A question of property. Having only scratched the surface of the literature at Mises, a single point just keeps jumping out at me. Now I was raised orthodox Jewish and had many years of education in Gemara. One of the key focuses of these ancient texts is in fact property rights. The point that I am referring to is that the fundamental right of property is the right to destroy. That is to say, in the stereotypical example of a fruit bearing tree, one who owns this tree has the right to cut it...
06/17/09 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses how the Iranian election news is dominated by state-run media, Iran's high voter turnout that was thought to favor opposition candidates - who had surprisingly poor showings - and Ahmedinejad's pronouncement in Russia that the U.S. empire is economically unsustainable.
06/17/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses Netanyahu's right-wing biblical rhetoric in response to Obama's groundbreaking Cairo speech, the U.S. media's long-awaited questioning of Israeli settlements, Israel's accelerating departure from Western values and the sub-human living conditions forced on Gaza residents.
Antiwar Radio 6/16/09: Robert Murphy, Patrick Doherty
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06/16/09 – Patrick Doherty – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Doherty, Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, discusses the Iranian government crackdown that reinforces the perception of electoral fraud, the popular Iranian discontent with autocracy, the dearth of legitimate polling in Iran that increases uncertainty and how Ahmedinejad's tough negotiating with the U.S. is seen by some as the Persian equivalent of Nixon going to China.
06/16/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman's "the FED didn't do enough" theory of the Depression, negative results of government purchasing "excess" agricultural production, Hoover's undeserved reputation as a laissez faire "hand's off" president and how cherry-picking...
Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
US News’ Hate Speech Kills One Million-Plus
So, the Brownshirts at U.S. News and World Report want to ban "hate speech" and have the state "round up" any American deemed to cross that line. (Never-you-mind the 1st, 5th and 10th amendments. The Constitution, far from being the basis of all law in our society, is a joke of a long-dead letter, and we all know it.) Well I just wanted to get a head start here and recommend to any federal prosecutors out there wishing to make their stripes and move up in the world that there is an open and...
Antiwar Radio: 6/12/09: Winslow T. Wheeler and Daniel Luban
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Kucinich drills Ken Lewis a new asshole
Kucinich drills Ken Lewis a new asshole
06/12/09 – Winslow T. Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Winslow T. Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, discusses the fight between Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Congress over the Pentagon budget, the neglect of U.S. combat training in favor of expensive weapons systems, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst study of military spending and job creation and how Congress would rather chase Pentagon pork than perform its oversight obligations.
06/12/09 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for IPS news via Jim Lobe’s blog, discusses the neocon preference for Ahmadinejad over his moderate rivals, the aborted attempt by congressional leaders to fast-track sanctions just prior to Iran’s election, the continuance of 'Obama is a secret Muslim' as a staple of right-wing propaganda and how a viable Palestinian state requires the dismantling of Israeli settlements.
The Depression has only just begun…
Antiwar Radio 6/11/09: Anthony Gregory
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James W. Von Brunn and the Poison of Racist Collectivism By Anthony Gregory
On Wednesday, according to news reports, James W. Von Brunn, a longtime belligerent racist and anti-Semite, walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and opened fire, murdering a security guard before he himself was shot and neutralized. Good people everywhere recognize the vicious criminality of his attack, and the particular insidiousness of his motivation to lash out where he did. In reflecting on this tragedy, it is an appropriate time to contemplate the sanctity of innocent life, the...
