Guns and Butter

Guns and Butter

Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Guns and Butter reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state. Subscribe free to the newsletter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org/membership.htm

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Apr 12, 2024

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Episodes

Cutting Pakistan Adrift - General Hamid Gul, #239 15.04.2015

US Pakistan Relations; the war in Afghanistan; the Haqqani Network; the Taliban; the bombing in Kabul of the US embassy and CIA headquarters; the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani. Aired: September 28, 2011 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism - Michel Chossudovsky, #242 15.04.2015

The broad consequences of 9/11 with regard to US military doctrine, and more broadly the pretext and justification which the lies surrounding 9/11 have given to waging a war of conquest under the banner of what we call the Global War on Terrorism. Aired: November 30, 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

NATO's Assault On Syria - Webster Griffin Tarpley, #243 15.04.2015

Foreign journalists trip to Syria; religions and ethnicities; cities of Damascus, Qara, Homs and its Zahra Neighborhood and Hospital, Baniyas, Tartus, and Beirut, Lebanon; Russian Naval Base; death squads/snipers/ambushes and kidnapping; Syrian Army; foreign intervention.  Aired: December 21, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Critique Of Ron Paul's Austerity Plan - Webster Griffin Tarpley , #244 15.04.2015

Ron Paul's "Plan to Restore America" includes $1 trillion in cuts to the federal budget in one year. We take a look at what this would mean for the American people. Ron Paul is the republican front runner to win the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd, 2012.  Aired: December 28, 2011 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

An Act Of State, Part One - William Pepper, #96 15.04.2015

With William Pepper, author of "An Act of State: The Assassination of Martin Luther King", his second book on the King case. William Pepper was a close political associate of Dr. King's in the last year of his life. Pepper represented James Earl Ray on appeal of his conviction for the murder of Dr. King. This presentation was given in Long Beach, California in January 2003, after the publication o...

Evidence Of Insider Trading Before 9/11 - Paul Zarembka, #245 12.04.2015

Informed Trading; Insider Trading; Put Options; The Journal of Business; The 9/11 Commission Report; three scientific studies on insider trading; Professor Potasman Study from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Open Interest; Exercising Put Options; Quintile; Hedging; University of Wisconsin, Madison Study; Chesney Study; Conclusion.  Aired: July 22, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http:...

The 9/11 Hijackers That Weren't - Jay Kolar, #246 12.04.2015

Airline passenger manifests; examination of the Portland Jetport and Dullas Airport Videos, missing imprinted security data, faces smudged out, cover-up of evidence; FDIC evidence of hijacker alive after 9/11; analysis of passport photographs; the covert intelligence use of doubles to frame Ziad Jarrah.  Aired: January 11, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Iran And The Globalization Of War - Michel Chossudovsky, #247 12.04.2015

Recent developments in the Middle East including the wider implications of the destabilization of the entire area; the current global war as a different kind of conquest than that of World War I and II; US military deployment in the area; the role of Israel; Iranian Defenses; US war planning and war scenarios since 2003 concerning the nation of Iran, including Austere Challenge 12, Theatre Iran Ne...

The Greatest Bank Robbery Ever - William K. Black, #248 12.04.2015

Intensifying financial crises; money manager capitalism; sovereign currency; crony capitalism; theoclassical economists; control fraud, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000; S&L Liars' Loan Crisis of 1990-91; Reinventing Government Movement; deregulation, desupervision and defacto decriminalization; fraud incentives; looting; subprime; Enron; Parmalat; BofA; Citigroup; Ameriquest; Washingto...

An Alternative To European Austerity: Modern Money Theory - S. Kelton and M. Hudson, #249 12.04.2015

Difference between sovereign and non-sovereign money; what is money; fiat money; gold standard; fixed exchange rates; the Euro; difference between central banks and commercial banks; deflation and inflation; financial war against the economy; credit supply and asset prices; bank lending and capital investment; debt deflation stage and austerity stage of finance capitalism.  Aired: March 7, 2012 St...

The Birth Of The European Central Bank: Its Real Agenda - Alain Parquez , #250 12.04.2015

Aired: March 14, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

European Integration: The ECB Laid Bare - Marshall Auerback, #251 10.04.2015

A history of European unification; problems today in the European monetary union; the three Germanys; the fallacy of composition; three possible solutions; Aesop's Fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper as it applies to the European Union today. Aired: March 21, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Modern Money Theory and Private Banks - Stephanie Kelton and Michael Hudson, #252 10.04.2015

Functional finance; business cycle; real costs of unemployment; sovereign currency versus fixed exchange rates and the gold standard; macroeconomic policy; fiscal policy; vulture banks; Latvia as the standard for Europe under neoliberalism. Aired: March 28, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Formula For Fraud - William K. Black, #253 10.04.2015

