karen kwiatkowski on the air right now....9:30 AM CST

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http://www.thisishell.com

listen here
http://www.wnur.org/

also, her article at Salon, The New Pentagon Papers

March 10, 2004 | In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I had served as a communications officer in the field and in acquisition programs, as a speechwriter for the National Security Agency director, and on the Headquarters Air Force and the office of the secretary of defense staffs covering African affairs. I had completed Air Command and Staff College and Navy War College seminar programs, two master's degrees, and everything but my Ph.D. dissertation in world politics at Catholic University. I regarded my military vocation as interesting, rewarding and apolitical. My career started in 1978 with the smooth seduction of a full four-year ROTC scholarship. It ended with 10 months of duty in a strange new country, observing up close and personal a process of decision making for war not sanctioned by the Constitution we had all sworn to uphold. Ben Franklin's comment that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia had delivered "a republic, madam, if you can keep it" would come to have special meaning.

In the spring of 2002, I was a cynical but willing staff officer, almost two years into my three-year tour at the office of the secretary of defense, undersecretary for policy, sub-Saharan Africa. In April, a call for volunteers went out for the Near East South Asia directorate (NESA). None materialized. By May, the call transmogrified into a posthaste demand for any staff officer, and I was "volunteered" to enter what would be a well-appointed den of iniquity.

get the day pass

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/

she's really delivering the goods

LISTEN

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1. one of the best shows on air.....rest of show listed below

This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 12:30 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM in Chicago, and live all over the rest of the world via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. Just go to WNUR's website (http://www.wnur.org) and click on either the RealAudio or Windowsmedia button found just beneath the heading, "Listen Online."

This week our guests include:

Julie Mertus, a professor of human rights at American University's School of International Service, author of "Bait and Switch: Human Rights and US Foreign Policy" (http://www.fpif.org/papers/2004rights.html) and the 1999 book, "Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War"

Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired US Air Force Lieutenant colonel who worked in the Pentagon from May 2002 through February 2003 in the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Near East South Asia and Special Plans. Karen is the author of the controversial Salon.com piece, "The new Pentagon papers" (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp/index.html)

Ian Thompson of the National Committee to "Free the Five" (http://www.freethefive.org/) an organization working to free the five Cubans who were surveilling Cuban right-wingers in Florida, and have been imprisoned for espionage.

Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio. The official website for his campaign in Llinois is http://www.il4kucinich.org

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2. discussing Perle/Frum book now

talking about how poorly written,radical it is, but how it's a blueprint for future policy if the thugs continue in power.

Talking about.....GUTTING our intelligence agencies by isolating, eliminating dissenting voices, basically, so only the pre-ordained information gets to the policy makers

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3. don't need a free pass to Salon for this......it's all there

excuse if article already posted

"Americans think we're very, very wonderful"....we don't go insinuating ourselves everywhere, but Neocons believe it's our, uh, manifest destiny to go all over the world to force American values on rest of world, impose democracy.

"People need to wake up and see what Neoconservatism really is."

mentioning General Zinni getting the axe, Powell leaving as soon as election is over (not in the way the junta is expecting, please)

Bush foreign policy is finally "reaching out and touching" people in the heartland via all the guardsmen being activated, serving, being wounded/killed. FORCING more and more Americans to be aware of the real costs of the neocon foreign policy

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4. oops.....dupe! can't believe it!

I keep mentioning this show and nobody EVER has responded, and I just noticed there's another thread on this already!

EXCELLENT!

ha!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1226676

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5. dennis kucinich coming on momentarily

listen up

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6. first question is about media reform

talking about how howard dean's campaign was demolished as soon as he brought up media reform when guesting on tweety's show

mentions Ted Koppel's egregious performance in debates/lack of concentration on issues vs. horse race

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7. talking about E. Bumiller now

how media frames issues, how superficial electronic media are, in particular

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8. discussing Kwiatkowski's statement that Kerry won't leave Iraq

DK talks about Kerry voting for invasion, says Kerry is committed to being in Iraq through 2009.....says he's drafted plans to that effects.

DK: UN should IMMEDIATELY take over control oil fields, that US should renounce control thereof, that UN should be the ones to help shepherd new Iraqi constitution, not US

wants us out of there ASAP....meaning by 2005.

says we have completely screwed things up in Afghanistan, that our Middle East strategy, from there to Iraq is "incoherent"

mentions hypocrisy of policy of bringing democracy to Afghanistan, while the country outside Kabul is controlled by warlords; poppy cultivation going through roof

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9. This program should have its own "Listen Live" button here at DU

DK is really "on" today.

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10. I love "This is Hell."

I don't find DK that compelling to liten to but the lieutenant colonel was great.

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11. as opposed to........Kerry?

don't get me wrong, ABB ABB ABB ABB, etc., but I've always thought Kerry sucks the energy out of a room as fast as any politician I've ever seen. he's improved quite a bit, but still needs to learn that brevity is the soul of more than just wit.'

did you hear Moment of Truth....the joke about the martyrs?

I missed the punchline