Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Recent Episodes
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Trump is Selling Out Ukraine to Putin Who He Is Going to Bat For to Have the Pariah Readmitted to the G7 | Republican Senators Confirm an Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Monger to Head HHS | How the Left Lost Its Political Footing and How to Get it Back
"Trump 2.0: Here Comes The Night" | A Hari Krishna-Like Cult Member and Russian Asset in Charge of US Intelligence! | Russia's Military: It's History and It's War Today Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:03 and 40:09
Trump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence AgenciesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:03 and 20:42
The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement in History Thanks to Garland, McConnell and Roberts | Senator Murphy Agrees With Bernie That Democrats Have Abandoned the Working Class | Saudi Arabia and Iran Get Closer in Anticipation of a Trump Presidency;
What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest LevelNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:58 and 38:13
Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworker's Strike on the ElectionNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:50 and 42:56
Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of America in Tonight's VP Debate?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:26 and 42:10
Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Boxed Harris in to Support His War in Gaza and Lebanon | How Turkey's Erdogan, Who Has Stolen Billions, Threw Chump Change to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams | An Assessment of Zelensky's US Visit and the Real Reason Trump Hates HimNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:56 and 37:34
After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on MondayNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:29 and 40:15
The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Which Netanyahu Rejected | New York's Mayor Charged with Bribery, Wire Fraud and Seeking Illegal Campaign Donations | How J.D. Vance and His Backers Plan to Legislate MoralityNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:51 and 37:14
Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 ConnectionsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:56 and 41:24
How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to SignNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:02 and 46:03
The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025Notes: two one-minute breaks at 24:18 and 40:40
A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway In the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With a Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018Notes: two one-minute breaks at 14:57 and 35:58
An Update From Chicago on the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations and the Change of Fortune For Democrats in Down-Ticket Races | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job of Writing a Speech For a Sitting President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From TragedyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:24 and 39:24
Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republican Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic PlanNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:28 and 39:43
Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic IdealsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:48 and 42:48
How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:39 and 44:14
What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUSNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:16 and 43:45
Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recession
Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to ThemNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:03 and 42:20
Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:52 and 37:08
With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:10 and 40:22
- More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface; 2. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris;3. Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With TrumpNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:45 and 39:55
Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and AbroadNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:32 and 38:51
J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the RightNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:05 and 45:28
Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and KleptocratsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:46 and 39:33
A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, FreedomNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:26 and 34:59
Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American PoliticsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:32 and 36:39
As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:39 and 40:07
Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at HomeNotes: two one-minute breaks at 25:58 and 39:45
Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:52 and 41:52
If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls
Why Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and IncitementNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:17 and 39:34
Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the Ten Commandments to be Displayed in SchoolsNotes: two one-minute breaks 23:49 and 43:44
Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It
America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:00 and 39:10
How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex
Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Far-Right Sweep That Did Not Materialize | An Historical Analysis of Whether We in 1938 With Putin's War on UkraineNotes: two one-minute breaks at 16:29 and 39:02
Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious PastNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:01 and 39:43
The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumer | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them PayNotes: two one-minute breaks at 25:19 and 46:05
Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer
Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle WeaponsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 15:41 and 39:52
After Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Believe He Won the Last Election, Now Trump Has Them Believing the Trial That Convicted Him 34 Times Was Rigged | Are Biden and Netanyahu on the Same Page With the Gaza Ceasefire Plan? | Today's Elections in Mexico Will Result in a Woman as President For the First TimeNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:33 and 38:43
Why We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO ConflictNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:35 and 34:53
Complaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ticket U.S. Weapons Don't Work, Get Jammed or are Unsuitable | A Possible Trade War with China or a Necessary Stimulus For the Next Green Economy? | Today's Election in South Africa as a Referendum on the ANC
The Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Money Trail as Closing Arguments Were Heard Today | Bibi and MbS Have Biden in a Trap and the Pentagon and the CIA Have Drunk the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid | The Libertarians Boo Trump and Quickly Reject RFK JrNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:38 and 46:08
On Memorial Day Those Who Serve America vs Those Who Want to Tear it Apart | Consciousness, Authoritarianism and Political ViolenceNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:49 and 35:10
Many Staffers in Trump's GOP are White Nationalists Who Casually Use Nazi Terms Like "Unified Reich" Because That is Their Milieu and Mindset | The Political Grifters Who Co Opt Leftist Issues and Repackage Them in MAGA-Friendly Terms | As Armenia and Iran Come Together and Israel and Azerbaijan Grow Closer, There are Now 73 Israeli Bases in Azerbaijan Aimed at IranNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:38 and 42:40
Right Wing Leaders Gathered in Madrid to Declare War on Socialism | Republicans Are Dusting Off the 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills and Even Birth Control Pills | Justice Alito's display of Christo-Fascist AllegianceNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:16 and 38:37
Norway, Spain and Ireland Recognize a Palestinian State as the ICC is Poised to Issue Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and 3 Hamas Leaders | The Leading Candidate For Top Positions in a Possible Trump Second Term | How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Elections as the GOP Cheats Rather Than CompetesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:54 and 39:08
Finally we are Learning More About Saudi State Involvement Behind the 9/11 Attacks | An investigation Into What Sadly Appears to be the Next Frontier of Warfare, SpaceNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:55 and 31:04
Does the Death of Iran's President Open a Path for the Son of Ayatollah Khamenei to Succeed His Ailing Father? | Netanyahu Has Biden Torn Between Supporting Israel and Not Losing the Youth Vote | The Unholy Trinity of Far-Right Texas Leadership; Abbott, Patrick and PaxtonNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:10 and 41:17
The Insurrectionists on the Supreme Court Exposed | The Texas Governor Frees a Racist Killer to Please Tucker Carlson | Have Criminals Taken Over Mexico's Elections?
The Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief
The Party of Law and Order Now Embraces Lawlessness as the GOP Speaker Trashes the Rule of Law to Please the Scofflaw-in-Chief | The Setbacks the Ukrainian Military is Suffering as a Result of Trump's 6 Month Delay of U.S. Arms and Ammunition | What is Behind the Rise in Food Prices as a Few Monopolies Gouge the Public and Farmers While Protected by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
Mike Johnson Personifies the Staggering Hypocrisy of the "Christian" Right | Is the New York Trial Hurting Trump Who is Polling Ahead in all Swing States But Wisconsin? | The Mainstreaming of America's Neo-Nazi Movement and the Potential for Violence in the ElectionNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:49 and 37:40
In Paying Off A Porn Star For Her Silence Trump Tells Cohen to "Just do it!" | Georgia's Billionaire-Owned Government Passes a Kremlin-Style Law Although the Vast Majority Want to Join the EU | Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists and Proud Boys Were in the Pro-Israel Mob at UCLA Claiming to Fight Antisemitism Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:47 and 37:52
As Ukraine Faces a Long War, Will the US and NATO be There and Is There Any Hope of a Peace Deal? | The FTC Goes After Corporate Greed and AIPAC Goes After a January 6 HeroNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:05 and 39:04
Trump's Delaying Tactic is Working as 3 of the 4 Trials He's Facing Will Likely Not be Heard Before the Election | Following His 5th Inauguration, Putin Is Now Called "Imperator", the Formal Title For the Russian Tsars | Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism
The Gaza Impasses With Hamas Wanting a Permanent Ceasefire and Israel a Temporary One | A Possible Change in the US's Israel/Palestinian Policy as Grassroots and Student Protests Ended Support For South Africa's Apartheid Regime | Russia Announces Drills For the Use of Tactical Nukes Ahead of Putin's Inauguration Tomorrow
The House Speaker Uses an Antisemitic Trope Blaming George Soros as he Launches Hearings on Anti Semitism on Campuses | The Role of Right Wing, Christian Zionist and MAGA Provocateurs in Campus Violence | Models of Dialogue and Deescalation as Outside Opportunists Stoke Violence on Campuses.Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:45 and 37:15
On the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry?
A Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our DemocracyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:50 and 40:11
As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to DemocracyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 14:48 and 38:13
The Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's IndiaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:01 and 40:54
The House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:13 and 39:23
More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicans
How Delusion and Distraction Now Dominate Our Politics | What is Kim Jong Un Getting For Helping Putin's "Great Victory in the Sacred Struggle" in Ukraine? | Child Poverty Has Doubled in a Year From an Historic Low of 5.2% to 12.4% Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:11 and 41:59
McCarthy Caves Into House Radicals to Impeach Biden After 9 Months of Fruitless Investigation of Hapless Hunter Biden | Can the Democrats Shame Wisconsin's Republican Legislative Thugs? | The DOJ Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Its Monopoly Via Billions Paid to Apple and Samsung Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:24 and 39:45
Why Can't Biden and the Pentagon Control Elon Musk From Helping His Pal Putin? | Ariel Dorfman on the 50th Anniversary of the Coup Against Allende | On the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11 the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wants an Unredacted Report on Saudi Arabia's Role in the Attack
Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation | As China's Economy Stumbles With Youth Unemployment at 21.3%, Xi Doubles Down on Repression | The Looming Possibility of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Against Armenia
An Alarming Poll by CNN Has 46% Against Biden With 44% Saying Any Democrat Would Be Better Than Trump As Biden and Trump's Favorability Stands at 35% | The Only American to be Jailed by a Corporation For Winning a Lawsuit Against Chevron | The Firing of Ukraine's Defense Minister and Zelensky's Efforts to Root Out CorruptionNotes: two one-minute breaks 19:26 and 45:31
The Impeachment Trial of the "Christian" Crook Ken Paxton Divides Texas Republicans | Over 60 Environmental Activists Charged Under the Same RICO Statutes Trump and His Allies Face For Trying to Steal an Election | On the Brink of Another War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan as the Kremlin Switches Sides and the U.S. Holds Military Exercises in ArmeniaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:58 and 38:50
Erdogan Fails to Revive the Black Sea Grain Deal as Ukraine Breaks Through Russian Defenses | Leaked Intelligence on Putin's Plans to Meet With Kim Jong-Un | The Rising GOP Star Ramaswamy is Angling to Be Trump's Running Mate or Secretary of State Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:37 and 38:53
The Summer of Strikes Enters the Fall With Energized Labor Movements From Hollywood to Detroit | Wage Disparity Grows as CEOs Write Their Own Multi-Million Compensations, Buying Back Stock to Boost Their Earnings | How Much of the Billions in the IRA and CHIPS Act Will End Up in the Pockets of Workers?
