(2017/04/14) Reckless Empire and the Forever War (Foreign Policy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1095
Today we look at a Trump’s foreign policy so far, question the prevailing narrative and look back at how we got to now
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump Bombs Syria: It's Bad, Really Bad - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 04-10-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Handlebars - Flobots
Ch. 5: Song 2: Don't Waste Your Breath - Colour Me Wednesday
Ch. 6: Act 3: Questioning the unquestioned media narrative of US military actions - Intercepted (@theintercept) - Air Date 4-12-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Fake Empire - The National
Ch. 8: Act 4: Stupid and easily manipulatable as Commander in Chief - @HumorlessQueers - Air Date 3-25-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Mistake - Hi I'm Case
Ch. 10: Act 5: Strike That Killed Dozens of Civilians Is Exactly What Trump Promised - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 03-29-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Forgotten - The Haymarket Squares
Ch. 12: Act 6: Fight the War Economy By Growing Local #Peace Economies via @CodePink - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Song Link here
Ch. 14: Act 7: Andrew Bacevich on the Carter doctrine and the birth of our endless Middle East war - Le Show w @TheHarryShearer - Air Date 2-12-17
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Thank you for disability episode - Tyler from Maine
Ch. 16: Asking for clarification on health care policy - David from South Carolina
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 17: Final comments on why government-administered health insurance isn’t slavery
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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No Rural-Urban Divide Here: We All Want Good Jobs and Strong Local Economies (YES! Magazine)
What a Policy of Real Solidarity with the Syrian People Looks Like (YES! Magazine)
Why These Missile Strikes Won't Make Things Better for the Syrian People (YES! Magazine)
To Billionaire Doomsday Preppers: Your Wealth Won't Save You (YES! Magazine)
Is War Good for the Economy? (Huffington Post Blog, 2013)
A State of Perpetual War (Huffington Post Blog, 2010)
The US and NATO are Preparing for a Major War with Russia (The Nation, 2016)
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| 0:00.0 | Let's even just say for a moment that he |
| 0:01.7 | were an America first isolationist, |
| 0:03.8 | that he actually really believed that. |
| 0:06.1 | It doesn't matter because he doesn't understand anything |
| 0:09.2 | and he's super easy to manipulate. |
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| 0:24.5 | Now, welcome to the award winning best of left podcast |
| 0:27.0 | with clips today from the David Pakman show, |
| 0:29.2 | politically reactive, intercepted, humorless queers, |
| 0:32.9 | and the show. |
| 0:42.3 | Donald Trump sent 59 Tomahawk missiles to Syria. |
| 0:46.3 | This is the first direct action taken by the United States |
| 0:49.8 | during Syria's six-year civil war, |
| 0:52.2 | varied claims about the accuracy of the 59 Tomahawk missiles, |
| 0:56.6 | the U.S. claiming 58 of 59 hit their targets. |
| 1:00.3 | Videos released combined with other sources |
| 1:02.7 | claim that fewer than half of the 59 Tomahawk missiles |
| 1:06.7 | hit their targets. |
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