Today’s Show

Post election musings, great calls from the Stress Blog Posse and an interview with my favorite, Dr. Gareth Porter. MP3 here.

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Giraldi: "Much has been made of the pressure AIPAC successfully exerted to drop a clause in the recent defense appropriation bill for Iraq and Afghanistan prohibiting an attack on Iran without congressional approval. One Democratic congressman, Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, even promised prior to any debate on the matter that the offensive language would be removed." Raimondo: "[E]xamine the CNN photo of Nancy's coronation and notice its composition: Rahm Emanuel to the left of her, Hoyer to her...

Ha ha, Republicans

I'm already dreading Democratic monopoly government. And yet, I have to laugh at the Republicans right now. After 40 years, you finally captured Congress in '94. You worked with Clinton to expand the government. You covered up his crimes. Six years later, you got the presidency. For eight years now, you've had it all. You've doubled the national debt in less than a decade. You've slaughtered a million people. You've torn the soul out of the Bill of Rights. Today, Americans said no to your...

The Show: Robert Parry

Robert Parry will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, November 4th. Parry will be on at 12:15PM Eastern. Robert Parry is an investigative journalist who won the George Polk Award in 1984 for reporting on the Iran-Contra affair and uncovering Oliver North's involvement in it. He is the founder and editor of  ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from...

Fuck Hope.

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy. ’¦ "Either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it...

The Show: Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell

Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, November 3rd. Raimondo will discuss Barack Obama, John McCain and the future of the War Party at 12:15PM Eastern and Rockwell will discuss not voting in the election at 1:15PM Eastern. Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com, a regular contributor to The American Conservative, Chronicles magazine and Taki's Magazine and author of Reclaiming the American Right: The...

KAOS Benefit Saturday at the Broken Neck

Benefit for KAOS Radio at the Broken Neck: 5 dollars, all ages, BYOB, 10pm Condemned Unit Human Struggle (Dallas, TX) ex Spazm 151 Curse The Heavens (ex Manchurian Candidates) S. U. S. (Corpus Christi, TX) Criminal Mischief -- Update: Dang. That shit was crazy.

The Show: Daphne Eviatar

Daphne Eviatar will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Thursday, October 30th. Eviatar will discuss her recent article in The Washington Independent, "Torture by Any Other Name" at 12:15PM Eastern. Daphne Eviatar is a lawyer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Legal Affairs, Mother Jones, The Washington Independent and many others. She is a Senior Reporter at The American Lawyer and was an Alicia Patterson...

The Show: Robert Dreyfuss

Robert Dreyfuss will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, October 29th. Dreyfuss will be on at 12:15PM Eastern. Robert Dreyfuss is an investigative journalist who writes about politics and national security while frequently contributing to The Nation, Rolling Stone, The American Prospect and Mother Jones. He is the author of Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalism Islam and writes the blog The Dreyfuss Report on TheNation.com....

The Show: Mark Ames

Mark Ames will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, October 28th. Ames will will be discussing the hype over the Russia-Georgia conflict which he recently wrote about in The Nation in his article, "The Cold War That Wasn't" at 12:15PM Eastern. Mark Ames is a journalist who has written for several publications including the New York Press, The Nation and GQ Russia and is the founding editor and regular contributor of the Moscow-based newspaper The eXile....