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Rep. Ron Paul receives the ultimate recommendation: David Horowitz’s condemnation.

Some of my best friends are libertarians and the greatest intellectual influence on me was Hayek. However, in practical political matters, libertarians tend to live in alternate universe, without regard for the real world consequences of their actions. Ron Paul – the only Libertarian in Congress – is a disgrace. He has waged a war against America’s war on terror, in lockstep with the left, and against the state of Israel, the frontline democracy in this war.

Actually, Ron Paul is not a capital-L Libertarian, he’s a Republican, but whatever. The real laugher in here is Horowitz’s assertion that Friedrich Hayek is his “greatest intellectual influence.” That’s rather like Al Sharpton citing Thomas Aquinas as his lodestar.

J.D. Cash, an investigative reporter for the McCurtain Gazette, discusses his investigation and recent developments into the story of the “Aryan Republican Army” neo-Nazi bank robbery ring (many of whom were undercover cops and informants) and their collaboration with Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, resulting in the deaths of 168 people and one of the largest cover-ups in American history. My previous interviews of Cash here.

MP3 here. (28:45)

Edward Peck discusses America’s newfound “diplomacy” with Iran and Syria, the situation in Iraq, the Bush regime’s lies about North Korea’s “uranium enrichment program,” and the possibility of war with Iran.

MP3 here. (19:06)

Peck, a former U.S. chief of mission in Iraq and former ambassador to Mauritania, was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration.

Newsweek‘s Dan Ephron discusses his story “Failing Our Wounded” about the neglect of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed medical center and overall failures of the V.A..

MP3 here.

Dan Ephron is a national security correspondent for Newsweek.

From Skopje, Macedonia, Christopher Deliso discusses the Balkan Wars, the criminal/farcical international court system, the status of Kosovo, Bill Clinton’s missing mass graves and alliance with Osama, the complete failure of Western intervention to improve anything for anyone, the criminalization of speech in Germany and France and their attempts to foist their “hate” laws on all of Europe, and possible reverberations for our forgotten imperial missions in the event of war with Iran.

MP3 here. (54:00)

Balkanalysis.com director Christopher Deliso has lived and traveled widely in SE Europe and has a master’s degree with distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University.

His many Balkan-related articles have appeared in a diverse range of publications, including: The Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, the St. Petersburg Times (US), United Press International, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Washington Times, TravelIntelligence.net, Antiwar.com, Counterpunch!, the Orange County Register, the Power & Interest News Report, Transitions Online, Hidden Europe Magazine, Gonomad.com, Kinetic Travel, Traveler’s Tales-Turkey, Eurasianet.org and Escape from America Magazine.

Democratic Senator Carl Levin, in a Senate Armed Service committee meeting yesterday (2/27/07),

“These weapons (in Iraq) are coming from a state which doesn’t recognize Israel either, just like Iran doesn’t, we’ve got to try to stop weapons coming into Iraq from any source, they’re killing our troops. I agree with the comments about trying to stop them coming in from Iran. I think we have to stop them going to the Sunni insurgents, as well as to the Shia, and I was just wondering, does the military have a plan, if necessary, to go into Syria, to go the source of any weapons coming from Syria.” (emphasis added)

New US Intel Chief J. Michael McConnell answered that there is already an attempt to stop the flow of weapons, and also that most of the weapons being used are already in Iraq.

Levin appeared annoyed, and said that we need to take action “on all fronts.”

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