Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland Amid Mafia-like Threats From Trump
We begin with the White House meeting today between VP Vance and Secretary of State Rubio and the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland which was preceded by Mafia threats from Trump that the Danes could do it the easy way or the hard way because one way or another, Trump is going to own Greenland. Joining us from Copenhagen is Mikkel Runge Olesen, a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies where he specializes in Arctic security and transatlantic relations.
Unconfirmed Reports of an Off Ramp For Trump if Iran Stops the Killings and Delays Executions
Then with Trump poised to bomb Iran amid unconfirmed reports that the Iranian regime has offered Trump an off ramp by stopping the killings and delaying executions, we speak with Dr. Nancy Okail, President & CEO of the Center for International Policy. A scholar and advocate of human rights, justice, peace and equity, she has over 20 years of experience working on these issues across the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as globally, and she provides policy recommendations to senior government officials in the U.S. and Europe. We discuss her article at The New Republic, “Military Intervention Will Not Liberate the Iranian People.“
The Return of the Fascist Troll Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans and is About to Buy the Next
Then finally, we assess the damage about to be done by the return of the fascist troll who, as the world’s richest man-child, bought the last election for the Republicans and is about to buy the next and speak with Jacob Silverman, a contributing writer for The New Republic and a contributing editor for The Baffler, covering tech and national security. He is the co-author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, which was a New York Times bestseller co-authored with Ben MacKenzie and his latest is Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. He blogs on Substack at jacobsilverman.com and we discuss his article at The Nation, “How Elon Musk Turned Grok Into a Pedo Chatbot: The tech oligarch sets a new low—for now—in the degeneration of online discourse.”