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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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Gareth Porter, an independent investigative journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, discusses why the Obama administration is favoring al-Qaeda’s main Syrian ally Ahrar al-Sham, and refusing to defy regional allies by backing a Syrian ceasefire.

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Derek Johnson, Global Zero’s executive director, discuses his organization’s efforts to create a world without nuclear weapons, and the challenges awaiting the next president on arms control and the nuclear “hair-trigger” posture with Russia.

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Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses why the US foreign policy establishment still wants regime change in Syria even though the Islamic State is as likely as anyone to fill the void.

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Mark Weisbrot, author of Failed: What the “Experts” Got Wrong about the Global Economy, discusses why Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is being impeached; and the IMF’s weakening influence in “middle income” countries across Latin America.

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Sam Husseini discusses his article on Noor Zahi Salman, the wife of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, and her claim that the media (and anonymous government officials) are lying about her complicity in the mass murder of 50 people.

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Reuters journalist Jonathan Landay discusses his article “U.S. sees no major Islamic State links to Boko Haram, despite claims.”

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Andrew Cockburn, author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, discusses the Pentagon’s real strategy in the Middle East: namely, keeping the money flowing to the military-industrial-Congressional complex, even if it means sending the incredibly effective A-10 Warthog to the dustbin and risking the lives of US soldiers.

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Aubrey Fox, Executive Director of the United States office of the institute for Economics and Peace, discusses his organization’s methodology for calculating a “global peace index,” ranking 162 countries according to their levels of peace and assessing the economic impacts of violence at the national level.

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