(2014/01/17) A smorgasbord of folly (Foreign Policy)
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🗓️ 18 January 2014
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Edition #790
A smorgasbord of folly
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: One minute Middle East update - @MarkFiore - Air Date: 01-14-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Hard to explain - The Riptide Movement
Ch. 4: Act 2: Breakthrough with Iran! - @theprogressive - Air Date: 11-25-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Common sense - Justin Mcroberts
Ch. 6: Act 3: Politicians Against Peace In The Middle East - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 12-08-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Don't listen - Craig Carothers
Ch. 8: Act 4: The Shadowy Groups Still Trying to Take Us to War With Iran - @majorityfm - Air Date: 12-03-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Bury the past - Professional Victims
Ch. 10: Act 5: Is Congress Guilty of Torture? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-14-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Shaker Amer - PJ Harvey
Ch. 12: Act 6: When The Subject Is Drones, Surgical Doesn't Necessarily Mean Precise - @theharryshearer - Air Date 6-9-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Casualties of war - Rakim
Ch. 14: Act 7: Malala: Drones create more terorrists - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date: 10-18-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Hard to hear the truth - Nato Coles & The Blue Diamond Band
Ch. 16: Act 8: Malala Yousafzai Not Scared Of Taliban - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 11-15-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Courage - Authority Zero
Ch. 18: Act 9: NY Times blows Benghazi lies out of water - @allinwithchris - Air Date: 01-02-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Say goodbye - Ian Rhett
Ch. 20: Act 10: War no More: The Case for Abolition - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-16-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: War is over - David Rovics
Ch. 22: Act 11: 17% of Americans Support the Afghanistan War - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-02-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: The subtle assumptions of well-meaning white folks that perpetuate racism - Tate from Prince George's County, MD
Ch. 24: Fear of desperation, not of race - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 25: On the conversation of the definition of racism - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 26: Final comments on being back in working order and an update on my Polar Bear Plunge
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:30.8 | From the producers of News in a nutshell comes One Minute Mapping, a Cosographic Look at What's |
| 0:37.2 | Happening a World Away in our own backyard. First up, Nation Building Today. When we last left |
| 0:43.8 | our friends in Iraq, U.S. troops were headed home and things were looking up, but today, |
| 0:49.2 | Iraq is seeing the worst violence since the Civil War sparked by the U.S. occupation. |
| 0:54.3 | After Shiite Prime Minister Hal Malaki did everything he could to squeeze out the Sunnis, |
| 0:59.2 | sectarian fighting is back, as the black banners of Sunni Islamic extremists fly once again over |
| 1:05.6 | and bar province, not to be outdone. The Iraqi government is bombing from above, because that |
| 1:11.2 | worked out so well when the United States did it. What does a brand new $20 billion police force |
| 1:17.0 | and army buy you? Government forces firing hillfire missiles from cessiners, |
| 1:22.0 | and fanatical Muslims overrunning for Lujah and Ramadi. But there's more. |
| 1:28.0 | The Sunnis elites who helped kill 8,000 Iraqis this year are also at work in Syria, |
| 1:33.9 | fighting the Iranian-backed Shiite extremists who are fighting on behalf of Assad's |
| 1:38.8 | allowite regime, which has led to renewed sectarian violence in Lebanon between Sunni and Shiite. |
| 1:45.6 | Strange bedfellows are born as Iran and the USA say, |
| 1:50.1 | my enemy's enemy is my friend. In Iraq, but not in Syria, but it's not really about Iraq, |
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