Part I. The U.S. Media Coverage of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis
Guest: Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” and “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State” (just published in a new edition as a free e-book at MadeLoveGotWar.org). He was a Bernie Sanders delegate from California to the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions.
Part II. The Ancient Forms of Government & The the Creation of the U.S. Constitution
Guest: Thomas E. Ricks is a journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is the author of the latest book, First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country.