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Ted Galen Carpenter makes his first appearance on the show as a Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Scott and Carpenter discuss his most recent book about the news media’s long history of enabling Washington’s disastrous foreign policy. They start with the campaign to get the U.S. involved in World War I and move up to the present day—touching on Vietnam, Iraq War I, Bosnia, Iraq War II, Syria and Ukraine.   

Discussed on the show:

• Unreliable Watchdog by Ted Galen Carpenter
• The Captive Press by Ted Galen Carpenter

Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest.

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Muhammad Sahimi, professor of Chemical Engineering at USC, discusses why the US will be blamed if nuclear negotiations with Iran aren’t resolved before the interim agreement expires this month.

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Jonathan Landay, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses his article “Slaughter of Anbar tribesmen shows weakness in U.S. plan to beat Islamic State.”

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John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses the rebellion within the ranks of NATO countries in the former Warsaw Pact, which are refusing to take an ultra-hawkish stance against Russia, much to the chagrin of Washington Post pundits.

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the Utah Fraternal Order of Police’s public smear campaign against Salt Lake Country District Attorney Sim Gill, who dares to believe that police officers are themselves subject to the laws that they enforce on others.

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Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses Al Jazeera’s investigation of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty in 1967; LBJ’s personal involvement in the coverup; and why even Mearsheimer and Walt didn’t discuss the USS Liberty in their groundbreaking investigation of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

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Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst turned peace activist, further elaborates on his arrest Thursday night while trying to gain entry to a Gen. David Petraeus speaking event in New York City.

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Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst turned peace activist, discusses his arrest Thursday night while trying to  gain entry to see former CIA director David Petraeus speak in New York City.

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Antonio Buehler, founder of the Peaceful Streets Project, discusses his Not Guilty verdict on the charge of Disobeying a Lawful Order, stemming from his arrest in 2012 for confronting and videotaping Austin, Texas police officers who were assaulting a woman.

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