The Show for Monday: Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel, Glenn Greenwald

by | Apr 5, 2008 |

Monday on Antiwar Radio, Howard Zinn, Mike Gravel and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the end of the empire, the beginning of an LP presidential campaign and the criminal surveillance state. Monday, 11am to 1pm Texas time, 92.7 FM in Austin, or listen online at KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio. Zinn first hour, Gravel Second, Greenwald in there somewhere.

Israel Runs on Iranian Gas?

by | Apr 4, 2008 |

Well, say it ain't so. Update: Lew, of course, is right that this is a good thing and that the U.S. should follow Israel's lead (and allow the rest of the world to as well).

The Show: Jonathan Schell, Bruce Falconer

by | Apr 3, 2008 |

Jonathan Schell, Harold Willens Peace Fellow at The Nation Institute, and Bruce Falconer, Washington correspondent for Mother Jones, will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Friday, April 4. Jonathan Schell will be discussing his recent article on Yale Global Online, "Time to Bury a Dangerous Legacy." 12:15PM Eastern. Bruce Falconer will be discussing his recent article, "Blackwater’s World of Warcraft." 1:15PM Eastern. Jonathan Schell is the author of The Fate of...

Brzezinski: Antiwar poseur

by | Apr 3, 2008 |

Larry Chin, of Online Journal, flaunts the hollow facade of the neoliberal elite cadre and their complete dependency on the millisecond flashes of long-term memory of their audience. Neoliberal elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the leading architects of the "war on terrorism’ across the Middle East and the Eurasian subcontinent (and whose book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives laid the groundwork for 9/11) has adopted a politically expedient...

Badr Backfill for Maliki

by | Apr 3, 2008 |

Juan Cole has an informative collection of translations that explain the fallout of the resulting mutiny in Basra of the Puppet Regimes inept matchstick men. I find it hard to believe that this wasn't tucked away in the back of his mind somewhere before he decidifieded to embark on his first reign of terror on his own people. The induction of Badr Corps fighters (the paramilitary of ISCI) and those of the Da'wa Party into security positions came in the wake of the firing of thousands of...

The Show: Nick Turse

by | Apr 2, 2008 |

Nick Turse, associate editor and research director of Tomdispatch.com will be featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, 12:15PM Eastern, Thursday, April 3. Nick Turse will be discussing his recent article in the Asia Times Online, The Pentagon's Battle Bugs. Turse is the associate editor and research director of TomDispatch.com. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The Village Voice, and Daily Ireland. The Scott Horton Show airs...

Updates

by | Apr 2, 2008 |

We have interns so be polite when they post upcoming show information. Thanks to all who signed up on Facebook's Antiwar Fan page. Do foist the MP3s on the unsuspecting and the incontinent. Also, the Libertarian Party will have a Bloggers' Row in Denver. Expect the unexpected.

Depress-ioning news?

by | Apr 2, 2008 |

Salon says that we could be headed for another Great Depression.  What's the cause of it?  A lack of government of course! 

Rethinking Government

by | Apr 1, 2008 |

I was thinking about this a lot last night, and we all like to bash the government, but perhaps we are missing some perspective here. First of all, we are, whether we want to be or not, at war, and we must face this reality. America's enemies are determined enemies of freedom itself and, as clumsy or heavy-handed as our government can be, we need to keep in mind how much worse we'd be if conquered by radical fundamentalist extremist Islamist fascists. Bush might not be ideal, but at least...