by Scott | Jul 3, 2014 | Interviews
Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the risk of a Ukraine bloodbath while the US supports Kiev’s military attacks and Europe’s leaders hold peace talks without John Kerry. Transcript: Hey y’all welcome back to the...
by Scott | Jun 9, 2014 | Interviews
Ray McGovern, a retired CIA officer turned political activist, discusses the 47th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. He also discusses the Iraq War, official liars from Rumsfeld to Kerry, Chelsea Manning’s whistleblowing, Ukraine, Russia, etc....
by Scott | May 22, 2014 | Interviews
Cindy Corrie, President of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice, discusses her appeal to Israel’s Supreme Court for the wrongful death of her daughter Rachel, a human rights activist who was killed in 2003 by an IDF bulldozer in Gaza....
by Scott | Mar 11, 2014 | Interviews
Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how surveillance/intelligence agencies have become the de facto fourth branch of government; Diane Feinstein’s apparent outrage at the CIA spying on her staff’s attempt...
by Scott | Feb 24, 2014 | Stress Blog
The Telegraph: US Homeland Security says Israeli arms dealers have been sending spare military jet parts to Iran in breach of sanctions Israeli arms dealers twice tried to send spare parts for fighter planes to Iran, The Telegraph has established, flouting an...
by Scott | Feb 6, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
Via NarcoNews. Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras Published: Aug. 18, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterFOR THE BETTER PARTÂ of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and...
by Scott | Feb 6, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
Via NarcoNews Role of CIA-linked agents a well-protected secret until now Published: Aug. 19, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterIF THEY’D BEEN INÂ a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ”Freeway Rick” Ross would...
by Scott | Feb 6, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
Via NarcoNews Contra case illustrates the discrepancy: Nicaraguan goes free; L.A. dealer faces life Published: Aug. 20, 1996Â BY GARY WEBB Mercury News Staff WriterFOR THE LAST YEARÂ and a half, the U.S. Department of Justice has been trying to explain why nearly...
by Scott | Jan 15, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
 If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest...
by Scott | Jan 13, 2014 | Fair Use Articles
CHAPTER ONE War Is A Racket War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2013 | Fair Use Articles
Part One THE ANCIENT DESIGN I We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night; the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say:...
by Scott | Dec 7, 2013 | Fair Use Articles
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those...
by Scott | Jul 1, 2013 | Scott Horton's Articles
By Scott Horton Future of Freedom Foundation Are America’s disasters abroad a result of stupidity or some elaborate plan? An observer of modern U.S. foreign policy can be torn on that one. It makes sense that generals, contractors, and other national-security state...
by Scott | Jun 6, 2013 | Interviews
Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses how White House narratives go largely unchallenged by journalists starved of information from government leakers; the favorable testimony of prosecution witnesses in Bradley Manning’s court martial; Glenn Greenwald’s scoop...
by Scott | Dec 10, 2012 | Interviews
Flynt Leverett, author of Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran, discusses why Iran – contrary to popular belief – isn’t a nation composed of suicide-bombers and “Mad Mullahs;” the...
by Scott | Nov 14, 2012 | Stress Blog
Farewell to Congress This may well be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict...
by Scott | Oct 29, 2012 | Interviews
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation discusses the merger of Israel’s Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties; why it seems like all the Iran war talk was just to distract from the Palestine issue; how “facts on the ground” have made a...
by Scott | Sep 5, 2012 | Interviews
John Whitehead, lawyer and founder of The Rutherford Institute, discusses his client Brandon Raub’s forced incarceration in a psychiatric ward for posting political opinions and song lyrics on Facebook; the low standard of proof needed to lock someone up in a...
by Scott | Aug 28, 2012 | Stress Blog
August 26, 2012 August 26, 2012 Start with joke. With this presidential campaign and the last, congressman Dr. Ron Paul has achieved world-historical greatness, having swayed an entire generation of Americans back to our country’s Jeffersonian, individualist...
by Scott | Aug 15, 2012 | Stress Blog
Daniel Ellsberg Interview by Scott Horton, Hiroshima Day 2012 Transcript (slightly edited for clarity) Audio here. SCOTT HORTON: All right, y’all, welcome back to the show. I’m Scott Horton. Our first guest on the show today is Daniel Ellsberg, heroic...