The Peace Deal Underway With Trump Set to Be in Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages
We begin with the first phase of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas underway with a Palestinian prisoner release and the release of 20 Israeli hostages and 28 remains scheduled for Monday when President Trump will apparently be in Israel for the return of the hostages. Joining us to assess the peace deal is Mitchell Plitnick, the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy and former vice president at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. A political analyst and frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, he served as director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace. He is the co-author of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics and has an article at Mondoweiss, “AIPAC’s and Israel’s influence is falling in Congress, two opposing letters show just how much.”
Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act
Then we examine how close we are to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act with reports emerging from the White House that Trump and Miller are no longer discussing if but now when. Joining us is Michael Klare, The Nation Magazine’s defense correspondent, professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. His books include The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources and All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, and we discuss his latest article at The Nation, “Trump and Hegseth’s Plan for the ‘War Within.’”
Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present
Then finally we speak with Danny Goldberg, the author of five previous books including In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea and the national bestseller Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain. He is a political activist who serves on the boards of Public Citizen and Americans for Peace Now. He is currently president of Gold Village Entertainment and has worked in the music business since the early 1970s as a personal manager for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers, and Steve Earle, among others; and as president of three major record companies: Atlantic, Warner Bros., and Mercury. He was the chair of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California from 1987–1994, during which the events described in his newest book which we will discuss took place. The book, just out is, Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles.