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Antiwar Radio 5/29/09: Jim Lobe and Ron Paul
1-3 Central 95.9 in Austin, or http://Antiwar.com/radio
Antiwar Radio 5/28/09: Gareth Porter and Larisa Alexandrovna
1-3 central 95.9 in Austin or Antiwar.com/radio
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
11/19/21 Peter Van Buren on Why China’s Not Invading Taiwan and How Absurd the Russiagate Story Was From the Beginning
On Antiwar Radio this past Sunday, Scott interviewed Peter Van Buren about two articles he wrote on Taiwan. Van Buren laid out the reasons he believes a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is unlikely. Scott’s slot of airtime only runs 30 minutes. But they ended up talking for an additional hour about the absurdity of Russiagate. The entire interview is presented here in full.
Discussed on the show:
- “Taiwan Is Not About China” (The American Conservative)
- “Taiwan Means War Only If We Want It To” (The American Conservative)
- “Durham Indicts Danchenko” (The American Conservative)
- Fear by Bob Woodward
- The Manchurian Candidate IMDb
- “The US makes the rules, and Syria massacre was no exception” (Responsible Statecraft)
Peter Van Buren worked for 24 years at the Department of State including a year in Iraq. He is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and the novel Hooper’s War. He is now a contributing editor at The American Conservative magazine.
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; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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Recommended reading
05/18/10 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses Bill Clinton’s definition of terrorism: when regular people act like governments do, the Republican Party’s inability to criticize law enforcement during the Waco Congressional hearings, why the libertarian movement is stuck in limbo and the large portion of tea party protesters that love government when it is warring, wiretapping or waterboarding.
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05/18/10 – Muhammad Sahimi – The Scott Horton Show
Muhammad Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California, discusses the Iran/Turkey/Brazil enriched uranium swap agreement, the predictable negative reception from Europe and the US, further demands upon Iran and continuing sanctions meant to queer the deal, Hillary Clinton’s last minute attempt to dissuade Turkey and Brazil from cooperating with Iran and why arguing for Iran’s rights under the NPT is not an endorsement of Ahmadinejad or the ayatollahs.
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05/14/10 – Matthew Harwood – The Scott Horton Show
Washington DC-based writer Matthew Harwood discusses the degraded moral principles in the US evident from the American public’s assent to torture, the prohibition against torture by Washington and Lincoln in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the limited investigations focused on ‘a few bad apples’ instead of the torture choreographers in the Bush administration.
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05/14/10 – Chris Hedges – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, discusses the antiwar movement’s many mistakes that have rendered it ineffective, the slow-motion fascist coup d’etat in the US, the dangers of unfettered capitalism, the pros and cons of secession movements and the near-unanimous Congressional approval of the extrajudicial assassination of US citizens.
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05/13/10 – Max Keiser – The Scott Horton Show
Former Wall Street broker Max Keiser discusses the ongoing worldwide currency wars, how the large US dollar reserves held by Asian countries function as defense against potential IMF economic intervention, how the dollar’s reserve currency status allows the US to incur enormous debts, the diminishing returns of deficit spending in its ability to prop up the broader economy, why rising commodity prices are aberrations in an otherwise deflationary environment, why many Americans are renouncing their citizenship to live abroad, the domestic financial terrorism at work behind the DOW’s recent 1000 point drop, financial fraud disguised as “market making,” the origins of the “plunge protection team” and why boycotting Coke and driving its stock to zero is not only possible but desirable.
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05/12/10 – Robert Parry – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Parry, founder of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses new evidence that Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign struck a deal with Iran to extend the hostage crisis until after the election, quid pro quo arms deals between US-proxy Israel and Iran prior to the Iran Contra scandal, the heavy CIA influence in Reagan’s campaign and subsequent administration and why George H.W. Bush was much more ‘in the loop’ than he admits.
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05/12/10 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the pitfalls his ‘Audit the Fed‘ amendment faces during the legislative process, vastly increased public awareness of the Federal Reserve and central banking, gold’s increase in value relative the dollar and why the US empire would be impossible to maintain without the Fed’s ability to monetize debt.
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05/11/10 – Grant F. Smith – The Scott Horton Show
Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the newly declassified GAO report (from 1978) on the diversion of US nuclear material to Israel, marginal investigations and possible coverups by the FBI and CIA, prosecutorial immunity for high-profile Americans who commit crimes for Israel’s benefit, billionaire Haim Saban’s considerable influence on the Democratic Party and why LBJ’s political debt to fundraiser Abraham Feinberg probably explains his disdain for the NUMEC investigation.
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