11/04/11 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show

Philip Weiss, investigative journalist and author of the blog MondoWeiss, discusses the small, secret Gaza aid flotilla that was thwarted by Israeli warships; why Israel’s four year blockade of Gaza amounts to state terrorism against a civilian population; comparing...

Debunking The Iran War Resolution

by August Wagele This week Congress will vote on a resolution (Senate RES. 580, House RES. 362) ramping up the pressure on Iran, bringing us one step closer to attacking them and sending the American economy plummeting into the abyss. These grave threats against Iran...

Special report: Is Al Qaeda in pieces?

Interesting read from The Independent. Just goes to show that “al Qeada” was on it’s last legs before 9/11 and it’s only the response from the Bush admin that has kept it alive, apparently 9/11 was to be Bin Ladens last throw of the dice....

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...

Why We Support Ron Paul for President

From Prof. David Beito, cowritten with Scott Horton The Volokh Conspiracy Voters who want more liberty and smaller government have only one realistic choice in the upcoming presidential race: Dr. Ron Paul. No other candidate comes close to matching his record. For...

Arguing the War

Two weeks ago, Antiwar.com received a letter from a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps wondering what motivated our behavior. One of my jobs for Antiwar.com is handling jobs like these, and since he asked like a gentleman, I’ve done my best to...

My biggest fear about Ron Paul

(Cross-posted from my blog. I know that most of you will not agree with what I write here, but I offer my opinion candidely and I apologize in advance if that offends anybody) ——- I have to admit that I like Ron Paul. A lot. While Mike Gravel and Dennis...

War in Lebanon soon?

First, there was this piece in the (otherwise highly unreliable) Debka file website: ——- DEBKAfile: USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group takes up position opposite Lebanese coast amid trepidation over September presidential election Our military...

Henry Waxman finally speaks out on Sibel Edmonds Case!

For months we have been trying to get Henry Waxman to hold hearings into the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds but we have been met with a stony silence. Until now! The Hollywood Liberal snagged an interview with Henry Waxman and asked about Sibel’s...

Gents for Genocide

Michael Crowley has a devastating article (liberated in full here) in the latest New Republic. Crowley investigates the efforts of Turkey’s lobbyists in DC to block any recognition by Congress of the 1915 Armenian genocide. “Even in modern Washington,...

Please Leave: An interview with Sami Rasouli

by Scott Horton Interview conducted April 1, 2007. Listen to the interview here. I have on the line Sami Rasouli. He is an Iraqi, who was an ex-patriot. He lived in the United States for I believe about 30 years — a very successful restauranteur from Minneapolis,...

DU not a popular topic at the Pentagon

As reported by Antiwar.com’s Debbie Clark: Saturday morning, after a march around the Capital building, 30-35 people from Camp Democracy – mostly Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War members – went to the Pentagon to see the new 9/11...

How We Bungled the Japanese Surrender

Look Magazine, June 6, 1950 By Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, USN (Ret.) The way was open to get Japan to surrender at least six months before VJ-Day. How we could have avoided the final agonies of the war in the Pacific is told here for the first time. Everybody...

Is there even a terrorist threat to this country at all?

And is that a strange question to be found in the pages of Foreign Affairs? Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? By John Mueller From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 Summary: Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has...

Freedom to Fascism: I Want My Fiat Money Back

Attention: Do Not Waste Your Hard-Earned $8.00 on this piece of crap. I knew it when I saw the trailer claiming the Fed was private. Great. Then I saw that my man Dr. Ron Paul is in it, as well as personal hero G. Edward Griffin and friend James Bovard. My old friend...

US Constitution

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and...

State of the State 2006

Below is the text of the boy emperor’s speech. In italics are the refutations and juvenile commentary I added. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, members of the Supreme Court and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests and fellow citizens:...

How To Win The War On Terrorism: Call It Off

By Scott Horton This is one I wrote back in the summer of 2005 for the blog at Ameripundit.com: If we pretend, and accept the premise that the War on Terror is actually about stopping jihadists who target American citizens, then we might have to conclude that our...