Re-Targeting Iran/Political Satire
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes Alternative Radio’s, David Barsamian, who presents the perspectives of leading scholars of the Middle East on the ongoing turbulent relationship between the U.S. and Iran in the book “Re-Targeting Iran.” And political cartoonist, Dwayne Booth, AKA “Mr. Fish” joins us for a provocative discussion about the state of political satire. Plus, Ralph answers listener questions!
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrova Analog with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, everybody. Get ready for a good show. |
| 0:26.0 | That is absolutely correct. |
| 0:28.0 | Ever since President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, |
| 0:32.0 | Iran and the United States continued to be stuck in a cycle of brinkmanship and |
| 0:36.7 | violence. |
| 0:38.0 | Our first guest, David Bar Samyan, is a journalist and lead author of retargeting Iran, |
| 0:44.0 | who is here to tell us more about America's turbulent history |
| 0:47.0 | with that very important Middle Eastern country. |
| 0:50.0 | His book is a facts only objective account of where America has gone wrong and that's just the first part of the show. |
| 0:55.8 | In the second part of the show we welcome political cartoonist Mr. Fish. Mr. Fish is actually the |
| 1:00.7 | cartoonist who illustrated Ralph's updated book, The Day the Rats vetoed Congress. |
| 1:06.0 | And I'd like to know how you cartoon when we've been living in a cartoon world. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll find out all about that, and somewhere in between between we will as always take some time out to check in with our corporate crime reporter Russell Mokiber |
| 1:17.8 | But first let's talk about the US and Iran's relationship |
| 1:23.0 | David Feldman about the US and Iran's relationship. David Varsamian is a tireless and wide-ranging |
| 1:27.1 | investigative journalist. |
| 1:28.5 | He has altered the independent media landscape |
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