Today's show: David Enders, Rob Warden and Marcy Wheeler 12-2 eastern scotthorton.org noagendastream.com

David T. Beito: "This is a real treat.  Here is an audio from 1940 of the great classical liberal, free trader, and co-founder the NAACP, Oswald Garrison discussing Franklin D. Roosevelt's national defense program."

Okay, so I just read this "white paper" [pdf] by the Justice Department explaining the reasoning behind presidential assassinations of American citizens. Tomorrow The Other Scott Horton will be on the show to really explain, but best I can tell they claim that if a "high level official" designates an American citizen abroad a "operational leader" of al Qaeda then they can be killed. Being a citizen does not "immune" one from such treatment. All laws against murder are void when violated by...

The commie "War on Ivory" is, of course, killing the elephants it's supposed to save. Doug Bandow breaks it down. "Failure is not for wont of conservation efforts. Reported the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): 'record levels of ivory were seized and sustained throughout the period 2009 to 2011.' But that was not nearly enough. "Earlier this month the New York Times reported: 'As ivory poaching becomes more militarized, with rebel...

Poor Barack Obama: How to support an al Qaeda war against the Ba'athists (What, those guys don't get along?) in Syria while pretending to regret that that is exactly what you're doing? Well, they set up some new sock puppets, but it looks like it didn't take. "A U.S.-supported push to form military councils across Syria to unite the hundreds of groups fighting to topple President Bashar Assad and coordinate the provision of aid to secular rebel groups appears largely to have failed. "Rebels...

Well, good. At least Obama will have solid Republican support for this one: "Three suspected jihadists arrested in the days since the liberation of Timbuktu said Friday that Malian soldiers were torturing them with a method similar to waterboarding. "The three are being held in an earthen cell in what remains of the military camp in the town, which was freed this week by French and Malian soldiers after nearly 10 months under radical Islamist rule." Any further blowback against the U.S., its...

Today on the show: Tim Kelly on Bradley Manning, Jacob Hornberger on Cuba, and Adam Morrow on the violence in Egypt 12-2 eastern http://scotthorton.org/listen/ http://noagendastream.com

Man, they're worse than us! You see this about sending that Brit lady to the chair over some coke in her bag? And her defense that she was threatened with the lives of her kids seems pretty credible in this case too. But, well, the "image" of Indonesia was "threatened" by her actions. And this is going to fix everything.

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Today on the show: Max Blumenthal on the Israeli elections, Yousaf Butt on Iran nuclear negotiations and Allen St. Pierre on legalizing pot. 12-2 eastern scotthorton.org noagendastream.com

Today on the show: Patrick Cockburn on the Sunni-Shia wars, Jim Ostrowski on jury nullification 12-2 eastern http://scotthorton.org/listen/ http://noagendastream.com/

That's "us" backing them against the other guys. Pepe Escobar's got a great rundown of the madness here. And see this Reuters piece about how the "rebels" have already worn out their welcome in Aleppo. Update: Syria's Rebels Form Own Secret Police