8/30/19 Jim Bronke on Joe Biden’s Role in the Iraq War and the Media’s Refusal to Cover It

Scott interviews Jim Bronke about Joe Biden's role, as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in militating for the invasion of Iraq in 2002. He deliberately stacked hearings meant to examine the potential threat of Iraqi WMD with war hawks that he knew would support the conclusions he wanted them to. Today, most democratic politicians and voters don't seem to care at all about Biden's worst crimes, and instead like to focus on comparatively trivial issues like his stance on busing policy. Discussed on the show: "How Biden's Secret 2002 Meetings Led to War in Iraq" (Truthout) "THE...

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Wall Street Journal: Rich Get Richer

Due to government economic policy: The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices. But that windfall has passed by many Americans. The bottom half of all U.S. households, as measured by wealth, have only recently regained the wealth lost in the 2007-2009 recession and still have 32% less wealth, adjusted for inflation, than in 2003, according to recent Federal Reserve figures. The top 1% of households have more than twice as much as they did in 2003. This points to a potentially worrisome side of the...

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8/27/19 Gar Alperovitz: the Decision to Nuke Japan

Historian Gar Alperovitz shares the history of America's use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, many of the top military officers and intelligence officials were adamant at the time that use of the bombs was unnecessary to get the Japanese to surrender, which they expected to happen as soon as the Soviet Union invaded. The bombs were used instead as a political maneuver to intimidate the Russians, but which of course only led to the disastrous arms race of the cold war. Discussed on the show: "The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the...

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Innocent Man Rots In Jail For Two Years on False Charges

Easily disprovable false charges, as they eventually were. It goes without saying, but should be said that not one person involved in this travesty will ever be held accountable for their crimes in any way. Not the bearer of false witness, not the cops, not the DAs, not the Judge either. Possibly local taxpayers will be forced to pay up, but as we all know, that's the closest thing -- a million light-years -- to accountability this man will ever see.

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