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The Stress Blog
“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...
Antiwar Radio: Thomas E. Woods
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...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
9/3/21 Coleen Rowley on the Many Ways 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented
Scott speaks with FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley about the institutional failures that occurred before and after the 9/11 attacks. Rowley believes that there are many ways the attacks could have been prevented ranging from better information sharing between agencies to the locking of cockpit doors. After the attacks, Rowley says bureaucratic changes alone would have been enough to prevent similar attacks from occurring again and been a lot less costly than launching wars and spying on the world’s population. But both Scott and Rowley observe that instead the tragedy was seized upon by people with predefined agendas, something they both find just as morally reprehensible as prior knowledge of the attacks.
Discussed on the show:
- Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- Press For Truth Movie
- Ray Nowosielski interview with Richard Clarke
- The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
- Coleen Rowley’s Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller
- Her second letter to Mueller, right before the invasion of Iraq in 2003
- The Fall by Camus
Coleen Rowley is a retired FBI agent and lawyer who helped expose the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She was honored with TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2002. Find her on Twitter @ColeenRowley.
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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11/13/08 – Patrick Cockburn – The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondant for the Independent, discusses the Iraqi National Intelligence Service threat to sue Ahmed Chalabi, the myth that the ‘surge’ pacified Iraq, the continued scarcity of clean water and electricity in Baghdad, a likely new UN resolution by the new year and how a Shia-dominated government may be strong enough to take over from the U.S.
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11/13/08 – Eric Margolis – The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination?: Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World, discusses the repeating of history in Afghanistan, India’s under-the-radar regional influence and sweetheart nuclear deal, ramifications of a future ‘Pashtunistan’, the precarious economic and political conditions in Pakistan, the possibility of Obama using Bill Clinton as Kashmir peacemaker, the need for a waxing Department of State and waning Pentagon in the foreign policy realm, the Caspian oil pipeline as ‘Great Game’ prize, new accusations about Syria’s nuclear program and the supreme importance of U.S./Russia relations.
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11/12/08 – Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Thornton, Senior Resident Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the origins of the housing bubble, how Bernanke, Greenspan and the rest of the Fed misled the public, the lack of dissent from macroeconomic experts, where the taxpayer-funded bailout money is going and why empires end in bankruptcy.
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11/12/08 – Philip Hammond – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Hammond, author of ‘Darfur: the Dangers of Celebrity Imperialism‘ in the Spiked Review of Books, discusses the folly of liberal ‘humanitarian’ interventionism, why complicated conflicts like that in the Darfur region of Sudan are often described as ‘genocide’ and why waging empire in the name of helping people never does any such thing.
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11/11/08 – Michael Scheuer – The Scott Horton Show
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, discusses the credibility of claims that al Qaeda is planning an attack bigger than 9/11, the logic behind suicide terrorism, why a quick withdrawal from Iraq is unlikely, how U.S. security agencies are hamstrung by porous borders and ports, the role of Nigerian oil in future U.S. intervention Somalia and why al Qaeda wanted Obama to win the presidency.
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11/11/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, author of the important new article ‘Documents Linking Iran to Nuclear Weapons Push May Have Been Fabricated‘ at RawStory, discusses the latest labyrinthine developments in the ‘stolen laptop’ documents story, how the weight of evidence indicates the documents are forgeries in the ‘Nigerian yellowcake’ tradition, the two oft-confused but very different IAEA investigations of Iran’s nuclear program and a future expose on Israeli involvement in the affair.
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11/10/08 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributor to Harper’s magazine, discusses the Obama administration’s mandate to close Gitmo and defang the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the current status of unprecedented executive power, pardons from the Bush administration and possible adverse consequences for pardoned torturers under international law.
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11/10/08 – Woody Powell – The Scott Horton Show
Woody Powell, former executive director of Veterans For Peace, discusses his personal experiences serving in the Korean War, the difficulties and invective associated with anti-war activism in America and the virtues of advocating for peace rather than militarism on Armistice Day.
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