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        <description>Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. 
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A radio program featuring international and national news, expert guests, policy makers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.&#13;
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Five days a week,  Background Briefing asks knowledgeable and thoughtful experts to explain the complexities behind major news stories in long-format interviews.&#13;
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Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media.&#13;
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The program airs Monday-Thursday at 5:00 PM Pacific Time and on Sundays from 11:00 to Noon.&#13;
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Broadcast live on http://www.kpfk.org&#13;
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IAN MASTERS:&#13;
Ian Masters is an Australian-born and BBC-trained journalist and filmmaker. He has made a career of asking provocative questions of the most informed thinkers in order to bring light to the day's most important news stories. Since 1980 his Sunday program, Background Briefing, has aired on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. In 2009, the program expanded to five days each week.&#13;
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In addition to his work on radio, Ian Masters hosts monthly forums at Los Angeles's UCLA/Hammer Museum.  The Hammer Forum invites prominent and provocative guests to address relevant issues of public concern in conversation with each other and the public. All events are free and open to the public. Videocasts are available at http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/programs/cat/7.</itunes:summary><itunes:category text="News &amp; Politics"/><itunes:category text="Science &amp; Medicine"><itunes:category text="Social Sciences"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="History"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Business"><itunes:category text="Business News"/></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>robert@backgroundbriefing.org</itunes:email><itunes:name>Ian Masters</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
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      <title>April 15, 2026 - Paul Pillar | Meghan Schneider | Harold Meyerson</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Could a Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon Lead to an Iran-US Agreement to End the War? | On Tax Day Working And Middle Class Americans Do Their Patriotic Duty While the Richest Among Us Take Their Money and Run | The Delusional Democrats Crowding Out the Governor's Race Make it Likely a MAGA Republican Will be California's Next Governor
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      <title>April 14, 2026  - Daniel Immerwahr | Jamie Martin | Maziar Behrooz</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Trump Administration's Explanation of Why We Are At War With Iran..."We're America Bitches" | The History of Blockades and Their Impact on Global Trade | The State of Opposition Movements Against Iran's Brutal Theocracy  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Trump Administration's Explanation of Why We …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 13, 2026  - Robert Pape | James Carroll</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Escalation Trap Trump Set For Himself Deepens With the Naval Blockade and a Possible Use of a Nuclear Weapon on Esfahan | Trump Depicts Himself As Jesus While Disrespecting the Pope and 1.4 Billion Catholics
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      <title>April 12, 2026 - Robert Malley | David Broder | Nina Burleigh</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Experienced Negotiator With Iran on Vance's Failure to Make a Quick Deal With an Enemy of 47 Years | An Update on Hungary's Election That Has Trump and Putin Campaigning For Orban | Threatening to Bring Down the Trump Regime, Melania's Former Friend Warns Her "I Will Tear Down the Entire System - Be Careful Bitch...I will Take Legal Action Against Your Pedophile Husband"
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      <itunes:subtitle>An Experienced Negotiator With Iran on Vance's Fa…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 9, 2026 - Hussein Banai | Anthea Butler | James Galbraith</title>
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      <itunes:summary>In Desperation, Our Self-Serving and Imbecilic President Has Strengthened a Brutal Regime and Elevated Its Global Position | Will America's Defeat Liberate It From a Broken Imperial Model? | The Pentagon and Trump's War on Pope Leo</itunes:summary>
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      <title>April 8, 2026 - Nicholas Heras | Bill Scher | Adam Green</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Both the Arsonist and the Fire Brigade, Trump Celebrates His Ceasefire Deal as "A Total Victory 100%" While Iran Says They Dealt the Enemy "A Crushing Defeat" | Questions of Trump's Competence, Morality, Credibility and Sanity Arise | The Cynical Tactics Big Money Now Uses to Attack Progressive Democratic Candidates
