Here we go again: a slow but steady laying of a groundwork for a war, this time against Iran, assisted by the media’s promotion of lies surrounding Iran, reprising the role it played almost two decades ago hyping up the threats posed by Iraq. I talk in-depth with Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism […]
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Episode 131: Are The War Hawks Ginning Up A War With Iran?; Flight Attendants and The Future Of Labor
Posted on 22 May 2019.
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Episode 26: Forget ISIS—Uber Is A Greater Threat To Your Security
Posted on 19 April 2017.
Uber or Isis: Which is really a greater threat to the security of millions of people in this country, and around the world? In conversation with national taxi workers advocate Bhairavi Desai and foreign policy expert Phyllis Bennis, I make the point that, by far, the answer is Uber. ISIS is a brutal extremist gang—whose […]
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Episode 22: A $54 Billion Strangeloveian Kiss Because The Pentagon Needs More Toys.
Posted on 22 March 2017.
Who cares if old people go hungry if the military-industrial complex can celebrate, right? That’s basically the upshot of Trump throwing a $54 billion increase the Pentagon’s way—even if there is no clear idea what to do with the money, it’s champagne time for the war machine. I go in-depth with two experts on this […]
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