Day: July 8, 2025

Intergenerational Greed and Inaction Led to Underinvestment in Flood Prevention in Kerr County, Texas

We begin with a local reaction to the deadly floods that took the lives of over 100 mostly young girls and we explore how intergenerational greed and inaction in Kerr County, whose capital Kerrville has the second-highest concentration of millionaires per capita of any city in Texas, led to the underinvestment in flood prevention. Joining us is Jeremi Suri, who holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history and public affairs. He is the co-host of the podcast “This is Democracy” and the author and editor of a number of books including The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, Henry Kissinger and the American Century and most recently, Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. We discuss his article at his Substack, out tomorrow, “Intergenerational Destruction and the Floods.”

Ken Klippenstein’s Documents Expose the Military Fiasco Yesterday in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park

Then we examine the Ken Klippenstein scoop full of leaked Army documents exposing the military fiasco yesterday in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park where ICE, CPB and the National Guard along with other Federal Police descended on an empty park to round up non-existent MS-13 gangbangers. Joining us is Tom Mockaitis, a professor of history at DePaul University, where he teaches courses in British, Modern European, and Military History. His research and writing cover international security, terrorism, unconventional conflict, and military history. A regular contributor to The Hill, he has taught counter-terrorism courses at venues around the world as part of the U.S. Department of Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program and is the author of many books including ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality and Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat and his latest article at The Hill is “How Israel evolved from the Middle East’s David to its Goliath.”

The Unctuous War Criminal Recommended the Easily-Flattered Felon For a Nobel Peace Prize

Then finally we assess the White House meeting last evening between Trump and Netanyahu in which the unctuous war criminal told the easily-flattered felon he had recommended Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Joining us is Dr. Annelle Sheline, a research fellow at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked as a journalist in Egypt and Yemen and served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor until resigning over US policy on the war in Gaza. We discuss her article at The Nation, “No ceasefire but Netanyhu proposes Trump for Nobel Peace Prize.”