Our Partner In Peace

Here’s that LA Times piece I discussed on my show this afternoon, in which Ned Parker points out Saudi Arabia’s role in the violence in Iraq: About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from […]

Quick Thought

Who was it who told us that if we didn’t fight the terrorists in Iraq, we’d have to fight them here? Wonder what that person was thinking over the weekend when the JFK Airport plot was exposed — the one thought up by a US citizen and some friends from Trinidad, of all places. Sounds […]

Bob Barr

In the 1990s, I despised Bob Barr because he was one of the leaders of the GOP impeachment gang. Since then, he has left Congress and discovered his libertarian side, and we find ourselves having a lot of common ground. Today we discussed why Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s proposal to ban firearms sales to anyone on […]

Soldiers Offline

The Pentagon has cut off access for soldiers to social networking websites, claiming it was taking up too much bandwidth. I railed against this decision on my show yesterday, and then received this e-mail from a listener named Mary: I was rather put off by your comments regarding the Department of Defense limiting/eliminating soldiers’ time […]

War Lies

Today on my show, I played the VERY disturbing testimony on Capitol Hill by Kevin Tillman about how the Pentagon lied and manufactured stories about the death of his brother, Pat, in Afghanistan several years ago. The fact that the family was misled purposely, so that the government could create a tale of heroism, indicates […]

Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater

This afternoon on my show, Jeremy Scahill discussed his book, “Blackwater,” about the powerful private army that our government has hired to fight alongside our military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even domestically. There are so many disturbing angles to this story. We’re losing career military men who leave because they can earn much more in […]