Sunday Weekly Review
May 22, 2005(broadcast stream
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— Will Republicans Break Senate Rules and Go Nuclear on Judges Tuesday?
— Air Force Antisemitism
— Uncompassionate Conservatives
Newsweek: A Case Study in Hypocrisy in the Media, the US Gov't, and the Muslim World
May 19, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
That Newsweek may or may not have gotten wrong whether some GIs flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet is frankly, the least interesting part of the story.
What is more interesting is the incredible, audacious hypocrisy of:
— a cowed media that apologizes for this tiny story while allowing the Big Lies of this Administration to continue
— an Administration that hyperbolically attacks a possible small detail that is wrong as a way to hide the far bigger truth (just like when they attacked Dan Rather)
— a Muslim world that cares more about books than people
— an Administration that cries crocodile tears over the lost lives of a few protestors against the US when it couldn’t give a damn about the tens of thousands of innocent civilians we have killed and continue to kill in the War to Occupy Iraq
— the fact that General Myers, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (the highest-ranked military officer), and Lieutenant General Eikenberry, the Commander of the Combined Forces in Afghanistan, have reported, following an investigation, that “the political violence was not, in fact, connected to the magazine report”
I am not shocked by much. But when the Pentagon spokesman says, “People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said”, and when the 24-hour news channels (CNN and MSNBC, as well as the Fox Propaganda Channel), who refused to report the “smoking gun” memo, proving Bush lied to get us into war — a memo that was a major factor in the British elections — are now reporting this 24 hours a day, you have to take notice.
Will we ever have a free press in this country?
The Soviet Tass and Pravda similarly tried to protect their Governments with carefully crafted stories, but the Soviet Union is gone. George Orwell’s 1984 is alive and well in America.
The "Stans" of Central Asia
May 18, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
Guest: Chad Clay, Director the USAID Enterprise Development Project in Central Asia (based in Kazakhstan).
You’ve heard of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But how about Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan?
Can you place these countries on a map? Do you know their history? What do these Central Asian nations, formerly of the Soviet Union, tell us about Islamic terrorism, oil, and U.S. Foreign Policy?
Learn something new today. If you’ve never heard of the “Stans” or don’t understand their geopolitical importance, you won’t want to miss today’s INSIDE SCOOP.
Debate Tuesday: Republicans Go Nuclear!
May 17, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
Drunk with power, the Republicans this week are likely to declare War on the Constitution, the Senate, and the American Judiciary in an effort to pack the bench with 10 judges after refusing to give Bill Clinton an up or down vote on 69. The real threat is that they will use this violation of Senate rules and the Constitution to pack the Supreme Court which can then again choose the President and again refuse to count the votes of We the People.
Will Democrats have the stomach to fight back for American constitutional democracy? Does America care if one of the last vestiges of the rule of law is swept away in the Republican tyranny?
I will debate the “nuclear option,” likely to be employed this week by the Republicans and the Democrats’ possible “nuclear responses” with my guest, Michael Lane, President of IntElephant Strategies, a consultant working to elect Republicans to political office.
Can we avoid Mutually Assured Destruction? My view is that if the Republicans declare metaphorical “nuclear war” on the rest of us Americans, we have to fight back with the same force, even if it leaves our Government metaphorically in smoldering ruins. It is only the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction that will prevent this power-mad tyranny from taking over and destroying that late great constitutional democracy we used to call the United States of America.
Televised on Channel 10 in Northern Virginia (Cox Cable)
The International War on Drugs
May 16, 2005(Archive)
Guest: Sanho Tree, Fellow and Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.
We are at war all over the world in places you might not expect, far away from the Middle East. Billions are spent in the “War on Drugs” all over the world. Are we succeeding? Is this a war worth fighting?
Televised on Channel 10 in Northern Virginia (Cox Cable)
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