Download Episode. Scott is joined by journalist and author Ramzy Baroud to discuss the deterioration of Israeli Politics and the war in Mali. Israel will hold its fifth election in four years after yet another failure to form a government. Baroud gives some background on Israel’s issues and explains why they show that the ideals of its founders have collapsed. Scott and Baroud also discuss the war in Mali, examining how a seemingly simple intervention by NATO into Libya brought about deadly unanticipated consequences. Discussed on the show: Our Vision for Liberation by Ramzy Baroud...
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2/21/22 Ramzy Baroud on the Not-So-Secret Massacres of Palestinian Villages
Scott interviews Ramzy Baroud about an article he wrote recently on the shifting awareness of Israeli massacres against Palestinian villages. Scott and Baroud discuss what happened during the killings and what factors may be leading to such a shift in awareness and public opinion. Discussed on the show: “From Tantura to Naqab: Israel’s Long Hidden Truths Are Finally Revealed” (Antiwar.com) Ramzy Baroud is a US-Arab journalist and is the editor-in-chief of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: The Untold Story of Gaza and The Last Earth: A...
Have We Learned Nothing? Biden Backs Mass Murder in the Middle East
The Gaza Strip, measures only 25 miles long and five miles wide. It is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a full blockade on Gaza from the air, land, and sea. The two million Palestinians living there (half of which are under the age of 18) are trapped in an open air prison where food, potable water, electricity, medicine, building materials, etc. are severely restricted by the Israeli authorities. The latest Israeli military operation in Gaza was called “Guardian of the Walls,” a reference no doubt to the walls enclosing the Palestinian...
5/13/21 Ramzy Baroud on Palestinian Solidarity in the Face of Israeli Oppression
Ramzy Baroud discusses the deliberately misleading way that stories about Israel-Palestine are presented in western media. The story, he says, almost always begins with the fact that Palestinians have launched rockets at Israeli forces, or at least presents the conflict as an even fight between two neighbors, in which Israel, of course, has the right to defend its own borders. What's never explained is the fact that the supposed Palestinian territories are at this point little more than heavily-occupied refugee camps, and that attacks from the Palestinians cannot be understood without the...
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United States created the original al Qaeda terrorism threat by its own actions and then increased that threat by orders of magnitude by its wanton killings in one country after another in the name of ‘counter-terrorism.’ Once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop!” — Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower and author of The...
12/21/20 Ramzy Baroud on the Plight of the Palestinians
Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud discusses a series of recent articles he's written on the status of Israeli-Palestinian relations, and the long history that informs the situation today. It has now become clear, says Baroud, that the once-promised two-state solution is off the table. The Israeli government has realized that it can pretty much continue to expand its settlements into the dwindling Palestinian lands and keep oppressing its people, all with very little pushback in the international community or the mainstream media. The only realistic way forward will be to officially...
Biden Voters Celebrate a Return to Normal. That Is the Problem.
On Conflicts of Interest #31, Kyle and Will cover a recent UK government report largely debunking the most hysterical claims about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian involvement. A US commander in Afghanistan says American airstrikes against the Taliban will continue as it supports Afghan government forces, insisting the strikes don't violate the deal signed with the militant group in February. The US is set to make a $10 billion arms sale to the United Arab Emirates, including a variety of munitions and nearly $3 billion in armed drones. Links Ramzy Baroud on Palestinians living...
Election Interference? Trump and Deep State Claim Race Is Compromised
On Conflicts of Interest #30, Will and Kyle give the latest on the US presidential election, where a winner has yet to be determined. President Trump has leaned hard into claims of election-rigging and illegal ballots as he launches lawsuits across several states. The Department of Homeland Security issued a pre-election "alert" warning of Russian hackers meddling in the race, but an earlier document from the same agency debunks its own baseless conspiracy theory, journalist Gareth Porter shows in a new piece. Israeli home demolitions in the occupied West Bank are hitting record highs...
9/4/20 James Carden on the Rotten Alliance between Liberals and Neocons
Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the 1960s a group of hawkish Democrats moved over to side with the Republicans in response to some of the radical social movements in America at that time, thus founding the neoconservative movement. Now, as we near the end of Trump's first term, many of them are supporting Biden—and it's easy to see why, says Carden: Biden and Harris represent the exact same establishment foreign policy consensus...
Trump Brushes US War Crimes Under the Rug with Sanctions on the ICC
The US has ramped up its war on the International Criminal Court, adding a lead ICC prosecutor and her top aide to a sanctions blacklist over their effort to probe allegations of American war crimes in Afghanistan. Moscow is again on trial on the world stage, accused of poisoning a leading opposition figure, Alexey Navalny, but there are reasons for skepticism. Will and Kyle break down the arguments on both sides. The Israeli blockade on Gaza – tightened over the summer amid claims of Palestinian incendiary balloon attacks – may soon loosen after Hamas and Tel Aviv came to a deescalation...
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