iran with iraq there are quite a few eerie similarities here and i spoke a little while ago with david swanson in charlottesville virginia david is the author of war is a lie founder of the website david swanson dot org and i asked him if he too was experiencing a bit of deja vu. almost identical my god i'm glad i don't watch television the newspapers are bad enough i had to sit through that you know it was nuclear weapons weapons of mass destruction was a way of luring the line between less dangerous weapons and nuclear weapons and the public was convinced in the united states that iraq had nuclear weapons dick cheney would occasionally say it outright condi would warn of mushroom clouds and they would in various other ways imply that iraq was about to hit us with nuclear weapons and was behind nine eleven we even got our buddy over in egypt to torture a man until he said iraq was linked in linked up with al qaeda and behind nine eleven it's the same thing we've recently heard it rand was actually behind nine eleven iran has nuclear weapons we have the majority of the american public believe

well joining me now for more is david swanson campaigner for it's actually nice to see you david so i know you are a very outspoken when it comes to the military industrial complex part of that system allows the department of defense to be the biggest polluter in the world how how is this able to happen. well it's able to happen as described in your story which was very well done through the corrupting influence amy and there there's a there's a big wave now of books looking at the declining war making the decline in violence but about a lot of them seem to assume that as war becomes less popular it will go away the problem is that even if wars are unpopular even if environmental destruction is unpopular if a handful of powerful interests are controlling our government that may or may not make any difference and environmental groups fail to take on the military industrial complex in the way that they would any other polluter and this being of course the biggest one out there just as civil liberties groups fail to take on the military industrial complex those looking into the interests

now that was david swanson campaigner for roots action. as egypt adapts to a new government tensions between the u.s. and cairo are coming to a boiling point just a few days ago americans seek refuge at the u.s. embassy in cairo egypt has banned these americans from leaving the country due to their ties to organizations that kyra suspects are behind stirring chaos and the region on the top more about what's happening in egypt i spoke to dr weil that farai is author of the coming revolution struggle for freedom in the middle east here as his take. police into something very odd is happening in egypt. the united states the administration has been among the first governments still support the uprising last year almost one year of now those uprising have begun with youth women secular groups and then soon enough you had islamist forces of course the been part of it in two elections after now there's a majority in the phantom of egypt of muslim brotherhood and their allies the salafist the democracy agency which are funded by the us congress go

relationships with the rest of the world they've had a pleasure to have you on the show as always that was david swanson campaigner for a faction. well the drums of war against iran beating louder now in the middle east as israel's saber rattling suggests an attack on the country may not be too far off in the future and israel says if and when they attack the only give the us twelve hours notice so is war with iran just around the corner artie's marina part and i reports. america almost never misses an opportunity to raise its ally ironclad commitment and i mean i don't claim to israel's security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history both point the proverbial punch at its greatest adversary but there will be no doubt. america is determined to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon and i will take no options off the table ok however for many americans when they really support the rockwell family more of a war against iran doesn't go far no sign of the simply state i'm uncook committed to israel's security you have to promote policies that commit you that show

iran with iraq there are actually some eerie similarities here and joining me to discuss this is david swanson he is the author of.

there is a legitimate debate or not david pleasure to have you on the show as always that was david swanson campaigner for roots action. well today the senate held a hearing to address what the u.s. views as a worldwide threats from the rising power of china to cyber war to concerns over iraq's nuclear program the u.s. is finding much to fear these days it was once al qaeda considered to be america's top threat but today it seems iran is what scares the u.s. the most this despite iran and even top u.s. military leaders coming out and saying the country is not building a nuclear bomb i spoke with former cia analyst ray mcgovern about the increasing fear mongering in the u.s. involving iran and his opinion i asked him whether these fears are justified. it's a synthetic stoking of fear. you use the word and the word synthetic you know he may know an elaborate and i know you are true if you look at the polls seventy percent of the american people believe that iran already has a nuclear weapon that's exactly the same percentage of people in two thousand and two who were persuaded by what i call