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
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
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
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
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
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
Ch. 12: Act 6: No New War via @AlanGrayson - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 14: Act 7: Time to Rethink American Exceptionalism? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 05-31-14
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
Ch. 18: Final comments on the purpose of keeping the conversation on racism alive
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
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
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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