Scott interviews Bette Dam about her reporting on the war in Afghanistan. Dam explains how faulty intelligence about enemy "combatants" has led to many unjustified killings, notably the war crimes by Australian special forces in Oruzgan Province in recent years. In...
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2/5/21 Matthew Hoh on Biden’s Afghanistan Reversal
Matthew Hoh discusses the Biden administration's Afghanistan policy. Trump, Hoh reminds us, had appointed Zalmay Khalilzad to negotiate a U.S. withdrawal with the Taliban; now it appears that Biden's team is reversing that plan. Hoh says that this was to be expected:...
Episode 534: Marxism Part 2 – The Thought of Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili (Joseph Stalin)
92 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one-fourth of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Bird joins Pete to go over the thought of Joseph Stalin Episode 524: Marxism Part 1 - Dialectical Materialism, and the Thought of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) Episode 521: Myth and the...
2/4/21 Jim Bovard on the Official Whitewash of the Killing of Duncan Lemp
Jim Bovard is back to discuss the tragic killing of Duncan Lemp, a Maryland man who was shot by police during a no-knock SWAT raid last year. Bovard has been covering the details of Lemp's story ever since, including the ways that the police department's story keeps...
Episode 533: The ‘Technocratic” Movement Explained w/ James Corbett
40 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited documentarian, researcher and commentator, James Corbett, to return to the show. James is going to give a primer on the historic "Technocratic" movement which started during the Progressive Era. He then tells Pete his big takeaway...
Episode 532: How ‘The Monopoly On Violence’ Leads To ‘America’s Police Crisis’
32 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited his partners at Stateless Productions to come on the show and talk about the ordeal of getting their documentary, "The Monopoly On Violence," on Amazon Prime, and to introduce the information on their next documentary, "America's...
1/28/21 Gareth Porter: Biden’s Coercive Iran Policy Threatens New Regional Crisis
Gareth Porter discusses U.S. relations with Iran, especially the ways the policies of the Biden administration might differ from those of the Trump administration. Even though the JCPOA was one of the signature accomplishments of the Obama presidency, and even though...
1/28/21 Shuja Paul on the Forgotten Bombs of America’s Secret War on Laos
Scott interviews Shuja Paul about his forthcoming documentary, Waiting to Explode: Forgotten Bombs of a Secret War Continue to Kill. Paul's film tells the little-known story of the thousands of undetonated cluster bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War,...
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