On Tuesday, July 24th, I had the great opportunity to guest host the Charles Goyette Show on KFNX 1100 AM in Phoenix. I did my best to line up the experts in order to debunk the War Party's case for war with Iran. Many thanks to my guests for taking part. Jack Blood was kind enough to let me borrow his studio since he has the proper ISDN equipment for broadcasting from afar, but unfortunately there were problems getting the machines to talk to each other, so I ended up hosting the show on a...

As reported on the Lewrockwell Blog, a recent poll tells us that Ron Paul would snatch 34% of the vote in a contest with Hilary Clinton, would would take 49%. At first glance, this doesn't seem like much. But consider that Ron Paul is still relatively unknown among common folk, and this is a stellar performance. Also consider another possibility. Ron does great in the primaries but is edged out by Mr. Haircut or Mr. Comb-over. Then he pulls a Ross Perot and runs as an independent. Under these...

Michael Crowley has a devastating article (liberated in full here) in the latest New Republic. Crowley investigates the efforts of Turkey's lobbyists in DC to block any recognition by Congress of the 1915 Armenian genocide. "Even in modern Washington, where it's taken for granted that everyone has their price, flip-flopping on genocide has the ability to shock." Indeed. (requisite Sibel Edmonds stuff below the fold) Crowley's article isn't so much about denying genocide, but rather what Sibel...

for Tuesday: Tomorrow I will be guest-hosting for the great Charles Goyette on his radio show in Phoenix. The six guests are all experts in debunking different parts of our government's case for war with Iran, and I mean to use them all to demolish the War Party's lies about Iran completely. Here's the lineup: "The case against the case against Iran" (all times Pacific and AM) 6:00-6:15 Introduction - Me and the phones 6:15-6:40 Dr. Gordon Prather Iran's nuclear program 6:40-6:50 Juan Cole...

From NBC's Andrew Merten

by TOM ENGELHARDT The Nation Recently, the Federal Election Commission released its July quarterly figures on contributions to presidential candidates--and Congressman Ron Paul f Texas modestly made the news because the libertarian candidate managed to pull in more money than that military icon (and war supporter) Senator John McCain for the quarter and so slipped into third place in the Republican presidential dollars sweepstakes. Since Paul garners but 2 to 3 percent of the vote in recent...

Dear friends, Check out this super-interesting interview I made with Mizgîn, a lady I "met" here, on the stressblog.  Boy does she know her stuff!  And yes, she is not shy about her opinions, including her opinion of others, which I find very refreshing in a world of lukewarm interest and committment. I am truly delighted to have had the opprtunity to "interview" (via email) somebody like her. In the future, I will try to get more interviews participants to various conflicts. Does anybody...

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There is no law that applies to the President since he's in charge of the Unitary Executive. Duh. Chris Floyd elaborates on how screwed we are here.

Washington Post: "(Sibel) Edmonds's story has been almost uniformly ignored in the U.S. daily press. " That's certainly true. Why? WaPo: One possible explanation is that the heart of Edmonds's story remains unconfirmed. That's not true. Senator Charles Grassley said: "Absolutely, she's credible. And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story." Grassley made that statement in 2002. The WaPo article is from 2004. And we've learnt a...

it's been real~

The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers. Slideshow: Sean Smith on life in Iraq before and after the invasionExcellent timeline separated into albums (mouseover pics for caption)

Due to the fact that my DSL modem has taken leave of its functionality, I will be offline until Monday at the earliest. By early next week, I'll be back online. Until then, I'd ask all authors to please check the spam queue and release any legitimate comments.

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