On this week’s BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio, I invited peace activist David Swanson to explain to me why it’s wrong for the U.S. to take military action in Iraq amidst what the President describes as “genocide”.
David is a friend, occassional guest blogger here, and author of War is a Lie (2007), When the World Outlawed War (2011) and War No More: The Case for Abolition (2013).
I pressed him and he offered a smart, persuasive, and well-reasoned case. Yet, I’m still not certain that I’m persuaded. Please give the short conversation a listen and let me know what you think.
We also took calls on the above, and covered a bunch of other stuff, including updates on the CA Supreme Court nixing the “corporate personhood” ballot initiative (Prop 49); the extraordinary North Carolina “voter suppression” law that a federal judge (W. Bush appointee) has allowed to move forward for now; and the remarkable story of federal judge Mark Fuller — who helped railroad former AL Gov. Don Siegelman (D) into federal prison — being arrested and charged for allegedly beating up his latest wife in an Atlanta hotel room over the weekend.
All of that, and a visit from Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report, as the News Summer from Hell continues…
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Who the fuck funds and controls ISIS/ISIL?
This is about oil fields, natural resources, and control over key infrastructure like that electricity producing dam in Iraq.
Don’t even pretend to think this is humanitarian. Sounds a bit naive to me without taking into account true motives of Obama and the U.S. military industrial complex behind him.
Listen to Gen. Wesley Clark tell the story about the 7 countries to be attacked. Read the PNAC plan to Rebuild America’s Defenses. Read the Powell Memo to control American society. Tell the truth about the anomalies of the 9/11 attacks. Watch Oliver Stone’s series on the Untold History of the United States. Look into the Opium business in Afghanistan. Study Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler. Study Brad’s research on Election Fraud & Theft.
If we all dig deeper and tell the truth, then maybe we can end these wars of aggression and empire.