Monthly Archives: September 2008

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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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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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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Antiwar Radio: Jim Ostrowski

Jim Ostrowski, of LewRockwell.com and FreeNewYork.org calls for the people to innundate the congress in order to try and stop the bailout.

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Antiwar Radio: Lew Rockwell

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, discusses Thomas Jefferson’s theory of inflationary money and the business cycle, the history of fiat money in America and around the world from Marco Polo’s adventures through Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Revolutionary War, 1812-14, Andrew Jackson’s battle with Biddle, Lincoln’s greenbacks, the Gilded Age, progressive era tyranny of Woodrow Wilson, passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the World Wars, Great Depression, Cold War, Terror War, current multi-trillion-dollar bailout, the end of the empire, and the heroic Ron Paul.

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Antiwar Radio: Peter Schiff

As part of Antiwar Radio’s week long series on the economic crisis in association with Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, Peter Schiff, president of Euro-Pacific Capital and former advisor to Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, discusses the coming multi-trillion dollar bailout of the bankers for their bad loans, the America’s addiction to cheap credit, the need for America to start producing more to match our consumption, the government’s fixing of a bubble with another bubble, the case for slashing government and restoring a system of sound money based on gold, and the toxic investments of Credit Default Swaps.

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Antiwar Radio: Jason Kreag

Jason Kreag, staff lawyer with the Innocence Project, discusses the Johnny Lindsey case where he was exonerated after 26 years in prison, the potential causes of erroneous convictions, prosecutorial intentions and incentives, the need for video-taped police interrogations and the factors in false confessions.

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