Dan Kovalik: The CIA and Deep State Plot To Attack Iran
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Human Rights Attorney Dan Kovalik and author of “The Plot To Scapegoat Russia” and “The Plot To Attack Iran” discusses the US drive to overthrow Iran which includes proxy wars in Nicaragua, Yemen, Libya, and Syria that have the potential to pull Russia and China into a greater conflict.
Websites
https://twitter.com/danielmkovalik
Publications
https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Kovalik/e/B06XZ9ZRSD/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1537885269&sr=8-1
About the Guest
Daniel Kovalik is Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He has worked for the USW since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he has served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects.
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the Geopolitics and Empire podcast, we discuss America's attempts to repeatedly overthrow Iran and potentially draws toward the brink of World War III. |
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| 0:35.8 | I hope you enjoy the show and send us your comments and feedback. |
| 0:39.3 | We are speaking with human rights lawyer and author Dan Kovalik about his latest book, The Plot to |
| 0:44.5 | Overthrow Iran, How the CIA and Deep State have conspired to vilify Iran. He is also the author |
| 0:50.7 | of the plot to scapegoat Russia and the upcoming the plot to control the world. |
| 0:56.0 | Dan, your book seemed to be doing very well given there are numerous publications on U.S. Iranian |
| 1:01.8 | relations, which include everything from the declassified documents hosted on the National |
| 1:07.2 | Security Archive to Stephen Kinzer Zollah's men. What motivated you to write |
| 1:12.8 | on the subject of U.S. intervention in Iran? Well, I was very inspired by my trip to Iran, |
| 1:20.0 | which I took in the summer of 2017. I was invited to speak at the University of Tehran. |
| 1:39.3 | And I took that opportunity, and I was really impressed with the country, with the people who are famously hospitable. And, you know, they certainly lived up to that reputation. And the country is just so beautiful and full of these ancient, you know, artifacts and |
| 1:51.4 | antiquities and churches and mosques. |
| 1:56.7 | And, you know, when I was there, it made me think that the reason these things were still |
| 2:02.5 | there is because it was one of the few countries in the Middle East that hadn't been invaded |
| 2:06.2 | by the U.S. yet, you know, and I really felt the need to do something, to write something, |
| 2:14.2 | opposing U.S., you know, military threats against Iran. |
| 2:19.5 | And how do you view the United States? |
| 2:22.9 | I've interviewed Johann Galtung, and I like his quote where he says, |
| 2:27.4 | I love the U.S. Republic, but I hate the U.S. empire, and I sort of feel the same way. |
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