That's right. And all conservatives who ever supported him are simply useful idiots.
The Great Schlep
Okay, I hate Barack Obama, but I LOVE Sarah Silverman. And she's at least right that McCain is pure evil and must be stopped. Oh, wait... Did she say that...? Maybe that's just me. The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.
A Few New McCain Stickers
Re-elect Dan Quayle
McCain Camp insiders say Palin "clueless" Capitol Hill sources are telling [Ed Schultz] that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."
09/26/08 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Rep. Ron Paul discusses the current financial crisis, payoffs to special interests and arm-twisting in congress to get the next 700 billion dollar bailout through, the role of the war budget in helping to inflate the dollar bubble, the difficulty in getting the media and politicians to understand Austrian monetary theory, how the Fed's policies send false signals to people in...
09/26/08 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government and Depression War and Cold War, discusses the relationship between the inflation of World War One and the roaring ‘20's and the Great Depression, Fed chief Ben Strong's deal with the Bank of England's Montague Norman to inflate in the...
09/26/08 – Ken Menkhaus – The Scott Horton Show
Ken Menkhaus, Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, discusses the crisis in Somalia [.pdf], 2.5 million people on the brink of starvation, the disarray in U.S. humanitarian, counter-terrorism and state building policy within Somalia, disproportionate response to a slight pretext and resulting widespread anti-Americanism where there was none before, Somaliland and the catch 22 of giving humanitarian aid.
09/25/08 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses Thomas Jefferson's theory of inflationary money and the business cycle, the history of fiat money in America and around the world from Marco Polo's adventures through Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Revolutionary War, 1812-14, Andrew Jackson's battle with Biddle, Lincoln's greenbacks, the Gilded Age,...
09/25/08 – Jim Ostrowski – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Ostrowski, of LewRockwell.com and FreeNewYork.org calls for the people to innundate the congress in order to try and stop the bailout.
09/25/08 – Frida Berrigan – The Scott Horton Show
Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) being negotiated with Iraq to allow the U.S. military to stay forever, demands for total legal immunity and at least 58 military bases, the escalating rhetoric against Iran, the danger in sending the army into Pakistan and Bush's continued failure in negotiating with North Korea.
09/24/08 – Peter Schiff – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Peter Schiff, president of Euro-Pacific Capital and former advisor to Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, discusses the coming multi-trillion dollar bailout of the bankers for their bad loans, the America's addiction to cheap credit, the need for America to start producing more to match our consumption, the government's fixing of a bubble with another bubble, the case for...
09/24/08 – Jason Kreag – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Kreag, staff lawyer with the Innocence Project, discusses the Johnny Lindsey case where he was exonerated after 26 years in prison, the potential causes of erroneous convictions, prosecutorial intentions and incentives, the need for video-taped police interrogations and the factors in false confessions.
The American Foreign Policy Gift Shop
Have you ever wondered what they sell at the gift shop at the salt-pit torture dungeon in Baghram, Afghanistan? Thanks to Kalim Kassam.
09/23/08 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show
Joshua Kors, reporter for The Nation, discusses the unbelievable lengths to which the U.S. government will go in order to avoid and delay providing medical and disability benefits to the soldiers who fight their wars for them, the stories of Spc. Town and Sgt. Jimenez, the unbelievable numbers of men coming home Shell Shocked and committing suicide (17 per day on average, and already a greater number than those killed during the Iraq occupation), the methods by which the VA hides the true...
09/23/08 – Robert Blumen – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio's week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, Robert Blumen, writer for LewRockwell.com and Mises.org, and student of the Austrian school of economics, discusses the true cause of inflation, the factors behind price increases, why true economic growth depends on savings not credit expansion, the challenge of where to invest in the midst of this crisis, the depth of the current bailout disaster and why the longer the...