The Summer of Strikes Enters the Fall With Energized Labor Movements From Hollywood to Detroit | Wage Disparity Grows as CEOs Write Their Own Multi-Million Compensations, Buying Back Stock to Boost Their Earnings | How Much of the Billions in the IRA and CHIPS Act Will End Up in the Pockets of Workers?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 16:12 and 36:12
What Happened to America's Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? | The Greatest Threat to Our Politics, Economy and Culture From Big Tech's Billionaires Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg and Andreessen
Proud Boys are Sentenced but Not Their Strategists Roger Stone and Alex Jones | America's Internal Colonies of Poverty | The High-Tech Hype of a Revolution in Weaponry in Ukraine as WW I Trench Warfare Grinds onNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:50 and 36:22
The Political Rise of the Annoyingly Ambitious Ramaswamy Who Will Do or Say Anything to Get Ahead | How Trump and DeSantis Brought Racism Out Into the Open | How Big Pharma With the Help of the Corporate-Friendly Supreme Court Could Kill the Lowering of Drug Prices Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:55 and 42:50
As DeSantis Erases Black History, His Campaign Appeals to the Likes of the Young White Nazi Who Murdered 3 Blacks In Jacksonville | The First of Ten Drugs Medicare Will Bargain Down the Prices Of With Big Pharma | Mark Meadows Fumbles Answers to Key Questions in 3 hours of Testimony Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:07 and 38:58
Today's Pentagon Announcement to Deploy Thousands of Drones and AI Robotic Warfare Platforms Against China Within Two Years | The Emerging Digital Military Industrial Complex as Silicon Valley Meets the Pentagon | The Pope Criticizes American Bishops for "A Very Strong, Organized, Reactionary Attitude" as "Ideologies Replace Faith" Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:38 and 37:58
How NASA and the DoD Defer to Elon Musk Who Holds Ukraine's Fate in His Hands While Buying What Putin is Selling | How Much the U.S. is Helping and Hindering Ukraine's War Effort | While Trump Gets Celebrity Treatment at the Atlanta Jail and Makes Money Out of His Mugshot, Inmates Inside Rot for Months Without Trial Notes: two one-minutes breaks at 2:07 and 41:11
Republican Presidential Hopefuls Deny Global Warming and Would Support Trump For President Even If He Is In Jail | The Threat to American Democracy When One of the Two Parties Embraces Authoritarianism and Rejects Election Results | A View From Kyiv of Putin's Assassination of Prigozhin and How the U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win the War Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:17 and 37:29
Revenge is Putin's Dish Best Served Cold to His Former Chef | The Winner of Tonight's GOP Presidential Primary Debate in Not on the Stage | Moscow is Tightening Its Grip on Belarus, Georgia and Moldova Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:26 and 44:03
Under the Leadership of Their Murderous Dictator, Saudi Border Guards Slaughter Ethiopian Refugees | The US Government Warns Americans to Leave Belarus "Immediately" | The Co-Founder of CODEPINK Argues That The New York Times's Criticism of Her and Her Husband is Propaganda and McCarthyism Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:17 and 40:25
Biden's Visit to Maui Where 850 Are Missing After the Worst Fire in American History | Guatemala Elects a Reformer in a Landslide | The BRICS Summit in South Africa With China's Xi But Absent Putin Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:50 and 39:15
The Camp David Summit to Bring Japan and South Korea Together as China, Russia and North Korea Strengthen Ties | The U.S. Does Not Want Ukraine to Win and Defeat Russian Aggression | We Are Entering the Age of Fire Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:38 and 37:18
Canada on Fire | Rights-Based Environmentalism as a Legal, Political and Moral Movement | Trump's Only Path to Victory in 2024 | Anti-Democratic Rules Hold up Biden's Diplomatic, Judicial and Military Nominees Notes: two one-minute breaks at 13:36 and 43:34
Trump's Racist Response to the Latest Indictments is to Call Black Judges, Prosecutors and Election Workers "RIGGERS" | A Win For Young Environmentalists in Red State Montana | Biden Celebrates the One Year Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:35 and 39:56
Fani Willis's 98-Page indictment With 19 Defendants Including Trump Who Faces 13 Charges | An Expert on Election Law on the Latest Indictments | The Real World Consequences of Trump's Incitement of Violence
Threats of Civil War From a US Congressman While Judges and Prosecutors on Trump's Cases Get Death Threats | The Likelihood of Trump Inciting Violence in the 2024 Election as the Law Closes in on Him | House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Face Criticism From Progressive Democrats
Trump Faces Jeopardy From Reconstruction Era Laws | Trump Warned Not to Turn January 6 Trial Into a Carnival | After 5 Decades in Public Office the So-Called Head of the "Biden Crime Family" Has No Charges Against Him, Unlike the Head of the Trump Crime Family
A More Optimistic Electoral Landscape Ahead For 2024 as Reproductive Rights Trump Anti "Wokeness" | The $6 Billion Prisoner Swap With Iran | The Assassination of a Presidential Candidate in Ecuador Who Campaigned Against Corruption, Drug Cartels and the Correa Government
A Resounding Defeat of an Anti-Abortion Power Grab in Ohio | What Genuine Peace Efforts Can be Taken Following Revelations in the NY Times That An American Peace Group Appears to be Shilling for the Chinese Communist Party | An Examination of the Chinese Government's Global Influence Campaigns Notes: two 30-second breaks at 35:46 and 18:16
The Power Grab by Ohio Republicans Behind Today's Election | The 'Socialism of Fools' of the 'Anti-Imperialist Left' | The Situation in Niger and the Sahel Where Wagner Mercenaries are Making Inroads
Have Putin and Xi Handed a Strategic Opportunity to the West? | The Downfall and Jailing of Pakistan's Former PM Imran Khan | Sunday's Loss by the US Women's Soccer Team Celebrated by Right Wing Trolls and Donald Trump
Ukraine Tries to Woo the BRICS Nations to Get About Their Peace Plan | Did Saudi Arabia Make a Mistake in Not Inviting Russia to the Peace Talks? | Trump Claims Victimhood But the Real Victims Are the 90 Million Americans Whose Votes he Tried To Steal Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:20 and 39:24
Trump's Arraignment Today and Why His Defense Won't Work | The Commanding Role Trump Plays Over the Press as the Top Fox News Executives Dine With Him on the Evening of His Indictment | What is Behind the Coup in Niger Where Putin and Wagner Are Seen as Heroes and the French Villains Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:43 and 36:43
Trump's Latest Indictment is not a First Amendment Issue About His Words. It's About His Deeds | Examining the Indictments With an Expert on Elections and Election Law | Jack Smith's 45 Page Indictment as a Prosecutorial Masterstroke Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:26 and 39:56
The GOP's Long Quest For an Imperial Presidency. Now They're About To Crown Trump King Donald the First | What Broke the American War Machine That Now Hobbles Ukraine | How Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Leads the Far Right in Europe Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:28 and 39:47
The Ukrainian Peace Plan to be Discussed by 30 Nations in Saudi Arabia on August 5 | Questions Following Jake Sullivan's Saudi Trip to Bolster the Abraham Accords | The Republican Napoleon is Getting Smaller and Smaller Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:54 and 40:28
More Indictments of Trump That Pro-Trump Jurors in Florida Could Agree Are Crimes | Do the US and NATO Really Want Ukraine's Counteroffensive to Succeed? | A Defiant Alito Tells the Congress He is Above the Law Notes: two one-minute breaks at 16:51 and 34:26
Netanyahu's Path of Autocratic Legalism Following Orban, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi and Putin | The Attempt Underway to Give Republicans and Independents Who Can't Vote For Trump an Alternative to Voting For Biden | Senator McConnell Freezes Then Senator Feinstein Has to be Told Repeatedly to Vote "Aye" Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:16 and 42:38
A Roundup of Legal Issues Facing Hunter Biden, Guiliani, Flynn, Navarro and Trump | Biden's Mental Health Initiative as Addiction and Mental Illness Remain Untreated Across the Country | The Techno-Autocracy of Saudi Arabia as an Example of Capitalism Without Democracy Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:42 and 34:32
Deepening Divisions in Israel With the Country's National Security Threatened by Netanyahu's Power Grab | Scientists Predict a Tipping Point Where the Atlantic Gulf Stream Current Could Collapse as Early as 2025 | Is Governor Ron DeSantis Going the Way of Governor Scott Walker? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:54 and 34:08
Massive Demonstrations in Israel Against Netanyahu's Power Grab to Avoid Jail | The Global Heatwave and It's Not Game Over on Climate Change But Game On | Does The US Government and the Pentagon Want Ukraine to Lose the War? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:50 and 42:22
How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine | A Plan to Solve the Electoral College and Gerrymandering Problems Undermining American Democracy Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:36 and 34:13
