(2011/11/18) Beyond the water's edge (Foreign Policy)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 18 November 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Edition #549
Beyond the water's edge
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Act 1: Investigate Alleged U.S. War Crime in Iraq - The Progressive Air Date: 9-1-11
Song 1: One Million Miles - J Ralph
Act 2: What Do Peanuts Have To Do With Terrorism - Lee Camp Air Date: 9-11-11
Song 2: Peanut Butter - The Marathons
Act 3: Obama Continues No-Bid Contracts For Wars - Young Turks Air Date: 9-6-11
Song 3: A girl, a boy, and a graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
Act 4: Anecdotal Iraqi Opinion Propaganda - Counterspin Air Date: 9-15-11
Song 4: One day - Matisyahu
Act 5: Robin Wright - Colbert Report Air Date: 9-7-11
Song 5: Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Act 6: NBC news links Occupy to Afghan War - Counterspin
Song 6: The holidays are here (and we're still at war) - Brett Dennen
Act 7: 6 Dead In West Point Panty Raid - The Onion
Song 7: Oops and move on - Henery Philips
Act 8: Al Qaeda Vs Ahmadinejad - Young Turks Air Date: 9-28-11
Song 8: If I ever feel better - Phoenix
Act 9: Who Benefits from the Far-Fetched Plot? - The Progressive Air Date: 10-12-11
Song 9: Ruby Soho - Rancid
Act 10: Ali Soufan - Colbert Report Air Date: 10-19-11
Song 10: Hotel California - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Act 11: Richard Engel on Iraq War - Counterspin
Song 11: I believe in that - Chip Taylor
Act 12: Obama's Welcome News on Iraq - The Progressive Air Date: 10-24-11
Song 12: WMD - Blow Up Hollywood
Act 13: Tough Enough - Mark Fiore Air Date: 11-3-11
Song 13: Cobrastyle - Robyn
Act 14: American Bases in Iraq - Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on David Pakman, two straight men and an improvised nature documentary
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Democracy on the Lurch - Daily Show Air Date: 9-29-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show for details and visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the Progressive, |
| 0:13.2 | comedian Lee Camp, the Young Turks, Counter-Spin, the Colbert Report, the OnionRadio News, |
| 0:18.0 | MarkFury.com, and Common Sense with Dan Carlin with a bonus video clip for Apple iOS |
| 0:22.9 | and Android app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:30.2 | The big news about Iraq that I heard on CNN this morning and read about in the New York |
| 0:33.8 | Times was that August marked the first month since Bush and Cheney launched the Iraq War |
| 0:38.8 | that not a single US soldier had died over there. |
| 0:41.8 | And yes, that is newsworthy. |
| 0:43.7 | But I heard a much bigger story about Iraq once I got to work and went online and that |
| 0:48.0 | story concerns an atrocity that our own troops appeared to have committed in Iraq back |
| 0:53.4 | in 2006, according to a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks containing an account by the |
| 0:59.6 | UN's Special Roper Tour on Summary Executions, and according to some follow-up reporting |
| 1:04.7 | by the Maclatchee News Service, this looks like what happened. |
| 1:08.5 | US troops approached a house in a shocking year to create and were met by gunfire. |
| 1:13.1 | They responded, the gunfire eventually ended, and American troops entered the house, hand |
| 1:18.5 | cuffed all residents, and executed all of them. |
| 1:21.8 | They were all shot in the head, including an infant and four other children under the |
| 1:27.2 | age of five. |
| 1:29.0 | The US troops then called in the bombers to destroy the house. |
| 1:32.8 | This seems to be a mini-me-lie, and the Pentagon, the Justice Department and Congress have |
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