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.

09/17/08 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 17, 2008 |

Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News, discusses the Winter Soldier testimonies, the critical dehumanization process in waging war, the intentional tactics the military uses to foment these views, the complete black-out of the Winter Soldier testimonies by the U.S. corporate media, 'drop-weapons' used by soldiers to frame dead civilians as enemies in Iraq, lies told by recruiters to brainwash young soldiers, the lie of the success of the 'surge' in a much more fragmented political situation in...

09/17/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 17, 2008 |

Thomas E. Woods, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and co-author of Who Killed the Constitution? and We Who Dared Say No to War, discusses America's turn from republic to empire in the late 19th century, the conquest of Hawaii, the bogus propaganda of the War Party then and now, Grover Cleveland's refusal to steal Cuba, the neoconservatives' pretended reading of Article II which they say grants the president "plenary" war powers, the leading role of war in setting the precedents...

09/16/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Sep 16, 2008 |

Gareth Porter, independent historian and reporter for IPS News, discusses the probable MEK-NCRI/Israeli origins of the supposed 'Smoking Laptop'; origin of all contemporary 'outstanding questions' related to Iran’s nuclear program, some reasons why the accusations based around it do not stand up to scrutiny, and the National Intelligence Council’s warning to the White House against the ratcheting up of the war inside Pakistan.