Iran Closes the Strait Of Hormuz as Negotiators in Switzerland Try to Rescue the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal
We begin with a specialist on Iran who predicted the peace deal is likely to be temporary, which turns out to be an understatement now that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to renewed Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Joining us is Sina Toossi, a senior nonresident fellow at the Center for International Policy. He writes on US-Iran relations, Iranian politics and society and nuclear nonproliferation and he has an article at The Guardian we will discuss, “Even if Iran benefits from this deal with Washington, any peace is likely to be temporary.”
Nazi Messages From DHS as MAGA-Trump Racism and Xenophobia Contrast with the Multi-Cultural Diversity and Joy of the World Cup
Then, with the U.S. World Cup victory over Australia advancing Team USA into the knockout stage we speak with Andrei Markovits, a Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics, German Studies and Sociology at the The University of Michigan.. He has written on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. His books include Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism, Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture and, most recently, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness. We look into how Trump’s DHS is shaming the global multi-cultural celebration of sport with racism and xenophobia as Homeland Security posts @DHS.gov under the Nazi-like heading OUR SOIL, a social media message “Defend The Homeland: One Nation. One Homeland. One Team.” It features three non-white players including the star Folarin Balogun who will be kicked out of the country if Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship succeeds in his Supreme Court.
Could Ukraine Win and Bring Down Putin and Change Russia As We Know It?
Then finally we speak with Alexander Motyl, a professor of political science at Rutgers University who is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory. He is the author of 10 books of nonfiction including Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires and Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective. We discuss his article at The National Security Journal, “A Ukraine Victory Could Mean The End of Putin – And Possibly Russia as We Know It.”