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7/19/21 Peter McCormack on the Bitcoin Revolution Taking the World by Storm
Peter McCormack discusses the latest developments in the world of Bitcoin. The most important news is that El Salvador moved to make Bitcoin legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar, which McCormack says is huge for its viability as a mainstream currency. Bitcoin should help to solve several problems that have long plagued El Salvador’s economy, and other Latin American countries may well follow suit. More and more people are also spending and accepting Bitcoin around the world, rather than just using it as an investment, especially as payment networks get better. Of course, the U.S. government isn’t terribly happy about any of this, since it threatens the position of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The beautiful thing about Bitcoin, McCormack says, is that there’s nothing they can do to stop it.
Discussed on the show:
- “How Bitcoiners Are Working With El Salvador’s Leaders” (Decrypt)
- “Contra Corner Monetary Arsonists At Work” (David Stockman’s Contra Corner)
Peter McCormack is the host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast. Follow him on Twitter @PeterMcCormack.
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02/17/09 – Jason Ditz – The Scott Horton Show
Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com’s Research Editor, discusses our fundraising drive, giving Obama a chance and the ins and outs of the Israeli elections.
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02/16/09 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods Jr., scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and author of the new book Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse, discusses the economic and historical parallels between the Great Depression and the current economic crises, why the Austrian theory of the business cycle provides the only adequate explanation for both and why government attempts to ameilerate the effects of their intervention can only make matters worse.
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02/12/09 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, discusses the improved security in Baghdad that comes by way of a semi-police state fortified with concrete blast walls, the millions of Iraqi refugees who claim they will never return, the rising discontent among members of Sunni ‘Awakening’ groups, the incredibly high potential for violence in a politically unstable country with armed militias and 50% unemployment and how the numerous U.S. military bases create facts on the ground that make a speedy withdrawal seem unlikely.
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02/11/09 – Aaron Glantz – The Scott Horton Show
Aaron Glantz, co-author of Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, discusses the war experiences of common soldiers ignored by mainstream media, the military’s suicide epidemic and the vast increase in military advertising/recruiting spending.
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02/11/09 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, author of the ‘Smoke and Mirrors‘ column at Antiwar.com, discusses the bogus War on Terrorism, Turkey’s role in Middle Eastern regional politics, the Obama administration’s wishful thinking that a lucky missile strike in Waziristan will kill Osama bin Laden, the continuation of the war in Afghanistan despite a worldwide general consensus that it’s a lost cause and the rumors behind Anthony Zinni’s rescinded job offer to be the Ambassador to Iraq.
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02/11/09 – Chris Floyd – The Scott Horton Show
Chris Floyd, author of Empire Burlesque – High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium, discusses how the Obama administration maintains the Bush policy of using a ‘state secrets’ privilege to prevent torture lawsuits, the suspension of British torture trials following U.S. threats of withholding terrorism information, the new business-as-usual CIA chief Leon Panetta and the little-known history and disastrous consequences of U.S. meddling in Somalia.
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02/10/09 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Independent historian and journalist Gareth Porter briefly discusses his article last week, ‘Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision‘ and his follow up ‘Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans‘ his interaction with a General Petraeus go-between who leaked a different account of the reportedly contentious meeting between President Obama and Generals Odierno and Petreaus, and a subsequent White House denial of the account
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02/09/09 – Steve Clemons – The Scott Horton Show
Steve Clemons, Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and proprietor of the blog The Washington Note, discusses the upcoming Israeli elections, the possible analogue between Nixon going to China and Netanyahu making peace with Palestine, the futility of propping up Mahmoud Abbas and the realpolitik motivations behind a U.S. push for normalized Israel/Arab relations.
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