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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 a former colleague of the US ambassador to Libya who was killed along with three other Americans in an attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi. Wayne White, who was the former Deputy Director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research’s Office of Analysis and a former State Department Intelligence Analyst on Libya, joins us. |
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Then we look into the latest example of ignorant Islamophobia that sparked the riots at the US Embassy in Cairo and the Consulate in Benghazi that led to the deaths of four Americans. Nathan Lean, the author of a new book “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” joins us to discuss the irresponsible hate speech generated by Islamophobes such as this latest five million dollar film by an LA based Israeli real estate developer which opened to empty theaters yet managed to provoke the killing of Americans. |
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Then finally we will speak with Kurt Eichenwald, the author of a new book “500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars”. We discuss the explosive evidence he has uncovered about the reckless dismissal of alarming evidence of the impending 9/11 attack that the Bush White House ignored, and the serial blunders that followed in the tragically misconceived and misdirected war on terror. |
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| MUSIC: Xavier Rudd - Let Me Be; Bob Dylan - With God On Our Side; Devandra Banhart - Foolin; Bon Iver - Blindsided |
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