How the Trump Wrecking Crew is Destroying Our Defense and National Security
We begin with the weakening of America’s defense and national security from the inside by the Trump wrecking crew of Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and Ratcliffe who are destroying our intelligence community and Hegseth and Kristi Noem who are destroying the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. We discuss how the MAGA morons, in purging the ranks chasing the ghosts of the “deep state” and DEI, have our military and intelligence professionals distracted and looking over their shoulders, afraid of being fired or demoted instead of doing their jobs defending the nation. Joining us to discuss this self-inflicted wound that is serving Xi Jinping and Putin is Aram Shabanian, an independent investigative reporter and the former Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at New Lines Institute. He recently taught in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey where his research focused on the Cold War and contemporary histories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
The Media Falls for Trump’s Theatre While Ukraine Burns
Then we speak with Olga Lautman, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis who is also the creator and co-host of the Kremlin File podcast series, which features expert discussions on the Kremlin’s internal affairs, global operations, and tactics used from their hybrid warfare toolkit to destabilize Western democracies. She has a Substack newsletter covering Russia, Ukraine, Eastern, and Central Europe with a focus on Russia’s intelligence operations available at olgalautman.substack.com where her latest articles we will discuss are “The Media Continues Falling for Trump’s Theatre While Ukraine Burns” and “Mental Health Awareness Month.”
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza
Then finally we speak with Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize–winning former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times. A veteran war correspondent and Arabic speaker, he spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, much of that time in Gaza. He is the author of 14 books including Empire of Illusion, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, and The Greatest Evil Is War. His latest book is A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.