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Antiwar.com columnist Scott Horton interviwed me today for an hour about Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a><\/strong>. We had a good ol\u2019 time –\u00a0 I hope folks get lots of laughs from the show.\u00a0 Scott, who has done some excellent writing<\/a><\/strong> on the danger of war with Iran, had excellent observations on the latest developments in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The audio file\u00a0can be easily downloaded or listened to from the Antiwar.com website here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It played earlier today on Scott’s home base station,\u00a0 at the Kaos 95.9 FM website<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The interview has not yet been rated by the American Council for Political Idealism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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