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Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About the Country and Its Conflicts – Ep 81

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We take a pause from the insanity of the election and a commander in chief with COVID-19 (remind me to thank him for endangering the staff at Walter Reed, as well as the permanent staff at the WH!) to discuss the recent explosion in Lebanon and America’s long intervention history there.  We break down some of the myths from Danny’s series and give everyone a good picture of where Lebanon is today and how American foreign policy took it there.  Below is the links for Danny’s series on Lebanon.  Enjoy!!!

Lebanon: Bellwether, Battleground, and Bastard Child of the Mideast

Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About the Country and Its Conflicts

Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About the Country and its Conflicts (Part Two)

Lebanon: Inconvenient Truths About Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Shia ‘Street’

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Rebecca Gordon and American Nuremberg – Ep 63

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Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular and author of American Nuremberg: The Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post 9/11 War Crimes, stop by the podcast to discuss torture and moral injury in the post 9/11 world, her experiences in Nicaragua and South Africa, how past presidents paved the way for Donald Trump, and over-classication in the intelligence community.

Rebecca Gordon received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.Div. and Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from Graduate Theological Union. She teaches in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco and for the university’s Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. Previous publications include Letters From Nicaragua, Cruel and Usual: How Welfare “Reform” Punishes Poor People, and Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States.

Her latest book is, American Nuremberg: The Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post 9/11 War Crimes.

Prior to her academic career, Gordon spent a few decades working in a variety of national and international movements for peace and justice. These include the movements for women’s liberation and LGBT rights; movements in solidarity with the struggles of poor people in Central America; the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and South Africa; and movements opposing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 1984, Gordon spent six months living in the war zones of Nicaragua, and in 1990, three months teaching desktop publishing at an anti-apartheid newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a founder of Californians for Justice, a statewide organization dedicated to the political enfranchisement of marginalized people.

Other organizations she has worked with include the Applied Research Center, the Center for Third World Organizing, and the Asian-Pacific Environmental Network. She is an editor of WarTimes, which seeks to bring a race, class, and gender perspective to issues of war and peace.

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Breaking The Silence w/ Avner Gvaryahu – Ep 58

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Avner Gvaryahu, the executive director of Breaking The Silence (BTS), sits down with us to discuss the organization’s mission of collecting Israeli Defense Force (IDF) veterans’ testimonies on operations in the Gaza Strip, how Israeli society sees and treats veterans who find fault with the ongoing occupation, and how similar American and Israeli military beliefs are in reality. 

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.

Breaking The Silence

Avner Gvaryahu profile

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Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange – Ep 40

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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”

24:16 – Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange

42:22 – Benjamin Netanyahu wins reelection in Israel

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Hawk on terror and dove on regime change – what could go wrong? – Ep 34

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Today is a politics day at Fortress On A Hill.  The guys and I seldom spend THIS much time discussing the political background of anyone, much else future Democratic presidential candidates.    Here, we dig into Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Tulsi Gabbbard; we’ll cover others like Kamala Harris in a later episode. We will continue to do this as more candidates announce; the compare and contrast of the group is quite important for understanding how American foreign policy might play out in a future Democratic administration.  

Tulsi Gabbard Violated Military Regulations for Political Gain in Every Campaign Since 2012

The Organization That Sent Tulsi Gabbard to Syria

PHOTOS: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Meets with Egypt President el-Sisi and Other Leaders in Cairo

TULSI GABBARD IS A RISING PROGRESSIVE STAR, DESPITE HER SUPPORT FOR HINDU NATIONALISTS

Top C.I.A. Lawyer Sides with Senate Torture Report

12 THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN YOU READ THE TORTURE REPORT

London visit makes loss clear

Christians United For Israel

SURFING WITH TULSI GABBARD … LONG BEFORE HER PRESIDENTIAL BID

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Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks.  Clifton’s Bandcamp page; Clifton’s Patreon page

Thanks to Nate Bethea from What A Hell of a Way to Die for editing and mixing this episode

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MeToo when you wear the uniform – Sexual assault in the military – Ep 4.0

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Ep 4 is here.  Hope you enjoy it.

I did want to make a note for people about SGT Johnson, the SF soldier who died in Niger back in October.  I said his name a number of times in this episode and I’m pretty sure most of them were SGT La Johnson.  His name is SGT La David Johnson and I apologize for not saying his name correctly.  I have memory issues and sometimes things don’t get out quite right.  But, a person’s name is an important thing and I aim to do it right.

We are starting a bonus program for anyone contributing to $3+ to us on Patreon!  There will be bonus podcast content not shown on ordinary episodes, original writings from Danny and myself, some collaborations with other creators and some other surprises we have cooked up.  Stay tuned!

00:40 – Jerusalem becoming location of US Embassy

08:38  – Gas line explosion at Camp Pendleton 

11:09  – Niger updates

42:20  – Analyzing recent deployments of Raytheon Patriot missile defense systems

51:00  – Three sisters, three academies, four generations of service

105:13 – Sexual assault in the military

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/…/american-embassy-israel-trump-move.html

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/bjddq8/everything-we-know-about-u-s-special-ops-are-doing-in-33-african-nations

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-sports/army-navy-game/2017/12/05/army-navy-week-3-sisters-3-academies-and-4-generations-of-service-3/

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