Monday, June 27, 2011

Coming to Our Senses

Andrew Bacevich, a retired US Army Colonel, professor of History and International Relations at Boston University, and author most recently of Washington Rules, talks about voices of dissent regarding national security policy, and how likely the US to change course.



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Monday, June 20, 2011

War Is No Longer War

Jonathan Schell, an acclaimed scholar and writer, has a conversation with TomDispatch founding editor Tom Engelhardt about Jonathan's latest TomDispatch article "Attacking Libya -- and the Dictionary: If Americans Don't Get Hurt, War Is No Longer War."




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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Double Down

Karen Greenberg, director of the NYU Center on Law and Security and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First One Hundred Days, talks about the so-called war on terror—now going on ten years—and the legal and policy implications that have accompanied it.




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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Ward v. Ford

Chip Ward, a grassroots organizer and activist and author of Canaries on the Rim and Hope's Horizon talks about the complexities of our ecosystem and how our environment is slipping out of balance.




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Monday, June 6, 2011

Going Through Withdrawal (part 2 of 2)

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, shares a few of his personal experiences with private contractors in Iraq.



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Going Through Withdrawal (part 1 of 2)

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, talks about why the US went into—and continues to stay in—Iraq, and whether there are any success stories to take away.



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Friday, June 3, 2011

It Will Get Worse Before It Gets Worse

Michael T. Klare, a peace and world securities studies professor at Hampshire College and author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, discusses the political and ecological consequences of an energy crisis that continues to worsen.