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Dave DeCamp returns to Antiwar Radio this week to talk about the biggest foreign policy news stories. Scott and DeCamp run through the quick meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. They then take a step back and talk about the broader state of the war in Ukraine before finishing with the House vote to keep the sanctions on Syria in place as the nation tries to rebuild from last month’s massive earthquake. 

Discussed on the show:

• “US, Russia hold highest-level talks since Ukraine invasion” (AP)
• news.antiwar.com
• “The CIA Is Using A European NATO Ally’s Spy Service To Conduct A Covert Sabotage Campaign Inside Russia Under The Agency’s Direction” (JackMurphy)
• “’Nonstop shelling’: Former US Marine in Bakhmut, Ukraine, says fighting is ‘chaotic’” (ABC News)

Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com and the host of Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp. Follow him on Twitter @decampdave

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Gareth Porter is an award-winning independent journalist and historian.

This is the ninth part in a series of interviews on Porter’s new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Porter discusses the evidence that Iran’s alleged nuclear bomb test chamber at the Parchin military complex was actually designed for making nanodiamonds; the 2009 change in IAEA leadership with US-asset Yukiya Amano replacing independent Mohamed ElBaradei; and Israel’s ability to anonymously funnel bogus information on Iran to the IAEA.

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Adam Morrow, an IPS News journalist based in Cairo, discusses Field Marshall al-Sisi’s announced candidacy for president and his main competition; the Egyptian government’s bad reputation on the world stage for its mass death sentences; and the how Egypt’s turmoil is causing rifts between Gulf monarchies.

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Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst turned political activist, discusses why the US media thinks a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent; and Victoria Nuland’s successful regime change operation as her guy “Yats” becomes interim prime minister and paves the way for IMF austerity.

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Nathanael Ferguson, executive director of Texas Public Policy Action, discusses the criminal justice reforms coming from the political right; the detrimental and cascading effects of too many laws and the war on drugs; and former NYPD boss Bernie Kerik’s change of heart after his stint in federal prison.

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Catherine Crump, a staff attorney with the ACLU, discusses her Tomdispatch article “Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything.”

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Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses the fake reforms in Congress’ NSA bills; the millions of innocent people caught in the NSA’s practice of collecting phone records two or three “hops” away from the suspect; and why Rep James Sensenbrenner’s NSA reform bill is the best of the lot.

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Syndicated columnist Eric Margolis discusses the 528 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death by an Egyptian judge; continuing US financial support for Egypt despite army chief al-Sisi’s purge of political dissidents; the possibility of an armed uprising by Egyptian army defectors; and whether or not Israel will join the war in Syria.

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Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses the belligerent Americans itching for conflict with Russia and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s increasingly desperate behavior ahead of elections.

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