Charlie Savage

Big Brother Surveillance State Being Set Up Around You Now

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Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Boston Globe discusses his recent article, “U.S. Doles Out Millions for Street Cameras.”

MP3 here. (15:16)

Charlie Savage, a reporter for The Boston Globe’s Washington, D.C., bureau, was awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his work on presidential signing statements. His is the author of the forthcoming Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (to be released in September).

Mikey Weinstein

American Talibs Indoctrinating US Troops

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Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan White House counsel, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and author of the book, With God On Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military discusses the American Taliban takeover the Armed Services and the I.G.’s newest whitewash.

MP3 here. (15:37)

Mikey Weinstein is an attorney and businessman who served 10 years’ active duty as an Air Force Judge Advocate (JAG) at military installations from California to Washington, D.C. The former federal prosecutor spent three years in the Reagan White House and served as the Air Force’s first Chief of Telecommunications and Information Systems Procurement Law.

Mikey’s family has deep and distinguished military-academy roots spanning nearly 60 years: His father is a Naval Academy graduate; and Mikey, his brother-in-law, eldest son and daughter-in-law are all graduates of the Air Force Academy (from where his youngest son is scheduled to graduate in 2007). Mikey and his wife of almost three decades, Bonnie, reside in Albuquerque, N.M.

Stu Bykofsky

Does America Need Another 9/11?

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Stu Bykofsky, a writer for the Philadelphia Daily News discusses the ideas in his article “To save America, we need another 9/11” (which he has clarified).

My apologies to Stu for Hannitizing him after promising not to.

MP3 here. (18:08)

Transcript here.

Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia’s Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.

Scott Kohlhaas

War Czar Floats Conscription Plans

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Scott Kohlhass, former chair of the Libertarian Party of Alaska and founder of DraftResistance.org, discusses War Czar Lute’s trial balloon about reviving conscription and explains how Selective “Service” is unknowingly enlisting individuals in over half of the American States.

MP3 here. (28:28)

Scott Kohlhaas is former Chairman of the Libertarian Party of Alaska, and founder of DraftResistance.org.

Would You Buy a Used War From This Man?

On Sunday, Glenn Greenwald demolished the pro-surge scam that Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack have been trying to pull for the last couple of weeks. After Greenwald’s evisceration of these con men, one would think that the matter was settled, that anyone with a reputation to maintain would sooner peddle Nigerian investment opportunities on national television than so much as whisper the names O’Hanlon and Pollack in public.

Ah, but one would misjudge the shameless, pathetic little worm that is Bill Kristol. Granted, Kristol doesn’t have much of a reputation to maintain: his claim to “public intellectual” status is based solely on his frequent Fox News appearances and his editing of such heavyweights as Stephen Hayes and Stephen Comrade Sandalio Suleyman Ahmad al-Kosovi Shaka Zulu Schwartz. Still, even Kristol must have been slightly embarrassed when Jon Stewart instantly shot down his invocation of the Look! Even war critics say the surge is working! talking point on last night’s Daily Show. (It’s about 2:30 into this clip.)