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      <itunes:subtitle>Both the Arsonist and the Fire Brigade, Trump Cel…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 6, 2026  - Adam Weinstein | Dr. Mohsen Sazegara</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Long and Loony Press Conference and How He Has Not "Decimated" Iran's Anti-Aircraft Capacity | A Founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps on What Is Not Being Done to Free Iranians From Their Brutal Theocratic Government 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Long and Loony Press Conference and How H…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 5, 2026 - Rosemary Kelanic | Moira Donegan | Alex Lawson</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's War Has Turned the Strait of Hormuz Into an Iranian Tollbooth With China the Winner | "You're Fired" Pam Bondi and Replaced by an Even Worse Todd Blanche | Trump Told the Truth For Once Trashing Childcare, Medicare and Medicaid as "Scams" With the Military the Only Thing We Have to Take Care Of 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's War Has Turned the Strait of Hormuz Into …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 2, 2026 - Corey Brettschneider | Kian Tajbakhsh | Leah Litman</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>In Three Weeks Trump Will Declare Victory Without Securing a Victory, Leaving Someone Else to Open the Strait of Hormuz | How Do Iranians Feel About Trump Bombing Them "Back to the Stone Age Where They Belong"? | With Trump in the Front Row, the Supreme Court's Right Wing Justices Express Skepticism of Overturning Birthright Citizenship
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      <itunes:subtitle>In Three Weeks Trump Will Declare Victory Without…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 1, 2026  - Jacob Heilbrunn | Joseph Cirincione | David Daley</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Poised to Announce Victory in a Surrender of His War on Iran | The Origins of Trump's war on Iran | How Serious is An Executive Order That Has Trump Deciding Who Gets to Vote By Mail? 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Poised to Announce Victory in a Surrender o…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump Poised to Announce Victory in a Surrender of His War on Iran | The Origins of Trump's war on Iran | How Serious is An Executive Order That Has Trump Deciding Who Gets to Vote By Mail? 
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      <title>March 31, 2026 - Robert Kuttner | Jon Hoffman | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Will Either Double Down or Cut and Run Leaving Us, Our Allies and the Iranian People So Much Worse Off | Trump's Strategic Failure In Iran | Trump's War is Holding Him Hostage
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      <title>March 29, 2026 - Lance Dodes | Richard Parker | Matt Angle</title>
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      <title>March 26, 2026 - Jeremi Suri | William Hartung | Frank Dikötter</title>
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      <title>March 25, 2026 - Aslı Bâli | Kim Lane Scheppele | Tom Freston</title>
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      <title>March 24, 2026  - Ori Goldberg | Nina Burleigh</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Life in Bomb Shelters Under Bombardment in a War 90% of Israelis Support | An Update on the Story Trump Has Waged a War to Distract Us From 
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      <title>March 23, 2026  - Asher Kaufman | Sarah Leah Whitson | Jamie Court</title>
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      <title>March 22, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Olga Lautman | Nader Hashemi</title>
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      <title>March 19, 2026  - David Hearst | Harrison Mann | Mike Lofgren</title>
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      <title>March 18, 2026  - David Adler | Steven Simon</title>
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      <title>March 17, 2026 - Tom Mockaitis | Christine Fair | Luis Martinez-Fernandez</title>
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      <title>March 16, 2026 - Joshua Shifrinson | Juan Cole | Adele Stan</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Although the US Navy Won't Go Into the Gulf, Trum…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 15, 2026 - Emma Ashford | Dr. Allen Frances | Justin Levitt</title>
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      <title>March 12, 2026 - William LeoGrande | Mike Lofgren | Karen Hao</title>
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      <title>March 11, 2026 - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | Jonathan Taplin | Jacob Heilbrunn</title>
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      <title>March 10, 2026 - Jonathan Guyer | Dr. Annelle Sheline | Jennifer Kavanaugh</title>
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      <title>March 9, 2026  - Nicholas Heras | Kian Tajbakhsh | Oona Hathaway</title>
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      <title>March 8, 2026 - Ken Klippenstein | Paul Pillar | Gabby Birenbaum</title>
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      <title>March 5, 2026 - Matthew Petti | Stephen Wertheim | Robert Baer</title>
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      <title>March 4, 2026 - John Nichols | Wladimir van Wilgenburg | Mohsen Milani</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Could Kristi Noem be the First in the Trump Kakistocracy's Clown Car Cabinet to be Impeached? | A Report From Iraqi Kurdistan On the CIA Arming Kurdish Iranian Militias | The Anointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran's New Supreme Leader
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      <title>March 3, 2026 - Sidney Blumenthal | Sina Toossi | Bruce Schneier</title>
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      <title>March 2, 2026 - Thanassis Cambanis | Daryl Kimball | Robert Pape</title>
