09/14/11 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses his article “What Lies Beneath: The Essence of Modern America in Somalia’s Blood-drenched Soil;” the US “dual track policy” of simultaneously funding the weak central government and the warlords – guaranteeing some influence no matter who carries the day; how imperial hubris has convinced American politicians they have the right to decide who is and isn’t suitable to rule Somalia; and a...

08/19/10 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque — High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses the addition of neocon Frederick Kagan to the U.S. anti-corruption team in Afghanistan, the minimal proof needed to convince the MSM that the 'surge' in Iraq or Afghanistan worked, the opportunity to really win hearts and minds by helping Pakistani flood victims (just kindly overlook those drone strikes in the north) and how a Democratic wartime president ends any meaningful opposition.

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...

02/23/10 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque — High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses the media-designated 'post-war' status of Iraq, the real 'Mission Accomplished' goal of establishing a permanent US military footprint in Iraq, Ahmed 'hero in error' Chalabi’s talent for remaining politically relevant despite a total lack of public support, why only war criminals on the losing side need worry about prosecution and how ending the US empire would improve nearly all aspects of...

08/13/09 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque — High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses U.S. drug interdiction in Afghanistan that is more about playing favorites than eradication, how Obama is following the game plan of the worst president in recent history, the background behind Somalia's humanitarian disaster and the U.S. gift of 80 tons of weapons to Somalia's black market.

02/11/09 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque - High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses how the Obama administration maintains the Bush policy of using a 'state secrets' privilege to prevent torture lawsuits, the suspension of British torture trials following U.S. threats of withholding terrorism information, the new business-as-usual CIA chief Leon Panetta and the little-known history and disastrous consequences of U.S. meddling in Somalia.

09/12/08 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of the book and the blog, Empire Burlesque, discusses the lack of — and need for — honest reporting in this country, how the state and media manipulate language to change or hide reality, the 'success' of the surge only in prolonging the war, the phony facades of both presidential campaigns, the insanity of antagonizing Russia, Obama’s unfortunate choice of Joe Biden as VP, the complete silence surrounding our proxy war in Somalia and the spreading disaster that is 'The War...

03/12/08 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd, author of the blog and the book, Empire Burlesque, discusses some antiwar activists misplaced admiration for Adm. Fallon, his characterization of the Iranian people as "ants" to be "crushed," the de-facto replacement of U.S. ambassadors by admirals and generals, the shallowness of the American media, the obvious and yet somehow unpopular fact that foreigners are people, the ongoing American atrocity in Somalia and the Democrats' bankrupt "liberal interventionism."

Romney as Quintessential American Elitist

Chris Floyd explains how Mitt "The Cannibal" Romney, as revealed in his speech conceding to John "Beer Cartel" McCain, is the perfect representative of the vicious, deceitful, paranoid, racist parasites who rule the Anglo-American empire.

07/05/07 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd (who's Website is apparently being hacked), author, columnist, blogger and activist, discusses the phony war on terrorism, the politics of fear, racism and imperialism, America's murderous regime change in Somalia and belligerent attitude toward Russia. MP3 here.

Antiwar Radio: Chris Floyd

Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, explains America's proxy war in Somalia and some of the liars in the mass media who aid and abet mass murder.

03/26/07 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show

Chris Floyd discusses the rendition of an American citizen to Ethiopia until he admits he's al Qaeda, the nearly unremarked-upon proxy war for the Warlords in Somalia, why the U.S. should leave Africa alone, the arrogant ignorance of America's political establishments and the distracted apathy of the American people.