Lew Rockwell, founder and President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses his new podcast interview program, Joe Biden’s long term and central role in promoting the warfare state, demagoguery and omission at the Democratic convention, the reality of America’s empire and the elective emperor who rules it, the important new book We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now, why murder is still murder even if a government employee does it, the big lie of...
The Show: Gareth Porter
The show - KAOSRadioAustin.org, 92.7 FM in Austin 11-1pm Gareth Porter on NATO Expansion.
08/25/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and investigative journalist for IPS News and Antiwar.com, discusses the themes in his article 'Georgia War Rooted in US Self-Deceit on NATO,' how the national security bureaucracy dominates American policy to the detriment of the rest of Americans’ interests, the rise of the empire after World War II, how American Cold War policy pushed China toward Russia until the 1970s, the imperial bureaucrats desire to expand NATO up to the Russian border to weaken...
08/22/08 – Ed Fremer – The Scott Horton Show
Ed Fremer, whose son Michael was crushed to death in an Army training accident, discusses the Army’s repeated lies about the cause of his death, the fact that one cannot sue the Army over such incidents due to the Supreme Court invented 'Feres doctrine' and details the Army’s negligence that led to his son’s senseless death. MP3 Here.
08/22/08 – Daniel Levy – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Levy, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the need for Israel to adopt a diplomatic foreign policy, prominent Israeli officials opposed to attacking Iran, the remaining danger of an Israeli attack, how hard-line rhetoric empowers Iran's hawks in return, the disastrous effects any attack on Iran would have, the process for the upcoming Israeli election, the consequences of conflating all of Israel and America's enemies and the...
Doomed! Doomed I Tells Ya!
McCain pulls ahead. Update: To be perfectly clear: Obama is as bad as McCain, but McCain is much worse than Obama.
08/20/08 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
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...
A Couple New Stickers
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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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...
