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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1144 The Truth About War Powers, the Military-Industrial Complex, and Militarism in American Culture

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In something of a potpourri episode, Scott Horton and I discuss the real truth about presidential war powers under the Constitution, plus the empire's highly successful propaganda apparatus, the military-industrial complex's tactics, and much more.
 
This episode is taken from my recent appearance on the Scott Horton Show.
 

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1144.

0:03.4

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.0

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.2

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0:19.6

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0:31.3

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here. Today, I am sharing with you a recent appearance I made on the Scott Horton

0:36.3

show, and we talked about, well,

0:38.5

what else? War and foreign policy. And then we have a little section where we talk about

0:44.0

the constitutional question. And I know that's of interest to only some people who listen.

0:50.4

But, you know, Scott and I are both and caps. And yet we're still interested in what the Constitution says just as a practical matter and as an interesting way of observing how the state operates, that here it is with this document and it says it's going to do X, Y, and Z, and then it doesn't do X, Y, and Z. Well, the public needs to hear about that, and I think it can be an eye-opening moment for them.

1:11.9

So we go into some of the details on that. I have a whole pretty lengthy treatment of the subject of constitutional war powers over at libertyclassroom.com slash warpowers that I think answers pretty much any objection your friends might raise against you. So if you have any

1:28.0

further interest in this question, I would direct you to that page. So here we go with my

1:33.0

appearance on the Scott Horton Show, which, by the way, you should listen to and check out.

1:38.1

You can find Scott over at Scott Horton.org, and he is also managing director at

1:43.3

Libertarian Institute.org. Here we go.

1:47.0

All right, you guys, introducing our good friend Thomas E. Woods. Tom Woods.com is this great website.

1:53.1

Of course, he's the author of about half the books that have ever been published, including

1:57.4

rollback. And which is the latest, Tom?

2:00.5

Latest is real dissent. a libertarian sets fire to the

2:04.6

index card of allowable opinion yeah exactly see what i mean everybody um and yeah and he does a great

2:10.8

podcast uh interview show uh at tom woods uh one of the most well probably the the most popular libertarian podcast that you could find anywhere.

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