How to become a billionaire - the four necessary ingredients in the recipe for fraud; the three sure consequences of banking control fraud; gutting of the underwriting process; Gresham's Law; The Business Roundtable; hyperinflation of a bubble. Aired: April 4, 2012 http://neweconomicperspectives.org/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Modern Money Theory Explained - Stephanie Kelton, #254 10.04.2015

Myths about taxation and government revenues in a sovereign currency situation; debts and deficits; full social security and price stability; the use of sectoral balances to analyze the financial position of the different sectors of the macro economy; the three sectors of the macro economy; the two rules governing the three sectors; the financial balance model. Aired: April 18, 2012 Visit Guns and...

A Debate On How To Get Out of the Euro - Auerback, Hudson, Black, Kelton, #255 10.04.2015

What withdrawal from the Euro system would mean for households and businesses in Italy; how to manage savings; what would likely happen in a return to sovereign currency; how the government and National Bank of Italy could manage the change; monetary and fiscal policy; interest rates; bond markets; loss of national power due to the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and the inability to set em...

The World Mobilizes Against the Bankers - Webster Griffin Tarpley, #256 09.04.2015

The Bilderberger meeting in Virginia and what came out of it; the importance of the mass movement in Wisconsin; Alexis Tsipras of the Syriza Party in Greece and the economic situation there; and Italian prosecutor Michele Ruggiero of Italy who has brought indictments against the ratings agencies for manipulation of the financial market in Italian sovereign and bank debt.  Aired: June 6, 2012 http:...

US NATO Humanitarian Intervention In Syria - Michel Chossudovsky, #257 09.04.2015

What the destabilization of Syria is really about; the Responsibility To Protect (R2P); the violence in Syria; the rebels, who they are, who supports and trains them and where; the Free Syrian Army; the role of the United Nations; the Islamization of the Middle East as an intelligence operation; the role of Israel; the effect of sanctions; media disinformation. Aired: June 13, 2012 http://www.glob...

911 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out - Richard Gage, #258 09.04.2015

Scientific forensic evidence of controlled demolition of both World Trade Center Twin Towers, as well as Building 7, on September 11th, 2001; the broad geopolitical and domestic political implications of this scientific evidence; its significance in terms of the institutions and legal framework that has evolved in its wake; the wars these events have spawned. As well, the psychological impediments...

At the Crossroads of the Most Serious Economic Crisis In World History - Michel Chossudovsky, #259 09.04.2015

History of the financial crisis from the early 1980s to the present; economic dimensions of the global crisis; naked short selling; market manipulation; speculative activity; derivatives; solutions to the crisis the cause of further collapse; privatization; government policies; bankruptcies; debt and social breakdown; grassroots organizing; Occupy Wall Street; Ad Busters; CANVAS-OTPOR; Anonymous. ...

The Coup of 2012 - Frank Morales, #260 09.04.2015

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act; the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act; the 1971 Non-Detention Act; the Crisis of Democracy Report issued by the Trilateral Commission; US Army Field Manual 19-15 Civil Disturbance Operations; the 1992 Weapons Transfer Agreements.  Aired: July 11, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Genetic Roulette - Jeffrey Smith, #261 09.04.2015

Genetic engineering unnaturally crosses the species barrier with unknown long-term consequences; serious health risks associated with ingesting genetically modified food including infertility, immune problems, inflamation, accelerated aging, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system; no long-term scientific studies conducted; regulatory capture by the gmo industry; intimidation o...

Countdown To Currency Collapse - Max Keiser, #262 09.04.2015

Escalating financial fraud; pump and dump scams; Wall Street banks; auditing fraud; absence of regulation; default or hyperinflation?; currency collapse; the trigger; Japan; China; bank holidays; social cohesion index; City of London; financial repression; confiscation of wealth; derivatives; interest rates; precious metals; the next nine months.  Aired: August 22, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: h...

911 And The Politics Of War - Christopher Bollyn , #263 09.04.2015

The crime itself; the cover-up; access to evidence, media interpretation; Judge Hellerstein & litigation; Michael Chertoff; 1993 WTC Bombing; persons & companies at Ground Zero; Marc Rich; ICTS; Kroll Associates; Marsh McClenan; AIG; AMDOCS; L. Paul Bremer; Dov Zakheim; Urban Moving Systems; Andreas von Bulow; Zionism; Bollyn's Arrest. Aired: September 5, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www....

The CIA Mormon Mafia & the Benghazi Killings - Webster Griffin Tarpley, #265 08.04.2015

Origins of the Islamophobic film, The Innocence of Muslims; the killings in Benghazi, Libya; Mormonism.  Aired: October 17, 2012 http://tarpley.net Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

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