Wider View Radio Podcast Charles Dunaway

Today I’m welcoming Jeremy Kuzmarov back to Wider View.  Jeremy has taught in history in colleges, written 4 books including “Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State” with Glen Ford, and “The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce” with John Marciano, and was recently named Managing Editor of Covert Action Magazine.  We talk about the magazine and its history, current US interventions including Belarus, and the upcoming election.

Impunity - the Saudis are accused of it in the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, but where does it come from? We hear from Noam Chomsky and Gideon Levy among others as we examine post WWII disregard of international law.

A review of headlines outside the mainstream media is followed by a look at Africa featuring Ajamu Baraka on the campaign to end AFRICOM, a review of US interference in Africa and the use of debt as a weapon to control African nations.

This program features with Yemeni-born professor Shireen Al-Adeidi of Michigan State University along with excerpts from a Real News interview of Dr. Isa Blumi, both discussing the ongoing war in Yemen and its origins.

Lifelong anti-war activist Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space joins us to discuss his recent trip to Russia and to reflect on the Midterm Elections and their implications for the anti-war movement.

Moscow-based international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda talks about the recent US elections as perceived from Russia and Russian policy in the Middle East