Comments on: John V. Walsh http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/ Interviews of foreign policy experts, writers and activists. Sat, 26 May 2012 22:42:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: robin http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6193 robin Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:41:34 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6193 Paul - there are committed intellectuals from the left who will seriously talk to anyone (except Red-baiters) because the issues are too important and the lives and security of millions of people have been disrupted by the US militarist empire. Petras has readers from a broad international and domestic spectrum - including former military and state department officials sick of the imperial policies as they relate to the Middle East. Its not an 'ism', it is a consistent, coherent analytical framework and dogged accumulation of facts. Paul – there are committed intellectuals from the left who will seriously talk to anyone (except Red-baiters) because the issues are too important and the lives and security of millions of people have been disrupted by the US militarist empire. Petras has readers from a broad international and domestic spectrum – including former military and state department officials sick of the imperial policies as they relate to the Middle East. Its not an 'ism', it is a consistent, coherent analytical framework and dogged accumulation of facts.

]]> By: DrFix http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6189 DrFix Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:30:13 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6189 Erroll, what you and so many others in this so-called "debate" seem to so clearly miss is that the insurance companies AND the Feds are in cahoots to create the very mess we're in right now. Its the old adage of the pot calling the kettle black. You have the government getting its nose into everything in the health-care industry all the while it gets its fair share of kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions and later you'll find these same pols sitting on boards or drawing salaries from big pharma, big insurance etc. etc. etc. Do you want to see things become more affordable? I sure as hell do. But until you get government AND its sugar daddy regulations AND anti-competitive legislation written in cahoots WITH these very insurance companies out of the way you can forget ever seeing anything better or cheaper because the very crooks responsible for this debacle now claim to have the answers. This is hypocrisy of the first order but you seem to have drunk their poisonous kool-aid gladly. Just follow the money and stop listening to that cast of criminals and their tongue wagging lies. Erroll, what you and so many others in this so-called "debate" seem to so clearly miss is that the insurance companies AND the Feds are in cahoots to create the very mess we're in right now. Its the old adage of the pot calling the kettle black. You have the government getting its nose into everything in the health-care industry all the while it gets its fair share of kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions and later you'll find these same pols sitting on boards or drawing salaries from big pharma, big insurance etc. etc. etc. Do you want to see things become more affordable? I sure as hell do. But until you get government AND its sugar daddy regulations AND anti-competitive legislation written in cahoots WITH these very insurance companies out of the way you can forget ever seeing anything better or cheaper because the very crooks responsible for this debacle now claim to have the answers. This is hypocrisy of the first order but you seem to have drunk their poisonous kool-aid gladly. Just follow the money and stop listening to that cast of criminals and their tongue wagging lies.

]]> By: paulBass http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6187 paulBass Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:41:44 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6187 wow its nice to see so many people postin up on the show. alot of new listeners i guess. as for Scott interviewing far leftist. i think he has kept things fairly "balanced" although being a far lefty myself i think most of the really radical left unfortunately have the same hang ups with going on the show as the far right. that is not being able to put the conflicts aside and work tougher on what we all agree on. <a href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com</a>" target="_blank">http://www.scotthortonshow.com</a></a> wow its nice to see so many people postin up on the show. alot of new listeners i guess.
as for Scott interviewing far leftist. i think he has kept things fairly "balanced" although being a far lefty myself i think most of the really radical left unfortunately have the same hang ups with going on the show as the far right. that is not being able to put the conflicts aside and work tougher on what we all agree on.

http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6186 wow its nice to see so many people postin up on the show. alot of new listeners i guess. as for Scott interviewing far leftist. i think he has kept things fairly "balanced" although being a far lefty myself i think most of the really radical left unfortunately have the same hang ups with as the far right. that is not being able to put the conflicts aside and work tougher on what we all agree on. <a href="http://www.scotthortonshow.com" target="_blank">http://www.scotthortonshow.com</a> wow its nice to see so many people postin up on the show. alot of new listeners i guess.
as for Scott interviewing far leftist. i think he has kept things fairly "balanced" although being a far lefty myself i think most of the really radical left unfortunately have the same hang ups with as the far right. that is not being able to put the conflicts aside and work tougher on what we all agree on.

http://www.scotthortonshow.com

]]> By: yuri http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6185 yuri Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:15:37 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6185 Robin, I think Scott has done interviews with, how shall I say it.. the "honest Left". In any case he often has interviews with people he doesn't see eye to eye on every issue but I like your suggestion anyway. In fact I think it would be most useful to have a designed series of interviews each with someone who self-identifies with a different "ism". Robin, I think Scott has done interviews with, how shall I say it.. the "honest Left". In any case he often has interviews with people he doesn't see eye to eye on every issue but I like your suggestion anyway. In fact I think it would be most useful to have a designed series of interviews each with someone who self-identifies with a different "ism".

