American War Criminals

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and Ashcroft are war criminals. ABC News details their direct participation in the detailed choreographing of the torture of multiple al Qaeda suspects including the crazy and harmless Abu Zubaydah. "According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: 'Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.'" How about the jury? Those "Principals" remaining in power must be removed from office and they all must...

04/10/08 – Bruce Schneier – The Scott Horton Show

Bruce Schneier, cryptographer, computer security specialist, writer, and author, discusses the Justice Department's bogus prosecutions of barely-terrorists in the JFK, Ft. Dix, Lackawanna, Miami and other cases, the increasing danger to Americans' liberties due to the large numbers of new Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country and their temptation to entrap the innocent, the rise of the domestic security industrial complex, the economics of airline security, information as the answer...

04/09/08 – Ira Chernus – The Scott Horton Show

Ira Chernus, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses Americans’ religious devotion to the state and its wars, the narratives of victory and defeat which supplant the facts as the terms of debate over foreign policy - including within the highest circles of power, the Democrats’ fear of being portrayed as weak and inability to control the debate, the magic word 'stability' for calling people into line, the long history of American dissent against war...

The Unbeatable Case?

Well it was long... I am sad to say that the following is my impatient and lazy point by point thrashing (in lieu of an actual article) of Fred Kagan from the American Empire Institute and the stupid lies that he puked up on a recent page of the Weekly Standard. A friend of mine says that someone he cares very much about found Kagan's essay incredible and irrefutable. I find that laughable, but not very funny. Sorry for all the cursing and insults below. It was late when I did this... (and for...

04/08/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show

Glenn Greenwald, civil libertarian, blogger and author, discusses the themes in his new book Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, conservatives' bogus anti-government rhetoric as they preside over the biggest growth of government ever, their contempt for the Constitution they claim to venerate as they consolidate all power constitutional and otherwise in the presidency, the legacy of William F. Buckley in destroying what was once conservatism with the...

04/08/08 – Aran MacKinnon – The Scott Horton Show

Aran S. MacKinnon, associate professor of South African History at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, discusses the history of the Rhodesian independence movement, the post-colonial period in Zimbabwe and the rise of the Mugabe regime, disputes between different ethnic and tribal groups and white landowners, the relative legitimacy of different factions to land claims, Mugabe's distribution of confiscated land to political cronies and their inability to make productive use of them,...

04/07/08 – Mike Gravel – The Scott Horton Show

Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, now running for the Libertarian Party nomination for president, explains how he helped to force the expiration of America's conscription program, the many views he holds in common with libertarians (eg: the war, the draft, the military industrial complex, empire, habeus corpus, renditions, the Patriot Act, Alaskan Oil and fair debates), democracy versus limited government, America's belligerence toward Iran, his desire for an unlimited majoritarian world state...

04/07/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Giraldi, former DIA and CIA officer and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the administration’s renewed line that Iranian-controlled 'special groups' of the Mahdi Army are at war with the U.S. in Iraq, Sadr and Badr’s relative ties to Iran, Iranian objectives in Iraq, indications that Cheney ordered Maliki to attack Sadr’s forces last week and his again waxing influence in the administration, the continuing influence of the neconservatives at AEI on Iran policy and danger that they...

04/07/08 – Howard Zinn – The Scott Horton Show

Historian Howard Zinn, author of the new People’s History of American Empire, discusses the long history of American imperialism from the genocide of the American Indians to the wars against Mexico, Spain, the Good War, and the 'war on terrorism,' and the long and proud history of the American antiwar movement too.

The Show for Monday: Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel, Glenn Greenwald

Monday on Antiwar Radio, Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the end of the empire, the beginning of an LP presidential campaign and the criminal surveillance state. Monday, 11am to 1pm Texas time, 92.7 FM in Austin, or listen online at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio. Zinn first hour, Gravel Second, Greenwald in there somewhere.