by Scott | Jul 19, 2006 | Stress Blog
FBI wanted Padilla’s help, not arrest “‘I didn’t want to arrest him,’ said Special Agent Russell Fincher said. ‘I needed his cooperation.’ … “He said the agency had hoped Padilla could provide information about an...
by Scott | Jun 29, 2006 | Stress Blog
by Jim Lobe In a major defeat for President George W. Bush with potentially far-reaching implications for his conduct of the “war on terror,” the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled that military tribunals established by the Pentagon to try suspected...
by Scott | May 25, 2006 | Stress Blog
by Gareth Porter Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel’s 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United...
by Scott | May 10, 2006 | Stress Blog
A million thank yous to Luke Ryland for the transcription: Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish FBI translator turned whistleblower who has been subjected to a gag order could provide a major insight into how neoconservatives distort US foreign policy and enrich themselves at...
by Scott | Feb 18, 2006 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com February 18, 2006 ‘In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.’ — Thomas Jefferson All over the country, and even in the press, the...
by Scott | Aug 6, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com August 06, 2005 Writing in The American Conservative‘s Aug. 1 issue, former military intelligence and CIA counterterrorism officer Philip Giraldi, now a partner in Cannistraro Associates, says that the vice president (who, according to the...
by Scott | Aug 3, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
By Scott Horton Antiwar.com August 03, 2005 Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, having covered foreign conflicts in Argentina, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Columbia, Guatemala, Bosnia, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, India, Israel/Palestine,...
by Scott | Jul 20, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 20, 2005 Juan Cole, professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan, has lived in the Middle East and is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. His blog, Informed Comment, has earned its place at the...
by Scott | Jul 12, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 12, 2005 A majority of Americans had finally gotten over the fearmongering that convinced them to support the invasion of Iraq. The panic and bloodlust produced by the Sept. 11 attacks had faded after nearly four years. But after the...
by Scott | Jul 5, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 05, 2005 Daniel Ellsberg is quite a remarkable man. He defied the law, his future, an entire career’s worth of brainwashing, and important friendships in order to leak the truth about the Vietnam War to the people of America. Richard...
by Scott | Jul 2, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 02, 2005 ‘[B]y false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. ”¦ But whether the...
by Scott | May 12, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
By Scott Horton Antiwar.com May 12, 2005 ‘America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.’ — George W. Bush...
by Scott | Apr 24, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
by Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 24, 2005 ‘[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the...
by Scott | Feb 27, 2005 | Scott Horton's Articles
By Scott Horton Antiwar.com February 27, 2005 It’s clear at this point in the history of our nation that the national government is not limited in any serious way by the restrictions placed upon it in the Constitution. The limited republic envisioned by the founders...
by Scott | Jun 7, 2003 | Fair Use Articles
Influence on Bush aides: Bolshevik’s writings supported the idea of pre-emptive war by Jeet Heer, National Post, June 07, 2003 Leon Trotsky has influenced such White House confidants as journalist Christopher Hitchens an ad hoc consultant to the Bush...
by Scott | Mar 26, 2000 | Fair Use Articles
By David Leppard, Paul Nuki and Gareth Walsh, Sunday Times, March 26, 2000 *Political fallout: Lord Simon ran BP at the time of the coup A secret intelligence report accuses BP–Britain’s biggest company–of backing a military coup which installed a ruthless KGB hardman...
