Donald Losman, professor of economics at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, discusses the secondary role OPEC played in 1970s U.S. economic problems, U.S. government intervention in oil prices that encouraged poor consumer choices in the broader economy, the numerous real costs not included in a barrel of oil and why military coercion is not needed to spur international trade.
10/20/09 – Kelley B. Vlahos – The Scott Horton Show
Kelley B. Vlahos, contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine, discusses the indirect U.S. and NATO funding of the Taliban, David Kilcullen's mixed bag of Afghanistan policy assessments, Obama's lack of allies in the State Department, the military's seizing of initiative from the indecisive Obama administration and how the U.S. embrace of India prompts Pakistan to increase support for the Taliban.
10/20/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses media indifference to police violence, the failed experiment in prosperity via incarceration in Hardin, Montana, the Constitutionalist principles of 'Oath Keepers' members, the final looting of America by the rich and the fetishism of government uniforms.
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10/16/09 – Daniel Luban – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Luban, writer for IPS news via Jim Lobe’s blog, discusses John Bolton’s cagey endorsement of a nuclear strike on Iran, how staking out an extreme position can redefine what constitutes 'moderate,' the provocative nature of Iran sanctions and the neoconservatives’ disdain for the casualties of war.
10/16/09 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the Republican brouhaha about the Islamic non-profit CAIR, the ease of tarnishing reputations with 'unindicted co-conspirator' designations, vitriolic anti-Islam bigotry in Congress and the pervasive fear of an Islamic takeover of the U.S.
10/16/09 – Cindy Sheehan – The Scott Horton Show
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan discusses plans for continuous civil disobedience in Washington D.C. until the Iraq and Afghanistan wars end, lessons learned from the Pittsburgh G-20 protests, how Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded soon after he refused to meet with peace groups and why much of the Left can't wrap their heads around a pro-war Democratic Party.
10/14/09 – Charles Pena – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Peña, author of Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism, discusses the difficult task of preventing domestic terrorism in a free society, the unwise U.S. decision to treat 9/11 as a paradigm-shifting existential threat, the Obama administration's change in Iran strategy (but not policy) and how dubious terrorism prosecutions make the FBI even less trustworthy.
10/14/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses the greatly diminished news coverage of Iraq, the al-Maliki regime's authoritarian behavior, the fate of Iraq's ethnic and religious minorities and indications that Iraq's national culture — if not the country itself — is dying.
10/13/09 – Debra Sweet – The Scott Horton Show
Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can't Wait, discusses the post-Obama antiwar movement collapse, the strange confluence of The Feminist Majority and the Bush administration in selling the War in Afghanistan, the laughable notion that the Pentagon can be used to secure human rights, Afghan warlords allied with the Karzai government whose human rights records are no better than the Taliban's and how activists can make their voices heard on antiwar issues.
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10/09/09 – David T. Beito – The Scott Horton Show
David T. Beito, professor of history at the University of Alabama and editor of the HNN blog Liberty and Power, discusses his book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power (co-authored with his wife Linda Royster Beito), how a Howard speech probably inspired Rosa Parks' catalyzing civil disobedience, his beginnings as a Seventh Day Adventist advocate for prohibition, how Howard and Booker T. Washington's advocacy of economic self-sufficiency helped the...
10/09/09 – Aaron Emery – The Scott Horton Show
Aaron Emery, member of the Campaign for Liberty, discusses the war-weary recalled soldiers who must choose redeployment or jail, how stop-loss acts as a backdoor draft, recruiting campaigns that play on a 'coming of age' mythology and how an indoctrinated culture of combat defines a soldier’s self-worth.
10/08/09 – Melvin A. Goodman – The Scott Horton Show
Melvin Goodman, former senior Soviet analyst at the CIA, discusses Zbigniew Brzezinski’s boast that he instigated the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter’s poor decision-making skills, the U.S. habit of devoting massive resources to non-strategic battlegrounds, blowback from the post-9/11 'Axis of Evil' speech and how Gen. McChrystal is overstepping his role by giving unvetted policy speeches.
10/08/09 – Winslow T. Wheeler – The Scott Horton Show
Winslow T. Wheeler, Director of the Straus Military Reform Project, discusses the just-passed Defense Appropriations bill, the calculations that make the real defense budget close to $1 trillion, the accounting black hole at the un-auditable Pentagon and how a post WWII peak in spending only buys a small military with old equipment.
