Talk at UT Monday 12/01/08

Local friends of the show: Norman Horn and Andrew Glass of the The Longhorn Libertarians have invited me back to give a talk concerning the foreign policy legacy of George W. Bush and what to expect from Barack Obama. It will be Monday, December 1, 2008 at (I think) 7:00 at the Engineering Teaching Center Building at 26th and San Jacinto.

11/28/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses the Mumbai terrorist attacks, India's numerous enemies both foreign and domestic, the 2002 Gujarat province massacre of Indian Muslims, the sixty year long battle over Kashmir and the risk of an India-Pakistan nuclear war.

11/25/08 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the origins and authoritarian tendencies of the Democratic and Republican parties, Alexander Hamilton's role in quelling the Whiskey Rebellion and his legacy of centralized economic and military power, the carefully orchestrated packaging and branding of Barack Obama as an agent of peace and change, the U.S. Treasury Department's usurpation of Congressional legislative authority and local law enforcement's increasing role as tax...

An Avatar for Peace

Dear Friends of Antiwar.com: A donor left this message in my Facebook Account, Here's an idea. We ask all our friends to switch their Facebook and Myspace profile images to the Anti-War.com logo on some upcoming anti-war day. Let's say Thanksgiving day, so we can be thankful there aren't even more wars. At the same time, on the same day, we ask everyone to switch their profile status to just "Stop the wars." And, of course, if anyone asks, "which wars" the answer is "all of them." Instead of...

11/24/08 – David Henderson – The Scott Horton Show

David R. Henderson, research fellow with the Hoover Institution and author of 'The Wartime Economist' for Antiwar.com, discusses his article 'The Libertarian Case against the War in Afghanistan,' the efficacy of using ethical reasoning in foreign policy arguments, the inconsistent U.S. extradition policies regarding Luis Posada Carriles and Osama bin Laden, the exaggerations of systemic risk used to justify bailouts, the limited short-term risk of inflation and why a fractional reserve banking...

The Show: Ron Paul and Brian Doherty

Ron Paul and Brian Doherty will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, November 21st. Paul will be on at 12:15PM Eastern and Doherty will be on at 1:15PM Eastern. Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican Congressman representing Texas's 14th district, former presidential candidate, bestselling author of The Revolution: A Manifesto, and founder of Campaign for Liberty. Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com and the author of Gun Control on...

11/21/08 – Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show

Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the expansion of the American empire after the collapse of the Soviet Union, how empires lead to the loss of liberty, security and wealth, and long term prospects of the current financial downturn.