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Shikha Dalmia Discusses Post-9/11 Foreign Policy with RT

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Reason senior policy analyst Shikha Dalmia appeared on RT to discuss how the War on Terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan have cornered the U.S. into becoming the world police leaving America with few opportunities and double standards on Syria and Libya. Airdate: September 11, 2011.

About 5 minutes.

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Matt Welch Debates Ann Coulter on the Iraq War, TSA, and using Torture with Stossel

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT

Reason editor in chief Matt Welch debated Ann Coulter on a special Stossel episode dedicated to how the government has responded to 9/11. Welch debated Coulter on how secure America is after invading Iraq, creating the TSA, and implementing torture for information gathering. Air Date: September 8, 2011

About 10 minutes.

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Is Wikileaks a Force For Good? Four Experts on Our Wiki-Future

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 EST

Is Wikileaks a force for good, allowing journalists and ordinary citizens a glimpse at what diplomats and politicians are doing in our name? Or could the latest Wikileaks information dump be a net negative for open government advocates, resulting in tighter classification of future documents?

Reason.tv sat down with four experts on national security and government transparency—Aaron David Miller, a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Eli Lake, National Security Correspondent at the Washington Times, Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, and Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director of the National Security Network—and asked if our Wikifuture is something to celebrate or lament.

Approximately 10 minutes.

Produced by Meredith Bragg and Michael C. Moynihan. Edited by Meredith Bragg.

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Iraqi Girls Gone Wild

paul.feine@reason.tv (Paul Feine) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:18:00 EST

Be patient. I'll post the uncensored version as soon as it arrives.

Paul Fan Video v. Clinton Fan Video: Tattoos, Handcuffs, Defiance Beat Hair Nets, Rubber Gloves, Spunkiness

jsullum@reason.com (Jacob Sullum) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:53:00 EST

Keith Halderman unfavorably compares that cringe-inducing Laverne and Shirley ode to Hillary Clinton with Aimee Allen's catchy Ron Paul song (above). While I have my doubts about rhyming grave with state, and I'm not sure why the IRS is putting duct tape over Allen's mouth (maybe because she tried to sell books by Irwin Schiff?), her effort is undeniably superior: original, pointed, and sexy, as opposed to an embarrassing retread of a song that was bad enough to begin with. But inasmuch as Allen is a professional songwriter and performer, while the Hillary fan who thinks the senator has what it takes to make all our dreams come true is (I'm assuming) not, the comparison is not exactly fair. There's a much more telling contrast between the war and civil liberties themes of Allen's video and the stop-the-invading-landscapers message of campaign commercials like this one.

In the April issue of reason, which subscribers will receive soon, Dave Weigel explains why Paul's "lunge for the Minuteman vote didn't work."

Update: The Aimee Allen video seems to have been removed from YouTube, although it's still available here. You can find the audio of her song on YouTube, illustrated by various still images (here and here, for example), but it's not quite the same.

Update to the update: The video is back up on YouTube. The issue seems to have been the implied connection to the Paul campaign. It is now labeled "Aimee Allen: *Unofficial* Ron Paul Revolution Video."