Episode

4/14 Stephen Kinzer: The Dulles Brothers’ Secret World War & Ian Millhiser: The Showdown At Bundy Ranch

April 14, 2014

Journalist Stephen Kinzer author of  The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World Warexplains how the Dulles Brothers shaped American foreign policy, American backed coups across the globe, the Dulles legacy from Iran to Cuba and how their legacy lives on today.

Think Progress’s Ian Millhiser, explains why militia groups are coming to Nevada to support a rancher in not paying his grazing taxes, the right’s obsession with Bundy Ranch, how the right wing media is empowering anti federal government threats and what happens next.

On The Fun Half: more CIA lies about torture, Brit Hume thinks being black helped President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, the terrorist attack on the Jewish community center in Kansas, a tea party activist says ‘Gay Supremacists” are worse than white supremacists and your calls and IMs.

Also take a look here for all of the links for today’s show here!

And keep the conversation going on our morning thread

Members make the Majority Report possible. Please join us by becoming a MEMBER. You can also show your support by clicking thru to the DONATE button for a one-time donation. Thanks

 

Past Episodes

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: CNN airs a compilation of several members of the Trump administration and GOP politicians contradicting themselves on whether or not we are at "war" with Iran. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the U.S. struck Iran ...
It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report On today's program: Trump announces strikes on Iran and says that Americans will die as it often happens in war. An Omani foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, is shedding light on negotiations involving Kushner, Witkoff, and Iran. According to the ...
It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: A 65-year-old woman from Minnesota calls in to C-SPAN to talk about how she is legally blind, on disability and under Trump her social services have been slashed to the point that she is literally starving. Heather 'Digby' ...