Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses Donald Rumsfeld's flawed personality, and history of intrigue, naked ambition, torture and war.
Antiwar Radio: Andrew Cockburn pt.2
Antiwar Radio Exclusive: Revealed by Andrew Cockburn April 18, 2007: When Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced, on March 26, 1997, that Iraqi sanctions would stay in place despite the UN inspectors success it was an effort to preempt UN inspection chief Ralf Ekeus's pending announcement that Iraq was to be certified "free" of "weapons of mass destruction." (at 22:40) This, as Cockburn explains, led Saddam to decide there was no further point in allowing the inspectors access to his...
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Since I installed the Akismet spam plugin about a year ago, it has caught 39,900 spam comments. These comments would otherwise have appeared on the site. To put that into perspective, the site currently has about 4700 legitimate comments. As a result of 2 new plugins I added to the site a week ago, all spam comments have been blocked. Every time I check the Akismet spam queue now, it's empty. This means I don't have to waste time paging through hundreds of spam remarks every day. It also means...
The Show
for today: Follow up interview with Andrew Cockburn on Rumsfeld, Ivan Eland on Padilla, and you calls about who knows what... Stream it live at KAOS959.com from 11am-1pm Texas time. Call in number (512)-646-6446 Rest of the show.
04/18/07 – Andrew Cockburn pt.2 – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar Radio Exclusive: Revealed by Andrew Cockburn April 18, 2007: When Secretary of State Madeline Albright announced, on March 26, 1997, that Iraqi sanctions would stay in place despite the UN inspectors success it was an effort to preempt UN inspection chief Ralf Ekeus's pending announcement that Iraq was to be certified "free" of "weapons of mass destruction." (at 22:40) This, as Cockburn explains, led Saddam to decide there was no further point in allowing the inspectors access to his...
04/18/07 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute and author of The Empire Has No Clothes explains the "enemy combatant" status used to imprison Jose Padilla and now put him on trial and the implications for the rest of us.
04/18/07 – Mike McNulty – The Scott Horton Show
Mike McNulty, producer of Waco: The Rules of Engagement, Waco: A New Revelation and The FLIR Project explains the proof of his contention that the U.S. Army Delta Force (Combat Applications Group) was sent by Bill and Hillary Clinton to Waco and how they helped the FBI Hostage Rescue Team mass murder 86 men, women and children in broad daylight, in front of everybody, live on TV, call it a suicide and get away with it.
Antiwar Radio: Juan Cole
Professor Juan Cole explains the splits and similarities inside the Shi'ite political factions in Iraq, the recent Sadr-inspired protests, accusations that Sadr is the tool of Iran, how our government lies when they blame American deaths on Iran-backed militias, tensions between the governments of Kurdistan and Turkey and the ability of local powers to work out their own problems.
Antiwar Radio: Glenn Greenwald
Former Constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald discusses the constitutional limits on the President's war powers, the sad history of the government's lack of compliance with these rules, the radical and totalitarian impulse of our neoconservatives today, the neocon/Federalist Society's bogus "Unitary Executive theory," Rudy Giuliani's embrace of the idea of unlimited power for himself and the new peace and freedom realignment of the liberal left, paleo-right and libertarians.
The Show
for today: Juan Cole on the Iraqi Shi'ites, Glenn Greenwald on Bush's war powers, Padilla, the man who declined to be the War Czar in the Post and your phone calls on the Virginia Tech massacre. Stream it live at KAOS959.com from 11am-1pm Texas time. Call in number (512)-646-6446 Rest of the show.
04/17/07 – Juan Cole – The Scott Horton Show
Professor Juan Cole explains the splits and similarities inside the Shi'ite political factions in Iraq, the recent Sadr-inspired protests, accusations that Sadr is the tool of Iran, how our government lies when they blame American deaths on Iran-backed militias, tensions between the governments of Kurdistan and Turkey and the ability of local powers to work out their own problems.
04/17/07 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Former Constitutional lawyer and author Glenn Greenwald discusses the constitutional limits on the President's war powers, the sad history of the government's lack of compliance with these rules, the radical and totalitarian impulse of our neoconservatives today, the neocon/Federalist Society's bogus "Unitary Executive theory," Rudy Giuliani's embrace of the idea of unlimited power for himself and the new peace and freedom realignment of the liberal left, paleo-right and libertarians.
The Show
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Antiwar Radio: call in the show
No guests today, just you. You have things to type out loud? Questions for me? Here's your chance: 11am - 1pm central on Radio KAOS 95.9 and 92.7 FM in Austin, Texas. (512) 646-6446 Stream it live here: http://www.kaos959.com/ Seriously, call the dang show, would ya?
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I haven't plugged these in a while, so here, buy them: I've sent in about 30 more than this, so hopefully they'll be up there soon.
