I rant about the US Attorney Scandal and take listener calls. Enjoy!

All formats, including iTunes, can be downloaded here.

Cliff Schecter was a guest and discussed Karl Rove and his role in the US Attorney scandal that appears as if it will take Alberto Gonzales down. Listen in. All formats, including iTunes, can be downloaded here.

Had a great conversation with Hale Stewart on Wednesday, we covered the gamut: stock market, ARMS, sub-prime lending collapse and how it all affects your pocket book. All formats, including iTunes, can be downloaded here.

Gregg Geil and I sat down for an hour and talked about up and coming singer songwriters, how he got started with Americanaroots.com and what's in the future for Americana music. Listen in and enjoy.

In honor of The Nitpicker I offer you this podcast on the Fox News Two Step. Enjoy!

On Thursday night I interviewed Shannon O'Neil of the Council on Foreign Relations. We discussed President Bush's trip to Latin America, Brazil, Ethanol, US drug policy and foreign aid in the region and the similarities between Bush and Mexican presidente Felipe Calderon. Listen in here.

If you are an iTunes user, you'll want to be downloading it here.

. . . will now return to normal (whatever that is). Thank heavens this week is over for me. I was overwhelmed with work and with radio business to top it all off.

Next week I have two deadlines, but that's positive because it will put me into a more 'writerly' mood, more contemplation, as it were.

James McMurtry was recently inducted into the Austin Chronicle Music Hall of Fame. Congratulations James!

You can listen my interview of James McMurtry here.

. . . in hearing my conversation with Joshua Foust of Registan.net about Central Asia you can hear it here.

. . . grrrr.

I'm hosting Into the Night tonight and will post the rundown shortly. Needless to say, alas I am saying it, my blogging is somewhat sporadic right now. Busy week for me. But this weekend I'll have a great feature on Iran for everyone.

. . . going to ruin our chances of ever working in American politics by discussing AIPAC tonight on Radio Agonist. That and Victoria Samson on Missile Defense related issues so be sure to tune in at 7:00PM Eastern.

Update: Tonight's show is up here.

Radio Agonist tonight at 7:00PM Eastern.

The first 30 minutes of the show is will be a review and discussion of the main events in the media and the world the last several days. Our call-in number is 646-915-8560. We do want to hear from you.

Following a short news break Ian and I will begin the second segment with a guest Victoria Sampson:

Victoria Samson joined the Center for Defense Information in November 2001. Her areas of interest include missile defense, nuclear reductions, and emerging weapons technologies. Samson, the author of numerous op-eds, analytical pieces, journal articles, and electronic updates on missile defense and space security matters, provides an objective assessment of U.S. policy.

If you are on a Apple Mac and would like to listen to a live show you can download the free version of "Flip4Mac" for the QuickTime player: Click here. Install it and restart your computer. It should let you stream WMV files in your internet browser. The show will run for an hour. Please join us. The show will be live, from 7:00-8:00PM Eastern. You can read the schedule here (bottom left column). An archived version of the show will be available approximately 30 minutes after the show ends.

The podcast for tonight's show can be found here.

You can also find the iTunes/Mac compatible version here.

This was a fun show and a great conversation. Hope you enjoy it!

Show highlights after the jump

. . . technology is a blessing and sometimes it's a curse. Tonight on the radio show it was a curse. The first half of the radio show went off without a hitch, we had a caller and it was a good segment, especially the part where Ian and I got into issues about the Horn Of Africa. The second half of the show started off quite well, the discussion was very fascinating and then I got dropped and the show ended in a cacophony of competing questions, "can you guys hear me? Hey! Can y'all hear me?"

We'll try it again this Thursday with Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio and pray I don't get dropped. In the meantime the archive of tonight's show is here.

Radio Agonist tonight at 7:00PM Eastern. The first 30 minutes of the show is will be a review and discussion of the intense media cycle of the last two weeks, starting with Walter Reed, Ann Coulter, the Libby Verdict and more and more chaos in Iraq. Our call-in number is 646-915-8560. We do want to hear from you.

