(2013/07/25) Cause and effect (Foreign Policy)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 25 July 2013
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #739
Cause and effect
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The New Iraq and Rumsfeld's Rules - le Show - Air Date 5-19-13
Ch. 3: Act 2: Honor And Duty According To Dick Cheney - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 5-17-13
Ch. 4: Song 2: The world I know - Collective Soul
Ch. 5: Act 3: Withdrawing From War Without Lessons Learned - Common Sense - Air Date 5-29-13
Ch. 6: Song 3: Vultures of culture - Nahko and Medicine for the People
Ch. 7: Act 4: JFK Peace Speech: The Anti-George Bush - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-04-13
Ch. 8: Song 4: Let's begin - Margaret Whiting
Ch. 9: Act 5: Obama's 'Hidden Hand' Approach Debunked - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-19-13
Ch. 10: Song 5: This war - Ophelia of the Spirits
Ch. 11: Act 6: Pathology of privilege in foreign policy - Tim Wise
Voicemails:
Ch. 12: Clarifications on rape culture and rape jokes - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 13: Thoughts on the Zimmerman trial - Aaron from Kansas
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 14: Final comments reading a perspective from a 'white hispanic' listener
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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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 BestOfAleft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfAleft podcast with Cups today from the show, the Jimmy |
| 0:13.2 | Door Show, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, the Tom Hartman program, Counter-Spin, and |
| 0:18.0 | a speech by Tim Wise, and a note that if this episode begins to make you feel uncomfortable, |
| 0:22.8 | that just means it's working. |
| 0:30.2 | And now, let us gentlemen, the new Iraq. |
| 0:34.2 | There's been so much breast beating in the wake of the 10th anniversary of shock and |
| 0:43.4 | awe. |
| 0:45.2 | But here's somebody doing something else to his breast. |
| 0:48.7 | Michael Knight's in foreign policy.com in reporting. |
| 0:54.8 | And this echoes what we've been reading this week. |
| 1:01.0 | As recently as Friday, 76, I think, casualties in attacks and bombings on SUNY targets following |
| 1:13.4 | a wave of bombings of Shiite targets. |
| 1:16.2 | Can I say that on the radio? |
| 1:17.8 | Target? |
| 1:18.8 | Anyway, Michael Knight's reports in the latest bout of sectarian and ethnic blood-ledging |
| 1:22.4 | coordinated bomb attacks ripped through Shiite neighborhoods and Baghdad, and northern |
| 1:26.6 | Iraq killing more than 30 people. |
| 1:28.3 | This of course was before the attacks on the Sunnis. |
| 1:31.2 | The spasm of violence followed clashes between the Iraqi army and Sunni protesters and insured |
| 1:35.9 | surgeons last month when the federal government temporarily lost control of some town centers |
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