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10/17/16 Ryan Reilly on dying in jail before any trial
“Sandra Bland died one year ago Today: And since then, at least 810 people have lost their lives in jail” Ryan Reilly discusses dying in police custody. “Deaths inside American jails frequently go...
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10/19/16 Sandy Tolan on the end of the ‘two-state solution’
Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why the $38 billion US military aid package to Israel marks the end of both Washington’s role in an Israel-Palestinian peace process and any hope...
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10/19/16 Martha Mundy on starving the Yemenis to death
Martha Mundy, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria, discusses how...
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10/19/16 Gilbert Doctorow on the worsening crisis with Russia
Gilbert Doctorow, the European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord, discusses why the US-Russia confrontation in Ukraine and Syria is far more serious than generally understood,...
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10/21/16 Eric Schuler on what Hillary really knows about Syria
Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton’s Syria policy is due to stupidity or “something worse;” and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian...
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10/21/16 Eric Schuler on Hillary’s private position on Syria
Eric Schuler, author of The Daily Face Palm, discusses whether Hillary Clinton’s Syria policy is due to stupidity or “something worse;” and how the terrible presidential debates have made libertarian...
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10/21/16 Danny Davis on the battle of the ten armies
Retired US Army colonel Daniel L. Davis discusses his article “Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster;” and how US military intervention is paving the way for Al Qaeda/ISIS control of...
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10/21/16 Jason MacLeod on imperial oppression in West Papua
Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural...
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10/26/16 Max Blumenthal on the White Helmets and Syria War
Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public...
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10/26/16 Grant F. Smith on U.S. military aid to Israel
Grant F. Smith, director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the longstanding US government policy of feigning ignorance of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, why...
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10/26/16 Daniel Lazare on the War against Islamic State
Daniel Lazare, author of The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution is Paralyzing Democracy, discusses Hillary Clinton’s bifurcated policy on ISIS, as she proposes fighting the group in Iraq and...
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11/2/16 Liza Goitein on the new era of secret law
Liza Goitein, Co-Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, discusses her report on “The New Era of Secret Law” in the US, including the DOJ’s Office of Legal...
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11/2/16 James Carden on Obama’s disastrous foreign policy legacy
James Carden, a contributing writer for The Nation and former advisor on Russia at the US State Department, discusses how the Washington DC foreign policy consensus, locked down by neoconservatives and...
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11/4/16 Sandy Tolan on Standing Rock Sioux Vs. the Pipeline
Sandy Tolan, author of Children of the Stone, discusses why Native Americans and activists across the country are demonstrating against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and the crackdown against them by...
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11/4/16 Philip Giraldi on Loose-Cannon Ally Erdogan
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses how Turkey has become a destabilizing force in the Near East under increasingly-authoritarian president Erdogan, creating a risk of military entanglement for...
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11/2/16 Jeffrey Kaye on the lawless torture state
Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses the latest developments in the ACLU’s lawsuit (on behalf of former Guantanamo detainees) against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce”...
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11/7/16 Ted Snider on Obama’s Record of Latin American Intervention
Ted Snider, a writer on US foreign policy and history, discusses his article “The End of Obama’s Term: A Report Card on Latin America;” and why the lone bright spot, despite Obama’s promise to change...
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11/11/16 Jim Powell on Woodrow Wilson’s great blunder
Historian and author Jim Powell commemorates Armistice Day by discussing how Woodrow Wilson’s intervention in WWI gave rise to Hitler, Stalin, and WWII; then summarizes the 2,000 year history of the...
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11/7/16 David Swanson on the No More Wars initiative
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses his article “How Drone Pilots Talk;” and the RootsAction.org initiative to tell the next president “No more war!”The post 11/7/16 David Swanson on the...
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11/11/16 Gareth Porter on switching sides in Syria again
Gareth Porter, author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses the similarities between the Russian/Syrian bombing of Aleppo, the 2003 US bombing of Iraq, and...
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