Today's Republican Lovefest With RFK Jr. Which Had Democrats Attacking the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti Semite With the Storied Democratic Name | As Russia Attacks Grain Terminals, Mines the Black Sea and Threatens Shipping, Grain Prices Soar | A Legal Historian on How and Why Trump Has Avoided Accountability So Far
Trump Facing a Third Indictment From Jack Smith in DC for the January 6 Insurrection | Pro-Trump Fake Electors Charged in Michigan With Cases Pending in Arizona and Georgia Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:39 and 40:10
As the Planet Bakes, Oil Companies Enjoy Record Profits From a Product that is Killing the Planet | The Heritage Foundation Plan to "Deconstruct the Administrative State" and Install Trump as Dictator | What if Trump Controlled the IRS, FDA, FTC, EPA and DOJ and Who Would Benefit? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:03 and 42:32
No Labels, Flush With Republican Billionaire Dark Money, Woos Joe Manchin to Split the Biden Vote to Elect Trump | Russia's Suspension of the UN-Brokered Black Sea Deal to Export Grains and Fertilizer | The Underground Tartar Resistance Group in Crimea Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:59 and 39:54
What is Behind the Hatred Spewing Forth From House MAGA Republicans? | The Hate-Filled Amendments to the NDAA Which McCarthy Hailed as Stopping "Wokeness" in the Military | The Impact on the Broader Labor Movement of SAG-AFTRA Joining the WGA Already on Strike Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:27 and 33:44
Birth Control Pills Will Soon be Available Over the Counter Without a Prescription | A Brazen Coup Attempt in Guatemala Which Has the Leading Presidential Candidate Suspending Her Campaign | What Has Happened to the GOP, the Party of Law and Order? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 24:00 and 41:27
The Growing Threat to Public Safety From Ghost Guns | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded NATO Summit | Erdogan Did Not Steal the Limelight at the Summit or End up With Much Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:26 and 38:24
Record Heat in the South and Southwest as Climate Change Scorches the Planet | Considered the Most Corrupt Leader in the World, Erdogan's Successful Blackmail | The Crypto Industry Throws Money at House and Senate Democrats Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:33 and 38:43
Should Ukraine Model Its Security Future on Israel, Not NATO? | What Does Zelensky Want From the NATO Summit? | The Researcher Who Exposed How Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Also Represent the Victims of the Climate Crisis Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:42 and 42:25
As Russia's Nuclear Threats Recede, Some NATO States Call For Ukraine to be Admitted | Is America Now Divided Between "Team Crazy" and "Team Normal"? | When Will Those Who Incite Violence Be Held to Account For the Consequences? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:22 and 43:01
The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg's "Threads" Challenges the Future of Musk's Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:01 and 34:15
Alarming Reports That the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant Could be Blown Up | Can the IAEA Save Zaporizhzhya While Giving the Go Ahead to Dump Fukushima's Radioactive Water Into the Pacific | Biden Meets With Sweden's PM Ahead of Next Week's NATO Summit Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:20 and 36:58
The Strategy Behind the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Many Pundits See as Being Bogged Down | Our Cavalier Disregard of Nuclear Threats From Putin Who Said "We Have No Need For a World Without Russia" Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:01 and 34:51
American Democracy Under Threat as Unelected Justices Veto Policies They Don't Like Aided By Phony Front Groups | The Israeli Military Targets Angry Young Palestinians Alienated From Their Own Aged and Inept Government | Has Putin Lost His Monopoly on Violence and Will the ICC Charge Him With Genocide? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:18 and 41:40
Why Not Cancel Student Debts Now Using The Higher Education Act of 1965? | How to Deprogram the Followers Inside the Cult of Trump | An Update on the Mutiny in Russia and Ukraine's Counteroffensive Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:42 and 40:16
Another Right Wing Front Group Gets SCOTUS to Rule With a Predetermined Outcome, This Time Against Affirmative Action | How Asian Students Were Used to Perpetuate the Myth of Colorblindness | The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:40 and 36:45
The SBA Finds That Over $200 Billion Was Stolen From Covid Relief Funds With Billions More Unaccounted For | The Terrible Electoral Systems We Are Left With After the Supreme Court Voted Down an Outrageous GOP Power Grab | What is Being Discussed and Could Emerge From Talks Between the US and Iran in Oman and New York? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:45 and 40:51
A Scathing Senate Report "Planned in Plain Sight" Compiles the Failures of the FBI, DHS and Capitol Police to Act on January 6 Warnings | Prigozhin's Fate Now That He is in Belarus Without His Mercenary Army | Did Putin and Lukashenko Set Up a Gangster Style Trap For Prigozhin? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:22 and 38:20
Putin's Angry Address Tries to Drive a Wedge Between Prizozhin and the Rank and File of His Wagner Mercenary Army | How Trump Changed the Culture of Washington With the Influx of Grifters, Con Men, Racists, Creeps and Bottom Feeders Notes: two one-minute breaks at 24:17 and 48:51
Putin's Brush With Civil War in Nuclear-Armed Russia | A Profile of the Russian Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin | What we Might Learn About Trump's Ties to Putin and Collusion with MBS from the Upcoming Trial Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:36 and 35:14
India's Controversial Leader Modi Gets the Royal Treatment at the White House But is an Alliance with the US in the Cards? | A Supreme Court Captured by Plutocrats Has Thomas and Alito Serving Their Billionaire Buddies | Homelessness is Caused by Loss of Income and Just $300 a Month Could Keep People Off the Streets Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:14 and 40:29
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GOP Show Trials Sputter As 5 Years Later We Have Durham's Nothingburger and Hunter Biden's Misdemeanor Plea Deal | Why Tech Billionaires and Bannon Are Promoting RFK Jr's Primary Challenge of the Biden Presidency | An Update on the Ukraine War and What Russia Has Learned From Past Mistakes Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:37 and 38:49
Why Were the DOJ's Investigations Into January 6 and the Theft of Documents Delayed For 15 Months? | What is Behind Tech Billionaires Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and David Sacks' Promotion of RFK Jr's Spoiler Campaign? | Will China Play the Leading Role in Ending the Ukraine War? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:17 and 35:35
Can the GOP Convince American Voters That Biden's Government Has Been Captured by Marxists and Communists? | Blinken and Xi Jinping Agree on the Need to Stabilize US-China Relations | The Scathing DOJ Report on the Minneapolis Police Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:44 and 43:43
Why Did Trump Steal Classified Documents? Maybe Because Putin Told Him To | Analogies Between World War I and the War in Ukraine
Are We at the Point of No Return With American Democracy at the Crossroads? | A Cultural Historian on "Animal Spirits" and How the Universe is Alive Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:13 and 32:52
Blinken Sets Out to Try to Repair Dangerously Frayed Relations Between the World's Leading Military Powers | With Florida Trump Country, Can the Democrats Reverse GOP Gains? | Comparisons Between Berlusconi and Trump and the Media Mogul Turned Italian Leader's Close Relationship With Putin Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:37 and 38:21
Arrested and Arraigned Today, Trump is So Lucky to Have Judge Aileen Cannon Preside over His Prosecution | Could Judge Cannon Influence the Jury Pool to Ensure a Hung Jury? | How Did a Ruthless Colonial Power The Soviet Union Get Away With Portraying Itself as the Anti-Colonial Champion? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:10 and 40:10
An Overwhelming Majority of Republicans Think Trump Should Serve as President if Convicted and That the Indictments Are Politically Motivated | At War With the Rule of Law, Trump is Calling For a Right Wing Rebellion | Why the PGA - Saudi LIV Merger Will Not Happen
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Overwhelming Evidence of Trump's Endangerment of US National Security | Republican Efforts to Portray the Prosecution as Biden Taking Out His Main Rival For the Presidency | Trump's Uncanny Luck at Having His Pliant Judge Who He Appointed Hear the Case Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:37 and 41:02
A Surprise Ruling From the Supreme Court Whose Supermajority is Increasingly Out Of Touch With Mainstream America | Is the Breaching of the Dam in Ukraine an Act of Ecocide? | The Impact on European Public Opinion From Revelations Ukrainians Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:29 and 39:04
