Phyllis Bennis, a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses John Kerry’s doomed-to-fail revisiting of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative for an Israel-Palestine resolution; why Israel will never make concessions while the US is unwilling to withhold foreign aid and stop fighting Israel’s battles at the UN; and the proposed “Israel exception” to mandated [...]
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Jim Bovard, author of Public Policy Hooligan, discusses his article “How ‘Food for Peace’ Hurts Foreign Farmers;” how government food subsidies and mandates distort prices and help giant agribusiness; and why corn wouldn’t be mass-converted to ethanol and sugar-substitute in a free economy.
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Jon Basil Utley, associate publisher of The American Conservative, discusses his article “The Untold Story of Antiwar Conservatives;” the many prominent conservatives who were against the Iraq War but were ignored by the media; George W. Bush’s naive and fantastical Iraq War plans (or lack thereof); and the bald-faced lies told before the 1990-91 Gulf [...]
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Sheldon Richman, vice president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses the willingness of many Americans to give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety; the government and MSM’s efforts to ignore/deny the link between terrorism and foreign policy; and the real meaning of “WMD” and “terrorist.”
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Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses Obama’s “red line” on Syria’s alleged chemical weapons; the Constitution Project’s report on systematic torture and war crimes committed by the US government; and Bill Clinton’s role in starting the notorious rendition program of outsourcing torture.
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