(2012/05/20) Empire Graveyard (Foreign Policy)

Edition #607

Empire Graveyard

Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith 

Ch. 2: Act 1: Curveball Comes Clean on WMD Lies - Majority Report - Air Date: 4-9-12

Ch. 3: Song 1: Never Ending Story - Limahl

Ch. 4: Act 2: Release of Zelikow Torture Memo Calls for GOP Soul Searching - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-4-12

Ch. 5: Song 2: In Transit - Albert Hammond Jr.

Ch. 6: Act 3: Hardly Reassuring To Afghans - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-3-12

Ch. 7: Song 3: Hello, my treacherous friends - OK Go

Ch. 8: Act 4: Afghanistan Withdrawal  2014 or 2024 - Young Turks - Air Date: 5-2-12

Ch. 9: Song 4: Movin too fast - The Last 5 years

Ch. 10: Act 5: U.S. Continues to Pour Hellish Rain on Afghanistan - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-8-12

Ch. 11: Song 5: All these things that I've done - The Killers

Ch. 12: Act 6: Cat General Says War On String May Be Unwinnable - The Onion

Ch. 13: Song 6: I've got no strings - The Gipsy Kings

Ch. 14: Act 7: Obama's Foreign Policy Just a Difference in Focus, Not Aggression - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 5-1-12

Ch. 17: Song 7: Kilojoules - Freelance Whales

Ch. 18: Act 8: Pentagon's Course on War on Islam - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-11-12

Ch. 19: Song 8: Great divide - Fair

Ch. 20: Act 9: Is This The End Of The American Empire  - Lee Camp - Air Date: 3-17-12

Ch. 21: Song 9: Not an addict - K's Choice

Ch. 22: Act 10: Dying, Just A Part Of Nature - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-10-12

Ch. 23: Song 10: When the cold days come - Theo Bard

Ch. 24: Act 11: Romney Tries to Fight Bush-Like Foreign Policy Image With a bunch of Bush Advisers - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 4-26-12

Voicemails:

Ch. 25: Obama on gay marriage is a big deal - Chad from Richmond, VA

Ch. 26: Thoughts on global warming and over-population - Shane from Spokane Washington

Ch. 27: Straight, white males are set at the easiest difficulty setting - Anonymous

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Voicemail Music: 

Loud Pipes - Ratatat

Ch. 28: Final comments on the lowest difficulty setting and the bike ride I'm on

Article Referenced: 

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

Produced by:

Jay! Tomlinson

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