Will the Man Child Who Can’t Be Seen As a Loser “Bomb the Hell Out of Iran” After the Elections?
We begin with the Trump cult alive and well and on display in the US Senate today attacking Jack Smith out of fealty to their criminal fuhrer, making it clear there will be no pressure on Trump from Republican lawmakers to end his disastrous war in the Gulf. Joining us to discuss how Trump will be free after the elections to do what he has promised “to bomb the hell out of Iran” is Nader Hashemi, the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and a Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future andSectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.
By Allowing Detroit to Make More Gas-Guzzlers at a Time of Record High Gas Prices, Trump Issues a Death Sentence For the Big Three Automakers
Then we examine how Trump’s efforts to help out his patrons the oil companies and the braindead heads of the big three automakers by encouraging the production of gas-guzzlers at a time of record high gas prices could end up a death sentence for Detroit. Joining us is Paul Eisenstein, editor and publisher of headlight.news where he has just posted a story on how much Trump’s rule changes are going to cost the typical motorist. With 48 years of experience, Paul covers the auto industry for a broad range of media.
Has the Home of the Brave Become the Land of Cowards?
Then finally we assess whether the home of the brave has become the land of cowards and speak with Jacob Weisberg, an author whose books include Ronald Reagan, The Bush Tragedy, and In an Uncertain World, co-written with former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. A native of Chicago, he is the former longtime editor of Slate and the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries. He serves as Chair of The Committee to Protect Journalists and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. We discuss his latest book, just out,Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era.
