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1/24/20 Daniel McAdams on the Failure of the Juan Guaido Coup in Venezuela
Daniel McAdams talks to Scott about the failed attempt to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in favor of opposition leader Juan Guiado. The U.S. government has made many claims about the illegitimacy of the latest elections, and has blamed the country's current crisis on Maduro's failures. Really, says McAdams, this is just another example of America's State Department making false claims and conveniently exploiting existing problems to push their chosen political narrative. Fortunately the attempt seems to have failed completely, with Guaido's support virtually gone. Sadly, says...
1/24/20 Nozomi Hayase on Glenn Greenwald and the ‘Assange Precedent’
Scott talks to Nozomi Hayase about the movement to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for cybercrimes in Brazil. Greenwald is accused of helping to steal confidential text messages, as opposed to simply publishing information that had been hacked by someone else. This is exactly the same accusation being leveled against Julian Assange, says Hayase, but is really just a flimsy pretext for going after journalists that are trying to expose state malfeasance. Scott and Hayase are perplexed as to why mainstream American journalists seem to be so quick to indict people like Assange and Greenwald,...
1/24/20 Jason Ditz on the Phantom Threat of Iranian Nukes
Jason Ditz discusses the latest on Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities. Although Iran has talked about abandoning their obligations under both the JCPOA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Ditz says they are still so far from having nukes that withdrawing from these agreements doesn't mean they would actually get nukes. More importantly, Iran is well aware of how quickly the U.S. and its allies would come down on them if they really did try to start producing weapons. In fact the only conceivable way Iran would pursue nukes, says Scott, is if the U.S. had already declared war on them...
1/24/20 Dave DeCamp on the OPCW’s Douma Cover-Up
Dave DeCamp talks about the scandalous apparent cover-up of the OPCW's real findings on the alleged chemical attack in Douma in 2018. In 2019 the organization issued a final report affirming the likelihood of a real chemical attack. But now Ian Henderson, one of the engineers on the ground in Douma, has come forward to claim that his team was convinced the attack had been staged, contrary to the OPCW's report. Henderson is quick to defend the organization's integrity, but believes that in this case political pressure may have compromised them. DeCamp reminds us what exactly is at stake with...
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1/24/20 Dan Caldwell on America’s Conservative Antiwar Veterans
Dan Caldwell of Concerned Veterans for America talks to Scott about his organization's latest efforts to change the conversation about support for America's wars in the Middle East. Their new ad campaign emphasizes the fact that even most veterans simply want to end the wars. Caldwell hopes to remind Americans that a truly conservative foreign policy would be much more restrained than the current neoconservative status quo. Discussed on the show: "End Endless Wars" (Concerned Veterans for America) "Concerned Veterans for America Launch Campaign To Bring Our Troops Home" (Antiwar.com Blog)...
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