(2017/03/03) Running the Ship-of-State Aground (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 March 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1084
Today we look at how Trump is currently running his foreign policy programs and where he’s planning to take it
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: In First TV Interview, President Trump Says Torture "Absolutely" Works - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 01-26-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Waterboarding USA - Harry Shearer
Ch. 4: Act 2: Torture Doesn't Work and Here's the Scientific Evidence - Quirks and Quarks - Air Date 2-2-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Talk to Me - Stevie Nicks
Ch. 6: Act 3: Media operates on articles of faith regarding American foreign policy - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-17-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Drone Bomb Me - ANOHNI
Ch. 9: Song 4: Never Gonna Learn - Jont
Ch. 10: Act 5: Trump Takes Zero Responsibility For Yemen Raid Disaster - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-01-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: The Buck Stops Here - Childsplay
Ch. 12: Act 6: Wilkerson: Trump's Proposed $54 Billion Increase in the Military Budget Not for National Security - @TheRealNews - Air Date 2-28-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: Moneytalks - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 15: Song 7: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 16: Act 8: Anti-Islam religious zealots retake power in the White House - Intercepted (@theintercept) - Air Date 3-1-17
Voicemails
Ch. 17: R.I.P Alan Colmes - Rick from Madison, WI
Ch. 18: Excited about the Justice Democrats - Sunny from St. Paul, MN
Ch. 19: Fragility and the progressive case for immigration - Ken from Raleigh, NC
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments on conservative political correctness
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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Donald Trump Goes All In for the Military-Industrial Complex (The Nation)
Why Trump's Military Budget Boost Doesn't Add Up (Mother Jones)
Trump’s Budget Proposal Is an Attack on the Working Class (The Nation)
Trump to Seek $54 Billion Increase in Military Spending (The New York Times)
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| 0:00.0 | They want this in times battle with Islam. |
| 0:03.6 | And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
| 0:05.1 | They'll clamp down and be hard to be tough |
| 0:08.8 | and look tough in the face of the adversary, |
| 0:11.5 | which is poorly defined. |
| 0:13.1 | And that'll provoke terrorist attacks. |
| 0:14.6 | And they'll say, see, I told you so. |
| 0:15.9 | I told you we have to clamp down on harder. |
| 0:17.8 | It's a weird phenomenon that they're running with. |
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| 0:33.1 | Now, we'll come to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast |
| 0:35.5 | with clips today from Democracy Now, |
| 0:37.7 | Corks and Quarks, |
| 0:39.0 | Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, |
| 0:40.8 | The Real News Network, and Intercepted. |
| 0:48.1 | During the ABC interview on Wednesday |
| 0:51.1 | that Donald Trump did with David Muir, |
| 0:54.3 | he asked Trump about torture. |
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