I was interviewed recently by Stefan Molyneux, Jason Stapleton and Dave Smith. You know, about the wars and things. Cross-posted at the Libertarian Institute.
New Interviews by Scott Horton
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16 Articles That Expose How They Lied Us Into War in Iraq
A list of must-reads compiled by Scott Horton for the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War
Blowback: Paris Terror Suspect Radicalized by Outrage Over American Torture and Invasion of Iraq
One of the Paris terror suspects was radicalized by outrage over American torture and the invasion of Iraq. The Huffington Post reports: "The Associated Press said that Cherif Kouachi was tried in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq and sentenced to 18 months in...
NY Times Deceived Americans on WMDs and Iraq Once Again, This Time with Help From The Drudge Report
Last October, The New York Times ran a story about the effects of abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq from a program that was abandoned in the early 90s, and so had nothing to do with Bush Administration WMD accusations that were used to justify the 2003 invasion of...
Superman and Batman Tried to Warn Us About Iraq
A 1999 comic book examined humanitarian intervention and regime change, predicting the Iraq War catastrophe. Dictators are bad, therefore intervening to remove a dictator is good, right? For many Iraq War supporters it was as simple as that, and they derided opponents...
Watch Laura Poitras’s Iraq Documentary for Free Until Nov 24
The Sundance Now Doc Club is making My Country My Country, the Iraq documentary by Laura Poitras (of Edward Snowden fame, and director of the acclaimed new film, Citzenfour), available to watch for free online until November 24. Watch it here.
Frankensteinian Hubris: Bush’s “Redirection” and the Rise of ISIS
As the ISIS Sunni radicals, after proclaiming a new Caliphate, continue to conquer Iraqi towns, and the Al Nusra Front Sunni radicals proclaim a new Emirate in Syria, it is good to remember that the policy that led to this mess was initiated under the Bush...
Really? Anticipated Study Finds No Evidence of Iraqi Birth Defects
Human rights and health observers have been waiting a year for the results of a World Health Organization/Iraqi Health Ministry study that would, at last, shed some "official" light on a problem that local doctors and journalists have been reporting for years: that a...
Iraq: This is what it looks like when you rip off the Band Aid
As of July 1st, there have been 1,405 people killed in Iraq, mostly civilians. That number is likely to change by the time you read this -- just yesterday, 45 people died as a result of numerous terror attacks across the country. One bomb had been planted near a cafe,...
Mainstream Lookback at Iraq: Yes, You Can Scream Now
Twitter has been on fire today with myriad quips, snarks, I told you sos and above all, honest lamentations on the 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. There's also something else -- blowback on the mainstream punditocracy and media sheeplesphere, not so...
