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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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| We begin with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff and the first high ranking Bush Administration official to go public and warn of the usurpation of power by the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal. We discuss the former Vice President’s destructive legacy which is at odds with his “No Regrets” memoir “In My Time”. |
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| Then, as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, we look into the trillion dollar Terrorist Industrial Complex with Dr John Mueller, the author of a new book “terror, Security, and Money; Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security”. |
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| Then, finally we find out about who is funding the campaign of Islamophobia that has some Americans believing that the nation is about to be subjected to Sharia law. Wajahat Ali, one of the authors of a new study by the Center of American Progress, “Fear Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”, joins us. |
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