at Cheyenne Mountain Missile Warning Center, the 15 separate buildings within it, its turning from a protective space to target with improvements in nuclear yield and missile accuracy, the continuing danger of accidental nuclear war with Russia, the necessity of the abolition of these obsolete weapons of indiscriminate killing, the dangerous mindset of the average government job-holder, Ronald...
04/21/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the recent/ongoing battle between 'Iraqi government' forces and the Mahdi Army in Basra and Baghdad, how Maliki jumped the gun and thwarted Cheney, Hakim and Petraeus’s plan for a much larger effort against the Sadrists this summer, Maliki’s plain explanation that having his guys attack with Americans would have only weakened his position even more than happened anyway, Maliki’s desperate escape from Basra, Iran’s role in...
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Rep. Ron Paul M.D.
Read this book! I've just finished Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto, and am once again floored by Dr. Paul's ability to identify the most important issues facing this country and explain their libertarian solutions in "honest, direct language," as George Carlin would say. In seven concise chapters, heavy with notable quotes from the founders, American historical figures, social researchers and Austrian economists, Dr. Paul destroys the myths of governmental benevolence and benefit on...
We are winning the Global War for Terrorism
In Hebron, citizens of some foreign country that is not and has never been part of America spend your hard-earned tax dollars committing acts of terrorism against the helpless civilians they occupy. Using a 10-year-old child to locate and punish a 15-year-old stone-thrower: "So we got hold of just some Palestinian kid nearby, we knew that he knew who it had been. Let's say we beat him a little, to put it mildly, until he told us. You know, the way it goes when your mind's already screwed up,...
Ready to Die to Preserve Abkhazia?
You will. And the dictator who will bring it to you is John McCain.
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Every Single Thing Government Does is Evil and Stupid
Anyone who disagrees with me about this fact is at least stupid and maybe evil too.
Cheney Debunked Again (a year ago)
Dick Cheney is a liar. A lousy one. He is again threatening that "al Qaeda in Iraq" (which he would have you believe is interchangeable with the "al Qaeda in Waziristan" he let escape in 2001) will take over the fertile crescent if U.S. forces withdraw. In this version, they will make so much money from control over the oil that they will somehow be a threat to us or something... Well, last summer when Rudy Giuliani tried to pretend that al Qaeda was motivated to attack the United States due...
Inflation is Theft. Inflation is Evil.
It's caused by the creation of paper money. This is what it does to the people of this here Earth we live on.
Liberty Stickers: a “Hint”
From a report about the LP presidential race in the American Spectator: BURLINGTON, N.C. -- No casual visitor to the La Quinta Inn on Maple Avenue would have suspected that anything politically significant was happening inside Saturday. Only the bumper stickers on the cars in the parking lot hinted that the hotel was hosting the state convention of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina (LPNC). "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for yourself," declared a sticker on...
04/14/08 – Diane Benson – The Scott Horton Show
Diane Benson, an antiwar Democrat running for Congress in Alaska, discusses the stop loss and severe injuries suffered by her son, the invisibility of the tens of thousands of wounded American soldiers from the Iraq war, the unfairness of the stop loss system, the cowardice of all those who 'support' the war with stickers on their truck while others fight for them, the belief of young soldiers that they’d be off to fight bin Laden, the VA’s directing of soldiers to other welfare programs for...
Bush: I Lie to the Soldiers to Make Them Feel Good
ABC: Bush conceded earlier that before the surge began last year, he was pessimistic about the way the war in Iraq was going. "How worried were you?" Raddatz asked. "I was worried. Look, I'm worried any time it looks like we're going to fail in Iraq," Bush said. During that time in 2006, when many were saying Iraq was in a full-blown civil war, Bush kept his rhetoric upbeat, saying in speeches that We're winning" and "We have a plan for victory." Raddatz asked the president about that, and the...
Thanks
I really like having you guys around. Judging by the email, the audience is growing all over the world, and to all the people who've written to say nice things I really appreciate it. (And for those who I can't get around to answering, sorry. I do read them all.) Angela is in charge of somehow turning this thing into something a bit bigger, and since she's the shit, I figure I better take time out to give up some gratitude to those of you who've been encouraging me up to now before it's too...
No Comment
I'm writing to report to you the sad news that world renowned human rights attorney and anti-torture hero, The Other Scott Horton, is hanging up his blogging cap and closing down No Comment at the Harper's magazine Website. The good news is that Scott says he's got more important work to do that the blogging has been disrupting. Hopefully it won't be too long before we are witness to more good works by this champion of human liberty. Best of luck to you Scott, we'll be looking forward to...
04/11/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent and author of Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia revival and the Struggle for Iraq, discusses the past, present, future and importance of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, America’s employment of 'al Qaeda in Iraq,' and the disaster of the occupation.
