Greg Muttitt Speaks About His Book “Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq”
Charlottesville, VA
July 24, 2012
Random Row Books
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Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine says the U.S. public is particularly inactive. Levine explains how we got this way, and how we might be cured. Levine is the author of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. He also contributed a chapter to The Military Industrial Complex at 50. Levine’s website is http://brucelevine.net
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Engineer: Christiane
Greg Muttitt, visiting from the U.K., is the author of the brand new book on Iraq that is making a lot of news. It’s called Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.
“Nothing short of a secret history of the war” — Naomi Klein.
Democracy Now aired this interview of Greg this week.
Greg will speak and answer your questions:
Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 7 p.m.
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