Leftist antiwar activist Richard Medhurst was there: https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1425383427122077698
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COI #147: American Leaders Weaponize the ‘Chinese Boogeyman’ for Political Gain
On COI #147, Dave DeCamp – News Editor at Antiwar.com – returns to the show to discuss how American pols increasingly use China as a political weapon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently warned that the US must pass a massive infrastructure spending bill or...
8/4/21 Daniel Larison: What Nord Stream 2 Means for NATO Expansion
Scott and Daniel Larison discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and what it means for America's stance toward Eastern Europe. The main issue with the German pipeline, Larison explains, is that it will allow Western Europe to buy Russian natural gas without having to deal...
Karen Kwiatkowski: Both Republican And Democratic Bases Are Now Antiwar
"We might ask, then, who in this country actually does want war, expansion and empire? Last week, thousands of politicians and civic-minded people vied for primary election or turned in their petitions for public office across this country. Not a single one of them...
COI #144: Danny Sjursen Dismantles the War State’s Afghanistan Narrative
On Conflicts of Interest #144, retired Army Major and Afghan War vet Danny Sjursen returns to the show to discuss Biden’s declared end to the Afghan War. Danny explains how the war has changed under the current administration. He attempts to tackle the tough question:...
The Drone Program Whistleblower Problem
“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole...We had entire training courses...” - Former CIA Director and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo The concept of whistleblowing seems simple on its face: a government employee recognizes that crimes are...
Why Can’t Johnny Kill? 11th Hour Conscientious Objection and Moral Injury
In 1996 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman authored “On Killing,” a seminal study on “the psychological cost of learning to killing in war and society.” In it, Grossman documents the unheralded history of man’s inherent resistance to taking fellow human life. This history is so...
Happy 140th Birthday, Smedley Butler
For the first thirty years of the twentieth century, when there was trouble on the peripheries of the emerging U.S. empire in the form of rebellions, bandits, or resistence, Washington could always rely on one soldier to restore order. Invariably, days after his...
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