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Bonnie and Clyde Incarnate
Bonnie and Clyde had a love affair based on murder, mayhem and running from the law. Today, there are two countries in the world whose torrid affair bears a glaring resemblance: America and Israel. Our’s is really a dysfunctional, one-way relationship, though. We...
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Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
7/30/21 Gareth Porter on the Stressing of US-China Relations over Taiwanese Independence
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the tenuous and secretive relationship between the U.S., China and Taiwan. Since the Nixon administration, Porter explains, America has had an official, but mostly tacit, policy of supporting the “one China” principle—but U.S. officials rarely say so publicly. This has left an ambiguity surrounding Taiwan’s status, and during the Obama administration one top Taiwan official in particular suddenly broke with America’s longstanding policy of urging the Taiwanese not to push too hard against the mainland Chinese government. This encouragement has helped erode cross-Strait relations in recent years and has made Taiwan a potential hotspot for U.S. involvement in an open conflict with China. Such a conflict between nuclear superpowers, of course, would be utterly disastrous for all mankind.
Discussed on the show:
- “How Washington’s top Taiwan specialist embraced separatist party leader and opened new cross-Strait crisis” (The Grayzone)
- “How a key Pentagon official turned China policy over to arms industry and Taiwan supporters” (The Grayzone)
Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state. He is the author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and, with John Kiriakou, The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show.
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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09/23/08 – Robert Blumen – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Robert Blumen, writer for LewRockwell.com and Mises.org, and student of the Austrian school of economics, discusses the true cause of inflation, the factors behind price increases, why true economic growth depends on savings not credit expansion, the challenge of where to invest in the midst of this crisis, the depth of the current bailout disaster and why the longer the government tries to delay the inevitable crash, the more painful the recovery will be.
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09/22/08 – Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton – The Scott Horton Show
As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Austrian School economists Robert Murphy and Mark Thornton discuss the financial crisis, the reasons why the alleged solutions will not only fail but make the situation worse, the naive mistake of trusting politicians to regulate the banks, how Fed-chief Bernanke claimed in 2005 that the mortgage industry was solid, the mystery of why Tresury Secretary Paulson’s former company Goldman-Sachs is one of the few survivors of this crisis, the question of whether this is fascism or socialism, the global scramble to dump the dollar, the pending dollar collapse when central banks start dumping American debt, the farce of the Republican ‘free-market’ and the basic premises of the Austrian theory of the business cycle.
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09/22/08 – Philip Giraldi – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism officer and columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses the grossly overstated number of ‘terrorists’ by the War Party, the centuries of the failures of those trying to conquer Afghanistan, the current crises in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Georgia, the exaggeration by the Bush regime of world conflicts to help the McCain campaign and how best to protect Americans from actual terrorists.
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09/19/08 – Stephen Schwab – The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Schwab, professor of history at the University of Alabama, discusses his past work at the CIA, including time with Bob Barr, the changes Barr has made and still needs to make, the empire’s playground of South America, escalating tensions with Russia and the need to rollback the empire.
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09/17/08 – Dahr Jamail – The Scott Horton Show
Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News, discusses the Winter Soldier testimonies, the critical dehumanization process in waging war, the intentional tactics the military uses to foment these views, the complete black-out of the Winter Soldier testimonies by the U.S. corporate media, ‘drop-weapons’ used by soldiers to frame dead civilians as enemies in Iraq, lies told by recruiters to brainwash young soldiers, the lie of the success of the ‘surge’ in a much more fragmented political situation in Iraq and the horrific situations soldiers deal with everyday in Iraq.
Warning: Adult language and situations.
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09/17/08 – Thomas Woods – The Scott Horton Show
Thomas E. Woods, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and co-author of Who Killed the Constitution? and We Who Dared Say No to War, discusses America’s turn from republic to empire in the late 19th century, the conquest of Hawaii, the bogus propaganda of the War Party then and now, Grover Cleveland’s refusal to steal Cuba, the neoconservatives’ pretended reading of Article II which they say grants the president “plenary” war powers, the leading role of war in setting the precedents which render the constitution irrelevant, the horrible competing doctrines of “the living constitution” and “the president has more authority than God” held by liberals and conservatives, Christian support for the torture state and the Democrats’ complete failure to oppose John McCain and the GOP with any credibility.
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09/16/08 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter, independent historian and reporter for IPS News, discusses the probable MEK-NCRI/Israeli origins of the supposed ‘Smoking Laptop‘; origin of all contemporary ‘outstanding questions’ related to Iran’s nuclear program, some reasons why the accusations based around it do not stand up to scrutiny, and the National Intelligence Council’s warning to the White House against the ratcheting up of the war inside Pakistan.
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09/16/08 – Robert Murphy – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Murphy, senior fellow in business and economic studies at the Pacific Research Institute and adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the financial and credit meltdown, the perils of central banking, the reckless risks taken by the banks because they knew the Fed would socialize the costs if they failed, the use of the IRS as a weapon against dissent and the in’s-and-out’s of the inflation game.
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