Category: Briefings

Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America

We begin with the 2,600 No Kings rallies held on Saturday across the country from Maine to the Marianas which peacefully displayed the growing resistance to Trump reflecting a patriotic love for a country the demonstrators are trying to save, the opposite of the pathetic lie coming from Trump’s pedophile protector Mike Johnson who tried to brand it as being about hating America. Joining us is John Nichols, The Nation magazine’s Washington correspondent whose books include The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics, and most recently, Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. His latest article at The Nation is “From Maine to the Marianas, Americans Will Cry: ‘No Kings!’”

In Spite of JD Vance’s Craven Lies, Group Chat Reveals Trump’s Appeal to Young Republican Racists, Misogynists and Even Incels

Then we examine Trump’s appeal to young racists, misogynists and even incels displayed by the National Young Republicans whose private chats praising Hitler, expressing hatred for Jews, Blacks and Asians, along with exalting rape and gas chambers, were exposed by Politico but defended by JD Vance who tried to dismiss the hate speech as a group chat among immature kids when 8 out of the 11 Republicans involved range in age from 24 to 35. Joining us is Joe Feagin, Distinguished Professor in Sociology at Texas A&M University and past president of the American Sociological Association whose research interests include racial and ethnic studies, gender relations and the urban political economy. He is author of more than 70 books, including Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism, White Racism: The Basics, and How Black Built America. His recent books include Systemic Racism, White Minority Nation: Past, Present and Future and The White Racial Frame.

Signs that Trump and Rubio’s Plan To Use Military Force Against Venezuela Are Behind the Head of Southcom Stepping Down

Then finally we investigate signs that Trump and Rubio are planning on using military force against Venezuela’s Maduro which might explain why the head of Southcom is stepping down. Joining us is Stephen Kinzer, an award-winning foreign correspondent who served as the New York Times Bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as the Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and is the author of All the Shah’s Men, Overthrow, and The Brothers, John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and their Secret World War. His latest book is Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. He has an article at The Boston Globe, “Let’s hope history doesn’t tempt Trump to invade Venezuela.”