{"id":10228,"date":"2013-09-04T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2013-11-27T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T06:13:10","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-war-on-syria-what-is-it-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10228","title":{"rendered":"KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;: War (on Syria), What is It Good For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_WhiteHouse_SyriaAssad.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The bulk of today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i> on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> was focused on the mess that is Obama&#8217;s Syria policy.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from tons of callers (I&#8217;m tired of &#8220;experts&#8221; and &#8220;pundits&#8221;, wanted to hear from actual people), and one of the most perfect &#8220;bloopers&#8221; ever (a brilliantly incorrect sound cue played, in the first part of the show, by the engineer who was in today instead of our usual one), we also spent a few minutes with anti-war activist and author (and occasional <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?author=8\">BRAD BLOG guest blogger<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/davidswanson.org\">David Swanson<\/a> on what he would recommend, in lieu of military strikes, for accountability for the use of chemical weapons. His main response to that question: Get thee to the Hague and file war crimes charges, if that&#8217;s the case the U.S. is making against Syria!<\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting perspectives on today&#8217;s show, almost all of which vary tremendously from the nonsense we&#8217;re hearing from the Congress and the Administration and the establishment media this week. I&#8217;d welcome your feedback as well.<\/p>\n<p>We also quickly hit on a few voting issues, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10226\">our good news today on the TX GOP&#8217;s most-likely-doomed Photo ID law<\/a> and more&#8230;as well as a visit from Desi Doyen with the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as usual! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_Syria_DavidSwanson_090413.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_Syria_DavidSwanson_090413.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bulk of today&#8217;s BradCast on KPFK\/Pacifica Radio was focused on the mess that is Obama&#8217;s Syria policy. Aside from tons of callers (I&#8217;m tired of &#8220;experts&#8221; and &#8220;pundits&#8221;, wanted to hear from actual people), and one of the most perfect &#8220;bloopers&#8221; ever (a brilliantly incorrect sound cue played, in the first part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,675,21,83,477,337,172,611,47,127,198,233,73],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-john-kerry","category-kpfk","category-los-angeles","category-photo-id-laws","category-syria","category-texas","category-the-constitution","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-voting-system-certification","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}