Nuclear Power, Weapons and the Future of the Middle East
Journalist and author Dilip Hiro, discusses Iran’s nuclear program, Israel’s nuclear weapons, North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the logic of nuclear deterrence.
MP3 here. (34:08)
Born in the Indian sub-continent, Dilip Hiro was educated in India, Britain and America, where he received a master’s degree at Virginia Polytechnic & State University. He then settled in London in the mid-1960s, and became a full-time writer, journalist and commentator. He has published 28 books.
Will there actually be some justice rendered to a Bush administration top dog?
Federal judge Reggie Walton ruled today that convicted felon Irving “Scooter†Libby must begin serving his prison sentence within the next several weeks.
This will send the NeoConservatives and other pro-war types into Full Indignation/Rage. They will redouble the pressure on Bush to pardon Libby before he sets one foot inside of a penitentiary.
Oh, the photo opportunities…..
This summer could be more entertaining than I expected….
Comments & hooting welcome at my blog here.
Antiwar.com Webmaster Eric Garris will be the guest on The Show with Hal Ginsberg on KRXA-AM in Monterey, California (540 on the AM dial), in the 1-2pm hour, Pacific time (4-5pm Eastern time). Garris is scheduled to start 6 minutes after the hour. He will be talking about the war in Iraq and preparations for war against Iran.
In this selection from “World War I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” Murray Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early “progressives” with the militaristic world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh out loud:
“The Anti-Saloon League thundered that ‘German brewers in this country have rendered thousands of men inefficient and are thus crippling the Republic in its war on Prussian militarism.’ Apparently, the Anti-Saloon League took no heed of the work of German brewers in Germany, who were presumably performing the estimable service of rendering ‘Prussian militarism’ helpless. The brewers were accused of being pro-German, and of subsidizing the press (apparently it was all right to be pro-English or to subsidize the press if one were not a brewer). The acme of the accusations came from one prohibitionist: ‘We have German enemies,’ he warned, ‘in this country too. And the worst of all our German enemies, the most treacherous, the most menacing are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Miller.'”
