Today on the show: Tim Kelly on Bradley Manning, Jacob Hornberger on Cuba, and Adam Morrow on the violence in Egypt 12-2 eastern http://scotthorton.org/listen/ http://noagendastream.com

The more you read about Iran, the more you realize how insane it is that we would attack it.  Coincidentally, the current Antiwar Comic is also about Iran.

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Man, they’re worse than us! You see this about sending that Brit lady to the chair over some coke in her bag? And her defense that she was threatened with the lives of her kids seems pretty credible in this case too. But, well, the “image” of Indonesia was “threatened” by her actions. And this is going to fix everything.

Where are you…?

Today on the show: Max Blumenthal on the Israeli elections, Yousaf Butt on Iran nuclear negotiations and Allen St. Pierre on legalizing pot. 12-2 eastern scotthorton.org noagendastream.com

This comic was inspired by Germany’s White Rose.  Justin Raimondo had mentioned it on Antiwar.com and I found its existence fascinating.  The parallels are not exact, I know.

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Today on the show: Patrick Cockburn on the Sunni-Shia wars, Jim Ostrowski on jury nullification 12-2 eastern http://scotthorton.org/listen/ http://noagendastream.com/

When you’re antiwar, you get a lot of flack.  I’m not exactly sure why.

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That’s “us” backing them against the other guys.

Pepe Escobar’s got a great rundown of the madness here.

And see this Reuters piece about how the “rebels” have already worn out their welcome in Aleppo.

Update: Syria’s Rebels Form Own Secret Police

McClatchy:

Biden on gun control: Public wants us to act

U.S. gun sales hit a record high since Obama’s re-election

So which is it?

No, but this commentary in the Miami Herald has the stats that reveal the true insanity (like a fox) of the whole program:

“After four decades and billions spent, marijuana is easier to get, and more potent, than ever. More than 40 percent of all Americans over 12 have tried it, and at least 30 million people smoke it every year. The most recent national drug survey found that 18.1 million Americans had used it during the previous month. Pot is now medically dispensed in 18 states and Washington, D.C. It’s the largest cash crop in the nation’s largest agricultural state, California.”

Read the rest here.

My Amazon review of The Terror Factory:

Prosecutions of *actual* terrorists in America since 9/11/01 can be counted on one hand (Moussoui, Zazi, Shazad, Abdulmuttalab). All of the rest are bogus, with at least 50 being straight-up entrapment jobs by the FBI and their handsomely paid (by you) informants.

The next time some real terrorists plot to blow something up in America, the FBI will no doubt miss it, being too busy tricking the slowest kid down at the Islamic bookstore into praising Osama for the promise of $20,000.

The courts have let them get away with it, so thank goodness there are a few decent reporters left willing to challenge the feds on their third-world ways.

Trevor Aaronson ably describes the FBI agent-informant entrapment business, tells the story of wholly innocent and mostly-innocent people who could-would never have become terrorists but for the provocateur sent to frame them up, the ruthless blackmail used by the feds to terrorize average Joe Muslims to become informants/provocateurs, the perverse incentives driving them to continue the same policy and the mass media credulity that helps make it all possible.