Antiwar Radio: Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine’s Scott Horton

Ivan Eland and Harper Magazine's Scott Horton will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, April 17th. Eland will be on at 2:30PM Eastern and Horton at 3:30PM Eastern. Ivan Eland is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California and is the author of several books, his most recent being Partitioning for Peace. His weekly column can be found at Antiwar.com/eland. The other Scott Horton is an...

How Liberalism Can Be Relevant

Thank goodness for the liberals that they have a central bank to initiate the boom-bust cycle - that way we can all suffer together! Okay, I admit this is old, but I really like it when politicians admit what depraved criminals they are. If Hart's position papers aren't yet finalized, he certainly has no trouble with the vision thing. ''The essential intellectual challenge,'' he told me, ''is how to make liberalism relevant for our time. How do you make the principles of equality and justice...

The ICRC Torture Report

A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA’s eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA’s ‘Ghost Prison’ ‘Black Sites,’ including pretty much everything the Soviet GPU would have done. In my interview with Danner on February 18th, he explained that the U.S. government granted full access to the ICRC in the understanding that...

Antiwar Radio: 4/10/09: Mark Almond, Glenn Greenwald

Today on Antiwar Radio, Mark Almond from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group will discuss events in Moldova and Georgia and Glenn Greenwald will discuss the Obama administrations' secrecy and immunity claims in regards to wiretapping and torture prosecutions. Tune in live 1-3PM Texas time on KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.