9/6/19 Melissa Etehad on the Real Toll of US Sanctions on Iran

by | Sep 9, 2019 |

Scott talks to Melissa Etehad about the effects of U.S. sanctions on ordinary Iranians. The "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran is meant to inflict suffering on the whole country in order to pressure its government into meeting America's demands. Unfortunately, it is poor civilians who bear most of the brunt of these policies, and it's not at all clear whether the pressure on the government actually works. At the moment, both the Trump administration and the government of Iran seem equally obstinate. Discussed on the show: "Middle-class Iranians resort to buying rotting produce as U.S....

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This is Your Security Force

by | Sep 8, 2019 |

Miami Herald: After brutal beating of now-paralyzed Florida inmate, women take to social media to protest On Saturday morning, a vigil was held outside the compound, the second in recent weeks, in part to protest the beating of Cheryl Weimar, a 51-year-old inmate who was slammed to a concrete floor, kicked and dragged by guards on Aug. 21. The attack left her paralyzed from the neck down. She remains hospitalized, hooked to a breathing apparatus, her lawyer, Ryan Andrews, told the Miami Herald. One former inmate, Jordyn Cahill, also used YouTube to voice her disgust over the attack,...

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9/6/19 Matthew Hoh on a Possible Peace Deal in Afghanistan

by | Sep 7, 2019 |

Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about the apparent peace deal in the works between the United States and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The American side has announced such a deal as basically finalized, but as yet nothing has come from the Taliban to officially confirm that. The usual clamor has been coming from prominent neocons about how withdrawing now would be the same as admitting defeat. Scott and Hoh don't totally disagree with that, but they know that if American troops stay in Afghanistan for another 20 years, or even longer, the same "defeat" would probably happen if they left then. The...

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9/6/19 Sam Husseini on Katharine Gun’s Heroism and Joe Biden’s Villainy

by | Sep 7, 2019 |

Sam Husseini talks about the new film, "Official Secrets", which tells the story of Katharine Gun, a British intelligence analyst who leaked information about the false case for war in Iraq to the press in 2003. Scott and Husseini also talk about Joe Biden's record on opposing the war—at the time he was perfectly willing to go along with the war, but now he has to pretend he's been an opponent all along. Discussed on the show: "Film ‘Official Secrets’ is the Tip of a Mammoth Iceberg" (Consortium News) "Official Secrets (2019)" (IMDb) Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You Sam...

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9/6/19 Asa Winstanley on the Documentary the Israel Lobby Doesn’t Want You to See

by | Sep 7, 2019 |

Asa Winstanley reminds us about the incredibly important documentary, The Lobby USA, which was produced but then shut down by Al Jazeera, and finally released by Winstanley's organization, The Electronic Intifada. The documentary exposes the unbelievable power and reach of Israeli lobbying in American politics through undercover reporting, meaning everything comes directly from the people involved. All four parts of the documentary are available on YouTube and at electronicintifada.net. Discussed on the show: "Israel lobby's "commando force" taken out | The Electronic Intifada" (Electronic...

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NYT Piece on the History of Barak and Netanyahu Trying to Get the US to Bomb Iran

by | Sep 4, 2019 |

Here. Some good stuff in there if not the whole context. (Also, Mazzetti knows that Iran has never attempted to create "highly enriched uranium, the fuel to build a nuclear bomb," therefore they could not possibly begin to do so "once again." [Technically, 20% U-235 can be called "highly enriched," but that's still far below the ~90% required to make a bomb, so it's at best an invidious conflation.] I don't know if his co-author knows that, but Mazzetti's past reporting on this issue has been substantive, even if often Sanger-tainted. He must know better. So, is liar. Or he just has a...

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Austin Independent School District: Stop Feeding Your Children Breakfast

by | Sep 4, 2019 |

This morning on the 590 AM KLBJ radio news I heard them read a press release from the AISD asking parents to stop packing lunches for their kids, and -- I swear I'm not making this up -- asking them also to stop feeding their children breakfast, and to leave that up to the public schools instead, so they can ask for more money from the federal government to buy better food later. They had no idea that this was shameful, horrible, cynical, corrupt, embarrassing. This is just how business is done in Nazi/Commie America in the 21st Century. What's the problem? Update: Here's partial...

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