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Give Obama a Chance
That's what they keep telling me. Something snapped. I got pissed. I came up with this: I cannot for the life of me wrap my mind around the "Obama is anything less than the worst criminal in the world" point of view I keep seeing represented among real people - even...
Oh, Jesus Christ
We are certainly headed for some dark days. Oh yeah, and Hillary Clinton is going to be the Secretary of State.
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
08/29/07 – Nelson Linder – The Scott Horton Show
Nelson Linder, head of the Austin NAACP discusses Ron Paul’s message of liberty and the local cops’ policy of murdering unarmed black folks when they feel like it.
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08/28/07 – Scott Horton – The Scott Horton Show
The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, heroic crusader against the American government’s use of torture and author of the renowned No Comment blog at the Harper’s magazine Website, explains how the Bush/Cheney administration continues to fight for their right to torture people, the roles played by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and likely replacement Michael Chertoff in crafting U.S. torture policy, the overall politicization of the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney scandal and bogus prosecutions of political opponents, NSA/AT&T wiretaps and the ‘State’s Secrets Privilege,’ the Stab in Maliki’s back in Iraq, preparations for war with the Iranians and the legal framework being set up in order for the government to torture them too.
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08/24/07 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow, policy analyst and author of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire, discusses the dangerous vision of Rudy ‘I was there that day’ Giuliani as described in his recent Foreign Affairs article.
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08/22/07 – Corbett Edge O’Meara – The Scott Horton Show
Corbett Edge O’Meara, a defense attorney from Detroit, discusses the horrendous persecution of his client, Omar Shishani, for testifying for the defense in the bogus case of the ‘Detroit Sleeper Cell.’
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08/21/07 – Warren Richey – The Scott Horton Show
Warren Richey, reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, discusses the case against Jose Padilla, the state’s inability to prove the extent of his involvement with al Qaeda and the broad conditions under which the government will now detain an American citizen without trial.
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08/20/07 – Lew Rockwell – The Scott Horton Show
Lew Rockwell, founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses the corruption of the modern conservative movement, the detrimental effects the Federal Reserve System has on the economy, and how it perpetuates the warfare/welfare state.
(Due to non-profit rules a shortened version without the Ron Paul discussion ran on Antiwar.com. This is the whole interview. Just the Ron Paul part of the conversation here.)
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08/17/07 – Rep. Ron Paul – The Scott Horton Show
Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul discusses the economic consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of PTSD and the administration’s betrayal of wounded veterans, how nice it would be if the War Party had to clean up the DU, why the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq as soon as physically possible, the role of the Military-Industrial-Complex in determining foreign policy, the likelihood and possible consequences of war with Iran for our troops in Iraq, our economy, and our liberty, why all the tax money spent militarily ‘securing’ recourses is being wasted due to a mistaken and outdated mercantilist understanding of economics, the failure of the Congressional Democrats to check the war powers of the president, why U.S. intervention on behalf of Israel is bad for us, bad for them and bad for their neighbors, America’s deteriorating relationship with Russia and China and why the U.S. government should stay out of Darfur.
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08/16/07 – James Bovard – The Scott Horton Show
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the Padilla case, torture by the Bush regime and the capacity of the general public to overlook the evidence.
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