Evidence That it Was Ukraine, Not Russia Behind the Sabotage of the Nord Stream Gas Pipelines | Is the Merger Between the PGA and LIV Golf Tournaments a Way For the Saudis to Pay Off Donald Trump? | The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Where 99% of Unseen, Unsigned and Unexplained Cases are Decided Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:34 and 40:20
Flooding From a Breached Dam Delays Any Ukrainian Military Attack From the South Into Crimea | A Reporter's Earlier Conversations With Zelensky About Russia Blowing up the Dam | The Impact on Ukrainian Civilian Infrastructure and New Reporting That Ukraine Was Behind the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:51 and 38:58
The False Equivalence of the Far-Right House Freedom Caucus and the Democrat's Progressive Caucus | Mike Pence and the Growing Republican Ranks of Hopefuls Challenging Trump | Sunday's Massive Demonstrations in Poland Against Anti-Democratic AuthoritarianismNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:06 and 36:51
A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship | The Next War of Drones and AI Now in Ukraine | Exporting the Technology of Repression and Australia's Trial of the Century Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:01 and 36:45
Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him | The Disconnect Between Biden's Low Poll Numbers and His Many Achievements | How Defense Contractors Influence the Ukraine DebateNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:58 and 38:36
The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin | Serbia's Authoritarian Leader and Russian Provocateurs Are Behind What Lavrov Says is a Big Explosion Looming in the Heart of Europe | The March Towards Authoritarianism in States Taken Over by Republican Supermajorities Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:19 and 35:45
The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress | Will Putin Get the Traitor-in-Chief Back in the Oval Office? | Is Erdogan's Victory Also a Victory For Putin?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 26:04 and 45:04
Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day | How Defense Contractors Are Gouging the Taxpayer While Rewarding Shareholders at the Expense of R&D | Is Cybersecurity an Unsolvable Problem?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 24:32 and 35:26
The Impeachment of a MAGA Crook by a Far-Right Republican-Dominated House of the Texas Legislature | Ron DeSantis's Alarming Promise to Do To the Nation What He Has Done To Florida | The Ukrainian Counteroffensive and the "Game of Thrones" Power Struggle Inside the KremlinNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:32 and 38:56
The Meltdown of DeSantis's Big Announcement on Elon Musk's Troubled $44 Billion Platform | A Chief Justice Out of Touch With Reality and a Call For Justice Thomas to Resign | Time to Deal With the One State Reality of Israel
Thursday's Expected Influx of Immigrants at the Southern Border and the Failure to Deal With the Root Causes | As Republicans Try to Extort Budget Cuts, the Counter Leverage of the 14th Amendment is in Biden's Pocket | The Weaponization of AI Tech as the Pentagon Looks at CHAT GPTNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:48 and 41:46
A Reporter Who Was Banned From Entering the "Woke Free Zone" at CPAC's Conference in Orban's Hungary | The Growing Evidence of Ethical Violations by Justice Clarence Thomas and His Right Wing Activist Wife | The Pillage by Vulture Capitalist in Private Equity Who Make Huge Profits Plundering Companies They Buy Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:04 and 40:00
Trump's StormTroopers the Proud Boys Found Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy | The Possibility the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Was Carried Out By Anti-Putin Russian Partisans | Why Does the Biden Administration Create Red Lines For Ukraine Then Eventually Deliver the Weapons Months if Not a Year Later? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:08 and 40:13
Was the Drone Attack on the Kremlin Staged or a Ukrainian Attempt to Rattle Putin's Cage? | In the Face of House Republicans Extortion, is the Democratic Work-Around of a Discharge Petition Feasible? | 40% of 8th Graders Are Below Average in History and 31% Are Below Basic Proficiency in CivicsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:28 and 35:55
How the Press Has Framed the Looming Act of Insanity by House Republicans as Dueling Budget Proposals | Royal Fever Ahead of King Charles's Coronation and a Plan to Abolish the Monarchy | Republican Governors are Bringing Back Child Labor in the United StatesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:54 and 40:09
Growing Concern at the Supreme Court's Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges | Biden Pledges "Ironclad" Military Ties With The Philippines As China Warns of "Stoking the Fire" | Biden's Reelection Strategy of Running Against Hate and MAGA Madness Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:10 and 37:35
Sudan is Descending Into a Destructive and Bloody Civil War Along the Lines of Syria and Libya | An Extensive Look Into Military Preparations For a Ukrainian Spring Offensive Aimed at a Decisive Victory Over RussiaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:12 and 39:56
A Republican Budget That Punishes the Poorest Americans, Children, to Deal With A Debt They Caused by Cutting Taxes For the Rich | The U.S. Nuclear Guarantees To South Korea to Stop Their Self Nuclearization | Short of a Decisive Blow Against Russia in the Upcoming Offensive, the Ukraine War Will Go On For YearsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:28 and 38:31
China's Peace Offer to Ukraine and Does the US Want to Avoid Ukraine Humiliating Putin With Its Upcoming Offensive? | Today's Testimony by E. Jean Carroll Describing How Donald Trump Raped Her in a Bergdorf Goodman's Dressing Room | A Summit on Venezuela in Bogata, Colombia to Which the Former Venezuelan Opposition Leader Showed Up UninvitedNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:40 and 37:13
Biden Announces He is Running For a Second Term at the End of Which He Will be 86 | Biden's Relationship With Kamala Harris Who Might Succeed Him | DeSantis's Surgeon General Doctors Data to Support his Anti-Vaxxer LunacyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 25:20 and 43:06
Murdoch's Abrupt Firing of Tucker Carlson and How Progressives Assumed They'd Dominate Social Media Only to be Outflanked by Right Wing Populism | The Sudden Silencing of the Loudest and Most Commanding Voice That Had Republican Leaders Grovelling | DeSantis's Faltering Campaign as the Anointed Alternative To Trump is Starting to Look Like A LoserNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:11 and 38:50
Tensions Within the Supreme Court As Its Popularity and Credibility Suffers While Justice Thomas Flouts Ethics | More Guns and No Restrictions For the Few Or Safety in Schools, Churches, Malls and Theaters For the Many? | While Foreigners Evacuate, Sudanese Face Starvation, Bombs and Bullets as Two Warlords Fight For PowerNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:44 and 40:07
What Will it Take For the Supreme Court to Deal With Reality and Politicians to Ignore the NRA? | Growing Pressure From the Clarence Thomas Scandal on the Supreme Court to Adopt a Code of Ethics | How Wall Street Dictates to CEO's of the Military Industrial Complex Have Led to the Ukrainians Running Out of Ammunition Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:00 and 39:46
How Innocent Mistakes Can Get You Killed in the NRA's America | A $787 Million Loss For Fox is a Win In Not Having Tucker Carlson Squirm on the Witness Stand Confronted by His True Statements About His Repeated Lies | Will the Supreme Court Continue Their Moral Crusade Against Abortion or Accommodate Big Pharma?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:47 and 39:00
How Americans Alarmed by the Murdoch Propaganda Machine and Appalled by Trump, Subsidize Fox News | Speaker McCarthy Declares War on the Poor Before the New York Stock Exchange | The Callous Barbarism of Duelling Warlords in SudanNotes: two one-minute breaks at 25:32 and 42:02
Prigozhin's Call to End the War is Actually a Call to Rise Up From a Temporary Defeat as a "War Monster" | Our Zombie National Security State Transitions From "Forever War" to Eternal War | As the Government Collects More Data Than in the Course of Human History, Deep State Conspiracies FlourishNotes: two one-minute breaks at 16:18 and 35:23
The Arrest of the Leaker and the Inordinate and Unnecessary Amount of Widely Circulated Classified Material | The Dangers Racist, White Supremacist, Anti Semitic and Anti Government Views Pose to the US Military | Having Missed 60 Votes, Senator Feinstein is in No Hurry to Go Back To Work As She Holds Up Judicial Nominations Notes: two one-minute breaks at 27:01 and 41:21
How the FDA Overregulates Mifepristone and Why it Should Decline to Enforce a Ban | The Intellectual Leader of GOP Insurgents Who Want to Abandon Ukraine to Confront China | The New EPA Rules to Ensure Two Thirds of Cars and a Quarter of Trucks Are All-Electric By 2032Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:55 and 42:00
The Manhattan DA Sues Congressman Jim Jordan and the Pentagon Leaks That Have the IC in a State of Alarm | Rumors of Divisions, Russian Moles and Corruption at the Highest Level Inside Ukraine's Leadership | Biden's Visit to Ireland and a New Book There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History Notes: two one-minute breaks at 14:24 and 34:13
