Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics
“The Democratic Party Can’t Just Whisper Sweet Nothings Anymore” – Nina Turner on RAI (pt 1/4)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on January 17, 2017. On Reality Asserts Itself, Nina Turner, former Ohio State Senator and leading Bernie Sanders surrogate during the primary, tells host Paul Jay that she grew up poor, believing in the Democratic Party and the Clintons, but she came to understand the failure of the Party to serve the needs of the African-American community and poor white workers.
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Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics
The General’s Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights – RAI (pt 3/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on December 12, 2016. On Reality Asserts Itself, Miko Peled tells Paul Jay that he’s come to understand that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands began in 1948, and he broke with the liberal zionist belief in the “secularization of the bible” and the mission of a Jewish state; he says BDS is an effective strategy that should be supported.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
The General’s Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights – RAI (pt 2/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on December 12, 2016. On Reality Asserts Itself, Miko Peled tells Paul Jay that he fulfilled a childhood dream and became a member of the IDF Special Forces; then, he came to realize that everything he’d believed in was a lie.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
The General’s Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights – RAI (pt 1/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on December 12, 2016. On Reality Asserts Itself, Miko Peled tells Paul Jay that his father, a famous Israeli General, was ostracized for saying it was necessary to negotiate with the PLO and respect Palestinian self-determination; but he never gave up his belief that the expulsion of 1948 and the creation of a Jewish state was justified.
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Climate Change, Environment, History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
RAI with Former Weatherman Bill Ayers – Pt 3/3
In an interview that took place days before Trump was elected President, Bill Ayers discusses what needs to be done as we head into a ”form of friendly-looking and familiar fascism or some other form of extreme social disintegration”. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced November 13, 2016, with Paul Jay.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
RAI with Former Weatherman Bill Ayers Pt 2/3
Bill Ayers tells Paul Jay the Weathermen were delusional about armed struggle because they mistakenly thought the American people were in a revolutionary crisis during the Vietnam War. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced November 8, 2016, with Paul Jay.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
RAI With Former Weatherman Bill Ayers Pt 1/3
On Reality Asserts Itself Bill Ayers joins Paul Jay to discuss his journey from an apolitical life to the militant group the Weatherman to social activism and organizing. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced November 7, 2016, with Paul Jay.
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Military-Industrial Complex, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
Sen. Graham: Bush/Cheney Misdirected Intel Prior to 9/11, Aggressively Deceived After – Pt 2/7
President Bush was like a “head coach” ordering intelligence agencies to all move in the same direction – not preventing the attacks and covering up the role of Bandar and the Saudi government. This interview was produced September 11, 2016, with Paul Jay on Reality Asserts Itself.
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Military-Industrial Complex, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
Sen. Bob Graham: FBI Deliberately Covered Up the Role of Saudis in 9/11 Attack – (pt 1/7)
Senator Bob Graham, former Co-Chair of the Joint Congressional Committee investigating 9/11, says there is evidence in the "28 redacted pages" that the FBI knew of Saudi Ambassador Bandar's links to al-Qaeda terrorists before the attacks. This interview was produced September 10, 2016, with Paul Jay on Reality Asserts Itself.
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History, Nuclear Arms Policy, Reality Asserts Itself
In Hiroshima, Obama Neglects to Mention $1 Trillion Deal for Nuclear Weapons – Kuznick RAI (pt 2/2)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 10, 2016. Peter Kuznick, the co-author of The Untold History of the United States, spoke to Paul Jay about the significance of the vice presidency of Henry Wallace, who served in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the context of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics
The Occupation of the American Mind – RAI with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters (pt 3/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on March 23, 2016. Paul Jay speaks to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally about the new film “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.”
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics, USA
The Occupation of the American Mind – RAI with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters (pt 2/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on March 22, 2016. Paul Jay speaks to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally about the new film “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.”
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics, USA
The Occupation of the American Mind – RAI with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters (pt 1/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on March 20, 2016. Paul Jay speaks to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally about the new film "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States.”
