(2012/02/07) As we do unto others (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 February 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #573
As we do unto others
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Act 1: Bush Cancels Trip to Switzerland Over Threat of Torture Arrest - Majority Report Air Date: 12-4-11
Song 1: Vacation - Go Go's
Act 2: Iran Nuclear Scientists Executed With Car Bombs, Shootings - Young Turks Air Date: 1-11-12
Song 2: Not the only one - Hotrod Cadets
Act 3: Iran Scientist Assassinated - Citizen Radio Air Date: 1-1-12
Song 3: Drop dead blues - Anya Marina
Act 4: The Truth About War With Iran - Lee Camp Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 4: Such great heights - The Postal Service
Act 5: U.S. Must Tell Israel Not to Bomb Iran - The Progressive Air Date: 2-3-12
Song 5: I won't back down - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Act 6: Canada's Defense Ministry criticized for ordering 20 000 orange stress balls - The Bugle Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 6: Fear is a villain - Theo Bard
Act 7: Marines Urinate On Dead Bodies In Afghanistan - Young Turks Air Date: 1-12-12
Song 7: War - Goldfinger
Act 8: Urinating on dead Afghanis - History of war - Rob Delaney Commentary - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 1-27-12
Song 8: Legions (War) - Zeo Keating
Act 9: CNN Contributor Applauds Controversial Marine Video - Media Matters Air Date: 1-13-12
Act 10: Republicans boo the "golden rule" when applied to foreign policy - Jimmy Dore Show Air Date: 1-26-12
Song 10: Tonight I have to leave it - Shout out Louds
Act 11: Congress Fights Automatic Defense Spending Cuts - Young Turks Air Date - 1-22-12
Song 11: It's a wonderful life - Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
Act 12: The Greatest Speech Ever Made - Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the Best of Left podcast with Cubsiday from the Majority Report, the Young |
| 0:12.6 | Turk Citizen Radio, Lee Camp, the Progressive, the Bugle, Media Matters, Jimmy Dorr, and |
| 0:17.4 | Charlie Chaplin in the Great Dictator. |
| 0:19.4 | And a note that this weekend is moving day for me, so I'm taking half a day off and |
| 0:22.8 | replaying one of my favorite episodes, but there are brand new voicemails and commentary |
| 0:27.3 | at the end about the Catholic Church. |
| 0:30.0 | Ah, this is so sad. |
| 0:38.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, I am sorry to report, but another instance of our freedom is being |
| 0:43.8 | curtailed. |
| 0:44.8 | It's being reported that former president, the U.S. president, George W. Bush has canceled |
| 0:52.1 | his visit to Switzerland, over fears he could have been arrested on torture charges. |
| 0:59.0 | What kind of country are we becoming? |
| 1:07.4 | Where our president doesn't have the freedom to try and travel to Switzerland simply because |
| 1:17.2 | he ordered the torture of people or allowed it to occur under his watch and only tried |
| 1:26.0 | to get his lawyers to find a legal justification for it. |
| 1:30.2 | Our freedom is being impinged, and it is completely how un-American of the Swiss to even have |
| 1:47.0 | the potential that they could hold a torture to account. |
| 1:50.5 | How un-American, we demand any McDonald's franchises that have opened in Switzerland, |
| 2:01.3 | and we're no longer Swiss chocolate, we're now going to refer to as freedom chocolate. |
| 2:11.5 | Swiss clocks, freedom clocks. |
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