June 5 – Wolfowitz, Not Bradley Manning Should Be on Trial; Obama’s Appointment of Susan Rice to the NSC and Samantha Power to the U.N.; A Syrian Opposition Leader on Battlefield Losses

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Part 1	We begin with more evidence that the wrong people are on trial for the Iraq war and that Paul Wolfowitz, not Bradley Manning should be in the dock. A 17 year veteran of the CIA, Phil Giraldi joins us to discuss the latest scandal he has uncovered about how the neocons were conned and Iran played Uncle Sam for Uncle Sucker. Phil Giraldi’s latest article at The American Conservative is “Paul Wolfowitz’s Iran Connection: Was the architect of the Iraq War getting advice from an agent of the Islamic Republic?”
Part 2	Then, with the President’s announcement today that he is appointing Susan Rice to be his next National Security Advisor and that she will be replaced as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. by Samantha Power, we speak with David Rothkopf, the CEO and Editor-at-large of Foreign Policy Magazine and author of “Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power”. We discuss Obama’s defiance of his Republican critics who have trumped up charges against Susan Rice over the phony Benghazi scandal and assess what changes she will bring to U.S. foreign policy.
Part 3	Then finally an important member of the Syrian opposition Radwan Ziadeh joins us to discuss the loss of a key strategic town to Hezbollah and what that means for the Free Syrian Army in their long struggle to defeat the Assad regime whose fight for survival appears to be improving as the tide of battle turns in their favor. We also discuss the difference between Assad’s backers, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah and the lack of support the out-gunned rebels are getting from the U.S. and the EU.