Danny Sjursen talks about the absurdity of the recent announcement that America is sending special forces troops to Mozambique, a country that he says has basically no strategic relevance to the United States whatsoever. Those who argue that this is only a dozen operatives who will stay less than two months, he says, don’t understand the way the U.S. military works. These operations always entail a vast number of support personnel and infrastructure, and they always find a way of exceeding their schedules. This is just the latest move in “The Great Game” that America plays for global dominance.

Discussed on the show:

• “It Began With Twelve, How Will It End? – Mozambique: AFRICOM’s Newest Adventure” (Antiwar.com Original)

Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. army major and former history instructor at West Point. He is the author of Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge and Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War. Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet.

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Why did America invade Iraq?

Oil? Israel? ”¦

Jets, bombs and taxed dollars.

So says Richard Cummings as he explains the story behind his Playboy.com article ‘Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘: the direct role in policy-making played by Lockheed Martin and the rest of the Military Industrial Complex and the amount of money they loot from the U.S. Treasury.

Also discussed: whether the National Review is a CIA front.

Richard Cummings taught international law at the Haile Selassie I University and before that, was Attorney-Advisor with the Office of General Counsel of the Near East South Asia region of U.S.A.I.D, where he was responsible for the legal work pertaining to the aid program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the author of The Immortalists, The Pied Piper — Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream, and the comedy, Soccer Moms From Hell. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

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Announcing the addition of the great Charles Goyette to Antiwar Radio at Antiwar.com!

Charles was fired by Clear Channel and hired by Air America for his opposition to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. He is known as the ‘most independent talk show host in America’ and now hosts the morning show on the 50,000 watt KFNX AM 1100 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Nuclear Physicist Dr. Gordon Prather explains that there’s no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program and that the people who yell to the contrary are full of it, just as they were in the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

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Break out the popcorn!:

Antiwar.com editorial director, Justin Raimondo, explains the importance of the trial of Dick Cheney(‘s former chief of staff Scooter Libby). And why it will be so much fun to watch the criminals who run this government destroy each other.

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Aaron Glantz, unembedded reporter for InterPress Service and Antiwar.com and author of the House Speaker-praised book How America Lost Iraq, talks about why America’s presence in Iraq is making things worse for Iraqis rather than staving off disaster, antiwar active-duty G.I.’s who are petitioning congress to bring them home and the devastating consequences this war has had for America’s physically and mentally wounded soldiers.

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LewRockwell.com‘s Charles Featherstone explains that humans are born free and allow governments to exist to protect their natural rights rather than existing at the pleasure of the state as attorney general Alberto Gonzales thinks and ponders the consequences of the behavior of the Bush/Cheney crew for the rest of the establishment and their projects.

MP3 here.

For the last decade, Charles Featherstone has worked as a reporter and editor at a couple of wire services and daily newspapers in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Right now, he works as a part-time editor for the Saudi Gazette and studying under a Masters of Divinity program at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. Journalism is no longer his calling, if it ever was.

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Investigative reporter and Armed Madhouse author Greg Palast discusses the new Iraqi oil law, the fight inside the American government over what that law should be, “the surge” and what he describes as a proxy war in Iraq between Iran and Saudi Arabia over the control over the price of oil.

MP3 here.

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse (Penguin 2006). His first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers. Author of another New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq

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For Monday January 22, 2007, Antiwar Radio features Frida Berrigan, senior research associate at the World Policy Institute and member of the National Committee of the War Resisters League about her great article “Raptors, Robots and Rods from God,” on the subject of the U.S. military’s plans for the future technology of mass murder.

MP3 here.

Frida Berrigan is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, Frida worked with a Central America solidarity organization for two years before coming to the World Policy Institute. Maintaining an interest in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America, she also focuses on nuclear weapons policy, weapons sales to areas of conflict particularly in SE Asia, and military training programs. Most recently she has published articles in the Providence Journal, the Nonviolent Activist and the Hartford Courant.

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