Finding Ways to Stay in Iraq

by Scott Horton, Antiwar.com March 05, 2009 Those who bought into the slogans “Hope” and “Change” last fall should have read the fine print. We were warned. Over and over during the campaign for the presidency Barack Obama made it clear that...

Give Obama a Chance

That’s what they keep telling me. Something snapped. I got pissed. I came up with this: I cannot for the life of me wrap my mind around the “Obama is anything less than the worst criminal in the world” point of view I keep seeing represented among...

Against Jingoism and Hypocrisy by Ron Paul

Statement before the US House of Representatives, July 30, 2008, on H. RES. 1370, Calling on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to immediately end abuses of the human rights of its citizens Madam Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution,...

Zeitgeist

I just finished the watching the documentary Zeitgeist. It’s very interesting and I’d like to know what some of the rest of you think of it. Google video has a copy here This is a torrent link to a DVD ISO image that can be burned or mounted. In my view,...

05/06/08 – Mary Ruwart – The Scott Horton Show

Mary Ruwart, author of Healing Our World in an Age of Aggression and Libertarian Party presidential candidate, discusses the similarities in how our government provoked 9/11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor, how our militaristic over-reaction to 9/11 has hindered our...

12/07/07 – Robert Stinnett – The Scott Horton Show

Robert B. Stinnett, World War II Pacific US Navy veteran and author of Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, discusses the treason of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in approving a policy to force Japan into striking first and deliberately allowing their navy...

Did a non-member of the IAEA really attack an IAEA member?

(cross posted from my blog) The Times Online has published an interesting story which claims that the Israeli Air Force overflight of Syria in early September was part of a complex military operating aimed at seizing and destroying nuclear materials shipped from the...

Liberventionism — The Reich way to be

From http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010344 Libertarians and the War Ron Paul doesn’t speak for all of us. BY RANDY E. BARNETT Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT While the number of Americans who self-identify as...

Robert A. Taft’s Ron Paul Moment

From David Beito at Liberty and Power: As media and political elites continue to demonize Ron Paul for his comments in the debates, it is remembering that another candidate, who said much the same thing, once came within a hair of winning the Republican presidential...

Collectivism and Murder

Some guy goes into a Jewish business in Seattle, and murders one innocent woman and wounds five others. What’s his excuse? He’s “mad at Israel.” Well, I have some news for you genius: None of those six people were “Israel.” Nor all...

Clinton’s SecDef Calls for Attack on North Korea

William Perry calls for violence from the pages of Thursday’s Washington Post: “Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear...

About

Scott Horton is director of the Scott Horton Academy of Foreign Policy and Freedom, director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of the Scott Horton Show and co-host of Provoked with historian Darryl Cooper. He’s the author of...

Who’s Behind the Coming War With Iran?

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...

Individualism vs. War

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,...

Poisonous Misinterpretations

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 24, 2005 ‘This is not an isolated criminal act we are dealing with, it is an extreme and evil ideology whose roots lie in a perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam.’ — Tony Blair Why do they hate...

Star Wars and the American Empire

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com May 24, 2005 [Spoiler warning: This article gives away important details about the new movie.] ‘For a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the Dark Times. Before...