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The Great Credit-Crunch Hoax of 2008
by Robert Higgs Robert Higgs is senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. He is also a columnist for LewRockwell.com. His most recent book is Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of...
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
8/13/21 Joseph Solis-Mullen: China Won’t Be Taking Over the World
Joseph Solis-Mullen discusses the claim that America must now turn its attention toward China as the new threat of global hegemony. War hawks will cite China’s growing economic supremacy, many alleged human rights abuses and supposed imperialistic designs on its neighbors. To some extent, this characterization is true: Solis-Mullen grants that China’s government can be extraordinarily abusive to its people, and says that he wouldn’t be surprised if it tried to take over Taiwan. But in general, there are simply way too many problems with the narrative that China is an imperialistic threat to the West. Most importantly, he explains, China’s economy is teetering on a knife’s edge—years of bad debt, bad monetary policy and misallocation of centrally-planned resources, combined with a catastrophically unbalanced population pyramid, make China’s future as an economic superpower anything but certain. Most of this fear mongering, Solis-Mullen concludes, is simply propaganda designed to give the American people another bogeyman to fear, and to help line the pockets of the arms manufacturers.
Discussed on the show:
- “China Won’t Be Taking Over the World” (Mises Institute)
Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist and author. Follow all his work at his website.
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07/10/08 – Alan Bock – The Scott Horton Show
Alan Bock, author of the weekly column Eye on the Empire for Antiwar.com, discusses the question of whether the U.S. will attack Iran, the hurdles put up by the military brass to the neocons, the dismal shape of the military, the likely disaster to unfold in the event of war, William Odom, the shaky relationship between Russia and the U.S., how Russia may react to an attack on Iran and the debacles of American intervention throughout Africa.
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07/10/08 – Philip Weiss – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Weiss, syndicated columnist, author of the blog MondoWeiss and the book American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps, discusses the touchy subject of the Israel Lobby and Jewish power in American politics, the difficulty Americans face in criticizing Israel due to the smear of ‘antisemitism,’ the centrality of Israel policy to the neoconservatives, majority Jewish-American support for the takeover of Jerusalem, Barack Obama’s pandering to the Lobby, the relative peace position of the Olmert government compared to the U.S. War Party, the Lobby-Christian Zionist alliance, the brutality of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, the cause of the media blackout on the occupation, the new J-Street lobby and Israel’s conflict with Iran.
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07/09/08 – Wade Boese – The Scott Horton Show
Wade Boese, research director of the Arms Control Association and contributing writer to Arms Control Today, discusses the missile defense system being implemented in Poland and the Czech Republic, under the facade of defense from Iran while actually threatening Russia and China, the current and future status of Iran’s missile capabilities, the reality that Iran has no reason to attack the west anyway, the threat still posed by U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the unwillingness of the Bush war party to reduce U.S. nuclear weapons despite the START Treaty with Russia initiating the process, possible changes to U.S. nuclear posture by the two presidential candidates, the futility of missile countermeasures and how an effective missile defense system would likely only increase U.S. aggressiveness.
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07/08/08 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the outrageous new FISA amendments, relative criminality of Nixon’s wiretapping crimes to Bush’s and relative courage of the Congress then to now, the lack of outrage among the population at large, the massive imperial court surrounding Washington DC and America’s massive warfare-welfare-police state.
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07/07/08 – Carah Ong – The Scott Horton Show
Carah Ong, Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses the new offer to Iran by the P5+1, the War Party’s numerous propagandists, the current drum-beat towards war, the question of Iran’s pre-2003 nuclear weapons program, the cat and mouse game of accusations the U.S. is playing with the IAEA and Iran, the need for cross-cultural exchange with Iran and the sanction/blockade resolution pending in Congress.
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07/04/08 – Robert Dreyfuss – The Scott Horton Show
Robert Dreyfuss discusses the failures of American intervention and it’s recent promotion by Barack Obama, what an Obama presidency might look like including the possibility of keeping Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense, the dynamics of the American struggle for strategic global dominance, how American power as an example rather than a threat works much better for building international relations and his belief that chances of war with Iran are quite low despite all the recent hype.
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07/04/08 – Michael Ostrolenk – The Scott Horton Show
The Liberty Coalition’s Michael Ostrolenk of the American Conservative Defense Alliance explains ten reasons why conservatives should oppose any U.S. attack on Iran and discusses the Campaign for New Policy With Iran.
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07/03/08 – Ryan Dawson – The Scott Horton Show
Ryan Dawson of Anti-Neocons.com discusses the tragic 9/11 kook movement and their wasted efforts, how the neocons morphed 9/11 lies into their Iraq invasion lies, the Israelis’ prior knowledge of the attacks, U.S. policy toward Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, the rape of Russian industry by the oligarchs in the 1990s, the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, in London and the continuation of the War Party by both presidential candidates.
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