Day: May 19, 2026

A Scandal Worse Than Watergate and Iran Contra Combined Which is not Being Covered by the American Press

We begin with a political scandal described as worse than Watergate and Iran Contra combined that is not being covered by the American press and speak with David Adler, General Coordinator of the Progressive International. He previously served as foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders in his campaign for US president, policy director of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and the co-founder of its Green New Deal for Europe campaign. He recently helped organize the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, leading to his arrest and detention in a prison camp in the Naqab Desert by Israel, and also recently organized the Nuestra América Flotilla, an international coalition which delivered humanitarian aid by air, land and sea to Havana, Cuba on March 21. He is a contributor to a new investigation by the research consortium on the Reactionary International, “Hondurasgate: Inside the Reactionary International’s Latin American Operation.”

Trump Endorses a “Christian Crook” in Good News for James Talarico’s Texas Senate Race

Then, with Trump endorsement today of the “Christian” crook Texas AG Paxton over Senator Cornyn, we look into how this is good news for James Talarico’s US Senate campaign and speak with 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, and most recently, Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy. He has an article at his Substack Democracy of Hope, “Redistricting Madness: Gerrymandering rigs elections by redrawing district lines, but higher turnout can still break the maps politicians draw to cheat.”

The Political Clout That Allows Police to Protect and Serve Themselves

Then finally we speak with Stuart Schrader, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where he is the director of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. His research focuses on: security, policing, and counterinsurgency; the entwinement of foreign and domestic policy; and urbanization, and he is the author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. We discuss his latest book, just out, Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves.