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The Stress Blog
Netanyhu Refuses to Return Clinton’s Call
Wow. I gotta admit, I'm surprised how this is working out.
Police: Armed Gangs of Lawless Killers
It's a good thing there's no such thing as ghosts, otherwise the Americans who came before us would never let us get a wink of sleep again. In other words, what a damned disgrace. Thanks to SMiles.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
4/22/22 Ryan McMaken on Capitalism and Peace
Scott talks with Ryan McMaken about free markets and free trade. They begin with a discussion about the role of the Mises Institute in the push for sound money. Scott then asks McMaken about the nuances of debating capitalism vs. socialism while living under a mixed economy. They then discuss the changing role of the United States in the world. McMaken does believe a “rules-based international order” existed after the fall of the USSR. But that the U.S. destroyed it by invading Iraq in 2003. McMaken argues that the best path forward is a commitment to the classical liberal ideals of free markets at home and nonintervention abroad.
Discussed on the show:
- Scott’s Kennedy Appearance
- Mises.org
- Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
- “The “Rules-Based International Order” Is Dead. Washington Killed It” (Mises Wire)
Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.
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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Recommended reading
06/10/11 – David Krieger – The Scott Horton Show
David Krieger, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, discusses the 20,000+ nuclear weapons still around (almost all in US and Russia), the only 4 countries with deployed nukes (US, Britain, Russia,France); how nuke levels are decreasing, but not across the board and not nearly fast enough, why the new START treaty is really only a start, why the US has a moral obligation to pursue nuclear disarmament and a couple of flaws in the “deterrence” and MAD doctrines.
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06/09/11 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, news editor of Antiwar.com discusses the wounded flight of Yemen’s dictator Saleh as the country falls apart, sorting out different factions, tribes and student groups, the US call for Saleh to step down, not in support of democratic reform, but because he is no longer an effectively brutal autocrat, the US campaign of recent air strikes al Qaeda targets, the Golan Heights protests, why casualties reflect Israel’s great concern about large peaceful protests; and Syria’s increasingly unstable government amid huge protests.
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06/09/11 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains why Obama is among the most flagrant violators of the constitution’s delineation of the war powers, the uncertainty of Gadhafi’s successors in Libya, if and when he is ousted, why Obama needs to wrap up Libya before election season starts while not having the political capital to send in ground troops to take Tripoli, and why the US is (hopefully) too busy to intervene in Syria or Pakistan.
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06/09/11 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Former CIA officer and Antiwar.com contributor Philip Giraldi discusses his new article “Target Iran,” the bogus RAND paper claiming Iran could have a nuke in months and somehow under the IAEA’s nose contrasted with Sy Hersh‘s New Yorker piece on the 2011 NIE, the Ha’aretz article showing more Israeli threats to attack Iran, which would draw in the U.S. timed before September to kill the bid for a Palestinian at the UN.
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06/09/11 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the book Philip Dru: Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow by Col. Edward Mandell House (for which Will wrote the forward), the political operator behind Woodrow Wilson, the book’s proposal for a corporate-state co-administered government, which as House himself boasted “anticipated” Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy, House’s legacy in the FRD administrations and modern Democratic and Republican parties, and Gabriel Kolko’s Triumph of Conservatism.
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06/09/11 – Robert P. Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert P. Murphy, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute,
discusses the skirting the US debt ceiling, which can continue for a few
more months, the GOP’s current pretensions of fiscal restraint, why a
failure to raise the ceiling doesn’t mean default is impending since
spending could be cut or govt. assets sold, how missed payments to bond
holders would bring a big increase in interest rates, as in greece;
debt/gdp ratios and economic death spirals, and the Republicans who
converted to free market radicals – at least rhetorically – when Obama
was elected.
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06/08/11 – Peter Van Buren – The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren, former State Department Foreign Service Officer in Iraq, discusses his tomdispatch article “How Not to Withdraw from Iraq;” failing to win hearts and minds in Iraq, despite good intentions; how goodwill infrastructure projects like building schools and drinking water facilities were squandered in a money pit of graft and fraud; Hillary Clinton’s chance to play commander in chief of her own State Department mercenary army; and the two very different tiers of mercenaries (low-paid cannon fodder from Uganda and Peru, and high-paid bullies from America, Britain and S. Africa).
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06/08/11 – Paul Mutter – The Scott Horton Show
Paul Mutter, author of the article “The War Against al-Jazeera” at Foreign Policy in Focus, Sami al-Hajj, the journalist held for years in Guantanamo and questioned for intel on news gathering operations, WikiLeaks release of internal Gitmo documents on Hajj and where we’ve found ourselves after trading liberty for security for the last decade.
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