Drones, Snowden & the State of the Union
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee joins us for a deep dive into his graphic non-fiction book “Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance,” which reveals the dark underbelly of how the U.S. conducts the so-called War on Terror. Also, Ralph deconstructs Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.
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| 0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
| 0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.7 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman, |
| 0:21.0 | who wants to share his new beauty secret, David. |
| 0:25.0 | Three words, beautiful, claim, Cole. |
| 0:31.0 | I assume that's some sort of skin care product. |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, you just rub it on and you two can look like you just stepped out of a Dickens novel. |
| 0:39.0 | As if Clean Coal was not oxymoronic enough. |
| 0:42.6 | It's beautiful. |
| 0:43.9 | And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:47.2 | Hi, we should send Donald Trump down into a coal mine, |
| 0:50.3 | have him look at the blown tops of mountaintops and the debris into the streams and rivers in Appalachia |
| 0:57.0 | and then go to a hospital and visit the dying victims, the coal miners who are coming down with black lung disease |
| 1:05.5 | all of which by the way has killed more |
| 1:08.7 | Americans than the Americans who died in world War II since 1890, black lung disease. So he is just |
| 1:18.0 | either living in a dream world or more accurately a nightmare world created by Donald J Trump. |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah, it's definitely Trump world and we are going to get more into the state of the unit in the second half of the show |
| 1:32.4 | but first I just want to say this is into the state of the unit in the second half of the show. |
| 1:32.8 | But first, I just want to say, this is a very important show today |
| 1:36.2 | because we're going to be examining a topic |
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