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History, Nuclear Arms Policy, Reality Asserts Itself
Obama’s Defense of Hiroshima Mythology – RAI with Peter Kuznick (pt 1/2)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 6, 2016. President Obama is defending the mythology that dropping atomic bombings on Hiroshima ended World War 2 and avoided a ground invasion by US troops, said award-winning historian Peter Kuznick.
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Africa, Reality Asserts Itself, Workers & Unions
At the Center of a Storm – Irvin Jim on RAI ( pt 2/3)
The interview was originally published on January 29, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself: Mr. Jim, General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa, explains why his union withdrew its support for the governing African National Congress.
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Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity – Catarina Principe on RAI (pt 5/5)
This interview was originally published on July 24, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Principe says that German workers, who have not yet felt the brunt of the crisis, are starting to realize that they must fight in solidarity with Greek workers.
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Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity – Catarina Principe on RAI (pt 4/5)
This interview was originally published on July 21, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Principe and Paul Jay talk about making decisions in a new kind of party.
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Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity – Catarina Principe on RAI (pt 3/5)
This interview was originally published on July 20, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Principe and Paul Jay discuss building a movement and an electoral strategy and what happened to the mass protests in Portugal.
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Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity – Catarina Principe on RAI (2/5)
This interview was originally published on July 19, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Principe discusses the rise of the anti-austerity movement in Portugal that culminated in a 2013 protest of more than a million people.
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Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity – Catarina Príncipe on RAI (1/5)
This interview was originally published on July 17, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Principe talks about growing up in Portugal expecting the promise of the social state to be fulfilled and becoming an activist in the fight against forces dismantling the achievements of the Portuguese revolution.
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Reality Asserts Itself, U.S. Politics
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt – Chris Hedges on RAI (pt 3/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on July 8, 2015.On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges and Paul Jay discuss the Bernie Sanders campaign and the role of violence in revolution.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt – Chris Hedges on RAI (pt 2/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on July 7, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges and Paul Jay discuss Ferguson, Baltimore and the need to build a movement with candidates that targets white supremacy and corporate capitalism.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt – Chris Hedges on RAI (pt 1/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on July 6, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Chris Hedges discusses his new book with Paul Jay. In part one, they focus on the revolutionary significance of the life of Tom Paine, a man who understood the moral imperative of revolt and was willing to pay the price.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (10/10)
This interview was originally published July 5, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Robert Scheer says you get drunk on the power of this culture and its military, its wealth, and you can become incredibly destructive. And we have been incredibly destructive.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 9/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on July 1, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer and Paul Jay discuss Scheer’s book The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 8/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 30, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer and Paul Jay discuss the successes and failures of the “American Experiment”.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 7/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 28, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer and Paul Jay discuss American partisan politics – is there a real difference and the demonization of the other camp.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 6/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 26, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer and Paul Jay discuss and debate whether there is any rationality left amongst the ruling elites.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 5/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 24, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer discusses American partisan politics, is there a real difference, and the demonization of the other camp.
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Plundering our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 4/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on June 22, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer discusses his work on Ramparts magazine, covering the Vietnam War and the civil rights era.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 3/10)
This interview was originally published on June 19, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Scheer talks about his father’s thirst for freedom and how that influenced his life; Scheer says defense of the U.S. Constitution, in spite of its flaws, is critical in defending against the erosion of democracy.
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Plundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 2/10)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Robert Scheer talks about democracy, journalism, and his new book, “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy”. This interview was originally published on June 12, 2015.
