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Why Can’t Biden and the Pentagon Control Elon Musk From Helping His Pal Putin? We begin with Secretary of State Blinken’s inability to answer a question on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Elon Musk preventing Ukraine from attacking the Russian Black Sea fleet to stop it from firing Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian civilian targets … Continued
Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation We begin with the G 20 summit in India at which China and Russia were absent and from which a lukewarm declaration on the war in Ukraine emerged. Joining us to assess the creeping authoritarianism of the Modi regime … Continued
The Impeachment Trial of the “Christian” Crook Ken Paxton Divides Texas Republicans We begin with the impeachment trial driving a wedge between MAGA Republicans and traditional conservative Republicans as Trump’s ally the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces 16 articles of impeachment in 4,000 pages of evidence. Joining us is Jeremi Suri, who holds the Mack Brown … Continued
Erdogan Fails to Revive the Black Sea Grain Deal as Ukraine Breaks Through Russian Defenses We begin with the unsuccessful effort by Turkey’s Erdogan to revive the grain deal for Russia and Ukraine to resume exports of much needed food to Africa and other states and get an update on the war as Ukraine appears … Continued
The Summer of Strikes Enters the Fall With Energized Labor Movements From Hollywood to Detroit We begin on this Labor Day as the summer of strikes is about to go into the fall with the UAW contract expiring on September 14, leading to a possible walk-out that would shut down the Big Three automakers over … Continued
What Happened to America’s Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? We begin with the question of what happened to America’s liberal majority that dominated the Supreme Court, the House and Senate for decades from the 1960’s to the 1980’s to the point where now liberals seem to be betting their success … Continued
The Political Rise of the Annoyingly Ambitious Ramaswamy Who Will Do or Say Anything to Get Ahead We begin with Trump toying with the idea of Ramaswamy as his running mate because Ramaswamy said Trump was the greatest American president for a generation. Joining us to discuss the Republican presidential candidate rising in the polls … Continued
As DeSantis Erases Black History, His Campaign Appeals to the Likes of the Young White Nazi Who Murdered 3 Blacks In Jacksonville We begin with Sunday’s vigil for the three African Americans murdered by a young white Nazi with swastikas painted on his assault rifle at which Governor Ron DeSantis was booed by the local … Continued
Today’s Pentagon Announcement to Deploy Thousands of Drones and AI Robotic Warfare Platforms Against China Within Two Years We begin with the announcement today by the Pentagon of an ambitious new program to build and deploy within two years, thousands of drones and robotic warfare platforms operating on AI that will counter China’s defenses along … Continued
How NASA and the DoD Defer to Elon Musk Who Holds Ukraine’s Fate in His Hands While Buying What Putin is Selling We begin with revelations in The New Yorker that Elon Musk has enormous leverage over the U.S. government, NASA, the Department of Defense and the country of Ukraine whose fate in this war … Continued
