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Answering Counter Climate Claims – Alan Robock RAI (3/5)
Mr. Robock takes on many of the arguments against the thesis that CO2 produced by industrial society is the main contributor to global warming. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced May 4, 2014.
Don’t Rely on Corporate Democrats to Fight the Right
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Fracking Success Shut Down US Climate Change Policy – Christopher Williams on RAI (pt 3/5)
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U.S. Interference in the Middle East – 20 Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq – Col. Larry Wilkerson
Col. Larry Wilkerson speaks about how the media’s portrayal of the U.S. invasion of Iraq barely encapsulates the damage wrought by the U.S.-led “coalition of the willing.” He also addresses recent developments in the Middle East, including Israel’s increasingly belligerent policy on Iran, how the Saudi-Iran deal might end the Saudi blockade of Yemen, and the military significance of Israel being moved from U.S. European Command to U.S. Central Command.
OMG, I loved that “jestesmy chujowi” at the end! :DDD
Spoken like the true “fatcat” G8 hypocritical countries that they are.
Tell us more about our sham democracy, and phoney freedoms.