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🗓️ 6 January 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Ralph talks to legendary progressive lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General,Ramsey Clark, about the conflicts in the Middle East. And we continue our discussion about the difference between “progressives” and “liberals” and why the distinction is important. Plus more listener questions!
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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. |
0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting great to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan. My co-host David Feldman is on assignment today. He's actually got a comedy writing gig which I don't think |
0:24.8 | had anything to do with our little humor segment last week but he'll be back |
0:28.1 | next week and with course we also have the man of the hour Ralph Nader happy new |
0:32.1 | year Ralph |
0:32.8 | happy news everybody let's hope it's a more just new year |
0:37.0 | yeah and just gentle all those soft jay words well today we're going to kick it off by talking about foreign policy, |
0:46.0 | specifically the Middle East and especially at least to begin with the war on Yemen which I think is a mystery to most of us here in America. |
0:55.2 | Yemen is a country that defines the very southern end of the Arabian Peninsula |
1:00.1 | and it's one of the poorest countries in the world. |
1:02.8 | In its simplest terms, the conflict is between the Huti movement, which advocates for the |
1:07.2 | Shia minority in Yemen, and the Sunni-led government forces. |
1:11.7 | And according to the BBC earlier this month more than 8,600 people have |
1:16.3 | been killed and 49,000 injured since March 2015, many of them in airstrikes by a Saudi-led multinational coalition that backs the president |
1:27.0 | Abdur-Bou Mansour-Adi, which raises the question, is this really a civil war or a criminal war of aggression |
1:34.7 | and since the United States provides Saudi Arabia with a lot of its weaponry and |
1:39.1 | technical support what is our responsibility for the carnage and famine that is taking place over there? |
1:45.1 | Our guest today who is going to talk to us about all of that is a legendary figure in |
1:50.1 | progressive legal circles. Ramsey Clark is an American lawyer who is attorney general of the United States during the Johnson administration. |
1:58.0 | As attorney general, he was known for his vigorous opposition to the death penalty, |
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