John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to Counterpunch.org, discusses his article “Impeach Obama: A Challenge to Tea Partiers and Antiwar Liberals;” the two-party partisan trap that causes incessant infighting and diverts attention from the real problems; how Obama’s decision to militarily intervene in yet another Sunni Muslim country virtually guarantees more blowback; looking at the UN Libya vote in terms of the represented populations for and against intervention, which turns the 10-5 vote on...
01/17/11 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to Counterpunch.org, discusses the Left's outrage about Sarah Palin's virtual cross hairs (in the wake of the Tucson shootings) and near-silence about the real cross hairs of helicopter gunships and Predator drones killing civilians overseas; the American reverence of government officials, especially in death, and the popular belief in the righteousness of state-sanctioned murder; the spectacle of Obama being cheered like a rock star while delivering his...
Antiwar Radio 3/18/10
Cindy Sheehan, John V. Walsh and Luke Ryland 11-1 Texas time 95.9 in Austin or stream from KAOSRadioAustin.org or Antiwar.com/radio.
03/18/10 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to Counterpunch.org, discusses Paul Krugman’s 'economic chauvinism' regarding China’s currency valuation, provocative US military postures in Central and East Asia, China’s eons-long history of open trade and self defense and why the US should abandon the policy of 'containing' China.
10/29/09 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to Counterpunch.org and Antiwar.com, discusses Democratic Left leaders' frequent visits to Kabul, the inability of a puppet government to be representative, China's preference for international trade over military confrontation and how the USSR was felled by an unworkable centrally planned economy.
09/04/09 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, frequent contributor to CounterPunch.org, discusses Obama's propagandized meeting with the Bizarro World Cindy Sheehan, how the antiwar Left lacks the ideological passion and clarity of libertarians, the permanent cold war mentality in Washington D.C. and the widening divide between Democratic Party leaders and rank and file activists.
02/15/08 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, regular contributor to CounterPunch laments the failures of the progressive Left, paleo Right and libertarians to get their act together in a real antiwar coalition.
06/08/07 – John V. Walsh – The Scott Horton Show
John V. Walsh, Professor of physiology at UMass and regular contributor to Counterpunch, discusses the left and right, the Democrats and Republicans, realignment against the empire, the push for an invasion of the Sudan and that time Bill Clinton bombed their antibiotics factory - sentencing untold numbers of people to death from easily curable diseases.