Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, editor of the Independent Review and author of Depression, War and Cold War, discusses the many factors working against a "V" shaped economic recovery, mainstream economists who don't account for the malinvestment of government stimulus funds, shortsighted economic planning that is focused on election cycles instead of the business cycle, huge bank reserves that could cause inflation if ever lent out and why specific economic...
03/24/10 – Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. – The Scott Horton Show
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses Israel's ability to drag the US into a war with Iran, the difficulty of destroying Iran's Natanz nuclear facility even with bunker-busting bombs, Pentagon war games that exposed serious US vulnerabilities to Iranian retaliation, the need to vastly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia and why the aircraft carrier-based US Navy is becoming obsolete.
Ron Paul: Thousands of Armed Thugs Headed Your Way
The States’ Rights Challenge, Tom Woods on NPR
Hilarious. Listen to the archive here.
Ron Paul, Antiwar.com’s man on the banking committee
(Which makes Geithner JP Morgan's man.) Thanks to Lew for the link.
Antiwar Radio 3/23/10
Michael Hastings, Ivan Eland 11-1 95.9 in Austin or stream live from KAOSRadioAustin.org.
03/23/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the US contribution to violence and political instability in Somalia, how al Qaeda affiliate groups are primarily concerned with local issues and simply use the moniker for prominence and fundraising, nationalist movements that are mislabeled 'Islamic' because mosques are often the only available forum for political dissent and how the US government characterizes Osama bin Laden as irrational in order to dismiss his stated...
03/23/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the unusual US/Israel public dispute following Israel's snub of Joe Biden, credibility problems for US Middle Eastern client states that must pretend to care about the plight of Palestinians, the increasingly fragile fiction that the US and Israel have identical interests, the failure of the US to enforce the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act and how AIPAC seeks to control US trade...
03/23/10 – Michael Hastings – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Hastings, author and contributor to True/Slant.com, discusses the backlash against religious political parties in Iraq, why Ayad Allawi's thuggish past has increased his popularity, the massive security apparatus that enables an Iraqi Prime Minister to act like a strongman and why Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to become an independent state in the not-too-distant future.
Civil Liberties in Obama’s America
I like it when Anthony Gregory tells people stuff.
Newt Gingrich: as Un-American as a Canadian
What a terrible person that Gingrich is. Why does he hate freedom so much?
Right-Wing, Anti-War?
Watch Cato's conservative peace panel here.
What Causes the Boom-Bust Cycle?
Central Banking.
Beware the Ides of March
High Commander Petraeus is preparing to stab Caesar Obama in the back.
Rep. Ron Paul Anti-State, Anti-War, Pro-Market
Thanks to Lew for the link.
