With the moves towards Iran coming one after another, we decided to hit back in kind. We break down the recent ‘evidence’ produced by living mustache John Bolton and his minions, as well as playing devil’s advocate with Danny on how Iran has become the natsec boogeyman.
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Dr. Jeffrey Kaye returns for a new discussion on the existence of two torture programs during Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. The new program (to us at least) is quite different from the program which used so called “experimental interrogation techniques” like water boarding and relied on more simple, but still quite horrifying, techniques like using stress positions or confusing a prisoner’s sense of time of day. The new program will be referred to as Program B, while the experimental one already widely known, will be referred to as Program A.
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Tom Secker drops by the podcast to discuss Forrest Gump, to include both the book and the film, how they differ in huge ways, and how the film pushed clearly pro-war themes.
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Being a whistleblower is a difficult path, one that only a few choose to follow. Chelsea Manning is one of those people, but the pain of her choice continues to haunt her in horrifying ways. Here, we discuss Chelsea Manning’s jailtime over her refusal to testify in a grand jury proceeding related to Julian Assange. We also discuss Assange’s recent loss of asylum by the Ecuadorian embassy and arrest by UK authorities.
00:55– Supreme Court rules US terrorism victims cannot sue foreign countries
07:48– Declaring portions of Iranian military a “terrorist organization”
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David discusses a bit about his organization, World Beyond War, along with discussing violence caused directly by veterans. Veterans live under a halo of protection in the United States, but they shouldn’t. Even America’s ostensible heroes should be above the law. It’s a short but good one.
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Danny and I take the Fortress meat cleaver to the situation in Venezuela. We discuss how humanitarian aid is not the offer Marco Rubio or anyone in US government says it is and how it’s been repeated historically in a multitude of countries. We also discuss a recent settlement for a VA patient that smells significantly south of bullshit. Finally, we discuss the bravery and leadership shown by Senator Martha McSally as a survivor of sexual assault.
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Promises matter. Alliances matter. When America acts, it seldom acts alone, but often the promises made to those allies are forgotten in the face of new priorities, or in this case…new presidents. Here, the guys and I discuss the possibility that Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. could be deported under changes by President Trump, changes that fly in the face of long standing policy that protected those refugees from deportation, along with recent conflict between India and Pakistan and after effects of the government shutdown on military operations in the Coast Guard and elsewhere.
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Today, I sit down with Tom Secker of spyculture.com to discuss the National Geographic series The Long Road Home. Here, Tom and I note its lack of discussion on the historical and cultural questions surrounding the massive battle in Sadr City, known by veterans of the battle as Black Sunday, and the military questions I have as a soldier who was fighting against the same Mahdi militia in southern Iraq at the same time.
Thanks again to Tom for chatting with me. He wrote an amazing piece of analysis with journalist Matthew Alford on the influence of the Pentagon and the CIA in American films and television. It’s called National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood. Definitely pick up a copy!! And don’t forget to subscribe to Tom’s podcast, ClandesTime. He recently did a review on Executive Decision, the Kurt Russell/Steven Seagal film from 1996.
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Conscientious objection is a time-honored part of military service. After reading about its history a bit, I decided we needed a closer look from the only people who can tell it right from the horse’s mouth: objectors themselves. Here, I chat with three of them, all with different backgrounds, but one overwhelming consensus among them: military service was unacceptable to their conscience. Here, we find out a few clues why.
Clifton Hicks enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of seventeen and served as an M1 Abrams tank crewman with C Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division in Iraq 2003-2004. In 2005 he was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He went on to earn a degree in anthropology from Appalachian State University and currently works as a musician and music teacher.
Rosa del Duca is a writer and musician. She grew up a tomboy in rural Montana, where she joined the Army National Guard when she was seventeen. During her six-year contract, she became not only a conscientious objector, but a feminist and unlikely rebel. That tumultuous time is the focus of her memoir, Breaking Cadence: One Woman’s War Against the War, forthcoming from Ooligan Press in May, 2019, and her companion podcast,Breaking Cadence: Insights From a Modern-Day Conscientious Objector.
Jorge Javier (JJ) Rodriguez is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where his time spent as a cadet solidified his stance as a conscientious objector. He is now stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, where he is going through the process of the Army’s conscientious objector program. For his full bio and a better look at his situation, click here.
Ramon Mejia enlisted in the Marine Corps out of economic necessity. He served in Supply Ops. and participated in the initial invasion of and deployment to Dhi Qar Province, Iraq in 2003. As a result of his experience in Iraq, he converted to Islam in 2008. He has been an active organizer in countering local manifestations of hate and racism by neo-Nazis and paramilitary groups in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Ramon is a Social Studies teacher and one of the founding organizers of #VetsVsHate, a national veteran grassroots initiative pushing back against racism and bigotry. He was recently recognized as part of the ‘MPower 100–Muslim Social Justice Leaders Building Power Across the United States.
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