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Full Program
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Part 1
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We begin with the failure of former U.N. head Kofi Annan to get an agreement to stop the year-long bloodshed in Syria, and get an analysis of where the civil war in Syria is heading and whether we will end up with a Somalia on the Mediterranean with remnants of the regime and rebels fighting over chemical and biological arsenals. Robert Baer, a former CIA officer who knows both sides, Syrian Army Generals and the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, joins us. |
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Part 2
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Then following the HBO movie “Game Change” that revealed the fractious inner-working of the McCain/Palin campaign, we examine the candidate who lost the last presidential election but has since bitterly campaigned against President Obama and his foreign policy, recently calling for a war against Iran and for a bombing campaign against Syria. A former classmate of John McCain’s at the Naval Academy who spent eight years as a POW in North Vietnam, Dr. Phillip Butler joins us to talk about the man who is still running against Obama.
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Part 3
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Then finally we speak with Elaine Pagels, a Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of a new book, “Revelations: Vision, Prophesy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation”. We discuss the appeal of damnation and destruction that America’s religious right has for this apocalyptic vision of a war between good and evil and their investment in the end times that has brought about a peculiar alliance with the right-wing government of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
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MUSIC: Bob Dylan – Masters of War; Sonic Youth – Do You Believe In Rapture; Arcade Fire – Neon Bible |
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