59 - Part II Of Critically Important But Largely Unreported Aspects Of The Iraq War: The Bremer Orders (The Attempted Economic Rape of Iraq)

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🗓️ 14 September 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today we're going to present Part II of the series, Critically Important But Largely Unreported Aspects of the Iraq War. What we'll discuss in this podcast are the Bremer Orders. These are laws promulgated by so-called Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer when he was running Iraq for the Bush administration. These laws, as those of you familiar with right-wingers may suspect, were

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.8	Greetings!
0:20.8	This is Podcast No. 59 of Blast the Right.
0:24.1	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:27.6	Today we're going to present Part 2 of the series, critically important but largely
0:37.1	unreported aspects of the Iraq War.
0:40.3	What we'll discuss in this podcast is The Bremmer Orders.
0:45.0	These are laws promulgated by so-called Coalition Provisional Authority, head, Paul Bremmer,
0:52.2	when he was running Iraq for the Bush administration.
0:55.5	These laws, as those of you familiar with right-wingers may suspect, were not exactly
1:00.5	designed for the benefit of the Iraqi people, quite the contrary.
1:05.8	I'll also report some encouraging news on the battle of the ballot box over at Podcast
1:10.9	Alley.
1:11.9	Let's get right into it.
1:14.4	In order to understand the truly horrific nature of the Bremmer Orders, a bit of background
1:19.2	is necessary.
1:21.0	My sources for this podcast are Naomi Klein's featured piece in Harper's Magazine, Baghdad
1:28.0	Year Zero, as well as articles published on or in US News and World Report, TomDispatch.com,
1:36.3	The New York Times, The LA Times, The Interpress Service, TomPain.com, AsiaTimesOnline.com, and
1:43.5	The Associated Press.
1:46.1	There's an extreme right-wing economic doctrine called neoliberalism.
1:50.8	There's nothing liberal about it at all.
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