It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

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Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. How are you doing on this hot sweltering day, David?

Good morning.

I'm looking forward to this.

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And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Hello, Ralph.

Hello, plenty of evidence about global warming today in Washington DC. Yeah. Well we've got a great

show again today I know I say that every week but we keep topping ourselves. A few weeks ago we

welcome investigative journalist Andrew Coburn who made the

counterintuitive case that the more we spend on the military the weaker we

actually get. Well on the show today we're going to expand our discussion of the military budget and spend most of the hour with Professor Michael Claire, who has written extensively on foreign affairs and how the pursuit of natural resources fuels most wars.

We're also going to talk to Professor Claire about current US military policy as it relates to Iran.

Are we in danger of stumbling into a war with Iran?

And is that about oil?

And as the fruitless so-called war on terror loses steam,

are we turning our war machine toward bigger, more conventional targets

like China and Russia.

These are the topics on the table, Professor Claire,

for the main part of the show.

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