Philip Giraldi on palling around with his former CIA buddies.

Well shit. Looks like it's going to be a civil war in Egypt after all. That sucks.

Thanks Ed. Merry Christmas to you too.

Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished 'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.' 'All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are...

The other day on the show I was busy dealing with the Blue Cross Nazis on the phone and so played most of the audio of Jeff Riggenbach's audiobook of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty, Chapter 14 War and Foreign Policy. Like to hear it, here it go.

A Conference on Surveillance at the Center on National Security featuring: James Bamford, Author and NSA expert; Ariel Dorfman, Novelist, Playwright and Professor; Glenn Greenwald, Journalist; Bruce Schneier, Computer security and privacy specialist; and Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center

As part of the new redesign of the site I decided to add a category for recommended documentaries at ScottHorton.org/documentaries, none of which I have anything to do with, other than I thought you might like them. Feel free to add suggestions in the comments.

From September 1984

Lots of talking about stuff that's been happening. And interviews. 3-5 eastern LibertyExpressRadio.com.

Well I gotta leave town for a week and miss the show, but I'm going to be spending a bit more time around the blog and working on other parts of the site, so see ya around. Sunday morning on KPFK will be the Peter Jenkins interview from Thursday.

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Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada!: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival and the Future of Iraq, interviews the powerful Iraqi kingmaker for the Independent: The future of Iraq as a united and independent country is endangered by sectarian Shia-Sunni hostility says Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia religious leader whose Mehdi Army militia fought the US and British armies and who remains a powerful figure in Iraqi politics. He warns of the danger that 'the Iraqi people will disintegrate, its government...

No offense to my Red Indian friends, but I love Turkey Day with family and all that, and I hope all of yall have a good one too. And I guess you can consider this the rerererere-launch of Stress the blog, and the site altogether. We've got the last of the bugs out of the way, so coming soon will be a new front page, a bookstore, stickers, and all kinds of whoknowswhat. Check out the new article archive: http://scotthorton.org/articles/ That's all of 'em. Also the RSS for the whole show...