Day: March 11, 2026

We begin with the latest examples of Trump’s fealty towards Putin who is providing Iran with targeting to kill Americans in the war underway which Trump and Witkoff are denying, along with having the US abstain from a recent overwhelming UN condemnation of Russia on the 4th year anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine. Joining us to discuss the ties between Trump, Epstein and Putin is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat representing Rhode Island. He is the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Co-Chair of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, and also serves as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Finance Committee as well as Ranking Member of the Helsinki Commission, formally known as the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He previously served as Rhode Island’s U.S. Attorney and state attorney general before being elected to the Senate in 2006. Senator Whitehouse recently made a speech to the Senate “Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Russia” widely seen on YouTube and transcribed here. 

The Silicon Valley Billionaire Bros Are Determined to Have the Tech-Industrial Complex Replace the Military-Industrial Complex

Then we look into Silicon Valley’s tech-industrial complex which the billionaire bros are determined to replace the military industrial complex with and speak with Jonathan Taplin, an author and director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab who has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and the Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant and many others having produced 12 films including Mean Streets, The Last Waltz, Under Fire and To Die For. He is the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, and his latest book is The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto. We discuss his article at Rolling Stone, “The Terrifying New Era of American Imperialism.”

The Iran War and the Return of the Neocons

Then finally we examine the return of the neocons and speak with Jacob Heilbrunn, the Editor at the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and a columnist for The Spectator. His books include They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons and America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. He is also editor-at-large of The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and we discuss his article at The Spectator, “Donald Trump is tarnishing Brand America.”