Scott Horton Interviews Mark Ames
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Mark Ames, co-editor and writer for The eXiled, discusses the money-making business of war (for the politically connected few), why halfhearted government deregulation of the thoroughly rigged banking system does not create a free market, Alan Greenspan’s lucrative consulting business with the Paulson & Co. hedge fund and how the post-Cold War “peace dividend” was scuttled by the neocon-inspired “unipolar moment.”
MP3 here. (29:27)
Mark Ames is the founding editor of The eXile and co-editor of The eXiled. His articles have appeared in The Nation, Playboy, Daily Beast, Alternet, Radar, The New York Press, and elsewhere. He is the author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion from Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond which became the basis for the critically-acclaimed 90-minute BBC documentary film Going Postal.
Ames is co-author with Matt Taibbi of the book The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia. Ames has made guest appearances on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, Dylan Ratigan’s ABC radio program, Chuck Mertz’s “This Is Hell” show, Scott Horton’s Antiwar Radio show, Michelangelo Signorile’s radio show, KFPK radio, Air America and elsewhere. He is currently at work on a new book for Wiley.
TonyJoseph
April 30th, 2010 at 5:51 am
‘War is a Racket’ – rich men make profits while poor men fight and die – it is the way of all wars!
asldkjf
April 30th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
The War Nerd is John Dolan, a peripatetic contract English professor and writer. There's really no question about it any more. It was a mystery until about two years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Brecher#Brecher…
If that doesn't convince you, there's also podcasts out there of Dolan and of the War nerd–it's the same voice. Same guy.
EJK
May 1st, 2010 at 12:11 am
The best American writer. Can't wait for the new book.
(Mark, missed your take on the Kaczynski crash.)
epppie
May 1st, 2010 at 6:26 am
this was a great discussion until you got to the part about nerds
Hacklheber
May 1st, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Hey! You can diss Greenspan all you want but dissing Saint Johnny Neumann is going too far. Game Theory is not about being negative. It's about being realistic. That's why the prisoners in the prisoner's dilemma should cooperate for max payoff.
Kevin Underwood
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Great interview! Which War Nerd article were you referencing on the Iraq Iran war? I want to read it!
Buddhalovesstains
May 3rd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
"North Korea SMUGGELING weapons to Iran." I forget if Clinton or Net in Yahoo said it but it is really funny. Since when is government to government trade smuggeling? It is really more like snuggeling.