Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Show: Will Grigg and Robert Pape

Will Grigg and Robert Pape will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Wednesday, October 1st.

Grigg will discuss his book, Liberty in Eclipse: The Rise of the Homeland Security State at 12:15PM Eastern and Pape will discuss his book, Dying to Win at 1:15PM Eastern.

Will Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the founder and editor of The Right Source and Robert Pape is a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and is known for his work on international security affairs.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

Antiwar Radio: Sydney Schanberg

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Sydney Schanberg discusses his article “John McCain and the POW Cover-Up,” the hundreds of U.S. POWs and MIAs knowingly left in Vietnam and Laos after U.S. withdrawal, Arizona Senator John McCain’s suppression of the truth surrounding the abandonment of missing soldiers, personal reasons McCain may have for wanting to keep the records secret, the complicity of the mainstream media and thousands within the government in refusing to address this issue, McCain’s history of not supporting the VA system, the 900 U.S. soldiers left behind in Korea and the constant lying to Americans by our government.

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Antiwar Radio: Scott Horton

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and journalist and blogger for Harper’s magazine, discusses John McCain’s position on torture legislation, the fifth prosecutor to quit the Guantanamo kangaroo court system and the HBO premier of the Academy Award winning documentary, “Taxi To The Dark Side,” which exposes the murder of a young Afghan taxi driver at the hands of the U.S. Army.

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The Show: Worthington and Porter

ANTIWAR RADIO: Andy Worthington and Gareth Porter on the Scott Horton Show at 12pm Eastern.

Worthington will discuss latest the latest human rights violations at Guantánamo at 12:15PM Eastern. Porter will discuss the Bush’s administrations failure to capture Osama bin Laden at 1:15PM Eastern.

Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on U.S. national security policy.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

Antiwar Radio: Ken Menkhaus

Ken Menkhaus, Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College, discusses the crisis in Somalia [.pdf], 2.5 million people on the brink of starvation, the disarray in U.S. humanitarian, counter-terrorism and state building policy within Somalia, disproportionate response to a slight pretext and resulting widespread anti-Americanism where there was none before, Somaliland and the catch 22 of giving humanitarian aid.

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Antiwar Radio: Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, discusses the Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) being negotiated with Iraq to allow the U.S. military to stay forever, demands for total legal immunity and at least 58 military bases, the escalating rhetoric against Iran, the danger in sending the army into Pakistan and Bush’s continued failure in negotiating with North Korea.

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The Show: The other Scott Horton, Sydney Schanberg and Jeff Huber

The other Scott Horton, Sydney Schanberg and Jeff Huber will be the featured guests on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Monday, September 29th.

Horton will discuss the premiere of the HBO documentary movie, Taxi to the Dark Side at 12:00PM Eastern, Schanberg will discuss his recent article published in The Nation, “McCain and the POW Cover-up” at 12:15PM Eastern and Huber will discuss George W. Bush’s legacy at 1:15PM Eastern.

The other Scott Horton is an international human rights lawyer and contributing editor to Harper’s magazine, Sydney Schanberg is a journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia and has worked for the New York Times and Newsday as an associate editor and Jeff Huber U.S. Navy (Retired) commanded an E-2C Hawkeye squadron and was operations officer of a Navy air wing and an aircraft carrier. Jeff’s essays have been required reading at the U.S. Naval War College where he earned a Master of Arts degree in neoconservative studies in 1995.

The Scott Horton Show airs Monday through Friday from 12PM-2PM Eastern on KAOS 92.7FM. Additional feeds and archives available at Antiwar Radio.

The Austrian School on the Economic Crisis

Last week I was honored to be asked by Ron Paul‘s Campaign for Liberty if we could arrange to work together on a project to interview the best of the Austrian school of economics, whose understanding and love of capitalism necessitates their complete and total opposition to corporate welfare of any description. And so we did.

What causes the business cycle? Is the bailout necessary? How does fractional reserve banking work? What is the relationship between inflationary money and empire? Is everything wrong in the world Woodrow Wilson’s fault? Is there a better way?

The name links below are to the individual interview entries at ScottHortonShow.com, the MP3 files there and after the dates below.

Mark Thornton and Robert Murphy, Monday, September 22, 2008 MP3 here.

Robert Blumen, Tuesday, September 23, 2008 MP3 here.

Peter Schiff, Wednesday, September 24, 2008 MP3 here.

Lew Rockwell, Thursday, September 25, 2008 MP3 here.

Rep. Ron Paul and Robert Higgs, Friday, September 26, 2008 MP3 here and here.

See the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s excellent Bailout Reader here.

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Antiwar Radio: Rep. Ron Paul

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Rep. Ron Paul discusses the current financial crisis, payoffs to special interests and arm-twisting in congress to get the next 700 billion dollar bailout through, the role of the war budget in helping to inflate the dollar bubble, the difficulty in getting the media and politicians to understand Austrian monetary theory, how the Fed’s policies send false signals to people in business, leading to bad investments across various markets, necessitating a correction (recession) for prices to reflect reality again, the inflation/heroin junky analogy, the Fed bureaucrats’ inflated belief in themselves, his proposal to re-legalize competing currencies in the free market, the possibility of creating a new Gold Commission [.pdf], and some limited success in teaching congressmen about it.

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Antiwar Radio: Robert Higgs

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with the Campaign for Liberty, Robert Higgs, senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government and Depression War and Cold War, discusses the relationship between the inflation of World War One and the roaring ‘20’s and the Great Depression, Fed chief Ben Strong’s deal with the Bank of England’s Montague Norman to inflate in the 1920s in order to help England and how this created the stock market bubble (and others) in the 20s, some of the ways that the near-totalitarian New Deal interventions of Wilsonian Republican Herbert Hoover and Wilsonian Democrat Franklin Roosevelt compounded and prolonged the depression, the myth of World War II ending the Great Depression, the Korean War and switch from World War to Cold War, the state’s scare tactics to strong-arm government growth, and chaotic interventionism in the market and the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

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