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The Stress Blog
Antiwar Radio for 2/18/09: Rep. Ron Paul M.D.
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“You Saved My Life” … A Reason to Keep Reporting – by Aaron Glantz
Dear Friends, After six years of war in Iraq, it is easy to get exhausted and depressed -- to think that all your repeated exposures to the trauma of war are for nothing, that you are fucking yourself up for next to no money for no reason -- Then something happens...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/2/21 Mark Perry on the Pentagon’s Latest Corporate Welfare Boondoggle
Mark Perry discusses the bizarre case of the Stryker, a vehicle used by the U.S. army to transport infantry troops to the battlefield. The Stryker, Perry explains, is a deathtrap: it isn’t heavily armored enough to stand up to real combat, it rolls over easily and it can’t withstand IEDs or tank rounds. What’s more, everyone seems to know this. And yet the Pentagon is spending nearly a billion dollars on a new contract, not to give the Stryker better armor, but to put machine guns on it. Perry describes this as putting a tourniquet on the wrong part of the body, and is emblematic of the kind of wasteful spending that has been draining America’s treasury and putting lives at risk for decades.
Discussed on the show:
- “The Stryker is a ‘deathtrap’ but you’re paying for it anyway” (Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft)
- “The Outpost (2019)” (IMDb)
- “The Pentagon Wars (TV Movie 1998)” (IMDb)
Mark Perry is the author of Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with its Enemies, The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur, and The Pentagon’s Wars. Read his work at The American Conservative Magazine and follow him on Twitter @MarkPerryDC.
This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; Photo IQ; Green Mill Supercritical; Zippix Toothpicks; and Listen and Think Audio.
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Recommended reading
10/20/08 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, author of the blog Free Advice and ConsultingByRPM.com, as well as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, discusses the financial crisis, Credit Default Swaps, the manipulation of modeling systems, the Austrian school economists’ predictions of the housing bubble’s burst, the myth of our ‘free-market,’ why artificial booms lead to busts, the danger of price controls and the case against monetarist economics.
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10/16/08 – Douglas Valentine – The Scott Horton Show
Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program, discusses the CIA’s Phoenix program targeting civilians during the Vietnam war, the similarities between the Phoenix program, the Nazis in France in World War II and the ‘War on Terror,’ the vast difference between policy and operational realities, the tragedy of our support for, and murder of Diem, CIA ‘black propaganda,’ the lies that initiate all American wars, the CIA’s criminal involvement in the drug trade, the corruption of the U.S. Congress and pessimism about the ability of the American people to put government power in check.
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10/16/08 – John L. Esposito – The Scott Horton Show
John L. Esposito, professor at Georgetown University and co-author of Who Speaks For Islam: What A Billion Muslims Really Think, the causes of and misconceptions about Muslim radicalism, religion as an accessory to, not motivation for terrorism, the research behind the facts in the book, the nature of bin Laden’s recruitment pitch, ‘democratic exceptionalism,’ the similarities between Islam and Christian values and the underlying racism of American media and many citizens.
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10/15/08 – Shashank Bengali – The Scott Horton Show
Shashank Bengali, reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the new U.S. African command center AFRICOM, the difficulty in finding a host country, the major crises in Somalia and Congo, China’s role in the African oil grab, the capability of U.S. Army humanitarian aide, the fight against AIDS, the Nigerian delta oil conflict and the spread of the ‘war on terror’ to Africa as bin Laden predicted.
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10/15/08 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show
Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses voter fraud, the accusations against ACORN, the U.S. attorney firings by Karl Rove, different methods of purging voters, the rigging of computer voting machines, ballot printing computer systems and the seven ways to steal back your vote.
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10/14/08 – Tim Dickinson – The Scott Horton Show
Tim Dickinson, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, discusses his article ‘Make-Believe Maverick,’ the early shaping of John McCain’s personality and the McCain ‘brand,’ his similar lineage and ‘daddy complex’ to that of Bush Jr., his not-so-heroic behavior as a POW, how his family connections kept him flying, his choice of Sarah Palin for vice president and how he slept his way to the top.
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10/13/08 – Stan Liebowitz – The Scott Horton Show
Stan Liebowitz, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Managerial Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, discusses the history leading up to the financial crisis, weakening lending requirements in the early ‘90’s, creating the bubble in the late ‘90’s and the moral hazard of socialized risks.
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10/13/08 – Lawrence Wilkerson – The Scott Horton Show
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, (US Army Ret.), former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses the coalition of Oil and Israeli interests in pushing the invasion of Iraq, all the reasons that everyone should have known that the WMD and terrorism pretexts were just that, the disgrace he felt during Powell’s UN speech and his surprise at the positive coverage, the status of Anar al-Islam in Kurdistan before the war, the after the fact creation of al Qaeda in Iraq by Zarqawi and his allies, how he came to understand how the Cheney-Neocon cabal operated – too late, the continued polarization of American politics, the responsibility of David Addington, Jim Haynes, Doug Feith, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Timothy Flanigan and Alberto Gonzales for the torture policy adopted after 9/11, its consequences, John McCain’s pro-torture Detainee Treatment Act, how the administration killed the Iranian peace offer of 2003 and how the administration let Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001.
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