Damaging Leaks From Inside the Pentagon Embarrass Allies and Demoralize Ukrainian Officials | Along With the House, Senate and Fox News, is There a Pro-Putin Network Inside the Pentagon? | What Will it Take to Censure or Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:32 and 39:50
A Far-Right Anti-Abortion Zealot Bans a Drug the FDA Approved 23 Years Ago Which is Safer ThanViagra or Tylenol | The Shadow Network Behind the Capture of Our Judiciary | The Author of The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil WarNotes: two one-minute breaks at 16:56 and 36:02
Tennessee's Republican Majority Railroad Three Democratic State Legislators in a Display of Anti-democratic Thuggery | The Dangerous Lack of Dialogue Between the World's Biggest Military and Economic Powers | How to Reverse the Downward Spiral of U.S.- China Relations
As Trump Faces Further Legal Jeopardy, Is the Manhattan DA's Case Against Him Weak or Strong? | After Trump's Prime Time Tirade of Bitter Fury and Paranoid Delusion, Will the Mainstream Media Continue to Give Him Free Campaign Advertising? | How Libertarians and Alternative Health Gurus Created the Medical Freedom HustleNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:52 and 36:20
With Today's Indictment Securing Trump's Domination of the GOP, is the Monster Right Wing Plutocrats Created Now Out of Their Control? | With So Many Americans Seeing Trump as a Hero and Martyr, What Explains the Failure to Communicate Who He Really Is? | Why Today's Supreme Court Election in Wisconsin Has Critical National ImplicationsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:56 and 37:08
The GOP Embraces Lawlessness Placing Trump Above the Law While Denigrating the Rule of Law | The Republican Strategy of Weaponizing the Judiciary by Forum-Shopping in an End-run Around the Executive and Legislative Branches | The Youngest Female World Leader Loses to Older Men as Finland is Poised to Enter NATONotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:48 and 38:19
What Changed the Manhattan DA's Mind to Charge Trump on 34 Counts? | Trump Will Delay and Defame Into the Summer of 2024, Rallying the GOP to His Side While Locking Out His Primary Challengers | How to Reverse the Global Decline in Democracies and the Rule of LawNotes: two one-minute breaks at 26:35 and 47:43
An American Journalist Charged with Spying Who Was Arrested in Russia For the Crime of Reporting | More Chemical Spills into Rivers as Plan B for Big Oil is the Manufacture of Plastics | How Far-Right Religious Nationalism Has Captured the World's Biggest Democracy
Biden's Second Summit for Democracy and the Need For a Plan to Combat the Growth of Autocracies | Starbucks CEO in the Hot Seat Before Bernie Sanders' Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee | Immigrants Burned Alive in Mexico as Guards Refuse to Open Locked GatesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:49 and 38:07
A Majority of Americans Want Their Kids to Come Home From School Alive So It is Time For Them to Stand Up and Be Counted | As MBS Plays America Off Against China, the Abraham Accords Are Stalled With Turmoil in Israel | Is Trump About to Start a Civil War or Fade Away as His Act Gets Stale?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:11 and 37:53
Netanyahu Postpones Power Grab in the Face of Massive Demonstrations and a National Strike | Putin Threatens Nukes in Response to Ukraine Getting 14 British Tanks with Depleted Uranium Ammunition | New Revelations of a CIA Coverup of Saudi Hijacker's Activities in US Before 9/11 Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:59 and 36:48
Trump's First 2024 Presidential Rally Shouts Out to the Far Right, Militias and Insurrectionists That He is Their Fuhrer and They Are Coming After You | The Massive Protest in France to Protect a Social Safety Net Americans Could Only Dream of | How Foreign Wars Test the Moral Convictions of American Leftists Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:46 and 35:33
Beating up on TikTok While Ignoring the Data Mining Business Model of Big Tech Based on Surveillance Capitalism | Netanyahu's Unreported Collusion to Elect Trump in 2016 Notes: two one-minute breaks at 27:14 and 48:23
Xi Fails to Deliver a Viable Peace Plan Leaving Putin to Pursue His War While Appearing to be Open to Peace Talks | The Fed Raises Interest Rates for the Ninth Time to Just Under 5% | The Roots of the Radical Right's Capture of the Republican PartyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:37 and 37:38
Could China Deliver a Peace Deal to End the War in Ukraine? | On the Day Trump Said He Would Be Arrested, Where are the Indictments? | Reinvigorating the Labor Movement as Strikes and Union Negotiations Gain National Attention
What An Arrest Warrant For Putin Means and What it Will Achieve | Our Historical Memory Lapse on the 20th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq | A Conservative Scholar's Critique of Tucker Carlson's Pro-Russia Talking Points
The Under-reported Role of Crypto in the Silicon Valley Bank Crash | Mass Hysteria Got Us Into the Iraq War 20 Years Ago and is on Display Today Over China | An Update From Taiwan, the Flashpoint For a Possible War With ChinaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:24 and 39:48
Russian and American Military Aircraft Clash Over the Black Sea | A Zealous Anti-Abortion Judge in Texas is Poised to Ban an Abortion Drug Nationwide | Fallout From the Failure of the SVB Bank is Spreading to EuropeNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:21 and 39:08
Hatred and Division Intensifies in the US as the Phony War Against the Woke, Drag Queens and Trans Kids Accelerates | China's Reaction to the AUKUS Deal on Display Yesterday With Biden Beside the PMs of Australia and the UK | What China's Diplomatic Initiative in the Middle East Portends for the RegionNotes: two one-minute breaks at 28:08 and 43:33
China Brings Diplomacy to the Middle East Where the US Has Wasted Trillions on Endless Wars | Trump and the Fed Chair's Role in the Collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank | Are There More Shoes to Drop Following the SVB Failure? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 24:30 and 44:53
An "Invitation" to Trump to Testify Before a Manhattan Grand Jury Will Likely be Followed by the First Indictment of a President in US History | The Dire Consequences of Defaulting on Our Debt | Demonstrations in Georgia, Destabilization in Moldova and Russian Pressure on Belarus
More Damning Texts and Emails Show That Fox News Considers Telling the Truth Bad For Business | The Saudi War Against Yemen Could be Coming to an End | The Threadbare State Of NATO's Military ReadinessNotes: two one-minute breaks at 16:48 and 36:51
The Fed Chair is asked if he is OK With Putting 2 Million Americans Out of Work by Raising Interest Rates to Curb Inflation | How Best to Respond to Increasingly Extreme GOP Trolling | Another Thinly-Soured Article on Who Blew Up the Nord Stream PipelinesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:04 and 39:53
Environmental Protestors in Georgia Are Charged With Domestic Terrorism for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights | Why in the Land of the Free Are we Afraid of Being Turned Into Communists by TikTok Videos | Will the Biden Administration Make a Stand Against Netanyahu's Assault on Israeli Democracy?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:21 and 39:31
Trump's Bizarre Fact-Free Speech to CPAC Where He Out-Polled DeSantis for the Nomination 3 to 1 | The Russian Strategy to Draw Ukraine's Main Force Into the Bakhmut Battle is Not Working | An Assessment of Reports That Russia Will Supply Uranium to Iran in Exchange For Drones and MissilesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:04 and 39:01
Can Germany Persuade its Biggest Trading Partner China to to Bring Russia to the Peace Table? | 200 Economists Urge Leaders of Congress to Raise the Debt Ceiling to Avoid a "Dangerous and Unnecessary" Economic Crisis | A Different Perspective on Demonstrations in Mexico Against AMLO's Electoral Reforms
With Biden's First Veto of a Culture War Absurdity "Woke Capitalism" Which Does Not Exist, Is Ron DeSantis Setting the Republican Agenda? | Is There Any Possibility of a Peaceful Solution to the War in Ukraine? | As Putin Spreads Alarm About "Nazi" Terrorist Attacks Inside Russia, Is He Setting the Stage For a False Flag Act to Justify Martial Law?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 16:46 and 40:06
Amid Rising U.S./ China Tensions, the House Holds a Hearing of Its New Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party | As of Today 42 Million Americans Will Have Food Stamp Benefits Cut Down to $6 Per Person Per Day | The Latest Power Grab by Our Far-Right Supreme Court Using Its "Major Questions Doctrine."Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:50 and 36:42
Bombshells in Unsealed Deposition Have Murdoch Revealing Biden's Ads and Debate Strategy to Trump | Republicans With Shaky Standing Urge the Supreme Court to Kill Biden's Student Debt Relief | The Deeper Structural Failures to Deal With the Coronavirus PandemicNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:32 and 36:23
New Intelligence Has the DOE and the FBI Suggesting the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Have Originated from a Lab Accident in China | As Settlers Rampage on The West Bank, a Jordanian/Israeli Agreement is Overruled by Israel's Far-Right Finance Minister | Could an Agreement Between the UK's PM Sunak and the head of the EU be the Beginning of the End of Brexit?