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      <title>March 1, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Nina Burleigh | Jessica Gonzlez</title>
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      <title>February 25, 2026 - Rick Wilson | Angela Stent | Nick Schwellenbach</title>
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      <title>February 24, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Eric Blanc</title>
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      <title>February 23, 2026 - Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Robert Creamer | Josh Gerstein</title>
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      <title>February 22, 2026 - Justin Wolfers | David Cay Johnston | Alexander Cooley</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Tariff Meltdown and What the Supreme Court Ruling Does and Doesn't Do | In a Plea Deal Could Former Prince Andrew Implicate Others Including Trump? | "The Age of Kleptocracy: Geopolitical Power, Private Gain"
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      <title>February 19, 2026 - Toby Miller | Thomas Zeitzoff</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Justice With the Arrest of the Former Prince Andrew in the UK But In Contrast, a Coverup by the Consiglieres at DoJ Protecting the Mob Boss in the Oval Office | Will the Environmental Movement Become More Radical as Trump Kills Off Efforts to Curb Global Warming?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Justice With the Arrest of the Former Prince Andr…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 18, 2026 - Aziz Huq | Lauren Prather | Victor Pickard</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Breathtaking and Brazen Corruption of Trump and His Family As They Shamelessly Monetize the Presidency | Thanks to Trump, Trust In Elections is Cratering As Trump Claims They're Rigged, Unless He Happens to Win | Why the US Media is in Crisis and How to Rescue It
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Breathtaking and Brazen Corruption of Trump a…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 17, 2026  - Rabbi Steven Jacobs | Paul Farhi | Sasha Abramsky</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Close Friend Who Worked With Jesse Jackson for 40 Years On Jesse's Fight to Give Peace a Chance | The Bloodbath at The Washington Post and Censorship at CBS | The Trump/Republican Crackup Has Begun 
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Close Friend Who Worked With Jesse Jackson for …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 16, 2026  - Jacob Heilbrunn | Stuart Schrader | Jonathan Handel</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Contrast between AOC and Rubio's Reception in Munich and the Possibility They Will be Running Against Each Other For President | How Trump's Top-Down Fascism Could Meld With Bottom Up Authoritarianism From America's Police Forces and Police Unions | An AI Video Has Hollywood Alarmed They Could Be Replaced By AI as Wall Street Pours Billions Into AI and Tech Bros Buy Up the Media 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Contrast between AOC and Rubio's Reception in…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 15, 2026 - Michael Bustamente | Charles Kupchan | Michael Mann</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump and Rubio Turn the Screws of Collective Punishment on the Cuban People | Rubio Makes Nice in Munich Without One Word About Ukraine | Trump Issues a Death Sentence on Our Children, Grandchildren and the Planet With His Payoff to the Fossil Fuel Industry
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      <title>February 12, 2026 - Desirée Cormier Smith | Mark Fitzpatrick | Lisa Graves</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Today's Senate Hearing Grills a White Supremacist, Racist, Homophobic Antisemite Trump Nominated to Interact With the UN and international Organizations | Will Trump's Yearning For a Nobel Prize Overwhelm Netanyahu's Opposition to Making a Nuclear Deal With Iran? | With a Lawless DoJ Acting as Trump's Crooked Law Firm, How Do We Protect and Preserve the Rule of Law?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Today's Senate Hearing Grills a White Supremacist…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 11, 2026 - Adam Klasfeld | David Daley | Charles Derber</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Has Finally Found His Roy Cohn in the Disgraceful and Corrupt AG Pam Bondi | The Trump and Republican Plan to Prevent a Blowout Electoral Loss in November: The SAVE Act | How to Fight the Oligarchy and Reclaim America With Positive Populism
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Has Finally Found His Roy Cohn in the Disgr…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 10, 2026  - Stephen Marche | Lindsay Koshgarian | Laura Field</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Demented Rant Warning Canada that China Will Terminate ALL Ice Hockey and Eliminate the Stanley Cup Suggests We are Nearing the 25th Amendment | The Heads of ICE and CBP in the Hot Seat Today Before the House Homeland Security Committee | Why Are So-Called MAGA Intellectuals With All The Power and Billionaire Money, So Angry? 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Demented Rant Warning Canada that China W…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Demented Rant Warning Canada that China Will Terminate ALL Ice Hockey and Eliminate the Stanley Cup Suggests We are Nearing the 25th Amendment | The Heads of ICE and CBP in the Hot Seat Today Before the House Homeland Security Committee | Why Are So-Called MAGA Intellectuals With All The Power and Billionaire Money, So Angry? 
