Philip Weiss and Alan Bock will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio, Thursday, July 10th.

Philip Weiss will be discussing his latest article in American Conservative magazine, “Looking Into the Lobby” at 12:15PM Eastern.

Alan Bock will be discussing his new article on Antiwar.com, “Will the U.S. Attack Iran?” at 1:15PM Eastern.

Phillip Weiss is the author of American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corps. Weiss’ work has appeared in The New York Observer, The Nation and The American Conservative and in the past has written for the National Review, Washington Monthly, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, and Jewish World Review.

Alan Bock is a columnist and the senior writer for the editorial page at the Orange County Register and writes the weekly column, Eye on the Empire for Antiwar.com. He is the author of Ambush at Ruby Ridge as well as Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

I just finished the watching the documentary Zeitgeist. It’s very interesting and I’d like to know what some of the rest of you think of it.
Google video has a copy here
This is a torrent link to a DVD ISO image that can be burned or mounted. In my view, not much more quality is gained over the Google version.
Official Website.
The film is constructed in 3 parts.

Notes on part 1:

* Suggested origin of Judeo-Christian religions as being Egyptian.
* Comparison of Jesus and Horus
* Suggestion that Jesus never lived at all.
* 100 million Americans believe in the Biblical “end of the world” story.
* Vatican dominates Europe, instigates Crusades and other horrors.

Notes on part 2:

* Basic 9/11 conspiracy stuff, whittled down to most potent evidence.
* Buildings were demolished, no plane wreckage found, thermite used, evidence destroyed, videotapes secret etc.

Notes on part 3:

* Longest part
* Vicious, Ed Griffin-style attack on Federal Reserve.
* Repeated use of made-up or provoked “enemy” attacks by US government, including Lusitania, Pearl Harbour, and Gulf of Tonkin.
* International bankers like Warburg and Rothschild profit from war
* Rockefellers profit from both US and Nazi sides in WW2.
* Suggestion that US Federal Income Tax is unconstitutional and no actual law exists.
* US goes off Gold Standard, Feds confiscate all gold in 1930s.
* Prescott Bush shields Nazi money
* North American treaty to create “Amerro” currency.
* One world government.
* Aaron Russo reveals conversations with Rockefellers.

The flick also contains segments of comedy routines by Bill Hicks and George Carlin, as well as footage from the film “Network”, brilliantly written by Paddy Chayefsky and performed by Peter Finch. Going into this film, I expected a left-dissident approach, but that’s not what this is. There’s no talk of “the workers” or anything like that. Anarchism, which usually connotes a Lefty point of view, is never mentioned. The final sequences talk about the power of the individual, and given the references to the Fed and the Gold Standard, in addition to the attack on the Income Tax, it’s difficult to see this film as something Chomsky would entirely approve of. Instead, it’s more of an Antony Sutton world view.
My initial impressions are that it is an excellent entertainment, although it could use some edits. It is long and the Jesus segment lacks relevance to the second and third parts. In fact, the film might be better without the opening salvo against Christianity. The 9/11 segment may or may not be factually accurate, but it is ruthlessly edited. The film uses a narrator in parts, and he is easy to listen to. As a filmmaking exercise, the movie is technically a success. Artistically and factually are entirely other matters.

I’m going to quote LA based novelist Thomas M. Sipos without his permission as well as plug his delightfully cynical blog, Libertarian Peacenik without warning.

Tom writes: BTW, for several years now, whenever I buy books, DVDs, water filters, dust clothes — anything - from Amazon.com (which is often), I always put antiwarbookstore/ in the url, so the commission will be sent to Antiwar.com. I wonder how many people know you can do this?

Hell if I know how it works.

Tom explains: When you’re on some item’s page, before you click it into the shopping cart, you’re suppose to remove all the url stuff that cames after the ASIN number, than after the forward slash you put antiwarbookstore/

Update: Go to our shop.

For those of you less frightened, pop the 13th button on the left side of the Antiwar.com front page. Don’t let me catch Steve C reading any Sophie Kinsella though. We have standards.

I counted at least 5 times McCain utters the misquote by Ahmedinjad - “wiping Israel off the map”, which we know he never actually said.

It’s a laugh-a-line with Joker John McClown, as he responds to a question about trade with Iran increasing 10 fold under the Bush administration.