Russia's War on Ukraine One Year Later | Skepticism About China's "Position Paper" on Ending the Ukraine War Although Zelensky Welcomes It | How the Magic of the Free Market Ended Up Impoverishing Democracy and Weakening Our Ability to Tackle Major Challenges
The Ohio Derailment as an Example of Wall Street's Priority of Extracting Wealth Not Creating It | The Vast Constituency of Americans Comprising Much of the GOP Who Believe in Lies and Conspiracies | A New Report on Russia's War Crimes Targeting Ukraine's Healthcare Infrastructure and PersonnelNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:12 and 38:58
The Spy Scandal Rocking the German Government and the Roll-up of Russian Spies Across Europe | The Orwellian Tone and Stalinist Paranoia and Brutality in Putin's Speech to the Nation | Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With UkraineNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:00 and 40:38
Putin Puts Russia on a Nuclear Hair Trigger While Blaming the U.S. For the War in Ukraine | A Paranoid Russia Threatening Nuclear War While China is Poised to Deliver a Peace Plan or Deepen Its Alliance With Russia | Mexico's Equivalent of the Head of the FBI Convicted for Receiving Briefcases Full of Cartel CashNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:13 and 44:39
Biden's Surprise Visit to Kyiv and Hysteria From Putin's Supporters on America's Far Right | Deteriorating Relations With China Amid Fears China Will Supply Lethal Aid to Russia | The Supreme Court About to Hear Two Case That Could Determine the Future of the Internet Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:51 and 41:54
An Update From the Munich Security Conference | Fox News is Afraid of Its Viewers and the Truth Which Would be Bad For Business | The Origins of the Derailment in Ohio
The Partial Release of Findings From the Special Grand Jury Investigation of Trump's Attempt to "Find" 11,780 Votes in Georgia | Which of the Many Cases Against Trump Will be the First to Issue Indictments | Why the Department of Transportation Can't Regulate Rail Companies to Prevent Derailments of Toxic ChemicalsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:50 and 37:16
How Was a Mentally Ill Man With a Gun Conviction Who Shot Up His Neighborhood Able to Buy Guns and Kill 3 MSU Students? | 54 Countries Make Commitments to Arm Ukraine For a Spring Offensive | What Does Putin Have in Store as His War Begins Its Second Year on February 24? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:28 and 41:39
The Authoritarian Movement Underway to Ban Books, Ideas, Knowledge and History in America | The Pious Bigots Behind the $20 Million Superbowl Ad Buy For a Hip and Cool Jesus Who Gets Us | Delayed and Insufficient Information Following the Ohio Derailment That Spilled Hazardous ChemicalsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:03 and 42:33
What Hazards Did the Unidentified Objects that Were Shot Down Pose to Commercial Aviation? | The Risks to Diplomacy From Intelligence Collection | Russia's Plans to Topple the Government in MoldovaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:39 and 38:42
A Religious Zealot Could Ban Nationwide the Pill Used in Over 50% of Abortions and Do So Without Evidence | The History of Balloons Used For Spying and How Many UFOs Were Balloons | Will Mike Pence Tell the Truth About How His Boss Tried To Have Him Lynched?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:11 and 37:42
The Far-Right House Republican's Madcap Hearings Yesterday and Today | The Spiking of a Story on The Nation Magazine's Publisher's Pro-Putin Bias By the CJR's Kyle Pope | What Are "Spaces Not Bases" When the US Already has 750 Bases in 80 Countries?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:29 and 41:18
Biden's Pro-Worker Anti-Corporate Profiteering SOTU Speech | Rising Tensions With China and a U.S. China Policy of Self-Harm | As Erdogan Shuts Down Criticism on Social Media, What Will He Do to Stay in Power?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:30 and 41:00
Erdogan's Role in the Critical Delay in Getting Rescue Teams to the Sites of Devastation from the Earthquake | An Expert on Intraplate Earthquakes and Seismic Similarities Between Turkey and California | Can Biden Close the Gap in his SOTU Between his Accomplishments and the Public Perception That Most Americans Are Not Satisfied With his Leadership?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:01 and 38:58
Will Western Donors Respond to Erdogan's Plea for Aid After Earthquakes Devastate Southern Turkey and Northern Syria? | The GOP House Plans To Cut FBI Funding Just as They Stop American Neo-Nazis From Attacking Critical Infrastructure | The Global Struggle Between Democracies Under Threat and Encroaching Autocracies and KleptocraciesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:45 and 40:07
What it is Like to Be a Person of Color and a Muslim American Constantly Having Your Loyalty Questioned | Did Xi Jinping Authorize the Chinese Spy Balloon's Intrusion Over the US? | As Pundits Warn of Recession and Inflation, We Get the Best Economic News Since 1969
Speaker McCarthy Will Continue Legislative Terrorism to Extort Budget Cuts by Threatening to Crash the US and Global Economy | Cleaning Up Corruption Ahead of Ukraine's Talks on EU Membership | The US/Philippines Deal For "Spaces Not Bases" Close to Taiwan
Facebook/Meta Reinstates Trump While Allowing Other Despots to Incite Violence and Genocide and Spread Hate and Disinformation | A Top US Russia Expert on Mistakes Made in Dealing With Putin | Pakistan Faces Blowback From the Afghan and Pakistan TalibanNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:41 and 36:00
Trump Could be Indicted in Atlanta and Manhattan Within Days or Weeks | The Ukraine War Has Derailed Russian Espionage Activities Leading to an Unprecedented Number of Arrests | The State Department's Announcement Today that Russia is Not Complying With the New START TreatyNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:20 and 40:27
Secretary of State Blinken's Meeting with Netanyahu and Israeli Drone Strike on Iran | Was Top FBI Agent Involved in Comey's Nothingburger and the NY Times's Dismissal of Trump's Russia Ties That Helped Elect Him? | The Systemic Problems From Elite Police Units and Militarized PolicingNotes: two one-minute breaks at 26:40 and 45:59
The Culture of Violence in Elite Police Squads and the Failure of Command to Know or Want to Know What is Going on at the Street Level | George Kennan's Warning About NATO Expansion Eastward | The Rise of the Radical Right at Home and Abroad
Could the Arrest of a Top FBI Counterintelligence Agent in New York on a Russian Oligarch's Payroll be Connected to HRC's Claim that Comey Cost Her the Election? | The Understaffed National Archives Tries to Preserve the Historical Record While the $18 Billion Classification Machine Keeps Too Many Secrets and Is Slow to Declassify Them | The Doomsday Clock is Now the Closest Ever at 90 Seconds to MidnightNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:27 and 39:05
McCarthy's Revenge as he Strips Schiff and Swalwell of Their Seats on the House Intelligence Committee | India's Prime Minister Modi's Frantic Efforts to Prevent 1.4 Billion in the World's Biggest Democracy From Seeing a BBC Documentary | Although the Republicans Did Not Vote For the IRA, Green Money is Pouring Into Red StatesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 24:07 and 42:31
Another Mass Shooting in California, a Record 39th So Far This Year in the US | Assessing Russia's Anti-Putin Partisan Movement and How Much the US Should Support Russia's Armed Opposition | The Alarming Growth of Spirit Warrior ChristianityNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:05 and 40:37
Another Gift From Biden to Trump and Whether Biden Should Not Run in 2024 | Congressman Ruben Gallego's Announcement Today He is Running to Replace Sinema | Attacks on Academic Freedom by DeSantis and at Harvard and Hamline UniversitiesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 27:13 and 39:14
Why is Germany's Chancellor Scholz Stubbornly Dragging His Heels Lagging Behind German Public Opinion? | Is Russia Becoming a Case in Which a State Fails When it Loses Its Monopoly on Violence? | Inside the Wagner Group the US Just Designated as an International Criminal EnterpriseNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:55 and 40:26
A Call to the World's Billionaires at Davos to End the Age of Extreme Wealth by Starting to Pay Taxes | Germany on the Spot For Vacillating Over Sending Arms to Ukraine | Why Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk on the Right and Many on the Left Are Apologists For PutinNotes: two one-minute breaks at 13:45 and 33:48
A "Stop the Steal" Loser Shoots up the Homes of Democrats Claiming "I stand with Donald J. Trump" | The Good Faith and Credit of the US at the Mercy of Freedom Caucus Nihilists | A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today's Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV StarNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:06 and 36:38
On MLK Day: Taking on the Jan. 6 Coalition of Racists, Christian Nationalists, Anti-Government Radicals and the Freedom Caucus | Could Russia's Indifference Allow Another Genocide of Armenians? | Japan Joins in a New Arms Race in North East Asia Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:42 and 38:46
What to do When You Elect a Fictional Character and Get Stuck With an Abject Fraud | A Reporter Who has Been Covering the War in Ukraine For The Guardian Since it Started 326 Days Ago
AG Garland Appoints a Special Counsel in Bidens Classified Docs Self-Inflicted Wound | Brazen Murders in Honduras Raise Questions of How the US Is Dealing With the Root of the Migrant Problem | the Need to Engage Both Russia and Ukraine as a Long War in Ukraine Promises to Grind OnNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:35 and 39:44
Out With the Old and in With the New in the California Race to Replace Senator Feinstein | The New House and the GOP Tradition of Decrying Deficits While Running up the Debt | A Six Year Old in Virginia Shot His Teacher In What is Sadly Not Unusual in AmericaNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:42 and 40:55 and
The First Bill the House Republicans Pass Cuts Funds For the IRS to Help Tax Cheats and Run Up the Deficit | The Former Head of Human Rights Watch is Denied a Fellowship at Harvard by the Pro-Israel Thought Police | 11 of the 17 New Chairs of House Committees are Election Deniers Some of Whom Supported the InsurrectionNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:30 and 40:09
Brazil's Pro-Bolsonaro Riot Pales in Comparison to the January 6 Insurrection | McCarthy Has Been Installed by the Same Right Wing Oligarchs Behind, Trump and DeSantis | Mexico's President Calls on Our Right Wing Congress to stop Funding the Pentagon and Fund Central American and Caribbean Countries to Stop the Flow of Refugees to the USNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:26 and 41:14
Biden's Visit to the Border at El Paso on his Way to the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico | Why is the US Not Doing More to Support the Popular Revolution Underway in Iran? | An Historical Perspective and Assessment of the Price McCarthy Will Pay For His SpeakershipNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:01 and 38:39
After 10 Rounds of Voting Still No Speaker as Dysfunction Spills Over to Tomorrow's Second Anniversary of the Jan. 6 Insurrection | 50 Years From One Whistleblower Who Brought Down a President to Another He Inspired to Tell the Truth to the Jan. 6 Committee | Israel's Far-Right Government as Netanyahu Models the Authoritarian Agenda of Viktor OrbanNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:38 and 40:25
The Nihilism of Trump's Republican Party on Display in the House Today | A Twice in 100 Years Failure to Elect a Speaker With 9 Ballots in 1923 and 6 Failures So Far Today | Southwest Airlines Executives Blame the Weather for 5,000 Cancellations After Pocketing Billions of PPP Money For ThemselvesNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:38 and 39:51
