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11/22/19 Doug Bandow on Making Peace with the Rest of the World

by Scott Horton | Nov 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Doug Bandow explains why the pathological need for neocons and neoliberals in Washington to antagonize other powerful countries is so dangerous for America. Russia and China, he says, can both be our allies. It makes no sense for the U.S. military to be involved in...

11/15/19 Jimmy Dore on the Moral Bankruptcy of the Democratic Party

by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to comedian Jimmy Dore about all the problems with the foreign policy positions of the Democratic presidential candidates. He and Scott agree that the only one with a halfway decent antiwar stance is Tulsi Gabbard, who the media has been trying their...

11/15/19 Eric Margolis on the Fall of Communism and the New Cold War

by Scott Horton | Nov 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Eric Margolis about the history of the Soviet Union and its aftermath, in honor of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last week. Margolis reminds us what a mistake the Cold War was, as is the new Cold War that American neocons and...

So What Is A Neoliberal Anyway? w. Neoliberal Project

by Jennifer Monroe | Oct 22, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian

Jeremiah Johnson (director at Neoliberal Project and host of Neoliberal Podcast) and I chat about what exactly is the definition of a neoliberal, the various ways in which neoliberals and libertarians are similar, how we're not (and no we're actually not the same...

Another Giant Non-Scandal — Toldyaso

by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog

Yes, Trump asked the new Ukrainian president to take a look at the firing of the prosecutor who had previously been investigating a natural gas firm that was paying then Vice President-Biden's son Hunter $50,000 per month to sit on their board. No, there is nothing...

‘The answer to a murderer targeting immigrants is…more immigration control, according to the president.’

by Scott Horton | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog

Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason: On Monday morning, Donald Trump reacted to the two recent mass shootings by offering what sounds like a quid pro quo to liberals: Give me my border plans, and I'll give you gun control. This weekend saw two mass shootings in America,...

Dan McAdams on the Media’s Hilarious Gabbard Narrative

by Scott Horton | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog

These idiots. The best they can do is claim that Tulsi Gabbard is some kind of "Russian agent!" and that oh, no, "some rightwingers like her." But what do these rightwingers or libertarians like about her? That she's (relatively) antiwar! That is supposed to be...

Washed-Up Russiagate Hack Isikoff Smashed Even By the Post Over His Latest Melted Scoop

by Scott Horton | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog

Not that the liberals have learned a damn thing after getting burned for the last three years, but, via Bernard, even the Washington Post wasn't going for Michael "Wrote a Book Based on the Steele Dossier" Isikoff's latest claim, that the supposed connection between...

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The Welfare-State Paradox

"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...

The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse

Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...

The Steady Rise in Living Standards

"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...

Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe

The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...

The Business of America: War, War, War!

Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...