Following a short news break Ian and I will begin the second segment with a discussion with Ali Eteraz on, as he writes:

[We need to discuss] how Islamic reform -- both in the Western communities and in the Muslim world -- engages with the Western Left. The western left has not shown any interest (and has had a lot of reluctance in being paitned as interventionists) they have let genuine Muslim reformers fall to the wayside, who are then picked up by Fox news, right wing rags and islamophobes. All of this ignorance towards the muslim reformer runs COUNTER to the Left legacy in the Cold War where it was the western left (or was it NOT the Western Left?) that promoted people like Solzhenytsin and others?

I'm very much looking forward to this.

If you are on a Apple Mac and would like to listen to a live show you can download the free version of "Flip4Mac" for the QuickTime player: Click here. Install it and restart your computer. It should let you stream WMV files in your internet browser. The show will run for an hour. Please join us. The show will be live, from 7:00-8:00PM Eastern. You can read the schedule here (bottom left column). An archived version of the show will be available approximately 30 minutes after the show ends.

Chris had me on his show today and I threw several grenades into the airwaves. It was really, rather quite cathartic considering my recent stress level. The fact remains that hate speech and bigotry remain a staple of Republican party politics. If the media reported on the bigotry inherent in the Republican party as much as they do the faux 'hate' coming from liberals the country would never vote Republican again. Fact. And by the tone of the infuriated listeners who called it sounds to me like I'd struck a nerve.

Enjoy, the segment is slightly over 15 minutes long and well worth listening for entertainment value.

The podcast for tonight's show can be found here.

You can also find the iTunes/Mac compatible version here.

Show highlights after the jump

Joe Conason and I had a great conversation about his new book, It Can Happen Here. The conversation ranged from civil liberties to preventive war to Hannah Arendt. Give it a listen.

Tonight it was my pleasure to have Nathan Hamilton on the show. Nathan and I had been playing phone tag and "schedule me if you can" for the last year, what with my erratic hosting of Jack's show and Nathan's touring schedule.

The last few weeks haven't been particularly happy for me and I was dreading going into the studio, having to be happy for everyone and entertain, so when my producer said Nathan had confirmed I figured at least one hour would be fun.

And it was. This was one of the most enjoyable interviews I've ever done. For some reason I just instinctively identify with Nathan's music and consider myself lucky to have seen Nathan play live.

I hope you find in this podcast what I have.

Nota bene: I'm tired and it's been a long day. I'll post the remainder of podcasts tomorrow.

I did a quick segment tonight on the Jack Riccardi Show. We discussed the Chinese economic waves made today in Shanghai, their possible effects on the US and the rest of the world, plus we discussed a little bit of politics, domestic and foreign. Give it a listen. Also, I will be hosting Jack's show tomorrow night from 7:00-10:00 PM and Radio Agonist will return on Thursday, when Ian and I will discuss contractors and mercenaries and money gone bad in Iraq.

The podcast for tonight's show can be found here.

You can also find the iTunes/Mac compatible version here.

Thanks to Bonddad and Nadia from Arabisto.com for the call-ins and to our wonderful guest Marcy. It was a great show filled with great discussions.

Show highlights after the jump

Mike Fanning, Chris Duel and I Discuss "The Redirection" Sy Hersh's March 5, New Yorker Article. Our discussions starts with the Constitutional dimension and quickly turns into a conversation about the pernicious influence of the House of Saud, our newfound support for Sunni Jihadis, the nascent Saudi-Israeli alliance of convenience and I get to bash a caller, which is always fun. The *.mp3 version is here and you can find the Mac/iTunes users link here. Enjoy.

For those of you who enjoyed listening to James McMurtry on Radio Agonist last year, you'll get another opportunity to hear him live on the radio this weekend. He'll be appearing on NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, Saturday, February 24 fifty minutes after the first or second hour. Check your local NPR affiliate for times. More info available at his site, www.jamesmcmurtry.com.

. . . will not be aired today. My throat is fried. I can't talk at all. Go figure. Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow, if not, we'll be back Monday at 7:00PM Eastern for sure.