Later: Here’s your one-stop shop for real time coverage of Abu’s departure. Skeletor? A recess appointment? Ugh….
Even later: Bush: “…the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act bear his imprint…..” Like that’s a good thing.
Later still: The buzzards smelll roadkill. You knew that would happen.
An interesting talk by one of today’s leading experts on the Middle East. The talk was given Friday at the New America Foundation. Based on Cole’s new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East.
PS: Anyone know how they got YouTube to run 71 minutes in a single video clip?
This weekend on Antiwar.com, Justin Raimondo’s Behind the Headlines column “Home Front ‘Surge’: War Party’s Ad Campaign Will Boomerang,” concerns the Israel Lobby’s pushing of $15 million worth of propaganda ads to run on TV, shaming the Democrats for their supposedly weak Stay in Iraq Forever policy.
Is this ‘too little, too late’ for the War Party? Do the American people’s opinion’s even count?
Giuliani is Crazy, Unqualified
Doug Bandow, policy analyst and author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the dangerous vision of Rudy “I was there that day” Giuliani as described in his recent Foreign Affairs article.
MP3 here. (20:51)
Doug Bandow is a Washington-based political writer and policy analyst and a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He served as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as a senior policy analyst in the 1980 Reagan for President campaign.
He has been widely published in leading newspapers and periodicals and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows. He has written and edited several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon Press), The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea (Palgrave/Macmillan, coauthor), Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World (Cato), Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World (Cato, coeditor), and Military Manpower and Human Resources (National Defense University). His latest book is Foreign Follies (Xulon Press).
Government Persecutes Detroit 4 Defense Witness
Corbett Edge O’Meara, a defense attorney from Detroit, discusses the horrendous persecution of his client, Omar Shishani, for testifying for the defense in the bogus case of the “Detroit Sleeper Cell.”
MP3 here. (21:54)
Corbett Edge O’Meara is an attorney in Detroit.
I Was a CIA Assassin
Roland Haas, author of Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin, explains his murder of people for the State and how it nearly ruined his life too.
MP3 here. (38:50)
Roland Haas is a former CIA operative.
