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Hassan El-Tayyab was back on Antiwar Radio Sunday to discuss the effort to end the war on Yemen. Scott and El-Tayyab have been advocating for the passage of two War Powers Resolutions (H.J.Res. 87 and S.J.Res. 56) in the two houses of Congress. In this interview, they discuss where things stand and what needs to get done. El-Tayyab argues that this lame-duck period in the House is the best time to get these resolutions passed.

Discussed on the show:

• 1833stopwar.com 
• “State and DOD Need Better Information on Civilian Impacts of U.S. Military Support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates” (Government Accountability Office)

Hassan El-Tayyab is a musician and peace activist, who works as the lead lobbyist on Middle East policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot.

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John Glaser, assistant editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the Bush Jr. administration’s decision to turn against Iran and Syria instead of allying with them against al Qaeda after 9/11, the stupidity of the Israel-first neocons in and out of government, U.S. support for al Qaeda in Syria, and the complete lack of any real vetting of which rebels are getting the arms.

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Marcy Wheeler, AKA “emptywheel,” discusses the Obama administration’s unprecedented war against whistleblowers, the government’s admission that keeping secrets from the American people is more important to them than keeping it from the Chinese or any other foreign state actor as revealed by its pretension that whistleblowing to the newspaper is even worse than leaking secrets to a foreign government, the renewed internal clampdown on secrets in the government,

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Naomi Roht-Arriaza, professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, discusses her article “Deadly Aid,” about the unintended consequences of American foreign aid passed out without care as to who will receive it, from Colombia to Ethiopia, and whether or not we should just stop.

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Karen Kwiatkowski, Pentagon whistleblower and LewRockwell.com regular, discusses the lack of veteran support for the militarist Tea Party, the march to war in Syria, hard times coming for Americans after having blown all their money on empire, how terrible Bob Goodlatte is, the bureaucrat’s fatal conceit, the wisdom of individual voters versus the stupidity of the ubiquitous opinion poll.

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Daniel Ellsberg, heroic liberator of the Pentagon Papers and author of the memoir Secrets, discusses the U.S. government’s use of nuclear weapons against Japanese civilians in World War II, the fake “Missile Gap” with the Soviets of the late 50s-early 60s, and the dire consequences for all of humanity from any nuclear war.

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Adam Morrow, Egypt reporter for IPS News Service, discusses the recent raid on the Israeli border, speculation about the official and possible other explanations, the fortunes of the new president Morsi and the military’s relationship with the U.S..

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Ramzy Baroud, author of My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, discusses his article “The Afghanistan of Africa” at CounterPunch, about the consequences of the Libya War for the people of neighboring Mali, and the empire-usurped revolution in Syria.

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David Bromwich, professor of literature at Yale, discusses his article “Romney, Netanyahu and George Washington’s Warning,” and the dangerous passionate attachment to foreign nations held by so many American politicians for Israel.

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