Scott Horton Interviews Doug Bandow

November 13th, 2008

Doug Bandow, author of Foreign Follies on Antiwar.com, discusses the need for a neocon purge from the Republican Party, the unsustainable U.S. empire of military bases, the failure of Bush diplomacy with North Korea, creating a political climate receptive to peace with Iran, Obama’s post-election hawkishness and the lessons lost from WWI on entangling alliances.

MP3 here. (42:58)

Doug Bandow is a Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance and author of Foreign Follies on Antiwar.com.

Posted in Bush, Empire, Neocons, North Korea, Obama, Republicans, World War I | 2 Comments »

Scott Horton Interviews Philip Hammond

November 12th, 2008

Philip Hammond, author of “Darfur: the Dangers of Celebrity Imperialism” in the Spiked Review of Books, discusses the folly of liberal “humanitarian” interventionism, why complicated conflicts like that in the Darfur region of Sudan are often described as “genocide” and why waging empire in the name of helping people never does any such thing.

MP3 here. (36:16)

Philip Hammond, a senior lecturer in media and communications at London South Bank University, is the author of Media, War and Postmodernity.

Posted in Africa, Darfur, Media, Preemptive War | 3 Comments »

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