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Pakistani’s are Dying: For What? For Whom? Why?
From Joe Briggs at Political Chowder.
Antiwar Radio: 4/09/09: Gareth Porter
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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/27/21 Peter Van Buren: There Will Be Another Afghanistan
Scott talks with Peter Van Buren about the situation in Afghanistan. Van Buren explains that many of the people tasked with working on the Afghanistan War were, in fact, working to cover up their own role in the war. And that these individual failures played off each other to create one massive failure. On top of that, Van Buren argues that policymakers were entirely removed from the costs of the war. And because of that, Van Buren predicts we will soon find ourselves in a similar conflict.
Discussed on the show:
- We Meant Well by Peter Van Buren
- The Ghost of Tom Joad by Peter Van Buren
- Hooper’s War by Peter Van Buren
- Van Buren’s blog
- “Nation-Building, the Washington Generals of Warfare Strangely Preferred by Washington Generals” (American Spectator)
- NPR interview Van Buren about his book We Meant Well
- Terry Gross’ interview with CNN’s Clarissa Ward
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
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; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio.
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09/16/09 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert P. Murphy, scholar at the Mises Institute and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, discusses the 2008 bank bailout, interest paid on FED deposits provides disincentive for bank lending, the danger of massive unemployment and inflation, why the Fed’s boom-bust cycles keep getting worse and why Cap-n-Trade is a bunch of crap.
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09/16/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet, discusses the massing of Indian troops on the India/China border, how nearly every border dispute outside the Western world stems from British imperialism, the little-known Chinese presence in Kashmir and the difficulty in keeping tabs on the ‘finger in every pie’ U.S. foreign policy.
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09/15/09 – Daniel Lakemacher – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lakemacher, founder of the website WarIsImmoral.com, discusses his conscientious objector (CO) discharge from the U.S. Navy, how the experience of working at Guantanamo and (independently) learning about the libertarian ‘non-aggression principle‘ changed his mind about war and justice, the process of becoming a CO and how the military defines morality in terms of obedience/disobedience.
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09/15/09 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Internationally syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the terrorist safe-haven and failed state of Somalia, U.S. mission creep on the African continent, the questionable legal authority of assassination via airstrike, Afghanistan’s fraudulent election and popular discontent in Pakistan against U.S. influence.
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09/15/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses his article ‘IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Documents Were Forged,’ the admission of an IAEA official that the ‘smoking laptop’ contents were compiled from multiple sources and the mainstream media’s tendency to play fast and loose with the facts on Iran.
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09/15/09 – Rebecca Vilkomerson – The Scott Horton Show
Rebecca Vilkomerson, National Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, discusses the activist campaign to stop Caterpillar from selling bulldozers to Israel, what interested people can do to help promote peace, how the peace party can learn from the organizational and media saturation successes of the war party and the importance of criticizing anti-Semitism as well as those who misuse the charge (see MuzzleWatch).
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09/11/09 – Adam Szyper-Seibert – The Scott Horton Show
Adam Szyper-Seibert, counselor and office manager at Courage to Resist, discusses Lt. Ehren Watada’s successful resistance to an Iraq deployment, the year-long waiting list for treatment at the VA, the fraternal bonds that keep reenlistment rates high, increased military success (since WWII) in training soldiers to be hate-driven killers and the ‘Ft. Bragg 50”³ who are held without charges in degrading conditions.
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09/11/09 – Anthony Gregory – The Scott Horton Show
Anthony Gregory, research analyst at the Independent Institute, discusses the numerous liberties lost in the new millennium, the U.S.-resident Muslims held on ‘material witness‘ grounds after 9/11, Patriot Act and FISA amendment increases to government power and how Congressional authorization for the use of force is worse than a declaration of war.
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