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CIA vet Michael Scheuer says Afghan war is already lost

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Tags: Afhanistan, NATO, Clinton, Bush, bin-Laden, Al Quaeda, Michael Scheuer, heroin, narco-state, Hamid Karzai, AIPAC, Israel, surge, Iraq, Iran

Good afternoon, welcome to WMNF 's Radioactivity, I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about the war in Afghanistan with Michael Scheuer, author of the book Marching Toward Hell.

But first some listener comments about the last few 1 p.m. programs. We’ll hear comments about the state’s budget problems, a possible new source of renewable energy, electioneering by a local public officials, the proposed landfill in East Pasco County, and the closing of the military prison at Guantanamo....

Iorio endorses Obama at rally in Tampa listen

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bush, Election Reform, Energy conservation, Iraq war, affordable housing, elections, labor, politics

Sen. Barack Obama claimed a major milestone with his win Tuesday in Oregon, wrapping up a majority of the Democratic Party’s pledged delegates. WMNF’s Seán Kinane reports from a crowded Obama rally at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa that kicks off a three-day Florida tour.

During his first campaign stop since last fall in the country’s largest swing state, Obama all but claimed victory and the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.

Before he took the stage, Obama was endorsed ...

Brian Moore, Socialist for president

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bush, Election Reform, Energy conservation, Iraq war, affordable housing, elections, labor, politics

Spring Hill resident Brian Moore is running for president under the Socialist Party USA ticket. He's a former health care consultant and has run for U.S. Congress twice and the U.S. Senate in 2006.

This is his first run as a socialist. In this interview with WMNF, he discussed socialism, capitalism, health care reform, the invasion of Iraq, tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the impact of military spending on the economy, the other presidential candidates and how he would transform socie...

Journalist describes Bush presidency listen

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Robert Draper has been a national correspondent for GQ magazine for the past decade, and prior to that was senior editor at Texas Monthly. He is author of a novel, Hadrian's Walls, and the biography Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History.

Last year his biography on President Bush, Dead Certain, was published. His account, based on access to every important figure in his administration, attempts to be the essential biography of the Bush years.

WMNF spoke with Draper and...