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Post election musings, great calls from the Stress Blog Posse and an interview with my favorite, Dr. Gareth Porter. MP3 here.
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4/21/21 Edward Hasbrouck on Abolishing the Draft Once and for All
Scott interviews Edward Hasbrouck about the effort to finally abolish America’s “selective service” requirement, the modern-day remains of what was once the draft. Hasbrouck explains how, after Nixon abolished the draft in the 1960s, Jimmy Carter reinstituted the system we have today, partially to combat national anxiety over the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis. Hasbrouck says that what the draft really is is an assurance to America’s war planners that there will always be an unlimited supply of infantry troops to fight any war the government decides to wage. Taking this power away means putting some of the power to decide when the U.S. will actually fight a war back in the hands of the American people, where it belongs.
Discussed on the show:
- “‘Selective Service Repeal Act’ Introduced in Congress” (Antiwar.com)
- “Red Dawn (1984)” (IMDb)
- Bill Texts: US SB1139
Edward Hasbrouck is a regular writer at Antiwar.com and maintains the blog, Resisters.info.
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
05/09/07 – David Henderson – The Scott Horton Show
The Wartime Economist David R. Henderson explains the capitalist peace theory, Iran and opportunity cost and America’s relationship with China.
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05/07/07 – Sen Mike Gravel – The Scott Horton Show
Former Alaska Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel discusses his plan for the Congress to criminalize the Iraq war, the cowardice of the Congress, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards’s aggressive position against Iran, his proposal for opening of friendly relations with them instead, how the Iraq war has strengthened Iran’s position in the region, the neoconservatives’ doctrine of global hegemony, Iran’s nuclear program, his plan for direct democracy and the U.S. military’s war against their veterans.
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05/03/07 – Greg Palast – The Scott Horton Show
Greg Palast, investigative reporter for the BBC, Guardian newspapers and Harper’s, and author of Armed Madhouse, discusses GOP efforts to prevent soldiers from voting and the international oil politics surrounding America’s relationships with Venezuela, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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05/02/07 – Jonathan Schwarz – The Scott Horton Show
Jonathan Schwarz, author of Our Kampf and the blog A Tiny Revolution, reviews former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet’s book At the Center of the Storm.
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04/30/07 – Doug Bandow – The Scott Horton Show
Antiwar.com regular and Foreign Follies author Doug Bandow dismisses our government’s ridiculous narrative about why the Terroristsâ„¢ are at war with the United States.
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04/27/07 – Scott McConnell – The Scott Horton Show
American Conservative magazine editor Scott McConnell discusses the paleo-conservative antiwar movement, the neconservatives and the Republican Party, his own roots as a neocon before turning against interventionism at the end of the Cold War, his new article “Algeria: The Model,” and the end of American empire.
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04/27/07 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show
Journalist and historian Gareth Porter explains the the massive loopholes in the Democrat’s bogus withdrawal plan, the false premise of both parties that al Qaeda in Iraq would be anything but doomed if the U.S. left, the question of neocon malevolence versus incompetence, the possibility of war with Iran, whether talks with that country could just be used as a further excuse for war when they “fail,” the first Democratic presidential debate blues and the common assumption that if the U.S. did leave, that the civil war will get worse.
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04/26/07 – George McGovern – The Scott Horton Show
Former Senator George McGovern compares Iraq to the war in Vietnam and explains that he’s glad to see the Democrats acting more like him in their opposition to the war.
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