09/23/08 – Robert Blumen – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 23, 2008 |

As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Robert Blumen, writer for LewRockwell.com and Mises.org, and student of the Austrian school of economics, discusses the true cause of inflation, the factors behind price increases, why true economic growth depends on savings not credit expansion, the challenge of where to invest in the midst of this crisis, the depth of the current bailout disaster and why the longer the...

09/23/08 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 23, 2008 |

Joshua Kors, reporter for The Nation, discusses the unbelievable lengths to which the U.S. government will go in order to avoid and delay providing medical and disability benefits to the soldiers who fight their wars for them, the stories of Spc. Town and Sgt. Jimenez, the unbelievable numbers of men coming home Shell Shocked and committing suicide (17 per day on average, and already a greater number than those killed during the Iraq occupation), the methods by which the VA hides the true...

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by | Sep 22, 2008 | ,

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Stop the Bailout!

by | Sep 22, 2008 |

[AG: A friend sent this along:] Not that it would work, but it's worth a try. Call or at least email your Congressman/Senator. Contact your Congressman here. Contact your Senator. Here's a sample email, written by me and my friend. Dear Congressman/Senator (insert name here), I am writing to urge you to oppose the Treasury Secretary Paulson's "bank bailout" proposal. Not only will this bill, if passed, force the American people to pay for the reckless behavior of financial institutions, but it...

09/22/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 22, 2008 |

Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism officer and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the grossly overstated number of 'terrorists' by the War Party, the centuries of the failures of those trying to conquer Afghanistan, the current crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Georgia, the exaggeration by the Bush regime of world conflicts to help the McCain campaign and how best to protect Americans from actual terrorists.

09/22/08 – Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 22, 2008 |

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Austrian School economists Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton discuss the financial crisis, the reasons why the alleged solutions will not only fail but make the situation worse, the naive mistake of trusting politicians to regulate the banks, how Fed-chief Bernanke claimed in 2005 that the mortgage industry was solid, the mystery of why Tresury Secretary Paulson’s former...

The Show: Robert Murphy, Mark Thornton and Philip Giraldi

by | Sep 21, 2008 |

Robert Murphy, Mark Thornton and Philip Giraldi will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, September 22nd. Murphy and Thornton will discuss the U.S. economic crisis at 12:15PM Eastern and Giraldi will discuss the war in Afghanistan at 1:15PM Eastern. Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton are Austrian School economists; both are free market authors and Philip Giraldi is a former DIA and CIA officer. He is a contributing editor at the American Conservative...

McCain Is An Iranian Asset

by | Sep 20, 2008 |

Among the instigators of the Iraq invasion, no one was more influential than Ahmed Chalabi. He was born in Iraq but lived in exile after being sentenced 22 years for embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars from Jordan’s Petra Bank. In 1992 he created a group aimed at getting America to overthrow Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi National Congress. Throughout the 1990’s, Chalabi was able to extract many millions of taxpayer dollars from the U.S. Congress. This was largely thanks to the loudest INC...