Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses his new book No War For Oil: U.S. Dependency and the Middle East; why it isn’t necessary to secure oil supplies with military force; how US meddling in the Middle East increases oil prices and destabilizes regional governments; why national energy independence is a foolish pursuit; his article “Smoke and Mirrors in Energy Policy;” and how sanctions on Iranian oil exports help China and...
09/30/11 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses his prescient article “A Double Standard for the Ultimate Penalty” about the protests against convicted cop-killer Troy Davis’s execution and the stony silence about US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki’s inclusion on the government’s assassination list (without conviction or even charge); saying goodbye to Fifth Amendment protection against punishment without due process; why the government faces...
02/14/11 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the historical revisionists coming out of the woodwork for Ronald Reagan’s 100 birthday; Reagan’s overrated presidency, from foreign policy to the economy; why the Soviet collapse had more to do with a failed economic model than provocative US policy; how Iran Contra dealt a huge blow to Constitutional checks and balances, with the Executive branch doing an end-run around Congress and the...
07/30/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute and regular contributor to Antiwar.com, discusses the U.S. fight for diplomatic leverage in Afghanistan, why extreme militarization signals the final stage of empire, the many tragedies created by Democrats acting tough and why we need a president like Eisenhower who won't jump headfirst into every foreign conflict.
03/23/10 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the US contribution to violence and political instability in Somalia, how al Qaeda affiliate groups are primarily concerned with local issues and simply use the moniker for prominence and fundraising, nationalist movements that are mislabeled 'Islamic' because mosques are often the only available forum for political dissent and how the US government characterizes Osama bin Laden as irrational in order to dismiss his stated...
04/17/09 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute, discusses the China fear-mongering used to fend off U.S. defense budget cuts, the future of artificial intelligence warfare, the seeming normalcy of U.S. interventionist foreign policy and how Woodrow Wilson ruined the 20th century for everyone.
Ron Paul Interviews Ivan Eland
On the subject of his new book Recarving Rushmore.
05/30/07 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, author of The Empire Has No Clothes, Antiwar.com columnist and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute explains America's policy toward Pakistan and how it has that country on the path to be taken over by religious types, the lack of a hunt for bin Laden and Zawahiri, the failures and fraud of American empire, why Ron Paul is right about the roots of anti-American terrorism, and hopes for a realignment among the Old Right and New Left in opposition...
04/18/07 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland, Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute and author of The Empire Has No Clothes explains the "enemy combatant" status used to imprison Jose Padilla and now put him on trial and the implications for the rest of us.
04/06/07 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
The Independent Institute's Ivan Eland explains the constitutional limitations of the President's foreign policy powers, Speaker Pelosi's trip to Syria, the future of the occupation of Iraq and relations between various states in the Middle East.
02/05/05 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Dr. Eland returns to discuss his new study . Audio Stream MP3 Link
08/26/04 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews the Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty, Dr. Ivan Eland, about the stupid Iraq War, and how not to fight terrorism. Audio Stream MP3 Link
02/28/04 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Ivan Eland about military tribunals, a proper response to terrorism and intervention in Haiti. He is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, the Director of The Center on Peace and Liberty, and OnPower.org. Mr. Eland also writes for Antiwar.com, and is the author of the book, Putting Defense Back into U.S. Defense Policy Audio Stream MP3 Link
08/09/03 – Ivan Eland – The Scott Horton Show
Ivan Eland is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, the Director of The Center on Peace and Liberty, and OnPower.org. He is also the author of Putting Defense Back into U.S. Defense Policy. Unfortunately, Mr. Eland's Interview was lost by the stupid computer. You will just have to read what he has to say.