After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Believe the Trump Administration As Much As Can We Believe Anything Putin Says?
We begin with another American citizen murdered in Minneapolis by US Border Patrol officers who shot him 10 times after he was piled on and disarmed of his licensed pistol which he never had in his hand. We recorded this interview on Saturday amid massive demonstrations against ICE and shutdowns and strikes just after the shooting happened and before the sick and cynical lies poured out of DHS Secretary Noem in an orchestrated attempt by this criminal administration to have us not believe our eyes and accept the insult that government thugs we are paying for can kill us when they please and it’s all the fault of Democrats. Joining us is Radley Balko, an award-winning independent investigative journalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. He formerly worked for The Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Reason magazine, and has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. His books include Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, and we discuss his articles at The New Republic, “Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here” and at The New York Times, “I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.”
Trump’s Brutal Demolition of the World Order
Then we move from the domestic terrorism waged on American citizens by the Trump administration to the international disaster of Trump’s thuggish foreign policy and speak with our second guest who wrote that “we are drifting toward a world that looks far less like the liberal universalism of 1945 and far more like the balance-of-power order of the late 19th century: spheres of influence, managed rivalry, and transactional diplomacy. The United States will dominate the Western Hemisphere; China will dominate the Asia-Pacific; Russia will contest Europe’s eastern frontier. International law will persist, but as rhetoric rather than restraint. There are no obvious winners in this world. Economic growth will fall as trade walls rise. Border-blind threats—to health, to the environment, to financial stability—will rise as cooperation falls and wars will be quicker to start and harder to end.” Joining us is Benn Steil, director of international economics and the historian in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the author of Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order and The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. His latest book is The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century and we discuss his article at The Dispatch “The Paradox America Can No Longer Sustain.”
This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sunday.