Ministers of War: The crazy things they tell people
Minister and LewRockwell.com regular Bill Barnwell explains the corrupt doctrine behind “Pastor” John Hagee‘s War Party ministry.
Bill Barnwell is a pastor and writer from Michigan. He holds both a Master of Ministry degree and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree from Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana.
American Renditioned to Ethiopia: Go back to your TV show
Chris Floyd discusses the rendition of an American citizen to Ethiopia until he admits he’s al Qaeda, the nearly unremarked-upon proxy war for the Warlords in Somalia, the arrogant ignorance of America’s political establishments and the distracted apathy of the American people.
MP3 here. (28: 35)
Chris Floyd is an award-winning American journalist, and author of the book, Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Regime. For more than 11 years he wrote the featured political column, Global Eye, for The Moscow Times and the St. Petersburg Times in Russia. He also served as UK correspondent for Truthout.org, and was an editorial writer for three years for The Bergen Record. His work appears regularly CounterPunch, The Baltimore Chronicle and in translation in the Italian paper, Il Manifesto, and has also been published in such venues as The Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, The Ecologist and many others. His articles are also featured regularly on such websites as Information Clearing House, Buzzflash, Bushwatch, LewRockwell.com, Antiwar.com, and many others. His work has been cited in The New York Times, USA Today, the Guardian, the Independent and other major newspapers.
Floyd co-founded the blog Empire Burlesque with webmaster Richard Kastelein, who created the site using open-source software. Floyd is also chief editor of Atlantic Free Press, which was founded and designed by Kastelein. loyd has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years, working in the United States, Great Britain and Russia for various newspapers, magazines, the U.S. government and Oxford University.
Support the Troops in War!: Betray them when it’s over
Joshua Kors discusses his article for the Nation “How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits,” about a decorated soldier who has been thrown in the garbage can by the government he served, the paper-thin “personality disorder” excuse that has been used to deny 22,500 disabled soldiers their benefits in the last six years (after lying to them of course) and how much money the DoD will save.
MP3 here. (17:34)
Joshua Kors is a freelance journalist based in New York. Research support was provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute.
It’s always amusing to hear true-blue Democrats explain how their leaders don’t really mean what they say and do.
Oh, don’t you know that Charlie Rangel really isn’t for conscription – he’s just pulling a fast one on the Republicans. Don’t you know anything about how the game is played?!
Aw, c’mon, Democrats don’t really believe in the War on Drugs – they just repeat the slogans and increase the funding because they can’t repeal it anyway. Be practical!
Sure, they vote for every war that comes down the pike and do nothing to stop them once underway, but they’re really doves at heart. That’s just politics!
I’d rather argue with a kid about the Tooth Fairy than try to convince these people of their error – it feels almost as mean-spirited – but I’ll link to this anyway.
Both from IOZ. On Christopher Hitchens:
[I]t’s always been the genius of Hitchens to set himself up in amorphous opposition to a perfectly rational, unremarkable belief, which he usually states with the clarity and concision of a wise advocate before tightening his haunches and beginning a wolf-howl of righteous derision – tuneless, frightening, and senseless.
On Andrew Sullivan:
Andrew Sullivan is an ardent disciple of Andrew Sullivan, and that latter Andrew Sullivan is an ardent disciple of a fungible series of interpretations that are remarkable for how closely they hew to whatever Andrew Sullivan is saying at the time.
Gates Attempts to Close Gitmo: Gonzales, Cheney object, thwart him
Emi MacLean from the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Friday’s New York Times story about Robert Gates’s attempt to have the Guantánamo prison closed and how he was thwarted by the attorney general and vice president, how at least two people were held there for two years after being determined to simply be refugees rather than terrorists, and her belief that many of the people there are innocent.
MP3 here. (10: 39)
Emi MacLean is a Legal Fellow with the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
