My interview of Mises Institute president Lew Rockwell from the morning of the 5th of February: MP3 here.
02/05/09 – Saul Landau – The Scott Horton Show
Saul Landau, author of the article 'Repudiating the Monroe Doctrine,' discusses the history of the Monroe Doctrine from its origin in 1823 to the present, the little known reciprocity that the U.S. would not meddle in European spheres of influence if the European colonial nations did the same in the Western hemisphere, the evolution of U.S. power projection from military force to CIA-led coups to the IMF and neoliberal wealth schemes, the total failure of the war on drugs and the increasing...
We gotta make stickers out of these
Thanks to Thaddeus Russell and David Beito at the Historians Against the War blog. Update: Done.
02/04/09 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Alan Bock, senior editorial writer at the Orange Country Register, discusses how Alan Greenspan's easy-money policy created a war bubble concurrent with the housing/consumer spending bubble, the unfortunate historical victory of Hamiltonian central banking over the Jeffersonian decentralized model, Afghanistan's well-earned reputation as the graveyard of empires and the merits of a South Africa style truth and reconciliation commission for the Bush administration.
02/03/09 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for the Independent, discusses preliminary results from the Iraqi elections, the strong performance of nationalist and secular parties compared to religious parties, the whereabouts of Muqtada al-Sadr and the role his militia and political factions will play in Iraq's future, the patronage system developed between Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa party and tribal councils that contributed to their electoral success and the near-certainty that U.S. occupation...
02/03/09 – Allan Nairn – The Scott Horton Show
Allan Nairn, author of the article 'The Torture Ban That Doesn’t Ban Torture' on Counterpunch.org, discusses the Executive Order that does indeed ban torture under limited and specific conditions, how torture under U.S. auspices is legal if the work is outsourced to foreigners, the possible complicity of human rights groups in allowing the continuation of extraordinary renditions and the alarming history of Dennis Blair, Obama’s new national intelligence director.
02/03/09 – Chalmers Johnson – The Scott Horton Show
Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, discusses the enormous and expanding U.S. defense budget amidst a general economic collapse, the army of defense lobbyists ready to fight against any spending cuts, how military spending diverts economic resources away from beneficial uses and how defense contractors make the largest and most dubious defense projects into sacred cows by spreading production to as many congressional districts as possible.
02/03/09 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the Bush administration’s foreign policy legacy, why maintaining a U.S. military presence in S. Korea makes less sense than ever, the difficulty of negotiating alternative U.S. supply routes to Afghanistan while taking a hard line on Russia and Iran, the high cost in Iraqi lives for their 'liberation' from one authoritarian government to another and the demise of Bush’s two-state solution for Israel and...
02/02/09 – Stephen Zunes – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, discusses his recent article 'Obama Gathering a Flock of Hawks to Oversee U.S. Foreign Policy,' the mixed-bag of appointments from holdover Bush Republicans to recycled Clinton-era staffers, the particularly terrible work history of Richard Holbrooke and the importance of organized political pressure in ensuring that Obama is the agent of change he claims to be. to be.
02/02/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the article 'Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision', discusses the rift within the military on the issue of troop withdrawal from Iraq, the apparent attempt by Robert Gates and Generals Petraeus and Odierno to undermine Obama’s planned Iraq withdrawal timeline, the NIE Iran report and the Iranian nuclear hedging strategy and the fight over control of the foreign policy narrative and who ultimately is to blame for historical failure.
02/02/09 – Justin Raimondo – The Scott Horton Show
Justin Raimondo, editorial director for Antiwar.com, discusses Vladimir Putin's red-baiting of Soviet America, the U.S. military's use of old Soviet supply lines into Afghanistan, how the incredible U.S./Russia role reversal confirms the existence of Bizarro World, why the crumbling U.S. economy won't stop an Afghanistan surge or prevent new interventions in Africa and how the use of logical deduction in figuring out U.S. foreign policy goals only leads to wild speculation.
Bill Hicks’ Final (Cut) Letterman Performance
Thanks to Jim Bovard.
It Coulda Been Ron; Part XXVII
Thanks to Lew for the video.
You Thought America Was a Fascist Country Before…
It's on now.
George W. Bush’s Somalia Legacy
Suicide Terrorism. Also, here, the Post, which supported and helped lie on behalf of each and every one of Bush/Cheney's acts of mass murder, now admits to the public that, "The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group. ... 'They're highly uncertain about what they're getting in this new adversary,' said Paul Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official who lectures on national security at...
