Bondi’s Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman
We begin with Trump’s attack on the independence of the Fed via trumped up charges his private law firm the DoJ have manufactured against Chairman Jerome Powell in an effort to lower interest rates to help Republicans in the midterms. Joining us is Robert Hockett, the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance and a Professor of Public Policy at Cornell University who has first-hand experience working at the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and continues to consult for a number of US federal, state and local legislators and regulators. He drafted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” resolution for the House of Representatives and officially advises her on economic policy. His latest books are Money from Nothing Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying About Debt and Learn to Love the Federal Reserve, Financing the Green New Deal: A Plan of Action and Renewal, and most recently Spread the Fed: Distributed Central Banking for Productive Monetary Policy.
As Violence Escalates Inside Iran, Clashes Between Saudi Arabia and the UAE Intensify
Then with a complete blackout on news emerging from Iran as anti-government demonstrations grow and repression intensifies, we will look into a clash between the other Gulf regional powers Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Joining us is Dr. Annelle Sheline, a research fellow at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked as a journalist in Egypt and Yemen. She served as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor until resigning over then President Biden’s policy on the war in Gaza. She has an article at Responsible Statecraft, “Is the Saudi-UAE rivalry heading for more violence?”
Trump’s Assault on America’s Election Systems Across Many Fronts
Then finally we speak with David Daley, the author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections, as well as the national best-seller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count, which has been credited for kickstarting the national movement to reform redistricting. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Salon, and we discuss Trump’s assault on America’s election systems across many fronts as he gears up to do whatever it takes to ensure the Democrats do not take the House and Senate in November.
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