Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, discusses the legacy of Woodrow Wilson’s Cheney, Edward Mandell House, House’s rise to power and links to big money men, Philip Dru Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow — the blueprint for a fascist America written by House in 1910-11, how House took advantage of Wilson’s narcissism to get America into World War I, the consequences of American...
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08/19/08 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show
Greg Palast, reporter for Harper’s magazine and Rolling Stone, explains how the primary goal of oil companies is to use the war power of the national governments to restrict supplies in order to artificially increase the price of oil, the consequences of the war in Iraq on the price we pay, the fight over control of Caspian oil in the Georgian conflict, the chicken-egg argument about the role of the oil companies and the Pentagon itself in pushing all this imperial expansion, the hidden...
08/19/08 – Glenn Greenwald – The Scott Horton Show
Glenn Greenwald, legal affairs columnist and blogger for Salon.com and author of Great American Hypocrites, discusses the FBI and national media's attempt to hijack the truth surrounding the anthrax case, their post-mortem conviction of Bruce Ivins, the left/right/libertarian realignment against the warfare/police state and Glenn's interview with Mort Halperin about his flip-flop on the Constitution-shredding FISA amendments bill. MP3 Here.
08/18/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer and journalist and blogger for Harper’s magazine, discusses his relationship with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the Rose Revolution of 2003, Saakashvili’s problems with Rupert Murdoch and ties with the neocons, George Washington’s policy against entangling alliances and its undoing since World War II, the value of American education and diplomacy over high explosives, Cheney and the War Party’s need for a steady...
08/16/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and Antiwar.com, deconstructs the incredibly lousy reporting of one Pamela Hess from the Associated Press, whose recent article 'Quds, Hezbollah training hit squads in Iran' is in the running for the Olympic Gold Medal in Pentagon stenography and false accusations, explains the complex truth behind the U.S. and Iraqi governments’ relationship with Iran, the 2 and a half year history of the Cheney Cabal’s claims that...
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The Show
for today: Ray McGovern, Pat Buchanan, Joe Lauria and Gordon Prather. Tune in to Antiwar Radio on 92.7 FM in Austin from 11-1pm, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
08/15/08 – Gordon Prather – The Scott Horton Show
Dr. Gordon Prather discusses the different uses for varying yield nuclear weapons for missile defense, the tactical and strategic handicaps of our missile defense systems, what it takes to build a nuclear weapon and the difference between a nuclear weapons program and what the Iranians are doing. MP3 Here.
08/15/08 – Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria, freelance reporter and co-author with former senator Mike Gravel of the new book A Political Odyssey, discusses his article 'The Personification of the Military-Industrial Racket,' McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann’s long, diabolical history as a chief neocon and war-salesman, McCain’s side-jobs as a foreign asset first for Iran and now Georgia and how luring Russia to retaliate against Georgia may have been instigated to strengthen McCain’s campaign and ratchet up...
08/15/08 – Pat Buchanan – The Scott Horton Show
Pat Buchanan, conservative commentator and author, most recently of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War, discusses the crisis in Georgia, why he thinks the Russian action on behalf of South Ossetia was justified, comparisons between Russian moves in the Caucasus to interwar Germany and Britain, the stupidity of the war guarantees and new missile defense systems going into Eastern Europe, the limits of American imperial power and the question of whether the administration gave Saakashvili...
08/15/08 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, discusses his new open letter to Colin Powell, he and Powell's similar backgrounds growing up in the Bronx and time spent working together in the White House in the 1980s, the withholding of the Sabri and Habbush no-WMD intelligence before the Iraq war from Powell and other leading figures in the Bush cabinet, the necessity of a Congressional investigation and a Powell's testimony about what really happened, Rep. John Conyers duty as chair of the judiciary...
The Show: Eric Margolis
Listen here sonny. Eric Margolis will be on the show today (second hour). 11-1 Texas time.
08/14/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent for Canada's Sun National Media and author of War at the Top of the World, discusses the complicated politics of the Caucasus region, U.S. and Israeli arming and training of Georgian troops, the Ossetia fiasco, McCain's foreign policy handler Randy Scheunemann and his relationship with the Saakashvili regime, the fight within the military industrial pentagon complex over whether to focus on imperial occupations or preparing for war with great powers, the...
The Show
for today: Things. 11-1 central. KAOSRadioAustin.
