05/08/06 – Aaron Glantz – The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks with Aaron Glantz, author of How America Lost Iraq, reporter for Pacifica Radio and contributor to Antiwar.com about the situation in Iraq with particular attention on Kurdish separatism. Also discussed were the border clashes with Iran, oil politics, ethnic divisions and why the US needs to get out now.

6/06/06

The National Day of Slayer: 6.6.06 isn't a date that comes around very often (once per century, to be exact), and while plenty of stupid horror movies and terrible albums will be released for the hype value of the day that bears "the number of the beast", we here at NDoS decided that this would be a perfect day for Hessians across the country to come together and engage in something upon which we can all agree - listening to Slayer! Also, do you really want those evangelical Neo-Cons to have...

McGovern Blasts Rumsfeld

Crooks and Liars has the video. Listen to the less-than-human Rumsfeld fans in the audience cheer his non-sequitur answer to why he's not a liar, "The troops didn't wear all that mop gear because it's in style," and then the pathetic fag-love qestion at the end beginning with something about, "Wow, I am so impressed and enthralled by your manly presence and passion for life..." Where do these people come from?

Douglas Feith to Teach National Security at Georgetown

Really. "Douglas J. Feith, the former Pentagon policy chief who was an architect of the administration's war on terrorism, is joining the faculty of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. In an announcement Monday, the university said Feith will teach a course on the Bush administration's strategy for the war on terror and also will conduct seminars as a visiting professor and distinguished practitioner in national security policy. He will start this fall. "'I think it'll be...

You Live in Tyranny

The individuals who run the Justice Department have knowingly and deliberately convicted another innocent person. Alexander Cockburn has the details. Why not you next? You are innocent till proven guilty. Admitted perjury by the US Attorney's star witness is not going to be enough to get you off.

Let’s See Them Enforce It

Charlie Savage at the Boston Globe says this ain't far from dictatorship as Bush chooses which laws to enforce and which to ignore (more than 750 so far). It seems to me that the president does have the authority to refuse to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. Which of us wouldn't pardon all the drug and gun possession charges and threaten any federal prosecutor who files them in the future with prosecution for violating people's rights on our first day in office? The problem is...