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Eric Brakey returns to the show to talk about his many efforts — past, present, and future — to advance liberty at the state level. They first talk about Defend the Guard and the push to get it through the New Hampshire Senate after its victory in the House. They also touch on Brakey’s involvement in passing Constitutional Carry in Maine and other states, as well as his prescient 2016 stand against provocatively sending lethal aid to Ukraine.

Discussed on the show:

• New Hampshire Liberty Forum
• “Trump Campaign Changed Ukraine Platform, Lied About It” (The Daily Beast)
• Brakey pushes to change Ukraine platform (begins at 9:00)

Eric Brakey is a State Senator from Maine and the Executive Director for the Free State Project. He has been instrumental in pushing for pro-liberty legislation like Constitutional Carry and Defend the Guard. Follow him on Twitter @SenatorBrakey

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Chris Deliso, author of Migration, Terrorism, and the Future of a Divided Europe: A Continent Transformed, discusses the indications that US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily is trying to orchestrate a coup without the knowledge or approval of the Trump administration; how a select few insiders are getting rich off the refugee migration industry, with George Soros-funded NGOs leading the way; and how US intervention in MENA has created instability, increased terrorism, and allowed the revival of a slave-trade in Africa.

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Trevor Aaronson, a contributing writer at The Intercept, discusses his 4-part series on the nearly 800 people prosecuted by the US government on terrorism-related charges since 9/11, supposedly for serious crimes endangering the lives of Americans. However, most of them didn’t commit a violent act, more than 400 have been released, and others were the victims of entrapment by informants working for law enforcement agencies.

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Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, discusses the continued attacks by war hawks on the Iran nuclear deal and the whole idea of diplomatic give-and-take. Politico writer Josh Meyer’s recent article makes a big deal about the American-Iranian prisoner swap that happened at the same time the nuclear deal was implemented, and implies that the Obama administration made undisclosed and excessive concessions to secure it.

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Gareth Porter, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses why the entire war on terror since 2001 has been a “bait-and-switch” operation wherein the US pretends to fight terrorism while sacrificing the safety of Americans to back the interests of regional allies like Saudi Arabia.

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Sheldon Richman, Executive Editor of The Libertarian Institute and author of many books, discusses The Libertarian Institute’s future without co-founder William Norman Grigg, who recently passed away; the slate of new up-and-coming libertarian writers and the general expansion of the movement; the upcoming release of Grigg’s book on the wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp and Scott Horton’s book on Afghanistan; and why North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is rightfully concerned about US-backed regime change against non-nuclear armed states.

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Theodore Postol, Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy at MIT, discusses his critique of the White House Intelligence Report claiming that the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun on April 4th. Postol debunks claims that photos of a metal tube inside a crater are evidence of a Syrian air attack that released sarin gas. A more plausible scenario is that a Russian air strike on an ammunition dump created a large explosion, dispersing toxic chemicals over a large area that could have caused the mass casualties seen on video.

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Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, DC, discusses how difficult it is to get any information out of US intelligence agencies by using a Freedom of Information Act request, especially when it relates to CIA-budgeted aid to Israel or Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

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Joey Lawrence, a professional photographer and war documentarian, discusses Obama’s initial military intervention in Syria to save the Yazidis from a massacre on Mount Sinjar in 2014; why Turkish President Erdogan dares attack the Kurdish YPG militia with embedded US troops nearby; and whether the US will turn its back on its Kurdish allies once the war against ISIS is over.

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