April 1 – Another War Based on Fake Intelligence?; The Republican Right Wing Stalinist Machine; A Plan to Use “Soft Power” Against Assad

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 We begin with a repeat of history as the neoconservatives, who brought us the Iraq fiasco, are apparently manufacturing another case for war, this time with Iran. Jeremiah Goulka, a specialist on the politics and policy of U.S. national and homeland security joins us. He was sent to Iraq by the Bush Administration to investigate the State Department-designated terrorist organization, Mujahedin–e Khalq, the MEK, who the neocons are now using as a source of intelligence to build a case for war against Iran. jeremiah goulka

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Then we speak with author and historian Kevin Baker about his essay in the New York Times Sunday Review “The Outsourced Party” which explains the strategy and mechanism behind the Republican party’s drift towards right wing radicalism, and the extent to which, through their interlocking network of billionaire-funded think tanks, media propaganda outlets and judicial activists on the Supreme Court, they are carrying the country with them.

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Then finally, as some 70 Western and Arab Foreign Ministers meet in Turkey with the Syrian opposition to forge some unity and respond to the Syrian regime’s foot-dragging on the UN- Arab League peace proposal, we discuss alternative approaches with Henri Barkey. A former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, he had a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times “Syria in the Balance: If the international community wants to stop the bloodshed and prevent disasters, it needs to act rather than react.”

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  MUSIC: Elton John – Seen That Movie Too; Lee Greenwood – God Bless The USA; Randy Newman – Rednecks; Syrian Protesters – Bashar Must Go