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Did we give up on our president when 9/11 happened? Of course not, we rallied round the flag. Same thing is happening in Iran. Both Democrats and Republicans have forever bent over backwards for Israel, and today as a result The post The Iran War A Catastrophe for the US-Israel Alliance? That’s a Good Thing. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Storytelling is a venerable and often the most accurate way to teach history. Our guest co-author of the new A Line In the Sand, Miles Spencer, traveled with his partner along the 1100 mile trail of clues left by TE The post One Eternally Explosive Line in the Sand appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In 21st Century Western Culture, there’s a variety of impressions average white people get when you say the word Muslim. Most of them wrong. On this edition of Keeping Democracy Alive, Toronto author Saqib Qureshi brings some needed clarity to The post The Challenges of Being Muslim Today appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

History moves in many different directions at the same time. On this show author and independent journalist Patrick Lawrence explains how as we begin a new year there is optimism beneath the pessimism. The failure of our many imperial policies The post 2024: The Positive Breakdown of “Rules Based Order.” appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Their language is illegal where they live. They can not give their kids Kurdish names. A continuing legacy of European imperialism. Americans owe Kurds gratitude for beating ISIS in 2014. Our guest Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information The post Palestine is Not The Only Middle East Nation Denied appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Their language is illegal where they live. They can not give their kids Kurdish names. A continuing legacy of European imperialism. Americans owe Kurds gratitude for beating ISIS in 2014. Our guest Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information The post Righting a Century Old Wrong: Free Kurdistan From Middle East Prison appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio S...

Suddenly in 2023, the aspiration of  being the only democracy in the middle east is unraveling itself from within. With its turn to the far right, antidemocratic political Zionism is overpowering traditional spiritual and cultural Zionism. On this show, The The post The Israeli Far Right 2023: The Mask is Off appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

When Iraq invaded Kuwait, we went to war. With Russia massing at the Ukraine border, we threaten war. But when the repressive kingdom of Morocco claims possession of another distinct nation, silence from the US. The rest of the world The post The Last Colony: Western Sahara appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The words seem so obviously neutral and just technical. In her new book “Does Skill Make US Human?” author Natasha Iskander reveals that the language of skill versus unskilled is being used to justify dehumanizing workers in Qatar, much the The post “Skilled/Unskilled” New Political Categories appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

One hears a cry for “unity” today, but though America is one country, we have always been actually many nations. On this show, author Louis Salome talks about places like Afghanistan, the other “stans,” Iraq, and other countries whose borders The post Don’t Fight Tribalism, Embrace It appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

No one likes an outside power coming in and having control over them. But that’s exactly what has pervaded the Middle East for over a hundred years. Some of the effects of America’s recent wars there include epidemics of birth The post New President: New Better Mideast Policy? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The slogan was Build Back Better. In terms of foreign policy, our guest today Foreign Policy In Focus’s John Feffer says: “Thanks in no small part to Donald Trump, the United States just doesn’t matter much anymore,” our leadership is The post Biden’s Better Foreign Policy? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s all about bragging. Trump said his “deal” between the UAE and Israel would create a half million new jobs. The true number is less than a tenth of that. On this show Pentagon arms expert William Hartung explains how The post Trump Floods the Mid-East with US Weapons appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The president calls it a “previously unthinkable regional transformation.” But perhaps it both solidifies the power of medieval monarchies masquerading as modern states, as it ramps up sales of US weapons systems to them. Retired US Army Major Danny Sjursen The post Trump and Netanyahu’s “Peace Deal” appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Sh...

Denial is the final stage for a successful genocide. Since Nuremberg, we’ve heard the phrase “Never Again.” But that requires facing real history, hearing the voice of the victims not just the winners. Though the Turkish genocide of a million The post Never Again? Denying The Crime Is Part of the Crime appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Whatever you say about Donald Trump, he is a skilled provocateur. The instant Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, there was Trump, sowing divisions, insisting Bernie supporters “have a home” in the Trump campaign. Of course very few would ever fall The post Trump Provocateur Against Democrats//Weaponizing Coronavirus on Iran and Venezuela appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &a...

Hundreds of thousands of lives are suddenly at great risk. As former national security advisor Susan Rice writes “Full-scale conflict is not a certainty, but the probability is higher than at any point in decades.” With us to discuss the The post Iraq/Iran: Reverberations From The Assassination appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been president of Mexico just over a year and he is already had success bringing great change. Much to the distress of the oligarchy which has ruled for decades. His new left party MORENA now The post Well Hidden: Left Progress in Mexico And Stability in Syria appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It didn’t start with W’s 2003 war on Iraq. The British have plundered what is now Iraq since the 19th century. After the incredible economic and physical devastation and perhaps a million deaths, though little noticed in the news, the The post Plundered Iraq Rising Up appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We all know that, thanks to Trump giving them a green light, Erdogan’s Turkish military is now aggressively slaughtering the stateless Kurdish people. Kurdish women warriors were exceptionally effective in their fight against our common enemy ISIS. Yet Trump abandoned The post The Kurds are a Nation; Why Don’t They Have a State? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &am...

Across Europe tens of millions of refugees are living in horrible conditions, as countries erect razor wire to keep them out. Our guest today Tim Horgan of the World Affairs Council argues it is best to keep people where they The post A Real Solution To Refugee Crisis appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Of course Iran shot down a US spy drone. Any country would do the same. And Trump’s intention for greater tension is achieved. On this segment, legal scholar Marjorie Cohn argues that Iran had a legal right to shoot down The post Reactions from Iran and Honduras: What Do You Expect? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Bombing a school bus that killed 44 children in Yemen was almost two months ago! We Americans have had so many other distractions since then. But the marriage of commerce and war continues largely unnoticed. The military contractors learned that The post Yemen: An Accountability Free Zone appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .