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Chomsky’s Lectern: U.S.-Israel ‘Prefer Expansion Over Security’ (mp3)

Posted: 16 August 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, Palestine-Israel
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Prof. Noam Chomsky discussed the history of the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Israel, how the mainstream media manufactures consent for it, how it relates to the manipulation of language regarding factions like Hamas and Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel ‘preference for expansion over security’, and the history of U.S.-Israel active rejection of establishing the Middle East as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone with Kathleen Wells at Race-Talk (38:19):

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Daily Briefing—2nd-3rd Aug 2010

Posted: 3 August 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ali Gharib, Andrew Bacevich, Arizona, bank fee, banking, Bashar Assad, BBP, CFR, Chris Hedges, CIA, electoral politics, FBI, France, Golan Herights, Guatemala, Gulf oil spill, Haqqani Network, Howard Zinn, immigration, India, Iraq War, ISI, Israel, Julian Assange, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Marc Theissen, Maxine Waters, Middle East, miranda rights, Nabila Ramdani, Netherlands, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nida Khan, overdraft protection, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, Robert Gates, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taliban, Tamil refugees, Thailans, Wikileaks, Wikipedia

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Daily Briefing—8th June 2010

Posted: 8 June 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alan Fisher, Anastasio Hernandez, AntiWar Radi, AntiWar radio, Arab League, Ben Smith, Bhopal, Blackwater, BP, Bradley Manning, Brian Ross, Chicago Public Schools, China, Chris Hedges, Christofascists, CIA, Collateral Murder, Congo, Costa Rica, CPS, David Friedman, DPRK, DRC, economic sanctions, Egypt, Erik Prince, eurozone, Farah Massacre, Felipe Calderon, free market, Garani Massacre, Gaza blackade, gold, Granai Massacre, Guatemala, healthcare, Honda, IAEA, immigration, Iran, Iraq War, Jeff Stein, Kevin Carson, Kurdistan, labor unions, Maggie Hberman, Mexico, Mexico drug war, national debt, NATO, Noah Shachtman, North Korea, PTSD, Red Crescent, Saudi Arabia, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, stem cell research, tasers, terrorism, The Machinery of Freedom, UN Security Council, war crimes, Wikileaks, Xe

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Reagan’s Torture Regime in Latin America (mp3)

Posted: 18 September 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, AntiWar radio, AntiWar.com, blowback, Bush I Administration, Charlie Wilson's War, CIA, Cold War, Cuba, Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, ISI, Islam, Islamic Bomb, Israel, Israel lobby, James Baker, JFK, Jimmy Carter, Kuwait, Latin America, LBJ, Middle East, mujahideen, neoconservatism, Nicaragua, NPT, nuclear weapons, OBL, oil, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Reagan Administration, realpolitik, Robert Gates, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Sandinistas, Taliban, torture, USSR, Vietnam War, William Casey

Consortium News founder Robert Parry discusses Latin America as the political training ground for Neo-Con torture regimes, bashing moral relativism to ‘manufacture consent’ for moral relativism, statist journalism, blowback in the Middle East, the lie of Charlie Wilson’s War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ role in the Former President Reagan’s C.I.A., and media scare tactics used to lie the U.S. into war with Iran with AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton (63:13):