Doug Bandow discusses the creation of the Vandenberg Coalition, the latest in a long string of neocon think tanks that do little more than promote American interventionism halfway across the world. Bandow reminds us of two strong motivating factors behind this strain of foreign policy: On one hand, there really are a lot of true believers in the American empire—people who think that the U.S. military is a force for good in the world that spreads democracy and maintains relative peace through supremacy. On the other hand, there’s also a huge amount of money to be made for special interest groups as long as the wars keep going. Ending America’s imperial interventionism, then, will require that people see both the human cost of war and also the massive economic costs to everyone except those special interests.

Discussed on the show:

• “Washington War Party Creates Another Organization to Promote Endless Wars” (Cato Institute)
• “The Redirection” (The New Yorker)
• “Let Someone Else Worry About Central Asia” (The American Conservative)

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular contributor at Forbes Magazine, the National Interest, and elsewhere. He’s on Twitter @Doug_Bandow.

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Larisa Alexandrovna, the managing editor of RawStory.com discusses John Negroponte

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The first guest on Antiwar Radio for January 10th, 2007 is William S. Lind, Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, about his anti-interventionist conservatism, 4th generation warfare, American involvement in Ethiopia

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My guest for Tuesday January 9, 2007 is investigative reporter Robert Parry, author of Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and proprietor of Consortiumnews.com on the topic of the U.S. government

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Antiwar Radio returns with 2 new interviews.

First is Jacob Hornberger, the founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, regarding the case of Jose Padilla and the power that the military now claims over the American people.

The second is of Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, on some of Bush

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For the second installment of my new show Antiwar Radio for KAOS 95.9 in Austin and Antiwar.com, I spoke with the libertarian-Republican congressman representing Texas District 14, Dr. Ron Paul (another reason for Texans to be proud).

I asked about the president’s constitutional role in America’s relations with foreign countries, why congress has given all their power away and how a responsible president would have handled September 11th.

MP3 here. (16:12)

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Announcing the debut of Antiwar Radio, to run regularly at Antiwar.com and KAOS Radio 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas.

For the first show, I interviewed the great investigative reporter and author Robert Dreyfuss — who penned last Tuesday’s spotlight article, ‘Bush’s Meeting With a Murderer‘ — about the different groups vying for power in what was once Iraq.

MP3 here. (31:58)

My sound guy (me) didn’t do the best job and my interviewing skills are a little rusty, but these are problems that can soon be resolved.

And thanks to those of you who’ve been asking what’s taking so long! : )