With the Head of the House and the Head of Our Military Agreeing Trump is Crazy, Why Has it Taken So Long For the Truth to Come Out? | The Chaotic Election Underway For the Next House Speaker | The Violence Inherent in NFL FootballNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:44 and 38:23
How in America Liars and Cheats Can Become Presidents or be Sworn in Tomorrow as Congressmen | What Makes Dictatorships Like Russia and Iran so Durable | The Threat of White Christian Nationalism in 2023Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:43 and 41:31
The House in 2023 Crippled by Polarization and the Growing Threat of American Fascism | Are we Seeing a Replay of the 1850 Collapse of the Whig Party and the Rise of the Know-Nothings?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 29:13 and 40:38
What Patriotic Americans Can Do to Save Their Democracy From the Resurgence of Plutocratic Populism | Trumps Pressure Campaign on the DOJ and Pardons Sought by the GOPs Most Ardent Trumpsters | American Fascism Was Never Exorcised, It Was Obscured Beneath Romantic MythmakingNotes: two one-minute breaks at 17:57 and 36:43
The Climate Bill Biden Signed Into Law Today is a Major Victory | The US Fought Two Wars To Protect the Saudi Regime, Now They Are Allied With Russia and China | An Update on the COP 27 Climate Talks Underway and an Alternative Approach to the Fight Against Climate ChangeNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:07 and 42:10
How the American Majority Can Thwart the Tyranny of the Minority | Billionaires Behind Dark Money Cant Openly Sell Their Terrible Ideas to a Public That Doesnt Want Them | Having Bought the Supreme Court, American Oligarchs Are Now Trying to Buy the Legislative BranchNotes: two one-minute breaks at 20:09 and 37:52
The Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign on How We Treat the Least Among Us on the Birthday of Jesus Christ | A Warning From the Son of the Founder of the Religious Right About the Dangerous Heresy of Christian Nationalism
Ukraine's President Zelensky's Rousing Speech to a Joint Session of Congress | An Update on the Public Release of the House January 6 Committee Report | Democratic Party Leaders Need to Understand What They are Up Against and Build a Massive Grassroots Movement Against a Radicalized GOPNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:22 and 38:15
Over Objections From Republicans, the House Ways and Means Committee Make Public Trump's Taxes | Today's Visit of Ukraine's President Zelensky to the White House and the Press Conference That Followed | Is Fox News's Tucker Carlson a Russian Agent?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:55 and 40:27
More Important Than Jailing Trump, the Jan. 6 Hearings Cry Out For Us to Fix Our Fragile Electoral System That He Exploited | Just the $80 Billion Increase From Last Year's Defense Budget to Today's $858 Billion is More Than Germany, Japan, France and the UK Spend on Defense | As Putin Makes His Last Stand, We Assess the Promise and Peril of Russian DefeatNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:33 and 39:37
The House January 6 Committee Sends 4 Indictments of Trump to the DOJ | An Assessment of the Just-Concluded UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference | Putin Met Today With Lukashenko to Put the Squeeze on Belarus to Join a Russian Offensive From Ukraine's NorthNotes: two one-minute breaks at 22:06 and 42:20
3 Criminal Referrals of Trump From the Jan. 6 Committee to the DOJ Expected on Monday | The Decades-Long Far-Right Capture of the Supreme Court | How Long Can We Endure the Curse of the Manchild With Musk's Trolling and Trump's Grifting?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:41 and 42:23
Trump's "Major Announcement" Falls Flat as the White House Recalibrates, Expecting to Run Against DeSantis | Ten Years After Sandy Hook, 150 Million Guns Have Been Sold in America | The European Parliament Recognizes Stalin's Starvation of Ukrainians as Genocide
Finally the Law is Catching up to Trump and It's Happening on Many Fronts | The UN Votes to Remove Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women | The Second Africa Leaders Summit Underway in WashingtonNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:58 and 36:44
A Bipartisan Bill Introduced Today For a National Development Strategy to Rebuild Our Industry and Build Back Our Middle Class | The UN COP15 Biodiversity Conference Underway Aimed at Conserving 30% of the World's Land and Sea by 2030 | The Historic Breakthrough on Nuclear Fusion Announced TodayNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:02 and 38:57
At Saturday's Celebration of American and European Fascists and Their Sympathizers, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Called for an Armed Insurrection | How the House Was Flipped by Black and Latino Republicans Who Won Decisively Without Moderating Their MAGA Politics | The Pledge to Primary Sinema Who Bernie Sanders Says Sabotaged the Most Important Legislation and Voting RightsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:58 and 41:29
Sinema, the Saboteur of the Democratic Agenda, Pulls Another Selfish Stunt | Germany's Bizarre Coup Plot and Putin's Spy Swap Attempt of Paul Whelan For an FSB Assassin | What Biden Can do to Repair Frayed Ties With LaborNotes: two one-minute breaks at 18:56 and 28:56
More Deals With Putin Unlikely Until After a Russian Offensive in the Spring of 2023 | Why Putin Wanted the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout Back | The Dangers Facing Americans Who Travel to Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela | A Farcical Coup Attempt in Peru Which Has Had Five Presidents in Two YearsNotes: two one-minute breaks at 19:40 and 40:40
Far Right Supreme Court Justices Seem to Support a Dangerous Fringe Theory That Could Upend Our Elections | The Biden Administration Gets a Lawsuit Against MBS Dismissed in Return he Greets China's Leader With a State Visit | Why Are Top US Conservatives Giving Aid and Comfort to Putin?Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:00 and 34:36
The Trump Organization Found Guilty With Trump Accused of Explicitly Sanctioning Tax Fraud | The History of Runoff Elections in Georgia Designed to Dilute the Power of the Black Vote | The Mysterious Attacks on Our Electrical InfrastructureNotes: two one-minute breaks at 23:09 and 34:17
Our Far-Right Supreme Court Appears Sympathetic to Imposing Conservative Christian Dogma on American Life in the Name of Freedom of Speech | Trump's Call to "Terminate" the Constitution as Treason to the Democratic Way of Life | US Culpability for the Hellscape in Haiti Now Ruled by Violent Gangs Notes: two one-minute breaks at 19:50 and 36:53
The Democrats Change Their Presidential Primary Nominating Calendar for 2024 | Why has Such a Small Man as Putin Had a Disproportionate Impact on the World Stage?
The Biden White House's First State Visit by France's President Macron | Railway Workers are Denied Paid Sick Leave in Today's Senate Vote to Avert a Strike | The Plutocratic Takeover of Our Information SpaceNotes: two one-minute breaks at 21:21 and 38:52
Why the Seditious Conspiracy Convictions of the Oath Keepers' Leaders Matter | Why Americans Like Nick Fuentes and Elon Musk Admire and Support Putin | The Epidemic of Fentanyl Deaths Enabled by Social Media and the DEA's Response Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:24 and 36:54
An Update on the Heavily-Contested Georgia Runoff For the US Senate | The Decline and Possible Fall of Twitter as Musk Invites Right Wing Trolls, Anti-Vaxxers and White Supremacists Aboard His Platform | Why, Like Other Dictators, Putin Might Endure Staggering Defeats
A Veteran War Reporter Just Back From a Month in Ukraine | An Update on the Revolution in Iran Led by Brave Young Women | Progressive Strategies to Build a Democratic Majority in 2024
What We Can Be Thankful for in Spite of Hate-Filled Politics at Home and War Crimes Abroad | Making a Future We Can Be Thankful for With Daunting Challenges Ahead
Scandal at the Supreme Court Where There is No Ethical Code of Conduct | The Midterms For the Democrats Were More Like Deliverance Than Victory | Biden Should Stop Fighting For America's Soul and Start Fighting The Far Right Radicals
The Connection Between the Killings of Gay and Trans Americans and the 300 Anti-LGBTQ Republican Bills in 36 States This Year | The Special Counsel in Private on a Parallel Track With the Media and Radical Right House in Public | An Assessment of the World Cup Underway in Qatar Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:36 and 39:42
Will Indictments of Trump That Even Bill Barr Expects, be Delayed by the Appointment of a Special Counsel? | Why Did Deep Blue New York Democrats Cost Their Party the House? | How Big Banks Can Loot Pension Funds Due to Little Oversight From the Department of Labor Notes: two one-minute breaks at 25:08 and 37:29
Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Career and Legacy | Trump is Now Effectively in Control of the US House of Representatives | Convictions of Those Responsible For Downing a Malaysian Airliner Over Ukraine | The World's Population Has Skyrocketed in Less Than a Century From 2 Billion to 8 Billion
Trump's Boring Announcement and the Election Deniers Electoral Rebuke | The Work of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group of Almost 50 Nations | Inside the Black Box of Chinese Communist Leadership
The Party of Trolls Makes Fun of an 82 Year-Old Man Who Was Beaten Over the Head With a Hammer in a Home Invasion | Conspiracy Theories Have Entered the Mainstream of Republican Discourse | An Update on the Israeli Election Trending For a Netanyahu Comeback
The Author of Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind | Rishi Sunak, Britain's Third PM in Less Than Two Months | Communist Chinese Officials and Intelligence Officers Accused by AG Garland of Trying to Steal Secrets, Punish Critics and Recruit Spies Notes: two one-minute breaks at 28:04 and 43:44
The Murderous Pals MBS and Putin Jack Up the Price of Oil Ahead of the Midterms to Help Republicans and Bring Trump Back | How Putin Uses Mutually Assured Destruction as a Shield to Conduct a Conventional War in Ukraine With Impunity | The Youthful Revolt Underway in Iran Against a Hypocritical and Hated Clerical Kleptocracy
Trump Will Likely be Indicted But Not Until After the November Elections | Biden's Speech to Save American Democracy Was Too Partisan for the TV Networks | Growing up Next to the Nuclear Plant Now Threatened by Russian Occupiers
In Tonight's Speech Will Biden Go From Semi Fascist to Full on Fascist in Describing the MAGA Republicans? | Is Fascism in America's Political DNA or Has Trump Brought it Into the Mainstream? | Across the Country Infrastructure is Breaking Down From Underinvestment and Climate Change
A Russian Journalist Remembers Gorbachev | Will Russians Eventually See Gorbachev in a Kinder Light? | Internal Battles Within Russia's Security Services
In Declaring Himself President Today, Has Trump Lost it? | The Origins of MAGA Republican Radicalism | An Assessment of Ukraine's Offensive in the South and the State of US Intelligence Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:59 and 37:04
Iraq on the Brink of Civil War | Inevitably 3.3 % of Greenland's Ice Sheet Will Melt Causing a Global Sea-Level Rise of 10 Inches | The Need to Electrify Diesel-Burning Trucks That Haul Most of America's Interstate Commerce
Damning Evidence Against Trump Who Held Onto More Top Secrets Than the Trove Just Revealed in the Unsealed Affidavit | Could the Mar-a-Lago Grifter Posing as Anna de Rothschild be What the KGB Called a "Red Sparrow?" | The Scope of MAGA Voter Suppression and What Can Be Done About It
California Will Ban Gasoline Cars Aiming to be 100% All-Electric by 2035 | An Update Six Months Into a War Russia is Waging Against An Embattled Ukraine | With The Revival of the Iran Nuclear Deal Near, Could MBS Drive up the Price of Oil to Hurt Biden in November?
