(2014/06/21) Double dose of duplicity (Foreign Policy)

Edition #838

Double dose of duplicity

Today we look at the absurdly politicized reactions to the prisoner swap to retrieve Bowe Bergdahl and the PTSD-inducing media blitz of Bush-era neocons spouting their discredited opinions about the current chaos in Iraq

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: A prisoner dilemma - @onthemedia - Air Date: 6-13-14

Ch. 3: Song 1: Long-Ge - Early Music

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Ch. 4: Act 2: A Trial By News Debate - @jimmy_dore  Show - Air Date 6-6-14

Ch. 5: Song 2: The Price You Pay - The River

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Ch. 6: Act 3: No Actual Evidence Sgt Bergdahl Caused Any Deaths - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 06-04-14

Ch. 7: Song 3: Unbelievable - Cool '90s Hits

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Ch. 8: Act 4: Militants Capture Huge Swaths Of Iraq, Including Weapons YOU Paid For - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-13-14

Ch. 9: Song 4: Beginning - Punkgrass for the People

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Ch. 10: Act 5: Andrew Bacevich on the chaos in Iraq - @billmoyersHQ - Air Date: 6-20-14

Ch. 11: Song 5: Forgotten - Punkgrass for the People

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Ch. 12: Act 6: No New War via @AlanGrayson - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - The Poet

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Ch. 14: Act 7: Time to Rethink American Exceptionalism? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-31-14

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Voicemails

Ch. 15: Responding to Vicki from Oregon on animal agriculture - Scott from Brooklyn

Ch. 16: Comparing marijuana with alcohol and tobacco - Nathan from Boca Raton, FL

Ch. 17: Possible effects of reparations - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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Ch. 18: Final comments on the purpose of keeping the conversation on racism alive

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

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ACTIVISM:

No New War via Alan Grayson

Contact Your Representatives

Sources/further reading:

"Stop Calling the Iraq War a ‘Mistake’” by Dennis Kucinich

"U.S. considers air strikes on Iraq, holds talks with Iran”

"Sunday Shows Turn To Discredited Iraq War Architects For Iraq Analysis” via Media Matters For America

"Hawks Push for Iraq War, the Rule of Law Prevents It” by Kevin Zeese via Popular Resistance and Truthout

"A Third Iraq War?” by Robin Wright at The New Yorker

VIDEO: Crisis In Iraq Michael Brooks on Arise News

"The sectarian myth of Iraq exploited by the West is a recipe for endless war” via Stop The War Coalition

via Greenpeace

 

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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