I'm writing to report to you the sad news that world renowned human rights attorney and anti-torture hero, The Other Scott Horton, is hanging up his blogging cap and closing down No Comment at the Harper's magazine Website. The good news is that Scott says he's got more important work to do that the blogging has been disrupting. Hopefully it won't be too long before we are witness to more good works by this champion of human liberty. Best of luck to you Scott, we'll be looking forward to...
The Show: Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Friday, April 11, at 12:15PM Eastern. Patrick Cockburn will be discussing his recent article on Antiwar.com titled, "Petraeaus' Ghost." Cockburn has written four books on Iraq including The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, Two, Out of the Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession. The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS...
Rep Ron Paul: Gen Petraeus Iraq Surge Hearing
American War Criminals
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and Ashcroft are war criminals. ABC News details their direct participation in the detailed choreographing of the torture of multiple al Qaeda suspects including the crazy and harmless Abu Zubaydah. "According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: 'Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.'" How about the jury? Those "Principals" remaining in power must be removed from office and they all must...
The Show: Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show, Thursday, April 10, at 12:15PM Eastern. Bruce Schneier will be discussing his article on Wired.com from June 14th, 2007 titled, "Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot." Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security specialist, writer, and author. He is the author of several books on computer security and cryptography including Applied Cryptography and Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an...
The Show: Ira Chernus
Ira Chernus will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show, Wednesday, April 9, at 1:15PM Eastern. Ira Chernus will be discussing his recent article on Tomdispatch.com titled, ‘The General and the Trap’ and his most recent book, Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Ira Chernus is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on the discourse of peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States....
Crocker to Clinton: Thanks for the blank check!
from the WaPo transcript: CLINTON: With respect to our long-term challenges, Ambassador Crocker, the administration has announced that it will negotiate an agreement with the government of Iraq by the end of July that would provide the legal authorities for U.S. troops to continue to conduct operations in Iraq. Let me ask you: Do you anticipate that the Iraqi government would submit such an agreement to the Iraqi parliament for ratification? U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ RYAN CROCKER: The Iraqi...
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 friend of mine says that someone he cares very much about found Kagan's essay incredible and irrefutable. I find that laughable, but not very funny. Sorry for all the cursing and insults below. It was late when I did this... (and for...
Someone please help me shred this so-called argument.
A relative of mine thinks the Iraq War was (and remains) a good idea. He is continually brainwashed by Weekly Standard and NRO balderdash. This is what he calls an unbeatable case for his views. He must be shown the error of his ways. It is a family affair. Somebody help me show him the light with a good rebuttal.
The Show: Aran S MacKinnon and Glenn Greenwald
Aran S. MacKinnon and Glenn Greenwald will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show on Antiwar Radio, Tuesday, April 8. Aran MacKinnon will be discussing the contested presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe at 12:15PM Eastern. Glenn Greenwald will be discussing Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s deceptions on domestic spying at 1:15PM Eastern. Aran MacKinnon is an associate professor of South African History, African Rural Political Economy, and Zulu Ethnicity at the...
The Formula for a Police State
[NB: I wrote this piece for the Libertarian Perspective over a week ago. It hasn't gone online yet, so I'm posting it here.] The Formula for a Police State by Anthony Gregory On the night of March 15 in an Oceanside, California, parking lot, after a dispute over one car cutting off another, Frank White, an off-duty San Diego police officer, shot five bullets into Rachel Silva’s car, hitting her in the arm twice, shattering a bone, and striking her eight-year-old son in the leg. She was...
Joe Briggs Interviews Will Hopkins
Hillary Clinton and Her Supporters: Power-Mad Crazies
I know, politics is politics and all that, but I haven't had a chance to denounce Hillary Clinton in a day or two, so I thought I'd share this with you.
Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel, Philip Giraldi and Glenn Greenwald on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio
Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel, Philip Giraldi and Glenn Greenwald will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show on Antiwar Radio, Monday, April 7. Howard Zinn will be discussing A People's History of the American Empire at 12:15 PM Eastern. Mike Gravel will be discussing his switch from the Democratic Party to the Libertarian Party, and entering the presidential nomination race for the 2008 Libertarian presidential nomination at 1:15 PM Eastern. Philip Giraldi will be discussing Iran and...
Bob Barr Announces “Exploratory Committee”
Good.
