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We have a great show for you tonight. First, I talk to anti-war, former Marine and current

Green Party candidate for Senate in North Carolina, Brian McGinnis. He had his hand broken

while speaking out against the Iran war at a Senate hearing.

Then I speak to David Alvarez, the second secretary at the Cuban embassy to the U.S. in Washington,

D.C., and Danny Valdez, and New York City-based Cuban-American organizer with DSA, who I will be

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Okay, so without any further ado, here is my interview with Brian McGinnis, but don't go away

after because we have another interview right after that.

We are so excited to be speaking to Brian McGinnis, who served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps from 2000 to 2004.

In 2002, he was stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

He was on the all-marine boxing team and deployed to Iraq as a light armored vehicle crewman in 2003.

He was part of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2003 to

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