Month: October 2014

"We are," said President Obama, "the indispensable nation."

"That’s how we roll," he said, explaining his bombing of Syria. "That’s what makes this America."

But what about the Constitution? Doesn’t that have something to do with what makes this America? This week on the Podcast, Charles Goyette talks with Ron Paul about the endless war in the Middle East, intelligence failures, so-called moderate Syrian rebels, and the Constitution.

Listen to this week’s podcast HERE.

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Charles Goyette is New York Times Bestselling Author of The Dollar Meltdown and Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America’s Free Economy. Check out Goyette and Paul’s national radio commentary: Ron Paul’s America. Goyette also edits The Freedom and Prosperity Letter.

Too many commentators gloss over the horrors of war and the abhorrent politicians who make it. Join Antiwar’s director of operations, Angela Keaton, and former Antiwar radio host and current host of the Scott Horton Show, Scott Horton himself, to discuss why war is some bad s*** and what is wrong with America’s foreign policy. What’s going on in the Middle East? Scott names names and calls politicians out!

Last weekend, John Oliver, host of the HBO comedy news show Last Week Tonight offered a helpful reminder to the world at large that US drone strikes are still happening.

On the day this episode broadcast, four suspected militant were killed by a drone strike in northwest Pakistan. Earlier in the week, as Oliver noted, the US hit Pakistan (10 dead) and Yemen (two killed, some children reportedly injured) and barely anyone reported on it. Were the individuals killed in the strikes Al-Qaeda, militants of some kind? Sure, maybe. Or maybe not. Hard to tell — not that the US government wants us to tell.

Oliver’s funny, angry piece is a great summary of the lawlessness of the US’s drone policy, going from President Obama’s ill-advised drone striking the Jonas Brothers joke in 2009, to the fact that “imminent threat” and “civilian casualty” mean whatever the government wants them to mean.

The highlight in terms of gut punches is footage of Yemeni civilians testifying to the psychological terror that drones bring.

Watch it:

Or, send it to people who know less about drones than you do, so that they get the picture. Iraq and Syria are a fair distraction, but we need to remember that this stuff is happening, too. Oliver gets many props for summing up the dark absurdity of the drone program in such an accessible, and grimly hilarious fashion.

 

 

Wednesday on Fox Radio’s “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with former Congressman and Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul about President Obama’s strategy for defeating ISIS in the Middle East.

Dr. Paul criticized liberal Democrats who said they were anti-war during the George W. Bush Administration, but now support President Obama. He also discussed where he differs with his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and his recent comments about how Scotland’s vote on independence could influence others movements, including secession in the United States.

Listen to the interview here.

Read the transcript here.