I stuck around St. Petersburg When I saw it was a time for a change Killed the Czar and his ministers Anastasia screamed in vain -- Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil On July 17, 1918 the Czar, his wife, his son, his four daughters and a number of servants were taken into the basement of the building where they were being held and brutally shot. The Romanov family has been trying for official state recognition of the innocence of the Czar for decades, but it's finally happened. The Czar's...
10/02/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss, reporter for The Nation, discusses the Iraqi resistance, the myth of the surge's responsibility for the reduction in violence, Iran's brokering of Sadr's cease-fire, Maliki's tightrope act in needing the U.S. to back him now, but leave soon, the problem of Kirkuk and Russia's role in the changing Mideast dynamic.
10/02/08 – Charles Goyette – The Scott Horton Show
Charles Goyette, the most independent talk show host in America, discusses the current financial crisis, the idiocy of the bailout and the media's support of it, the cost of war, the fault of the Fed in the crisis, know-nothing madman John McCain, the end of the republic and those horrible warfare/welfare statists who dare to call themselves libertarians.
10/01/08 – Robert A. Pape – The Scott Horton Show
Robert A. Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, discusses his database of every suicide terrorist attack on earth since 1980, what it shows about the role of religion and occupation in motivating suicide terrorism, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the amount of truth discernible from social science, the suicide bombing campaign in Iraq and spread around the world since the Iraq invasion, the...
10/01/08 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
William Norman Grigg, author of the blog Pro-Libertate and the book Liberty in Eclipse: The War on Terror and the Rise of the Homeland Security State, discusses the tragic death of the old American understanding of limited constitutional government under the rule of law: the ever increasing power of the presidency, the case of Jose Padilla, the absurdity of Christians approving of torture, the Milgram torture and Zimbardo prison experiments, the militarization and federalization of American...
Paraphrasing McCain
09/30/08 – Andy Worthington – The Scott Horton Show
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the resignation of the 5th Guantanamo prosecutor over evidence being withheld from the defense, the quite probable innocence of the accused in the case in question, one of the federal judge’s recent statement implying that the government should have known better to rely on the Detainee Treatment Act and Military Commissions Act in preparing for habeus corpus hearings, the absolute mockery that Khalid Sheik Mohammad is making of the ad...
09/30/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and reporter for IPS News, discusses the build-up to the invasion of Afghanistan, why the neocons didn’t care about al Qaeda, 'The Getaway,' why the marines had no real ability to get to Tora Bora in time to catch bin Laden, the thinking behind the neocons’ Clean Break policy and pre-9/11 determination to invade Iraq, the various degrees of stupidity and nefarious planning in the administration of the Iraq occupation, and the would-be horror of a John...
Ron Paul on the Bailout Vote
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Un-Freaking-Believable!!
House of Representatives Kills Bailout Bill! The unlimited authority of the Fed to continue anyway remains. But still though! Update: And on Ludwig von Mises' birthday too.
09/29/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and journalist and blogger for Harper’s magazine, discusses John McCain’s position on torture legislation, the fifth prosecutor to quit the Guantanamo kangaroo court system and the HBO premier of the Academy Award winning documentary, 'Taxi To The Dark Side,' which exposes the murder of a young Afghan taxi driver at the hands of the U.S. Army.
09/29/08 – Sydney Schanberg – The Scott Horton Show
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sydney Schanberg discusses his article 'John McCain and the POW Cover-Up,' the hundreds of U.S. POWs and MIAs knowingly left in Vietnam and Laos after U.S. withdrawal, Arizona Senator John McCain’s suppression of the truth surrounding the abandonment of missing soldiers, personal reasons McCain may have for wanting to keep the records secret, the complicity of the mainstream media and thousands within the government in refusing to address this issue, McCain’s...
09/29/08 – Jeff Huber – The Scott Horton Show
Jeff Huber, blogger at Pen and Sword and At-Largely and author of Bathtub Admirals, discusses the empire’s disaster in Iraq, the danger of the Afghan occupation spreading into Pakistan, the unconstitutional 'war powers act,' the difficulty of being an empire with no one but defenseless people to fight, the John McCain pathology of trying to win the Vietnam war by killing Iraqis, the so-called clash of civilizations and the pure evil that is Dick Cheney.
The Austrian School on the Economic Crisis
Last week I was honored to be asked by Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty if we could arrange to work together on a project to interview the best of the Austrian school of economics, whose understanding and love of capitalism necessitates their complete and total opposition to corporate welfare of any description. And so we did. What causes the business cycle? Is the bailout necessary? How does fractional reserve banking work? What is the relationship between inflationary money and empire? Is...
