Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of Young Americans for Liberty, discusses YAL's mission statement of educating and promoting libertarian-minded candidates for public office, their primary focus on the Constitution, antiwar issues and limited government, Ron Paul's success at increasing public awareness of the FED and monetary policy and why avoiding divisive debates on secondary issues is essential for an inclusive organization's survival.
12/03/09 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity, discusses the skin deep congressional support for the "audit the Fed" bill, the need to eliminate rather than curtail the Federal Reserve System, why prediction of the dollar's imminent demise are probably premature, overly optimistic Fed announcements about financial recovery and the difference between the public statements and private candor...
12/03/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama’s compromise decision on troops for Afghanistan that pleased nobody, the divergent goals and methods of al Qaeda and the Taliban, serious logical flaws in the 'disrupting terrorist safe havens' rationale for war in Afghanistan, the Democratic Party strategy of acceding to any military demands and the obstacles to a third-party uranium encrichment deal with Iran.
The best talk radio on the entire planet
Writes Linda at Pat Buchanan's blog: WebNote: Let me tell you right up front that the AntiWar Radio podcast with Scott Horton is the best talk radio on the entire planet. I never miss any of his shows — ever. I learn more from his program than I could spending days on the Net. This is information that you will never learn from cable TV — real news about our government and all the insiders. Here’s the problem. I’m getting smarter listening to Horton and his outstanding guests, but now I’m...
12/02/09 – Scott Ritter – The Scott Horton Show
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter discusses the post-Gulf War politicization of United Nations weapons inspections, the rigid 100 percent compliance mandate that guaranteed Iraqi failure, how Madeleine Albright halted invasive inspections that could have verified Iraq's disarmament, Bill Clinton's determination to keep sanctions on Iraq until Saddam Hussein was deposed, the misuse of UN inspectors as intelligence agents and provocateurs, the attempt to assassinate Hussein during...
12/02/09 – Becky Akers – The Scott Horton Show
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the TSA's plan to see every air traveler naked, harsh criminal penalties for resisting body searches, the TSA's failure to discover or thwart a single terrorist and why concerned citizens and locked cockpit doors provide better security than a multi-billion dollar government agency.
12/01/09 – David Weingarten – The Scott Horton Show
David Weingarten, producer of the documentary movie Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat, discusses the 'Toronto 18”³ group of terrorist suspects accused of planning to make truck bombs and behead Canada’s Prime Minister, the role of police informants in procuring bomb-making materials and bringing the loosely affiliated group together and how extended pre-trial incarceration encourages guilty pleas.
12/01/09 – Petra Bartosiewicz – The Scott Horton Show
Freelance journalist Petra Bartosiewicz discusses the nearly guaranteed guilty verdicts for terrorism trials in federal courts, the government's ability to restrict crucial non-vetted evidence from the defense and even the prosecution, court precedents that weaken the Bill of Rights and how the political pressure on the FBI to catch terrorists often leads to prosecutions of entrapped patsies.
11/25/09 – Robert Czernik – The Scott Horton Show
Environmental and political activist Robert Czernik discusses the RNC8 group of activists arrested and charged with violating the Minnesota PATRIOT Act during the 2008 Republican National Convention, the criminalization of political dissent, the use of conspiracy charges to justify preemptive arrests and the RNC8's ongoing legal battle.
11/25/09 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Regular Antiwar.com writer Jeff Huber discusses his article 'Dumb and Dumber Wars,' the vulnerability of remote military outposts in Afghanistan, the folly of sending additional troops to support the corrupt Karzai government, the U.S. bombing campaign that eviscerated al-Qaeda and how Obama’s unwise campaign rhetoric tied his hands on foreign policy.
11/24/09 – Sheldon Richman – The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman, senior fellow at the Future of Freedom Foundation and editor of The Freeman, discusses the French pre-Marxist origins of class war theory, how outrage at welfare handouts distracts attention from much larger corporate welfare payments, industry "watchdog" regulatory agencies that help favored businesses consolidate power and eliminate competition, the burden of eminent domain on the poor and powerless, how the 1930s labor laws designed to diminish the destabilizing effect of...
11/24/09 – Scott Horton: Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama's broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal indefinite detention of innocent prisoners, endemic racism that makes torture less objectionable and the dangerous legal precedents established by failing to prosecute Bush administration crimes.
11/24/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Obama's decision to send another 34,000 troops to Afghanistan, the inevitability of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban despite military escalation, how bureaucratic propagation and policy momentum keep the Afghanistan disaster moving along and the RAND Corporation's role as think tank and cheerleader for the U.S. Air Force.
Angela Keaton’s speech to the L.A. End the Fed! rally 11/22/09
When Nick Hankoff asked me to speak here today, I was immensely flattered..for a moment. Then I thought to myself, "Gee, just what the Ron Paul youth needs, an aging anarchist hipster "rotly" reciting the Austrian catechism, "sustained period of low interest rates, excessive credit creation results in a volatile and unstable imbalance between saving and investment -- boom-bust. Boom-bust, boom--bust--cist-BOOM -- BAH, counterfeit, fiat, fractional rah, rah , rah..." We aren't gathered here...
Antiwar Radio: Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald
Scott Ritter, James Bamford and Glenn Greenwald were guests for the 11/17/09 KPFK Pacifica Radio edition of Scott Horton's Antiwar Radio show. The show is about an hour long and can be listened to here, beginning at 1:29 into the recording. Scott Ritter discusses the Iranian nuclear program, James Bamford discusses the national surveillance state and Glenn Greenwald discusses what the upcoming Khalid Sheikh Muhammad trial in New York means for the rule of law.
