Our Bloated Military Budget, with Lindsay Koshgarian
Have you ever wondered just how much of your tax dollars go to funding our bloated war machine? On today’s episode of “The MintCast,” Lindsay Koshgarian lays out the staggering expense that American taxpayers fork out each year to keep the U.S. empire going.
Lindsay Koshgarian is the Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. Originally a clinic worker and organizer at Planned Parenthood, her work and commentary have been featured in NPR, the BBC, CNN and The Nation, among others.
Journalist Wyatt Reed was recently reporting from the separatist Donbass region that's in dispute in the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. His hotel, which hosts many foreign journalists, was hit by Ukrainian artillery one morning while he was returning to it.
These artillery strikes have been commonplace for residents of the Donbass since 2014, after the Maidan coup, when their conflict with the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev began.
Reed will join Lee Camp for a live interview at 12pm est today to discuss his time in the warzone and other current events.
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Joining me today to talk about the latest on the ground in Gaza and to discuss this conflict for what it really is Israeli activist and author of the General’s Son Miko Peled, son of an IDF General and grandson of one of the founding fathers of Israel who is outspoken against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. In fact Miko, just returned from the West Bank after protesting with the Palestinians against the violence in Gaza.
This past week, Gazans witnessed the deadliest shelling by Israel yet since the operation began nearly a month ago. Just this week, Israel struck a UN-run school that housed over 3,000 Palestinian civilians seeking refuge from all the violence, in which several children died. Israel continues to justify the civilian deaths, saying that Hamas hides rockets inside tunnels, schools and hospitals making civilians human shields by Hamas. Israel’s economic minister has even gone far enough to say that Hamas is committing self-genocide, taking no responsibility for the devastating civilian deaths. Israel continues its offensive targeting hospitals and schools where Gazan residents have taken refuge.
The death toll in Gaza has reached nearly 2,000, most of which are women and children, and injuries have reached over 4,000, with over 8,000 civilian homes destroyed. Those numbers continue to rise. According to Israeli officials, 56 Israeli soldiers have died in this conflict. In addition to this, it was recently discovered that Israel is using banned DIME weapons that emit micro-shrapnel and Flechette shells, which release thousands of lethal metal darts in the air.
But the media continues to cover this massacre as an equal playing field between Hamas and Israel, who are supposedly exchanging fire, as the media has framed it. The corporate and Western media is coming under fire by human rights groups and millions of people around the world who say this assault on Gaza is part of a greater problem of colonial occupation, apartheid ethnic cleansing and racism.
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"You are making this up because you've been told to by your masters in Tel Aviv."
Roger Waters calls out Labour Friends of Israel MP Christian Wakeford, who demanded his cancellation at his show in London.
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Rania Khalek, associate editor of the Electronic Intifada and a journalist who focuses on Palestinian liberation and the police state, explains to Mnar Muhawesh how she and Max Blumenthal created the #JSIL hashtag in 2014 to bring attention to the media’s double-standard toward Israel’s war crimes, which are treated far more leniently than similar human rights violations carried out by terrorist groups.
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As the Syrian government reaches the end of the battle to take Aleppo from extremist rebels, the narrative surrounding the war has become clouded with propaganda originating with the United States and its allies.
The war for regime change has many fronts, and the battle over the story told to the public is equally powerful.
Mnar Muhawesh, host of “Behind the Headline,” speaks to David Swanson, a noted peace activist and author of a number of books including “War No More,” about the propaganda war impacting Syria and why it is crucial for the public to remain vigilant against regime change.
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In this episode of ‘Behind the Headline,’ Mnar Muhawesh ties the past to the present with a closer look at the Muslim tradition of Arbaeen. The 1,300-year annual march is steeped in a spirit of resistance against tyranny that resonates now more than ever in the face of groups like ISIS -- but you can’t count on the corporate media, especially Buzzfeed, to cover this as an important news story. Here’s why.
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This week Lee Camp uncovers the truth behind the hidden activity of the US military in Africa under AFRICOM.
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