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- 'America In Laos' Traces The Militarization Of The CIA
NPR Fresh Air, 1/23/2017 In the '60s, the CIA began a secret program that aimed to curb Communism by arming and training local fighters in Laos. Dave Davies interviews Joshua Kurlantzick, author of "A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA", who characterizes the US campaign as "the largest covert operation in US history."
- 'Kingdom' Examines Afghanistan Through The Prism Of The Karzai Family (36 min)
NPR Fresh Air, Dave Davies, host, Sept 27, 2016 Journalist Joshua Partlow was in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012, a time of corruption, government dysfunction and civilian hostility to U.S. military operations. His new book is A Kingdom of Their Own.
- *Your Ukraine Questions, Answered (46 min)
WAMU 1A, with host Joshua Johnson, 10/9/2019.
Why has the United States supplied weapons to Ukraine? Why is Ukraine seemingly a hub for American business? We answer your questions about the European country and its place in the latest Trump administration scandal.
Produced by Haili Blassingame.Guests:
Nina Jankowicz Global fellow, the Wilson Center; author of “How to Lose an Information War.”; @wiczipedia
Serhii Plokhii Professor, Ukrainian History; director, the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
David Herszenhorn Chief Brussels correspondent, POLITICO; former Moscow correspondent, the New York Times.; @herszenhorn
- 9 Questions for Errol Morris
The legendary documentary filmmaker takes on the unknown knowns of Donald Rumsfeld. Jon Wiener, April 16, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 5, 2014 edition of The Nation.
- Anatol Lieven - A Hawk Named Hillary
A Hawk Named Hillary By Anatol Lieven, November 25, 2014 | This article appeared in the December 15-22, 2014 edition of The Nation. "As her record shows, Clinton has embraced destructive nationalist myths about America’s role in the world."
- AP - Trump aides covertly fought freeing of Ukraine prisoner
Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, Associated Press, Aug. 23, 2016 Emails and insider accounts obtained by the AP showed Manafort's firm directed a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort between 2012 and 2014 that appeared to undercut public support for imprisoned Yulia Tymoshenko, who was considered a political prisoner by U.S. and European governments.
- Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
“I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests,” Browder writes. Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, Jul 25, 2017
- Democratic House Candidates Were Also Targets of Russian Hacking
By Eric Lipton and Scott Shane, NY Times, Dec 13, 2016 A handful of Democratic House candidates became targets of a Russian influence operation that made thousands of pages of documents stolen by hackers from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington available to Florida reporters and bloggers.
- Experts Suspect Russia Is Using Ukraine As A Cyberwar Testing Ground
Fresh Air with Terry Gross. WFMY, NPR. June 22, 2017 Wired's Andy Greenberg says Ukraine has been the victim of a "cyber-assault unlike any the world has ever seen." Cybersecurity experts think Russia is perfecting attacks that could be used on the U.S. Article in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/
- Fresh Air - 'Alter Egos' Dissects Hillary Clinton's Tenure As Obama's Secretary Of State
Fresh Air, April 25, 2016 Mark Landler of The New York Times discusses Clinton and Obama's contrasting views on America's role in the world. Clinton, Landler says, was often the hawk, more willing to intervene with force.
- How Russia Looks To Gain Through Political Interference
Priyanka Boghani, PBS Frontline, Dec 23, 2016 "Russia’s attempts at influencing politics in Europe have increased since Putin’s re-election in 2012, according a report published by The Atlantic Council in November. The report says, “the Kremlin has accelerated its efforts to resurrect the arsenal of ‘active measures’ — tools of political warfare once used by the Soviet Union that aimed to influence world events through the manipulation of media, society, and politics. "Those tools include disinformation campaigns, political and business alliances, and the use of coercion or corruption to sway policies in Russia’s favor. Indeed, the chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces wrote in 2013 that, “The role of nonmilitary means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness.”
- Is the U.S. destined to be No. 2 to China?
Michael Morell, Opinion, The Washington Post, Sept. 11, 2018. A Post contributing columnist, Michael Morell was deputy director of CIA from 2010 to 2013 and twice its acting director during that period.
