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The Stress Blog
Antiwar Radio 6/9/09: Shane Bauer, Howard Jones, Juan Cole, The Other Scott Horton
That's US-backed death squads in Iraq, The Bay of Pigs, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and torture. Listen live on KAOS 95.9 in Austin from 1-3 PM Central, or Antiwar.com/radio.
Hegemony or Freedom
At a glance the libertarian world view presents a simple paradox, if every one is free to do as they please, how does one ensure that libertarian society exists. The simple truth however is that for economic freedom to exist there must first be complete and total...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
1/27/22 Gilbert Doctorow on the War Hysteria in Eastern Europe and Germany’s Reluctance to Go Along With It
Scott interviews political analyst Gilbert Doctorow about the tensions in Eastern Europe. Doctorow points to the strong state of the Russian economy as sufficient evidence that they won’t want to start a new conflict, much less a massive land war. They also discuss the frustrations some Europeans are expressing with all the war hype, which is hurting parts of the European economy.
Discussed on the show:
- “The pro-detente position of Willy Brandt’s ‘Ostpolitik” still is alive and finding its voice in Germany today” (GilbertDoctorow.com)
Gilbert Doctorow is an independent political analyst and was the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East-West Accord. He writes regularly for Consortium News. His latest book is Does the United States Have a Future?
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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07/02/10 – Eric Garris – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Garris, founder and director of Antiwar.com, discusses the convoluted House votes on multiple Afghan War bills and amendments, Obama’s broken pledge to stop using emergency supplemental bills for war funding, how House Reps can now somewhat credibly claim either support or opposition to the war and why China seems to have won the Iraq war.
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07/02/10 – Joy Gordon – The Scott Horton Show
Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions, discusses the comprehensive sanctions imposed on Iraq in the 1990s that killed 500,000 children, the US led effort to literally starve Iraq by cutting off food importation, how the Gulf War and subsequent sanctions destroyed Iraq’s modern infrastructure and prevented rebuilding, contradictory US and UN policies on rewarding compliance of Security Council resolutions and how the US ‘reverse veto’ power guaranteed the sanctions would never be lifted while Saddam Hussein remained in power.
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07/02/10 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses why Bush and Cheney must have known most Guantanamo prisoners were innocent, the US military’s inability to do battlefield vetting of Afghan war prisoners, Cheney’s reversal of the Blackstone formulation on the wrongful imprisonment of innocents, how Colin Powell and others were kept out of the loop about intelligence based on tortured confessions, how the intelligence failures on Iraq WMD were in part due to compensating for missing Saddam’s real program in 1990-91 and why Douglas Feith and Richard Perle are essentially representatives of Israel’s Likud party.
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07/01/10 – Kenneth O’Keefe – The Scott Horton Show
Human rights activist Kenneth O’Keefe discusses his reasons for joining the Gaza aid flotilla, his disillusionment with the vaunted Marine Corps honor code, the use of experimental vaccines on unwitting soliders in the Gulf War, terrorist accusations leveled at him and associated organizations by Israel’s defenders and why he will keep trying to run the Gaza blockade until it ends.
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07/01/10 – Robert Higgs – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses the tiresome rants of gloom and doom survivalists, why those who long for a government or economic collapse should be careful what they wish for, why federal spending can’t continue at the current level without a bond market revolt, the none-too-encouraging result of the Soviet Union’s collapse and why the US empire may face gradual cutbacks instead of outright abolition.
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06/30/10 – Ray McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Ray McGovern, former senior analyst at the CIA, discusses the hype surrounding a seemingly benign Russian spy ring in the US, the sorely needed FBI public relations boost from their apparent counter-espionage success, CIA director Leon Panetta’s disincentive for changing the 2007 Iran National Intelligence Estimate and why Iran really was pursuing a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003.
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06/30/10 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Iraqi factional divisions that have prevented a Prime Minister from being seated from the March elections, the regained prominence of former PM’s Ayad Allawi and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, violent popular protests against Iraq’s incompetent government, persistent rumors of Saudi airspace authorization for an Israeli attack on Iran and CIA director Leon Panetta’s misleading claim that Iran has enough uranium for 2 nukes.
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06/29/10 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the cultural meaning of WWII for Americans, nostalgia in Russia for Soviet times, the US and British capitulation to Stalin at the Yalta Conference, why FDR was a senile fool and/or a communist and how the Security Council nations use the UN as a fig leaf for their aggressive actions.
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