Is Bidens Student Debt Cancellation Enough? | How Did Students Cease Being Investments in the Future to Become Centers of Profit? | Is Charlie Crist up to the Task of Stopping Ron DeSantis?
Trump's Amateurish "Special Master" Ploy and the 300 Classified Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago | Hostile Intelligence Services Would Be Remiss in Not Targeting Mar-a-Lago | Does Trump Have the "Samson Complex" in Threatening Civil War if He is Indicted? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:32 and 43:13
The $1.6 Billion in Dark Money Leonard Leo Got to Finance Far-Right Causes | Billionaires Behind Dark Money Can't Openly Sell Their Terrible Ideas to a Public That Doesn't Want Them | Russian Organized Crime's Foothold in the US and Putin's "Street University" as a "Khuligan" Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:44 and 35:17
Amid Fears Over Ukraine's Nuclear Plant, Putin Appears Poised to Steal 20% of the Country's Electricity | Russian Organized Crime's Foothold in the US and Putin's "Street University" as a "Khuligan" | The Arrest of Mexico's Former Attorney General In Charge of the Investigation Into the Disappearance of 43 Students
Florida Judge Rules on a Unsealing the Affidavit Subject to DOJ Redaction | The Ramifications of the Trump Organization CFO's Guilty Plea | Senators Cruz and Grassley Make Outrageous Threats Against IRS Personnel Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:38 and 38:39
Unanswered Questions Swirling Around the Mar-a-Lago Document Seizure | Has the Law Finally Caught Up to Donald Trump? | Liz Cheney's Wyoming Is Now Trumpland Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:39 and 39:35
The Climate Bill Biden Signed Into Law Today is a Major Victory | Did Trump Lose His Get-Out-Of-Jail Bargaining Chip With the Seizure of the Documents? | Did Trump's Lawyers Get Hold of Sensitive Software to Undermine Elections in the Name of Protecting Them? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 23:31 and 40:41
Trump Attacks the FBI Inflaming His Base While Warning the AG "Our Country is on Fire. What Can I do to Reduce the Heat" | The Threat to Journalists in Mexico From Drug Cartels and in Nicaragua From the Ortegas
Why Did Trump Take the Top Secret Documents and For What Purpose? | An Investigation Into Reports That Trump Took Nuclear Secrets | Trump Tries to Blame the "Deep State" For His Treasonous Behavior
Merrick Garland Speaks After Trump Makes Wild Claims About the FBI Whose Office in Cincinnati Was Attacked | A Local Perspective from Miami, Florida on the Mar-a-Lago Raid
Trump Pleads the 5th as He Doubles Down on Lawlessness to Scam Donations | Other Cases Involving the Theft or Mishandling of Classified Material | Iran's Plot to Kill John Bolton and Another Unnamed Senior Official
What Did Trump Take to Mar-a-Lago He Wanted Kept Secret and What Did the FBI Find? | The Party of Law and Order in Complete Submission to Trump's Lawlessness | The Fallout From the Alex Jones Trial Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:23 and 43:58
Biden's Big Wins Defy Pundits Who Were Writing His Political Obituary | Russia's Reckless Endangerment of Europe's Biggest Civilian Nuclear Reactors | Putin's Disastrous War in Ukraine is Making Major Wars Less Likely Notes: two one-minute breaks at 22:57 and 40:50
The Trump GOP Sweep in Arizona | The Sellout Senator Sinema Auditions for a Job With Hedge Fund Billionaires | Putins Weaponization of History
Alex Jones on Trial and His Lawyer's Blunder That Will Prove a Gift to the January 6 Investigation | How the UK Has Become a Haven For Laundering Dirty Money | Many Countries Are Poised to Default as Rising Interest Rates Make Debt Servicing Harder Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:53 and 39:58
Results From Kansas Signal a Robust National Majority Against the Supreme Court and Republican Legislators | Americans Are in Favor of Settled Law Which the Right Wing Radicals on the Supreme Court Upended | "We Are the Majority: Nothing's the matter with Kansas" Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:55 and 39:40
The Drone Strike on Al Qaeda's Leader the Taliban Were Hosting in Spite of Reassurances to the Contrary | Why is Xi Jinping Making Such a Big Deal About Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan? | Why Have Efforts to Bring Trump to Justice Been So Timid and Faltering? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:34 and 42:10
The DOJ Prepares to Force Top Trump Officials to Testify About the Insurrection and Trump's Role in It | Are We In A Recession Or Entering One? | Brazil's Bolsonaro Poised to the Violently Contest an Election He's About to Lose
Manchin's Surprise Agreement to a $369 Billion Climate and Tax Increase Deal | While the Fed Frets Over Inflation, Everyone Else Worries About Recession Which the Fed's Actions Make More Likely | Orban Quotes "Pure Nazi Text Worthy of Goebbels" But CPAC Still Wants Him in Dallas Next Week Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:26 and 41:59
What is Pence's Strategy in Challenging Trump Without Condemning Him? | Pelosi's Trip to Taiwan Has Created an Unnecessary Crisis in an Already Deteriorating Relationship | The Coming Global Debt Crisis That Won't Stop at Sri Lanka Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:12 and 40:35
Pence and Trump's Dueling Speeches and Some Legislative Victories For Biden | How the Oligarchy Bought the Supreme Court to End American Democracy by Decree
Should Crime Reporters Replace Political Reporters in Covering Trump? | The Growing Influence of White Christian Nationalism in the GOP | The Pope Apologizes to Canada's Indigenous Peoples
Bannon, the Mini-Me of Grifters, Grandstands After His Conviction | American Fascism Was Never Exorcised, It Was Obscured Beneath Romantic Mythmaking | How the Corrupt and Brutal Rajapaska Family Brought Sri Lanka to Its Knees
Our Borderlands With Mexico Are Becoming a Graveyard | The Likelihood That Giuliani and Flynn Will Go To Jail and That Meadows, Clark, Eastman and Trump Will be Indicted | Did Sweden and Finland Sell Out the Kurds in Their Deal With Turkey to Enter NATO? Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:47 and 40:24
Gloria Steinem on a New Wave of Activism and Voting Beginning to Swell | State Versus State in a Fight Over Abortion Pills and Interstate Travel | A Radical Supreme Court Just Starting to Enact Its Reactionary Agenda Notes: two one-minute breaks at 17:58 and 38:27
Trump's Pressure Campaign on the DOJ and Pardon's Sought by the GOP's Most Ardent Trumpsters | If Today's Supreme Court Ruling Against Gun Safety Had Been in Effect on Jan. 6, Bullets and Bloodshed Would Have Ensued | With Originalists Imposing Government by Judiciary, Liberals Must Find an Alternative Legal Doctrine
The Face of Trump's GOP on Display at the Texas Republican Convention | Biden Will Get Nothing in Return For Bowing to the Sociopathic Crown Prince | Far Right Gains and Ruling Party Loses in French Elections
An Historian of Fascism on Trump's January 6 Fascist Coup Attempt | Could Ukraine Win Small or Win Big? | The Global Food Crisis Caused by Russian War on Ukraine
The January 6 Hearings Will Not Be Like the Watergate Hearings But It Could Expose Trump as a Criminal and a Fascist | Biden Moves to Stop One Defunct Company From Killing the US Solar Industry | A Report From Mexico on Its President's Boycott of the Summit of the Americas Notes: two one-minute breaks at 18:45 and 36:21
An Assassination Attempt on Putin in March and Cancer Treatment in April | How Much Will the American President Have To Bow Before the Entitled Saudi Thug? | Amid Pomp and Ceremony, a Majority of Young Britons Want an Elected Head of State Notes: two one-minute breaks at 20:47 and 38:02
How People Power Trumped the Murdoch Press and How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Revive Our Democracy | How After Mass Shootings, 3 Nations Radically Reduced Gun Massacres | After Relieving Debts of $5.8 Billion For 560,000 Defrauded Students, $1.7 Trillion in Student Debt Remains
Israel's Killing of a Popular Al Jazeera Journalist Roils the Palestinian Territories | Orban's Hungary is the Lone Holdout as the E.U. Moves to Ban Russia Oil | The U.S. Passes the Grim Milestone of One Million Covid Deaths
What Territorial Division of Ukraine Might Emerge From Peace Talks | Hungary's Orban Avoids the Taint of His Toxic Pal Putin Ahead of Sunday's Election | Climate Catastrophes in Australia Which is Led by a Global Warming Denier
Having Been Fought to a Standstill, Russia Now Appears Interested in Peace | Biden Calls Putin a War Criminal as Mounting Evidence in Ukraine Makes the Case | The Possibility Russia Might Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine
The Shadow of Nuclear Weapons Looming Over the Ukraine Crisis | Trump's Ripping, Burning and Toilet Flushing of Protected Documents | Trump Ally Peter Thiel's $5 Billion Deployed to Elect Trumpsters to House and Senate Notes: two one-minute breaks at 21:47 and 41:38