87 people were arrested and charged with felonies(!) for sitting in at the Kentucky Attorney General's house to let him know that he better charge the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor. (ACLU is protesting against the felony charges. They're almost sure to be dropped.) This -- accountability for killer cops -- is exactly the point and these are exactly the tactics that the Black Lives Matter movement should be focusing on. The actual individual human beings sitting in the positions as judges, DAs, AGs, mayors, police chiefs, etc. must be made to understand that they personally will be held...
7/10/20 Gareth Porter on the Pentagon’s ‘Bountygate’ Hoax
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the Russian bounties story, or "Bountygate" as it has come to be known. Porter describes attempts by outlets like the New York Times to portray this as a well-sourced story with consensus among America’s intelligence agencies—in reality, he says, the NSA and CIA have rated the intelligence with only low- to medium-confidence, and even the Department of Defense, which thoroughly investigates every U.S. death in Afghanistan, hasn’t found evidence to support the idea that the Russian government is paying bounties to the Taliban. Moreover, says Porter, Russia...
7/10/20 Bas Spliet on the American War that Destroyed Libya
Bas Spliet is back to discuss the disaster that was America and the UN's involvement in Libya after 2011's Arab Spring. Spliet reminds us that Libya was once one of the wealthiest countries in north Africa, ruled by a secular dictator with relative liberty and prosperity. After the Obama administration decided to begin a bombing campaign there in support of a regime change, however, the country quickly disintegrated into one of the most chaotic and violent places in the world. Today there are open air slave markets and 30% of the population has fled the country. As usual, this intervention...
7/10/20 Ryan Dawson on Cancel Culture, Police Reform and the War on Drugs
Scott talks to Ryan Dawson about cancel culture and the latest wave of deplatforming, of which Dawson himself is a victim. Dawson, who spends much of his time fighting against the neoconservative ideology, has come under fire over and over again for the alleged thought crimes of racism and anti-semitism. In reality, of course, Dawson is the furthest thing from a racist, having devoted much of his life to advocating things like police reform and the abolition of the war on drugs. But he has also been staunchly antiwar, and that has helped to earn him some vocal enemies. Scott and Dawson go on...
Elijah McClain’s Last Words
As the police and EMTs murdered him.
7/10/20 Jeffrey Kaye on Biden’s ‘Humane’ CIA Torture Apologist
Scott interviews Jeffrey Kaye about Avril Haines, a former Obama administration adviser and Deputy Director of the CIA recently appointed as a foreign policy adviser to Joe Biden. Haines has been described as a "superstar", and clearly has a future as a well-connected national security insider. But Kaye says people should be alarmed by her past, most notably her probable connections to the CIA's torture and "kill list" programs. Despite appearances—Haines is known for her more compassionate, intelligent approach—Kaye warns that she is just another part of the same destructive, immoral...
This Morning On Antiwar Radio: Gareth Porter Debunks Bountygate
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