Antiwar Radio 4/20/10

David T. Hardy on the Waco Massacre and Robert Higgs and James Galbraith debate munny. 11-1pm 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.

Muslims Want to Conquer the World

My Facebook friend Bob writes: "It's hard for me to overcome [my friends'] objection that Muslims are out to conquer the world. Any ideas?" I respond: It just ain't so. America is an empire, and those who promote it and profit from it have to tell lies in order to justify what they do. For example, they have, since 9/11, pushed the lie that the attack came out of the clear blue sky, that it represented the cutting edge of the new rising bin Ladenite caliphate taking over the world "from Spain...

The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants

by (the heroic) Chris Floyd Let us hear no more excuses for Barack Obama. Let us hear no more defenses, no more special pleading, no more extenuations. Let us have no more reciting of the "pressures" he is under, of the "many obstacles" that balk him in his quest to do us good, of the "bad advisors" who are swaying him to unworthy acts against his will. Let us be done at last with all these wretched lies, these complicitous self-deceptions that are facilitating atrocity and tyranny on a...