(2011/07/18) War is business (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 July 2011
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Edition #509
War is business
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Act 1: Iran Bans Neckties and Shorts - Colbert Report
Song 1: Short shorts - The Royal Teens
Act 2: Obama Plays the Role He's Carved Out for Himself: Steward of Empire - The Progressive
Song 2: Masters of war - Bob Dylan
Act 3: Good Night, Afghanistan - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 3: Graveyard - The Devil Makes Three
Act 4: A Fewer Good Men - Daily Show
Song 4: Homeward bound - Simon & Garfunkel
Act 5: Bipartisan Anti-War Movement? - Counterspin
Song 5: Starry-eyed surprise - Paul Oakenfold
Act 6: The Toll in Afghanistan - The Progressive
Song 6: Hero of war - Rise against
Act 7: Timothy Garton Ash - Colbert Report
Song 7: Billy - James Blunt
Act 8: Wars And Revolutions - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Song 8: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
Act 9: Small Drones Ready to be Deployed Part 1 - Common Sense
Song 9: Photographs (Feat. Will.I.Am) - Rihanna
Act 10: Richard Engel on Libya - Counterspin
Song 10: Slight figure of speech - The Avett Brothers
Act 11: Taliban relationship to Afghan History Part 2 - Common Sense
Song 11: Pink moon - Nick Drake
Act 12: YOU TOO Can Get In on For-Profit Tragedy! - Lee Camp
Final Comments on a new messaging amplifier system idea
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Get Over Ourselves on July 4 - The Progressive
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.0 | the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cups today from the Colbert |
| 0:12.4 | Report, the Progressive, MuMia Abu Jamal, the Daily Show, Counter-Spin, Common Sense |
| 0:17.7 | with Dan Carlin, and Comedian League Camp, with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android |
| 0:22.2 | app users from the Progressive. |
| 0:30.0 | Nation, with us to have you good, I am so outraged that I can't keep my sentences straight, |
| 0:39.3 | because our enemies in Iran, led by their fanatical Ayatollah Kamehni, have perpetrated a new human |
| 0:46.9 | rights crackdown on the Iranian people. When are you going to intervene, President Obama, |
| 0:52.5 | Iran arms and funds, Hezbollah, they crushed peaceful demonstrators, and they refused to wear ties |
| 0:58.8 | even when formal attire is called for. This is garden elegant at best, and bordering on casual |
| 1:07.3 | Friday, you monster! I'm sorry, I am so worked up about fashion folks, it's just that Iran has |
| 1:15.7 | now imposed a necklace ban for men. This is an outrage. People of Iran rise up, throw off your |
| 1:25.4 | chains, then throw on your chains. Without a necklace, how is a man supposed to communicate his |
| 1:33.2 | virility? A chain is the universal language that says to women, I will not call you after we have sex. |
| 1:42.7 | Folks, and this is just the latest component of Iran's, quote, moral security plan, |
| 1:52.8 | designed to combat the Western cultural invasion and enforce by more than 70,000 moral police |
| 1:59.1 | on the streets. They're like the fashion police who would stone the fashion police. |
| 2:06.0 | Now, not only, not only has Iran banned necklaces, they're also prohibiting shorts. |
| 2:15.1 | That's right, now they're attacking Daisy Duke. Folks, we cannot let the Iranian people suffer |
| 2:22.6 | alone. It is time to take a stand. How you like the taste of this, you Ahmed Dinah jerks? |
| 2:49.8 | Are these shorts getting you in the Makhmoud? So my Iranian brothers embrace the bedrock |
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