The Show: Frida Berrigan and Chris Hedges

by | Dec 2, 2008 |

Frida Berrigan and Chris Hedges will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Tuesday, December 2nd. Berrigan will be on at 12:15PM Eastern and Hedges will be on at 1:15PM Eastern. Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus and a contributing editor of In These Times magazine. Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, columnist for Truthdig.com...

No not McCaffrey…again

by | Dec 1, 2008 | ,

Steve Newton of the Delaware Libertarian is having a bit of fun with liberals who have only recently noticed that General Barry McCaffrey is a tool.

Keith Preston’s “Free Enterprise: The Antidote to Corporate Plutocracy”

by | Dec 1, 2008 |

I wanted to pass along a link to an essay that I think you all should read. Preston is what I guess he would call a "left-libertarian" or "anarcho-socialist", or perhaps he has another term. Anyway, the piece is brilliantly constructed and it won the Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize. I think it would be interesting to read the end, and then backtrack to see how he gets there. Here's a paragraph that not many people here would be inclined to fully agree with: An economy organized on the basis of...

The Show: Katrina vanden Heuvel

by | Dec 1, 2008 |

Katrina vanden Heuvel will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, December 1st. Heuvel will discuss her latest article on TheNation.com, "Smart Defense" at 12:15PM Eastern. Katrina vanden Heuvel, a graduate of Princeton University, is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine and co-editor of Taking Back America: And Taking Down the American Right. She can be found frequently commentating on politics on MSNBC, CNN and PBS and writing the blog "Editor's...

Talk at UT Monday 12/01/08

by | Nov 29, 2008 |

Local friends of the show: Norman Horn and Andrew Glass of the The Longhorn Libertarians have invited me back to give a talk concerning the foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush and what to expect from Barack Obama. It will be Monday, December 1, 2008 at (I think) 7:00 at the Engineering Teaching Center Building at 26th and San Jacinto.

An Avatar for Peace

by | Nov 24, 2008 | ,

Dear Friends of Antiwar.com: A donor left this message in my Facebook Account, Here's an idea. We ask all our friends to switch their Facebook and Myspace profile images to the Anti-War.com logo on some upcoming anti-war day. Let's say Thanksgiving day, so we can be thankful there aren't even more wars. At the same time, on the same day, we ask everyone to switch their profile status to just "Stop the wars." And, of course, if anyone asks, "which wars" the answer is "all of them." Instead of...

The Show: Ron Paul and Brian Doherty

by | Nov 21, 2008 |

Ron Paul and Brian Doherty will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, November 21st. Paul will be on at 12:15PM Eastern and Doherty will be on at 1:15PM Eastern. Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican Congressman representing Texas's 14th district, former presidential candidate, bestselling author of The Revolution: A Manifesto, and founder of Campaign for Liberty. Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and the author of Gun Control on...