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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch have a great article on Ron Paul and the New Realignment in today's Washington Post. Paul's "freedom message" is the direct descendant of Barry Goldwater's once-dominant GOP philosophy of libertarianism (which Ronald Reagan described in a 1975 Reason magazine interview as "the very heart and soul of conservatism"). But that tradition has been under a decade-long assault by religious-right moralists, neoconservative interventionists and a governing coalition that...

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Ron Paul Explains the Importance of Mises and the Austrian School

Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View by Ron Paul [.pdf] The economist’s approval of the market for purely utilitarian reasons actually becomes a more ‘objective’ analysis if not approached from a natural rights standpoint. But when combined with a natural-rights philosophy, it is even more powerful. No choice must be made. The utilitarian argument does not exclude the belief that life and liberty originates with the Creator. When they are added together they become doubly important....

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11/21/07 – Daniel Levy – The Scott Horton Show

Former Israeli diplomat Daniel Levy, now at the New America Foundation, discusses the upcoming Annapolis peace conference, the letter from the American establishment to Bush and Rice urging them to make real progress toward a two-state solution, the negative consequences of current American policy, the failure of the 'roadmap to peace,' the lack of a real strategic purpose behind the occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights, U.S. intervention to the detriment of an Israeli/Syrian peace...

11/21/07 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show

Investigative reporter Robert Parry, of ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, discusses the Iran-Contra model for running the government, the failure of Colin Powell and allies to adequately stand up to Cheney and the neocons, the current state of the situation in Iraq, the rules of engagement, the second phase of the El Salvador option, the weakness of al Qaeda's position in Iraq, the occupation's benefit to them, the purpose behind the...

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11/20/07 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

Gareth Porter discusses the Israeli attack on Syria and how its purpose was to intimidate Iran and frame North Korea, John Bolton's blustering, the failure of the U.S.'s abduction of Iranians in Iraq policy to provide any evidence of their involvement in the killing of Americans there, and Iran's recent offer to move their uranium enrichment to Switzerland.