Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA’s Deadly War on “Woke” Women
We begin with the video released by VP Vance who apparently thought it was exculpatory, taken by the ICE murderer who filmed his victim, Renee Good, a 37 year-old mother of three whose last words to him were “I’m not mad at you” before she was shot three times in the face after which the ICE shooter is heard cursing, “F***ing bitch.” Joining us to discuss the wider war on so-called “woke” women by Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA is Karen Greenberg, a noted expert and author on national security. She is a Future Security Fellow at New America, a Senior Research Fellow at NYU Law School’s Reiss Center on Law and Security and the co-host of the SpyTalk podcast. Her books include Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump and she has an article we discuss at The Nation, “Trump’s War on Women Somehow Got Worse.”
Is Iran’s Cruel and Corrupt Clerical Government About to Fall?
Then, with Israel on alert expecting a US strike of Iran, we examine whether the latest eruption of protest against Iran’s corrupt and cruel clerical government will result in regime change and speak with Mohsen Milani, the Executive Director of the World Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. Professor Milani has served as a fellow at Harvard, Oxford, and Foscari University in Italy and is the author of The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. His latest book is Iran’s Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East.
As Trump Effortlessly Destroys America, a New Cold War Emerges
Then finally we assess why Trump is effortlessly destroying America as a new Cold War emerges and speak with Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington chair in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is the author of two dozen books including The Politics of Heroin, In the Shadows of the American Century and To Govern the Globe. His latest book, just out, is Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage.
This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sunday.