Show Notes
You win wars with armies. Bombs don’t work. And they only piss off the people you bomb for another generation. (Iran) Nuclear weapons scholar Ward Wilson joins me.
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The reform prosecutor in Burlington, VT opposes cash bail and favors treatment and community justice over prison and prosecution. As communities struggle on homelessness and small crime, is George Justice the future?