]]> By: robin http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6184 robin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:08:40 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6184 Scott - Listen to Marycatherine. How about interviewing a committed, life-long leftist anti-imperialist like James Petras, whose dead-on critique of Barack Obama predated the election and inauguration and prepared us for viewing Obama's policies as little more than 'Bush III'? Its easy to criticize the phony-left shills for the Democratic Party, why not open your program up to a real left analysis of the empire from an American anti-imperialist forged in decades of struggle and scholarship? Scott – Listen to Marycatherine. How about interviewing a committed, life-long leftist anti-imperialist like James Petras, whose dead-on critique of Barack Obama predated the election and inauguration and prepared us for viewing Obama's policies as little more than 'Bush III'? Its easy to criticize the phony-left shills for the Democratic Party, why not open your program up to a real left analysis of the empire from an American anti-imperialist forged in decades of struggle and scholarship?

]]> By: Marycatherine Barton http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6183 Marycatherine Barton Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:13:09 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6183 Appreciate this direct reference to the brilliant, scholarly, independent James Petras. I am still hoping that Scott Horton will have him on his show. Talk about being antiwar and anti-imperialist! Appreciate this direct reference to the brilliant, scholarly, independent James Petras. I am still hoping that Scott Horton will have him on his show. Talk about being antiwar and anti-imperialist!

]]> By: yuri http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6182 yuri Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:11:47 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6182 "By the way the libertarians do not have a monopoly on principled criticism of Obama" True and perhaps they should tone that down a bit because it doesn't really help. So, will we see a single issue anti-war movement? "By the way the libertarians do not have a monopoly on principled criticism of Obama"

True and perhaps they should tone that down a bit because it doesn't really help.
So, will we see a single issue anti-war movement?

]]> By: robin http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6181 robin Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:55:13 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6181 By the way the libertarians do not have a monopoly on principled criticism of Obama and the wars: Veteran independent leftist intellectual, James Petras' penetrating essays on Obama the Great Hoax and Obama's Committment to Israel, War and Finance Capital - preceded Obama's inauguration and have been circulating in English and other languages. Petras yanked the phoney clothes off of the emperor long before the rest of us and provided a conceptual frameword for understanding the reactionary, militaristic nature of the Democratic Party. By the way the libertarians do not have a monopoly on principled criticism of Obama and the wars: Veteran independent leftist intellectual, James Petras' penetrating essays on Obama the Great Hoax and Obama's Committment to Israel, War and Finance Capital – preceded Obama's inauguration and have been circulating in English and other languages. Petras yanked the phoney clothes off of the emperor long before the rest of us and provided a conceptual frameword for understanding the reactionary, militaristic nature of the Democratic Party.

]]> By: robin http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/09/04/john-v-walsh-3/comment-page-1/#comment-6180 robin Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:43:50 +0000 http://antiwar.com/radio/?p=3880#comment-6180 Re-Walsh and Hortons' comments about the sociopathic or 'Elmer Gantry'-like traits of politicians in our sham system - where they can mimic the emotions of others ('I feel your pain') or appropriate the sufferings of others to serve their agenda. The medical term is 'Munchhausen Syndrome By Proxy' - where suffering in actually created (up to and including murder) by the sociopaths so they can then come on the scene as 'heros' or at least be the recipients of sympathy and attention by the official community. Until Obama arrived on the scene, Clinton was the master of 'Political Munchausen by Proxy' politics. Now Obama sets up a distraught mother who lost her son in Afghanistan for his 'photo-op' to counter the consequential activism of Cindy Sheehan! Bravo Maestro Barack! How morally repugnant! Re-Walsh and Hortons' comments about the sociopathic or 'Elmer Gantry'-like traits of politicians in our sham system – where they can mimic the emotions of others ('I feel your pain') or appropriate the sufferings of others to serve their agenda. The medical term is 'Munchhausen Syndrome By Proxy' – where suffering in actually created (up to and including murder) by the sociopaths so they can then come on the scene as 'heros' or at least be the recipients of sympathy and attention by the official community. Until Obama arrived on the scene, Clinton was the master of 'Political Munchausen by Proxy' politics. Now Obama sets up a distraught mother who lost her son in Afghanistan for his 'photo-op' to counter the consequential activism of Cindy Sheehan! Bravo Maestro Barack! How morally repugnant!

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