George Farah, William Blum
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Ralph talks to the executive director of Open Debates, George Farah, who takes us behind the curtain to reveal how our presidential debates have been co-opted by the two major parties. And foreign policy critic, William Blum, talks about the long list of countries the CIA has overthrown in the past sixty years. Plus more of your Facebook questions.
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| 0:00.0 | From the KPFK studios in Southern California, it's the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Steve Scrovan. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm here with Ralph Nader. |
| 0:21.2 | Make sure to pick up Ralph's latest book, Return to Sender, unanswered letters to the |
| 0:25.1 | President of 2003, 2014. |
| 0:28.3 | You can get it at anywhere. |
| 0:30.2 | Find books are sold. |
| 0:31.5 | David Feldman is still recovering from the flu. |
| 0:33.8 | We wish him the best later in the show. |
| 0:36.9 | We're going to be talking to a distinguished author and journalist, William Blum, one of |
| 0:40.8 | the foremost critics of US foreign policy. |
| 0:43.8 | He knows a lot about those rascals over at the CIA. |
| 0:46.7 | And if we have time at the end of the show, we'll try to work our way through more of |
| 0:49.5 | your Facebook questions. |
| 0:51.2 | But to start, very excited to have this gentleman on our show. |
| 0:54.8 | George Farah, George Farah is an anti-trust attorney as well as the founder and executive |
| 1:00.4 | director of open debates. |
| 1:02.6 | He is the author of the book, No Debate, How the Republican and Democratic Party secretly |
| 1:07.6 | control the presidential debates that comes to you by seven stories press. |
| 1:12.3 | His articles have been published in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia |
| 1:16.4 | Inquire, the Denver Post, Christian Science Monitor, Fort Lauderdale Sunsensilule, |
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