A new threat has emerged against freedom; the threat from life on Mars: "Earth’s defences may need to be boosted against risk of potentially deadly microbes returning on space probes" This represents the greatest threat to democracy since Saddam Hussein. What we need...
Solution to Israel’s Locust Problem
"Israel Hit by Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s" Israeli agriculture officials sent crop dusters into the air to spray against the locusts that swept in from North Africa in the first such invasion since 1959. Crop dusters? Israel can do better than that. Here's my...
Dahr Jamail Interview
Scott Horton's one-hour interview with the courageous Dahr Jamail, reporting from Iraq, is now available on WeekendInterviewShow.com. Among the highlights: Iraq's shortages of water, fuel and electricity, the situation on the ground being so dangerous that Jamail...
Live interview with Dahr Jamail
Today (Saturday), at 4PM central time, Scott Horton will be interviewing Dahr Jamail, who's near-daily reports from Iraq, as well as hard-news articles make for the most indispensible reading on the occupation. From his Nov. 19 entry; Later Abu Talat comes to my hotel...
Just Ask Saddam
As the US government seems to be having some trouble permanently pacifying the population of Fallujah, perhaps they could enlist their old pal Saddam Hussein for help. He's an expert at pacifying a population using US and British supplies and training. Using a nominal...
Why North Korea needs Nukes
Drudge has linked to a story in the Washington Times, picking up a rather interesting UPI report: "Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea. As part of...
Interview with Alexander Cockburn
Today, on the Weekend Interview Show, Scott Horton will be talking to the brilliant Alexander Cockburn, publisher of the great lefty newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn has received high praise from the none other than the Frumster, (that's a much better link than the...
Finally, a Definition of Victory!
All through this mess, I've been wondering, whenever someone makes an observation like "we are in danger of losing this war", how exactly they would define winning this war. I suspected that the more blood had been spilt, the greater the chance that "we" had "won"....
Interview with Jim Bovard
Today, from 4PM to 6PM Eastern, Scott Horton will be interviewing the great Jim Bovard, who has a new book, The Bush Betrayal. Scott will also interview Dr. No. RBN's "Listen Live" page contains enough live stream links to satisfy any system, so feel free to choose...
Interview with Tom Barry
Today, on his afternoon interview show Scott Horton will be interviewing Tom Barry, about Iran. Scott will also interview Bob Barr about civil liberties in wartime. The show is from 4-6PM ET, and can be heard here.
