Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Shadow Anniversary: 'Persistence of War' - Correctly predicts Obama's Afghan War lies

Shadow Anniversary: 'Persistence of War' - Correctly predicts Obama's Afghan War lies
 
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/56813
 
PERSISTENCE OF WAR
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Program Type: Daily Program
Featured Speakers/Commentators: Barack Obama; Fred Branfman; Jo Cumberford;
Freda Payne; Robert Knight
Contributor: Robert Knight [Contact Contributor]
Broadcast Advisory: No Advisories - program content screened and verified.

Summary:
A "Five O'Clock Shadow" anniversary special on "The Persistence of War,"
compiled from The Shadow's premiere broadcast in late 2010, featuring:
President Barack Obama's then-most-recent 30,000 troop "surge" -- and his false "promise to withdraw them " in Afghanistan (committing a combined TWICE as many troops [70,000] as President George W. Bush before him), and his false "promise of withdrawal by... JULY, 2011;
 
Fred Bronfman, first reporter to reveal the secret US bombing of Laos during the Vietnam war, discussing current WikiLeaks revelations of clandestine US bombing in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan;
 
Barack Obama's 2009 speech incresing US military presence in Afghanistan, with false commitment to withdrawal by July 2011;
 
Jo Cumberford, executive director of the National Priorities Project, discussing
federal spending alternatives and the cost of war in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and

Legendary singer Freda Payne, discussing her anti-Vietnam war background and the US military banning of her music, including her famous anti-war song "Bring the Boys Home"; and

Freda Payne - "Bring the Boys Home (Bring Them Back Alive)."
 
Credits:
Anchor: Robert Knight
Producer: Kristin Prest
Engineering: Michael G. Haskins
Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
 
-Robert Knight
Senior National Correspondent
"Five O'Clock Shadow"

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