09/24/08 – Peter Schiff – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 24, 2008 |

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

by | Sep 24, 2008 |

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.

09/23/08 – Joshua Kors – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 23, 2008 |

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

by | Sep 23, 2008 |

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...

09/22/08 – Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 22, 2008 |

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Austrian School economists Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton discuss the financial crisis, the reasons why the alleged solutions will not only fail but make the situation worse, the naive mistake of trusting politicians to regulate the banks, how Fed-chief Bernanke claimed in 2005 that the mortgage industry was solid, the mystery of why Tresury Secretary Paulson’s former...

09/22/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 22, 2008 |

Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism officer and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the grossly overstated number of 'terrorists' by the War Party, the centuries of the failures of those trying to conquer Afghanistan, the current crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Georgia, the exaggeration by the Bush regime of world conflicts to help the McCain campaign and how best to protect Americans from actual terrorists.

09/19/08 – Stephen Schwab – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 19, 2008 |

Stephen Schwab, professor of history at the University of Alabama, discusses his past work at the CIA, including time with Bob Barr, the changes Barr has made and still needs to make, the empire's playground of South America, escalating tensions with Russia and the need to rollback the empire.