This episode's focus includes a continuation of our examination of President Elect Joe Biden’s cabinet. We examine Samantha Power and her likely United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director appointment and what to expect based on her well documented foreign policy positions under the Obama administration, particularly her humanitarian intervention rationalizations for US intervention in Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Dan Kovalik, a lawyer,professor, and author of “No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests,” to discuss. Our guest leads a dialogue on US intervention history and its evolution in techniques while its motives have remained unchanged, driven by elite financial interests of US/western economic interests at the direct cost and inverse proportion of measurable misery that we document as well. Why is the consistent reality that we partner, arm, train and/or logistically support and/or otherwise enable military dictatorships, and governments with horrendous human rights outcomes for their majority populations? We document this reality and remind our listeners of the death squads and al-Qaeda like jihadist terrorists that we have consistently been enabling, but rarely if ever get reported by our mainstream press has the result enabling an ahistorical public consciousness in our citizenry. This absence of honest historically contextualized reporting seems devoted to Out of sight Out of Mind perspective that drives our media coverage, thus its complicity in promoting a long history of unjust interventions and their results, results which our guest does an outstanding job of detailing for us, particularly in Libya, Yemen, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. Accountability starts with honest and thorough analysis of history. Enjoy!
