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We begin with the dangerous game Turkey’s President Erdogan is playing in allowing the U.S. to use a NATO airbase and pretending to go on the offensive against the Islamic State in Syria when his real focus is on bombing the Kurdish rebels, the PKK in Iraq and punishing and trying to discredit the Kurdish HDP, the People’s Democratic Party, which got 13% of the vote in Turkey’s recent election thus thwarting Erdogan’s plan to establish an executive imperial presidency. Graham Fuller, a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA and author of “Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East”, joins us to discuss how Turkey’s renewed war against the PKK will help the Islamic State. |
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Then we examine the latest evidence linking debris found on the island of La Reunion that confirms that the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 77 crashed into the Indian Ocean. We speak with David Gleave, a Chief Investigator for Aviation Safety Investigations in the U.K. and look into U.S. Intelligence reports based on foreign investigations that suggest Flight MH370 was deliberately flown off course with multiple changes in direction that indicate foul play. |
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Then finally Lauren Windsor, the executive producer of The Undercurrent and the creative director of American Family Voices, joins us in the studio. She infiltrated last year’s Koch brother’s private conclave for mega-donors revealing the agendas, strategies and comments by Republican leaders in attendance, and has been dogging the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce private gathering now underway at a California luxury resort. We discuss the harassment she has been subjected to by Koch Brothers security and public relations retainers and the sellout by members of the mainstream media who have been given access to some of the private meetings on the condition they do not reveal who is in attendance. |
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