#1386 Out With The Old Foreign Policy, In With The Even Older
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 December 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Air Date 12/12/2020
Today we take a look at the prospects for Biden's foreign policy looking forward which seems to be mostly looking backward to an era of American over-confidence and self-ascribed "exceptionalism" that may never have been warranted, the fact of which becomes clearer with every passing year, something people living outside the US have known for decades.
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As Biden builds his Cabinet, his national security team is looking a lot like a replay of the Obama-Biden militarist coterie. Biden’s nominees include notorious hawks who were central to the genocidal war in Yemen andthe weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
Ch. 2: What if the U.S. Just Didn’t? Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 12-10-20
America has an opportunity to take a back seat and embrace global collaboration, Peter Beinart discusses.
Ch. 3: Check Your Blindspot - Air Date 12-12-20
The Ground News app features The Blindspot which highlights news stories that just aren’t being covered by one end of the political spectrum or the other so I use The Blindspot to quiz contestants on theirs.
As Biden builds his Cabinet, his national security team is looking a lot like a replay of the Obama-Biden militarist coterie. Biden’s nominees include notorious hawks who were central to the genocidal war in Yemen andthe weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
Sam hosts Stephen Wertheim deputy director of research and policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, to discuss Joe Biden's foreign policy appointees and why the president-elect should resist the Washington establishment.
Ch. 6: What if the U.S. Just Didn’t? Part 2 - What Next - Air Date 12-10-20
America has an opportunity to take a back seat and embrace global collaboration, Peter Beinart discusses.
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Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated Friday while driving on a highway outside Tehran. Iran accuses Israel of orchestrating the killing, which is the latest in a string of assassinations targeting Iranian scientists
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning the Best of Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | learn about the prospect for Biden's foreign policy looking forward, which seems to be |
| 0:12.6 | mostly looking backward to an era of American overconfidence and self-escribed exceptionalism |
| 0:19.5 | that may never have been warranted, the fact of which becomes clearer with every passing |
| 0:24.1 | year, something people living outside the US have actually known for decades. |
| 0:28.8 | Before we get started on that though, a quick reminder that we are still in our break |
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| 1:14.0 | And now onto the show. |
| 1:15.4 | Clips today are from Intercepted with Jeremy Scayhill, What Next, an episode of Check Your |
| 1:21.2 | Blind Spot, The Majority Report, and Democracy Now. |
| 1:31.4 | Kelly on that front, give us an assessment of the kind of foreign policy ideology that |
| 1:37.6 | Joe Biden represents. |
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