READ MOREPlundering Our Freedom with Abandon – Robert Scheer (pt 1/10)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Robert Scheer talks about democracy, journalism, and his new book, “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy”. This interview was originally published on June 9, 2015.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
The Vietnam Syndrome and the Project for a New American Century – Christian Appy on RAI (5/5)
This interview was originally published June 4, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy says that Israeli preemptive and punitive war became a model for US foreign policy.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
Vietnam Body Counts and America as Victim – Christian Appy on RAI (4/5)
This interview was originally published June 2, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy says the Vietnam War killed millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of American workers – yet the mythology is America as a whole emerged as the victim.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
Vietnam Blood Bath to Prove America Had “Balls” – Christian Appy on RAI (3/5)
This interview was originally published May 29, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy says that presidents Kennedy and Johnson pursued the Vietnam war largely to prove the U.S., and themselves personally, had the “courage” to wage war.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
“America Does Bad Things for Good Reasons” – Christian Appy on RAI (1/5)
This interview was originally published on May 26, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy, author of “American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity”, discusses growing up with a broad faith that America is always an indispensable and invincible force for good in the world – and the seeds of his disillusionment with Americanism.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
U.S and UN Resolution That Leaves Palestine with a “Garbage Dump” – Norman Finkelstein RAI (pt 3/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 21, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Finkelstein says Netanyahu’s slight of Obama was racist, but the U.S. will likely help sell a UN resolution that tries to corner the Palestinians into accepting a terrible deal.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
Israel’s Iron Dome and Palestinian Armed Resistance – Norman Finkelstein on RAI (pt 2/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 20, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Finkelstein analyzes Hamas rocket attacks and Israel’s claims of self-defence.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
Israel’s Descent into Barbarism – Norman Finkelstein on RAI (pt 1/3)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 19, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Finkelstein describes the “necessity” of Israel, proving its destructive capabilities.
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History, Reality Asserts Itself, USA
“American Does Bad Things for Good Reasons” – Christian Appy on RAI (2/5)
This interview was originally published May 17, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Appy, author of “American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity”, discusses how before direct American military involvement in Vietnam, the US financed almost 80 percent of the cost, so, in effect, France was serving almost as an American mercenary.
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Palestine/Israel, Reality Asserts Itself
Does Israel Have the Right to Exist as a Jewish State? – Ali Abunimah on Reality Asserts Itself (3/5)
Mr. Abunimah says no state exists as an absolute right, but there is a people’s right to self-determination. This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced May 15, 2014.
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They Won’t Shut Me Up – John Kiriakou on RAI (pt 10/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 8, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, former CIA official John Kiriakou says: “If they thought this would shut me up, they don’t know me at all because now I’ve devoted my life to fighting them.”
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Why I Was Targeted by the CIA – John Kiriakou on RAI (pt 9/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 6, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Kiriakou explains how the CIA opened a criminal file on him when he was the first CIA official to publicly acknowledge torture was a policy; they stepped up their effort to charge him when he began investigating possible CIA complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan.
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A Tortured Truth – John Kiriakou on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 8/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on May 4, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Former CIA official John Kiriakou described his time as head of counter-terrorism in Pakistan and the lie about the torture of Abu Zubaydah.
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Iraq War a War Crime – Pushed by Cheney Over Objections of Joint Chiefs – Kiriakou on RAI (pt 7/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on April 30, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, former CIA official Mr. Kiriakou says that VP Cheney chaired a morning phone call where the Joint Chiefs and CIA openly argued against the invasion of Iraq – a decision made in the summer of 2002.
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A Sea of Blood – John Kiriakou on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 6/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on April 28, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Kiriakou and Paul Jay continue their discussion about 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
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Why Didn’t Bush/Cheney Prevent 9:11? – John Kiriakou on Reality Asserts Itself (pt 5/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on April 23, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Kiriakou and Paul Jay discuss the role of the White House in ignoring the CIA’s warning that “something terrible” was coming.
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The Iraqi Pissing Match – John Kiriakou on RAI (pt 4/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on April 21, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, former CIA official Mr. Kiriakou says that the Iraq War was motivated by the Bush administration wanting to send a message – no regime can defy U.S. power and survive.
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My Reports on 1995 Human Rights Abuses Were Ignored by State Department- Kiriakou on RAI (pt 3/10)
This is an episode of Reality Asserts Itself, produced on April 19, 2015. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Kiriakou tells Paul Jay that from Iraq to Bahrain, it was becoming clear to him that commercial interest, particularly arms sales, was driving U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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