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Antiwar Radio: 4/09/09: Gareth Porter
Listen live 1-3 Texas time on KAOS Radio 95.9 FM in Austin, or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/Radio.
Antiwar Radio: Kevin Zeese
Kevin Zeese, president of Common Sense for Drug Policy, discusses Nelson Rockefeller’s contribution to mandatory minimum drug sentencing, the losing proposition of continued drug prohibition, Joe Biden’s drug-warrior credentials and the successful Dutch and Swiss...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
10/01/21 Peter Van Buren on the Stages of America’s Imperial History
Scott is joined by Peter Van Buren to discuss some recent articles he wrote for The American Conservative. Van Buren used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to reflect on his experience on that day, as well as how the attacks fit into the larger story of America’s quest for global dominance. Scott and Van Buren also discuss the future of this quest. Finally, Van Buren shares a story of how a job he was tasked with forced him to confront the truth about America’s role in the world.
Discussed on the show:
- “It Looks Like We Forgot” (The American Conservative)
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- “9/11 was a test. The books of the last two decades show how America failed.” (Washington Post)
- American Raj Liberation Or Domination? by Eric Margolis
- “Peter Bergen is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy” (Antiwar.com)
- 24 – IMDb
- “The Widowed And The Fatherless” (The American Conservative)
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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09/24/09 – Sauvik Chakraverti – The Scott Horton Show
Indian Austro-libertarian Sauvik Chakraverti discusses India’s election law which only admits socialist parties, their problem of having too few urban centers that become overcrowded and expensive, the disastrous transportation infrastructure, his hope to one day open an Austrian economic institute in India, the need to open borders and trade with Pakistan and China.
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09/23/09 – Brad Friedman – The Scott Horton Show
Brad Friedman, author of BradBlog.com, discusses, war, peace and our bogus left-right political spectrum.
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09/23/09 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative journalist Philip Weiss discusses the divide between establishment foreign policy realists and neocons on Israel/Palestine issues, the Goldstone fact-finding mission‘s conclusion on Israeli crimes in Gaza, the ability of narrowly focused interest groups to dominate U.S. policy and the hard reality of life in the Gaza Strip.
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09/23/09 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses the overwhelming popular support for auditing the FED, the surreptitious method of funding wars through inflation instead of direct taxation, the case for withdrawing from Afghanistan and Ben Bernanke’s refusal to change course and acknowledge flaws in his economic theory.
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09/22/09 – Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi & Joe Lauria discuss the MSM’s refusal to investigate Sibel Edmonds’s blockbuster allegations, the wide and deep bipartisan corruption at the highest levels of U.S. government, how big media’s money and influence is needed to assist in pushing the story forward, the close working relationship between the American-Turkish Council and AIPAC and how Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped turn U.S. government officials into foreign intelligence assets.
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09/22/09 – Jim Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the post 9/11 roundup and detention of innocents, the FBI practice of searching the phonebook to find Muslim ‘suspected terrorists,’ the minor immigration violations turned into long prison terms through coerced confessions, how John Ashcroft expanded the definition of ‘treason’ to include criticism of government actions and the persistence of ‘sovereign immunity’ claims in the post-Enlightenment Western world.
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09/18/09 – Will Grigg – The Scott Horton Show
Will Grigg, author of the blog Pro-Libertate and the book Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the rise of the American police state, how Nixon’s war on crime/drugs changed law enforcement culture, why the drug war must end, and 21st century fascism and class warfare.
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09/17/09 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses his new film ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America,’ simulations that indicate nuclear war would be more destructive than previously thought, how the practice of killing civilians en masse in WWII became the premise of U.S. nuclear war planning, cancellation of the European missile defense shield and the staggering difference in destructive force between an H-bomb and every other weapon preceding it.
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