The Current Iran War Tops the Record As We Keep Losing Wars
We begin with Trump threatening to bomb the **** out of Oman, an ally that occupies the other half of the Strait of Hormuz, in a display of desperation bordering on insanity as the war he lost months ago which he has claimed to have won on numerous occasions increasingly imposes a nagging reality on our delusional leader. Joining us is Stephen Walt,a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books including The Origins of Alliances; Revolution and War, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, and most recently, The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. He has an article at Foreign Policy we discuss “Why the United States Keeps Losing Wars.”
Trump’s Latest Treasonous Outrage
Then we examine the latest treasonous outrage from the administration which is demanding U.S. intelligence agenciesgive over to Trump a list of the names of all foreign espionage targets, including suspected spies and their contacts. Joining us to discuss the worst idea in the history of intelligence is Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst who served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chief of Station in Asia. He has an article at his Substack First and Second Thoughts, “Gas, Groceries, Democracy: When their Prices Rise, Which Matters Most?”
How a Reactionary Oligarchy Is Capturing Our Politics and Economy
Then finally we speak with Aziz Huq, a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is the co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror and How to Save a Constitutional Democracyout in September in a second addition, and his latest book is The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies. He has a forthcoming Fight Back: How States Resist Authoritarianism and he has an article at Jacobin, “The Legal Paths to Hoarding Political and Economic Power” which explains the unequal accumulation of wealth and power and how the likes of Elon Musk are capturing our politics and economy.
