Author: Scott Horton

Tuesday at 5pm eastern time, I will be filling in on the boss’s show, and talking with former CIA man Philip Giraldi about this curious bit he wrote in the American Conservative (not online) among other things:

The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option. As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at the implications of what they are doing–that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked nuclear attack–but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections.

Thanks to Justin Logan.

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Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, Gordon Prather explained all about the IAEA/Non-Proliferation Treaty/Nuclear Suppliers Group non-proliferation regime, and how George W. Bush is undermining it, and Chris Hedges, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, talked about the effects of war on individuals and cultures.
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Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I will be asking Juan Cole many questions about the situation in Iraq and in the second hour, I’ll be talking with Robert A. Pape about his book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.

Saturday 4-6 pm eastern time.

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Saturday (4-6 eastern time) on the Weekend Interview Show, I’ll be talking with Paul Craig Roberts about the causes of the London bombings, and their consequenses for the government’s terror war.

In the second hour Nat Hentoff will be on to discuss the effect of all this violence on our liberty, particularly Patriot act expansions and the CIA’s kidnapping squads.

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Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show: First up will be Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers on his new book Schizophrenic in Japan : An American Ex-Pat’s Guide to Japanese and American Society/Politics & Humor.

In the second hour, I’ll be discussing a possible renewal of the slavery known as conscription and how to resist it with Debbie Hopper from mothersagainstthedraft.org, and Scott Kohlhaas from draftresistance.org.

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Remember when George W. Bush teamed up with Ted Kennedy to leave no child behind? Of course they made it mandatory that schools receiving federal money turn over all sorts of personal information about the kiddos to the warfare state.

Well, Mothers Against the Draft has struck gold, and launched Operation: Opt Out:

No Child Left Behind Opt-Out Form
Most parents are unaware that a federal law called the No Child Left Behind Act contains a provision that requires schools who receive public funding to violate family privacy by handing over personal information about students including names, home addresses and phone numbers to local military recruiters.

The good news is that students over the age of 18 or parents of minors may remove their children from this list by submitting a request in writing to their school administrator.

To download and print a No Child Left Behind Opt-Out form for yourself, click here.
To download and print a No Child Left Behind Opt-Out form for a minor child, click here.

JAMR Recruiting Database Opt-Out Form

The Pentagon’s new database, known as the Joint Advertising and Market Research Recruiting Database, contains extensive information on 30 million young Americans between the ages of 16 to 25. The JAMRS database is updated daily with new records and includes such information as social security number, ethnicity, grade point average, areas of study, height, weight, postal and email address, selective service registration, and phone number.

Any student 18 or older can elect to have their name and contact information removed from the Joint Advertising and Marketing Research Database that is being compile by the Department of Defense. Parents may sign the JAMR database opt-out form for their minor children.

To download and print a JAMR Database Opt-Out form for yourself, please, click here.
To download and print a JAMR Database Opt-Out form for a minor child, please click here.

JAMR Recruiting Database FOIA Request

If you would like to know what information is contained in the JAMR Recruiting Database about you or your minor child, it’s easy to find out by filing a Freedom of Information Act Request with the appropriate federal agency.

By law, any student can make a FOIA Request for information contained within the JAMR Recruiting Database on him or herself. Parents can also make the request, but only on behalf of a minor child.

If you’re at least 18 years-old, you can download and print a FOIA request by clicking here.
IF you are the parent of a minor, please click here to download and print the appropriate FOIA request.
To file an online FOIA request for information contained within the JAMR database, please click here.

Get to it, the recruiters are already moving into the middle schools.