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Matthew Hoh joins the show to talk about the dangers of a war with Iran. As Biden moves towards some kind of military response to the rocket attack that left three American soldiers dead over the weekend, Hoh has been gaming out what the first week of a war between the U.S. and Iran would look like. He and Scott work through different scenarios and discuss some of the big-picture political forces that have driven us to this dangerous point.

Discussed on the show:

• “What the First Week of War With Iran Could Look Like” (Antiwar.com)
• “US Plans Weeks-Long Bombing Campaign Against Iranian Targets” (Antiwar.com)
• The Reluctant Spy by John Kiriakou
• “Rudy’s Ties to a Terror Sheikh” (Village Voice)
• The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
• Perfect Soldiers by Terry McDermott 

Matthew Hoh is associate director at the Eisenhower Media Network and formerly worked for the U.S. State Department. Hoh received the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling in 2010. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @MatthewPHoh 

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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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Yakov Hirsch, a writer for Mondoweiss.net, discusses how “hasbara culture” has infected the minds of Israelis with a “macho victimhood” ideology and tilted media coverage (led by Jeffrey Goldberg, the “most toxic person in American culture”) so Americans are misled into thinking Palestinians are the aggressive occupiers of Israeli land, instead of the other way around.

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Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the signs of an impending US troop surge in Afghanistan to finally “win” the war after 16 years; and the potentially disastrous consequences if Trump’s bellicosity on North Korea ever turns into military action.

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John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus and author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands, discusses the lazy thinking among foreign policy pundits who insist North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is either a child or a madman who only understands force and can’t be reasoned with. Feffer attempts to read the despot’s mind to find out what he wants for himself and his country, and thereby determine how the US can use diplomacy instead of missiles to reach a peaceful resolution with the hermit kingdom.

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Gene Healy, a vice president at the Cato Institute, discusses the media’s strained constitutional justification for Trump’s “limited military activity” in Syria; and why the 1973 War Powers Resolution doesn’t give the president a free pass to initiate offensive military strikes without congressional approval, contrary to popular opinion.

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Matthew Hoh, a Marine veteran and former State Department official, discusses his recent activism on Palestinian rights issues; the common myths recited to Americans to keep them from learning the truth about Israeli apartheid; the new generation of Palestinian and American non-violent activist leaders; and why Gaza is shaping up to be one of history’s greatest human catastrophes.

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Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discusses the bipartisan coalition of top US politicians, including John McCain, who accepted money from the MEK to lobby for their removal from the State Department’s terrorism list; and Rand Paul’s assertion that the US should stay out of the Syrian civil war, in direct contradiction to warmongers McCain and Lindsey Graham.

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Nick Mottern, the founder and coordinator of Knowdrones.com, discusses his organization’s use of targeted advertising to educate military drone operators and the general public that these deadly strikes are illegal, kill innocent civilians, and are not about fighting terrorism.

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