The MoU Fell Apart Because of Trump, Witkoff and Kushner’s Amateurism and Desperation and Now We Are About to Lose the Same War Again
We begin with how Trump, Witkoff and Kushner’s amateurism and desperation has led to the MoU between the U.S. and Iran falling apart with Trump now threatening more strikes on Iran’s infrastructure and bridges if they don’t come back to the table. Joining us is Dr. Trita Parsi, the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has served as a professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University and he is the co-founder and former President of the National Iranian American Council. His books include, Losing An Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy and he has an article at Responsible Statecraft we discuss, “A new US-Iran war would end where the last one did.”
There Is No Communism In America But That Won’t Stop Trump and Speaker Johnson From Trying to Start a New Red Scare
Then we assess the wild Red Scare claims made about the communist menace with Trump calling it a cancer which “You’ve got to cut it out, and you got to cut it out fast” while House Speaker Johnson is asking for an extra $350 billion for the Pentagon which is needed for “fighting communism on our own shores.” Joining us is a scholar of communism which does not exist in the United States, Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, the Director of the Europe Center, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the historical development of the state and its transformation, political parties, religion and politics, and post-communist politics and her books include Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Successor Parties, Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Development in Post-Communist Europe, and Nations Under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Politics.
An Examination of What Democratic Socialism Really Is
Then finally we go to post-Communist Ukraine and examine what democratic socialism really is with Marci Shore, Chair in European Intellectual History and a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto who was formerly a professor of history at Yale University. She is the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968, The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. Her latest book is Eyeglasses Floating in Space: Central European Encounters That Came about While Searching for Truth.