- Journalist: As U.S. Retreats From World Stage, China Moves To Fill The Void (43 min)
WHYY Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, January 3, 2018 (includes transcript) New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos says Chinese leaders think of President Trump as a "paper tiger" who makes promises he can't deliver and who can be "managed" with flattery.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco (HBO)
Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas.
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- NY Times: The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger And Scott Shane. NY Times, Dec 13, 2016 An examination by The Times of the Russian operation — based on interviews with dozens of players targeted in the attack, intelligence officials who investigated it and Obama administration officials who deliberated over the best response — reveals a series of missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation of the seriousness of the cyberattack. The article is lengthy, and recounts a number of prior major cyberintrusions by multiple governments.
- PBS Frontline: Losing Iraq
July 29, 2014
- PBS Frontline - Netanyahu, Rabin and the Assassination That Shook History
"This special two-hour documentary by filmmaker Michael Kirk tells the inside story of the complicated political history between America and Israel — with a particular focus on the events that have defined Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Israel’s longest-serving prime ministers and a polarizing figure on the world stage." Jan 5, 2016
- Philip Agee
Philip Agee, 1935-2008
Philip Agee worked as a case officer for the United States Central Intelligence Agency from 1957 to 1968. In 1975 he published a book about covert operations in Latin America entitled Inside the Company: CIA Diary in order to inform the public about what the U.S. government was secretly doing on behalf of the American people.
- Richard Sakwa - The deep roots of the Ukraine crisis
We must rethink the post–Cold War security order.
Richard Sakwa
April 15, 2015 | This article appeared in the May 4, 2015 edition of The Nation.
- The best weapon of all? Using meditation to stop war and terrorism
On December 16, 2015 the HuffPost Live reporter Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani hosted a discussion with Bob Roth, John Hagelin and Colonel Brian Rees on how the Transcendental Meditation practice can be used as a tool for increasing peace not only on the level of each individual but also on that of the society. What spurred the interest towards this topic was an open letter published in International New York Times (December 3, 2015) by the Global Union of Scientists for Peace in which presidents Obama, Hollande and Putin were called to use meditation as a way to deal with the threat of terrorism.
- Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Evan Osnos, David Remnick, and Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, March 6, 2017 What lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead?
- U.S. Military Leaders Are Worried That A War With Russia Could Start By Accident
NPR, Fresh Air, with Terry Gross. April 6, 2017. David Wood of The Huffington Post says Russian jets are playing "chicken" with U.S. planes in international airspace with alarming frequency, and that a rash response could lead to all-out war.
- Washington’s Secret ‘Cuba Twitter’ Program Is the Same Old Policy of Regime Change
Such covert operations are not sanitized by running them through USAID and wrapping them in the rhetoric of “democracy promotion.”
William M. LeoGrande
April 23, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 12, 2014 edition of The Nation.
- What Was Maria Butina Doing at the National Prayer Breakfast?
Katherine Stewart, NY Times, July 18, 2018 America’s Christian nationalists have been finding common cause with the Russian government for a while now.
- Why Afghanistan Is Going To Fall To The Taliban Again. And It's Not Why You Think.
Why Afghanistan Is Going To Fall To The Taliban Again. And It's Not Why You Think. Ryan Grim, Washington Bureau Chief, The Huffington Post Posted: 10/03/2015 07:04 PM EDT | Edited: 10/05/2015
- Why Are Migrants From Central America Coming To The U.S.?
WAMU 1A, with Joshua Johnson, Jan. 10, 2019
An wide-ranging discussion of migration over the southern border that looks at U.S. policies and actions in Central America as far back as the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
Brian Winter Editor-in-chief, Americas Quarterly; vice president, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas; @BrazilBrian
Greg Grandin Professor of history, New York University; author, "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall"; @GregGrandin
Elizabeth Oglesby Professor, Latin American studies, Arizona State University
Franco Ordoñez White House correspondent, McClatchy Washington bureau; @FrancoOrdonez