GDAE Podcast - Episode 11

The Rise of the Uniformed Right Wing

• Teabagging rallies as a 'case study' with help from WakeUp AM Podcast.
• Were the teabagging rallies really "grass roots"? Rachel Maddow and Fox's Glenn Beck weigh in.
• Fear-mongering attacks on Obama taken on by Frank Schaffer and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
• Bill Moyers on incitement of the right wing fringe by right wing radio celebrities.
• MUSIC by Danny Elfman's Oingo Boingo "Only a Lad."
• Noam Chomsky: Darkness and light.
• MUSIC duet: Watson Blues on fiddle and mandolin.
  
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Previous Episodes & 60-Sec Promo:

GDAE Podcast Episode 10 April 9, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 9 March 28, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 8 March 15, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 7 March 1, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 6 February 17, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 5 February 6, 2009
GDAE Podcast Episode 4 January 24, 2009
GDAE Podcast 60-Second Promo

It's OK to Debate the Israel Lobby

Times change. The Israel Lobby can now be analyzed and debated. Although I don't know the motives of the VPRO International "Back Light" organization, it's video is a legitimate contribution to the debate.

Here's the description that accompanies the video:

For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so?

In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Steve Walt (Harvard) published the controversial article 'The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy'. In it they state that it is not, or no longer, expedient for the US to support and protect present-day Israel.

The documentary sheds light on both parties involved in the discussion: those who wish to maintain the strong tie between the US and Israel, and those who were critical of it and not infrequently became 'victims' of the lobby. The question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's former chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House.

With political scientist John Mearsheimer, neocon Richard Perle, lobby organization AIPAC, televangelist John Hagee, historian Tony Judt, Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth, colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Democrat Earl Hilliard, Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and investigative journalist Michael Massing.

Research: William de Bruijn
Director: Marije Meerman