Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, author of the book Chain of Command and many important articles about the Bush administration’s Iran policy, discusses his new one for The New Yorker magazine, “Preparing the Battlefield,” Secretary Gates’s warning about long term consequences of an air attack, the turning over of much of America’s covert action under the control of the Joint Special Operations Command to avoid oversight, the backing of Sunni radicals in Iran, Baluchistan, Kurdistan etc. in order to try to provoke the Iranian government into escalating as an excuse for war.

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Seymour Hersh is an award winning investigative reporter currently writing for the New Yorker magazine.

Anthony Gregory, writer for the Independent Institute, the Future of Freedom Foundation, and LewRockwell.com, discusses the Republican crimes which increase the warfare/welfare/police state and how the Congressional Democrats go along, not out of fear that they’ll be called cowards, but because they simply want the power for themselves.

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Anthony Gregory is a research analyst at the Independent Institute, a public policy research organization that analyzes government policy and suggests nonpartisan, peaceful, free-market solutions to today’s social and political ills. He is also a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation, a guest editor for Strike the Root, and a columnist for LewRockwell.com.