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Robert Higgs Interviewed: The Expanding Pork for Military Pay and Towns
Recorded: Friday, August 27, 2010

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Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio on the widening gap between public and private sector pay, the increasing affluence of military towns compared with others, the disappearance of traditional checks on government power, and the predation and incremental “ratchet effect” of expanding governmental powers that increase “temporarily” during wartime but never really recede.

Experts: Robert Higgs
Type: Radio
Issues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Government Power, Labor and Employment, Terrorism and National Crises

       
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Ivan Eland on Wikileaks Revelations
Recorded: Friday, July 30, 2010

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Ivan Eland on Antiwar Radio discusses the revelations in the new Wikileaks release of information and the effects on Middle East diplomacy.

Experts: Ivan Eland
Type: Radio
Issues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Secrecy

       
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Charles Pena on CNBC, Explaining the Afghanistan Quagmire
Recorded: Friday, July 2, 2010

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Independent Institute Senior Fellow Charles Peña interviewed on CNBC’s Insana Quotient with Ron Insana about the McChrystal fallout and its significance for the Obama administration. Peña further illustrates the quagmire that exists in the U.S mission in Afghanistan and challenges the public to consider the true relevancy behind the changing of command. Does it matter who is in charge when we are fighting an illegitimate war?

Experts: Charles V. Peña
Type: Radio
Issues: Defense and Foreign Policy

       
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