In poor countries, welfare state represents a system where businessmen and statesmen work side by side (to plunder money from the people) The idea of an economic model able to set an improbable combination of economic liberalism with central planning (a middle way...
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Wall Street Journal: Rich Get Richer
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Due to government economic policy: The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices. But that windfall has passed by many Americans. The bottom half of all U.S. households, as...
8/27/19 Gar Alperovitz: the Decision to Nuke Japan
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Historian Gar Alperovitz shares the history of America's use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, many of the top military officers and intelligence officials were adamant at the time that use of the bombs was...
Soldier convicted of massacring 16 Afghans seeks new civilian trial, citing a psychosis inducing anti-malarial drug
by Steven Woskow | Jun 26, 2019 | Blog
I have no idea if this drug caused him to do this, but whatever happened to him the people of Afghanistan suffered the consequences. Now, Bales’ lawyers are using a federal statute that allows convicted service members to challenge their court martial findings in...
6/14/19 Peter Ford on the Jihadis Left in Syria
by Scott Horton | Jun 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Ford about the latest in Syria and Iraq. America and the allied "coalition" have made the same mistake over and over again in the Middle East, says Ford, and President Trump seems to be walking the same path; he claims one day that he wants to...
5,000 Interviews
by Scott Horton | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog
Today on Antiwar Radio, I'll be playing my interview of the Great Gareth Porter from Friday -- interview #317 of Gareth, and number 5,000 overall since 2003 (including now my long-lost first interview from 1999.) That's 8:30 Pacific, KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A....
4/19/19 Matt Taibbi on This Generation’s ‘WMD’
by Scott Horton | Apr 23, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Matt Taibbi about his new book, Hate Inc, written in the aftermath of the media malfeasence around Russiagate. But the media's problems go much deeper, explains Taibbi. Mainstream discussion used to take place in a tightly controlled middle ground...
Good Rand Paul vs. Mike Pompeo on Iran and Al Qaeda
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
Senator Paul to Sec. Mike Pompeo: "Only Congress can declare war." - April 10, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSUVXcf0Q8&feature=youtu.be&ytbChannel=null Rand is absolutely right that Iran is opposed to al Qaeda and ISIS. Bin Ladenite terrorists target...
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Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
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