Flashpoints

We Look at an Impending Ground Invasion of Iran by Tens of Thousands of US Troops put on Combat Alert

On today’s show: We return to the state of the unhoused and homelessness, particularly Veterans in the US. We look at this in the context of an impending ground invasion of Iran by 10s of thousands of US troops put on combat alert by the Trump administration. Keith McHenry, the founder of Food Not Bombs joins us. Then we return to Venezuela to discuss how people there are viewing the kangaroo court that has begun proceedings against kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and First lady Celia Flores in New York. A federal judge rejected Maduro’s request to throw out drug trafficking charges against him despite a clear lack of prima facie and hard evidence to bolster the Trump administration’s accusations.

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