ParaPolitics

5/16/13 Jim Bovard

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:11:15 +0000

Jim Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses the IRS’s targeting of conservative nonprofit groups; a brief history of presidential administrations that used the IRS to combat political opponents; the terrible tax laws written by Congress; and why the earned income tax credit is a fraud-riddled, stealth-welfare abomination.

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5/16/13 Eric Margolis

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:55:11 +0000

Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the results of Pakistani elections; the relatively poor showing of cricket star and anti-corruption champion Imran Khan; the Pakistani army’s heavy losses while fighting a US proxy war in the northwest tribal areas; probable US influence on key Pakistani appointments under new prime minister Nawaz Sharif; [...]

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5/16/13 Will Grigg

admin — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:44:24 +0000

Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the government’s persecution of middle-aged quilt maker Rita Hutchens in supposedly Constitution-loving Idaho; local police acting like an army of occupation in a foreign country; and how you can donate to support Will’s continuing efforts to chronicle police brutality and corruption.

ScottHortonShow

5/15/13 Ray McGovern

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:45:35 +0000

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses the scores of Guantanamo prisoners being denied the right to “escape” by starving themselves to death; how Obama could close Guantanamo – if he really wanted to; using civil disobedience to effect political change; why Americans remain almost completely ignorant of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty in 1967; [...]

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5/14/13 Ralph Hutchison

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:42:29 +0000

Ralph Hutchison, coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, discusses the three nuclear weapons protestors facing long prison sentences for symbolically defacing a building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge; the incredibly poor security at nuclear weapons facilities; why the US still has thousands of weapons on hair-trigger alert decades after [...]

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5/14/13 Marcy Wheeler

admin — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:19:48 +0000

Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the DOJ’s surreptitious collection of Associated Press phone records after two reporters scooped the White House on the foiled “UndieBomb 2.0″ plot; the Saudi undercover infiltrator (on the payroll of the British and Saudis) at the center of the alleged AQAP terrorism plot; the Obama administration’s war on (unflattering) leaks and [...]

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5/13/13 Tom Devine

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:20:17 +0000

Tom Devine, Legal Director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), discusses the US government’s attempts to silence whistleblower Robert MacLean, a former air marshal; Maclean’s exposure of critical DHS security lapses and generally stupid policies in 2003-2006; the “civil war” within the Obama administration on free speech/whistleblower protection measures; and MacLean’s significant – and surprising [...]

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5/13/13 Christopher Coyne

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:07:47 +0000

Christopher J. Coyne, F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University, discusses his paper on “The Origins of the Permanent War Economy;” and how the military, labor unions and industry have enabled “perpetual war for perpetual peace” since WWII.

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5/10/13 Charles Goyette

admin — Sat, 11 May 2013 05:16:06 +0000

Charles Goyette, author of Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America’s Free Economy, discusses Ron Paul’s radio spots appearing on 125 stations nationwide that are giving AM radio listeners a much needed dose of sanity from the usual blowhards spouting mindless Karl Rove talking points; the Austrian school of economics on booms, busts [...]

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5/9/13 Patrick Cockburn

admin — Sat, 11 May 2013 05:01:10 +0000

Journalist Patrick Cockburn discusses why Iraq may be sliding into a civil war worse than in Syria; Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s “government of thieves;” the violent crackdown on Iraqi Sunni protestors who tried staging their own Egypt-style peaceful revolution; the Al-Qaeda associated fighters traversing the porous Iraq-Syria border; and the hastening fragmentation of Iraq into [...]

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