Episode

3/24 Guy Lawson: A North Pole Expedition, How We Pick Our Heroes, & How War Crimes Happen

March 24, 2016

Journalist Guy Lawson explains the story behind the most unlikely trip to the North Pole. The crew of armatures who pulled off an incredible North Pole expedition. Historical realities and fictions and North Pole expeditions. Radovan Karadzic convicted for war crimes by the ICC. Ethnic violence in the Balkans. Global violence and anti Muslim bigotry. No experience foreign policy hawks. Islamophobia and recapturing Canadian identity. Changing America and White ethnic fear. (12:30)

On The Fun Half: Nixon Administration official admits the drug war was all about oppressing Black people and the anti war movement. Bernie Sanders calls out the corporate media. Random Rush. New anti LGBT bill passes in North Carolina and your calls and IMs.

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