The Show: Brian Doherty and Anthony Gregory

Update: Brian Doherty interview here Brian Doherty and Anthony Gregory will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Monday, June 30. Brian Doherty will be discussing his recent article in the Los Angeles Times, ‘The gun-rights fight isn’t over’ at 12:15PM Eastern. Anthony Gregory will be discussing the Democrats and the Iraq war at 1:15PM Eastern. Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is the author of the books, This is Burning...

Covert Ops

U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran - report Here's the new Seymor Hersh piece for the New Yorker: [A] lesson was learned in the [speedboat] incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’ he said. Update: Israel: They'll nuke us within a year!...

The Supreme Court, Summarized

So there's the fascist faction, the communist faction, and Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy is overall a libertarian-leaning moderate. He agrees with the liberals on certain gay rights, and with the conservatives on the right of the Boy Scouts to exclude gays. He agrees with the left of habeas corpus and with the right on the Second Amendment. On the other hand, Kennedy is terrible on the drug war, the 4th amendment rules on searches and seizures, and the federal government's authority to override...

The Show

for today: Me, news. Maybe Anthony. 11am-1pm 92.7 in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.

Greenwald Calls Out Olbermann

As far as mainstream media goes I quite like Olbermann, but good on Glenn Greenwald for calling him out on his double standards with regards Obama and telecom immunity