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The States’ Rights Challenge, Tom Woods on NPR
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Ron Paul, Antiwar.com’s man on the banking committee
(Which makes Geithner JP Morgan's man.) Thanks to Lew for the link.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/25/22 Matt Taibbi on the Depravity of the Media and Liberal Interventionists
Scott interviews journalist Matt Taibbi about two articles he published at TK News. The first examines the role the New York Times plays in defining the boundaries of acceptable discourse in our country. Taibbi draws a comparison to the role of newspapers in the Soviet Union and points to multiple examples from the last few years of U.S. outlets doing the same thing. They then focus in on foreign policy, where they reflect on how the military and interventionists in both media and government went through a transformation after the Bush Presidency. By rebranding themselves as humanitarian interventionists and framing Obama as their leader, they were able to dismantle the antiwar left of the Bush years. Now we find ourselves in a moment where many on the right are taking a more anti-interventionist stance. Scott and Taibbi mull over whether this will, or can, change American foreign policy going forward.
Discussed on the show:
- “The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times” (TK News)
- Scott’s Debate with Cathy Young
- “Putin Misunderstands History. So, Unfortunately, Does the U.S.” (Bloomberg)
- “The Great American Military Rebrand” (TK News)
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- Bring Our Troops Home
- Defend the Guard
Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author and political commentator. Subscribe to his Substack publication: TK News and follow him on Twitter @mtaibbi.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio.
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08/04/11 – Shawn Amoei – The Scott Horton Show
Shawn Amoei, foreign policy writer at the Huffington Post, discusses his article “Silencing the Moderate Middle;” The MEK’s decades-long plan for a violent coup in Iran – with absolutely no domestic popular support; reasons why would this group should not be removed from the State Department’s terrorism list, but probably will be anyway; the many enemies – foreign and domestic – of Iran’s moderate Green Movement; and the US-based supporters and bankrollers of MEK’s public relations machine.
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08/03/11 – David T. Beito – The Scott Horton Show
Please ignore the false ending at 18:15 or so. The interview continues for another segment and is nearly 28 minutes in total.
David T. Beito, Research Fellow at The Independent Institute and Professor of History at the University of Alabama, discusses why the US government debt crisis will force conservatives to choose between tax increases and cutting the Pentagon’s budget; the small victories and many failures of the long-departed Anti-Imperialist League; William Graham Sumner’s must-read 1899 speech “The Conquest of the United States by Spain;” William Jennings Bryan’s lone antiwar voice in the Wilson administration; Ralph Raico’s ironically-titled book Great Wars and Great Leaders; and why the Come Home America Left-Right antiwar coalition is our best chance for peace.
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08/03/11 – Matt Barganier – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar.com editor Matt Barganier discusses the top news and opinion headlines on Antiwar.com’s main page, including “A ‘sign of weakness’ in the propaganda of war” by H.D.S. Greenway, “The Folly of More Burma Sanctions” by David Steinberg, and “Wanted: ‘Reality-based’ GOP candidates” by Gene Healy. He also discusses the conventional US excuses for losing wars; how sanctions are used for political blackmail, not to “help the people;” deciphering the intent behind US support for Syrian protesters; and why Gov. Rick Perry would make a strong (and frighteningly terrible) GOP presidential candidate.
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08/03/11 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses his article “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State” at LewRockwell.com; questioning the greatness and necessity of dropping atomic bombs on Japan; America’s unofficial civic religion of state-worship and war mythology; how the US war machine of the 60s and 70s continues to kill civilians in SE Asia; and how the war on terrorism has provided cover for the belligerence of bigots and racists.
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08/02/11 – Jason Mick – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Mick, writer for dailytech.com, discusses his article “Obama Admin. Fights to Renew Warrantless Wiretaps, Block Transparency;” the government abuses of the 1960s and 70s that led to FISA’s creation; why the US Senate is not privy to, and has effectively no oversight of, rampant Executive department wiretapping; the Bush administration’s “telecom immunity” deal that bought the silence of Verizon and AT&T; data mining “categories” instead of the digital records of individual suspects; and why, in spite of increasing government surveillance of private citizens, videotaping an on-duty cop beating up a homeless guy is often an arrestable offense.
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08/02/11 – Ahmed al-Assy – The Scott Horton Show
Ahmed al-Assy, an Egyptian-American living in Egypt and a participant in the Tahrir Square protests, discusses the latest flareup between protesters reoccupying Tahrir Square and Egypt’s security apparatus; promoting instead of punishing those responsible for murdering protesters; the long prison sentences for activists and journalists, handed down by kangaroo courts; why Egyptians won’t tolerate an indefinite delay of democratic elections and reforms; American puppet candidate Omar Suleiman out of power but operating in the shadows; and the setback in Gaza relations and the Rafah border crossing.
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08/01/11 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, editor of the Independent Review, explains why the world won’t end if the US debt ceiling isn’t raised, administration scaremongering on US “default” even though there’s no risk of missing bond payments, the government’s ability to cut spending, revise budgets and sell assets to meet debt obligations, the backloaded “cuts” in the compromise deal that target projected increases in spending and don’t cut the budget at all, what a rating agency downgrade means, and how likely it is, and why stagflation (as bad as it is) is the best economic outcome we can hope for.
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08/01/11 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the Syrian tank offensive in Hama that killed more than 140 protesters; how previous crackdowns have resulted in ever-larger anti-government demonstrations; a graphic YouTube link that shows what a massacre really looks like; how “days not weeks” became open-ended intervention in Libya, with no end in sight; the assassination of Libyan rebel chief of staff Abdel Fatah Younes and the complexities of civil war; the rebel atrocities that embarrass their supporters in the US Congress; and the political maneuvering in Iraq to allow US troops (or “trainers”) to stay indefinitely.
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