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      <title>February 9, 2026 - Luis Martinez-Fernandez | Reece Jones | Stephen Walt</title>
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      <itunes:summary>America's Cultural/Political Divide on Display at the Super Bowl's Halftime With a Wildly Popular and Joyous Bad Bunny Versus a Washed Up Right Wing MAGA Relic Kid Rock | The History of the Border Patrol's Murderous Impunity | "The Predatory Hegemon: How Trump Wields American Power." 
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      <title>February 8, 2026 - Gregory Treverton | Aziz Rana</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The DNI Gabbard Covered up an NSA Intercept of Someone Close to Trump Colluding With Foreign Intelligence | How Trump’s Break With the Liberal International Order Was Shaped by Decades of US Policy in the Middle East
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      <itunes:subtitle>The DNI Gabbard Covered up an NSA Intercept of So…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 5, 2026 - Scott Horton | Jon Wolfsthal | Daryl Kimball</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Sit on the Most Top Secret Whistleblower Complaint the IC's IG Determined Required "Urgent Concern" For 8 Months? | The Last and Only Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Between the U.S. and Russia Ended Today | Trump's Delusional and Idiotic Call to Resume Nuclear Testing
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why Did Tulsi Gabbard Sit on the Most Top Secret …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 4, 2026 - Jacob Grumbach | Jon Hoffman | Mitchell Plitnick</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Has Brought About the End of Reactionary Centrism in the Democratic Party | The On and Off Again and On Again Talks Between the US and Iran | The US Occupation of Gaza Has Begun With Trump in Charge Into the Future
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Has Brought About the End of Reactionary Ce…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump Has Brought About the End of Reactionary Centrism in the Democratic Party | The On and Off Again and On Again Talks Between the US and Iran | The US Occupation of Gaza Has Begun With Trump in Charge Into the Future
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      <title>February 3, 2026  - Robert Kuttner | Emma Winger | Julia Azari</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Today's House Votes to Fund the Government With Only 2 Weeks of Funding For DHS During Which Democrats Will Work to Reign in ICE | We are Funding the Warehousing of Immigrants in a Form of Torture To Make Them So Miserable They'll Waive Their Rights and be Deported | The Victimhood Behind Trump's Backlash Presidency  
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      <itunes:subtitle>Today's House Votes to Fund the Government With O…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Today's House Votes to Fund the Government With Only 2 Weeks of Funding For DHS During Which Democrats Will Work to Reign in ICE | We are Funding the Warehousing of Immigrants in a Form of Torture To Make Them So Miserable They'll Waive Their Rights and be Deported | The Victimhood Behind Trump's Backlash Presidency  
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      <title>February 2, 2026 - Craig Unger | Ari Berman | Robert Alexander</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Latest Release of the Epstein Files Contain 9,629 References to Moscow | Compromised DNI Gabbard Seizes Voter Rolls in Georgia as Trump's Plans to Rig Midterms Escalate | Haitians in Springfield Ohio Already Demonized by VP Vance are About to Lose Their Temporary Protected Status
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Latest Release of the Epstein Files Contain 9…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Latest Release of the Epstein Files Contain 9,629 References to Moscow | Compromised DNI Gabbard Seizes Voter Rolls in Georgia as Trump's Plans to Rig Midterms Escalate | Haitians in Springfield Ohio Already Demonized by VP Vance are About to Lose Their Temporary Protected Status
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      <title>February 1, 2026 - Jean Guerrero | Jeet Heer | Anne Nelson</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>How Trump's Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the New President of
Honduras Reveals the Real Agenda Behind Trump and Miller's Immigration
Cruelty | Tulsi Gabbard's Seizure of the 2020 Ballots in Georgia is About
Rigging the 2026 Election | Bondi's Arrest of Don Lemon as a Wakeup Call to All Journalists and
Media Owners
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      <itunes:subtitle>How Trump's Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How Trump's Working With MS-13 To Help Elect the New President of
Honduras Reveals the Real Agenda Behind Trump and Miller's Immigration
Cruelty | Tulsi Gabbard's Seizure of the 2020 Ballots in Georgia is About
Rigging the 2026 Election | Bondi's Arrest of Don Lemon as a Wakeup Call to All Journalists and
Media Owners
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      <title>January 29 - Bruce Fein | Nina Burleigh | Lila Hassan</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administration is Violating the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth Amendments | Bezos's $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania's Early "Career" as a Naked Model and Friend of Epstein | Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administr…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Terrorising Minnesota, the Trump/Miller Administration is Violating the First, Second, Fourth and Tenth Amendments | Bezos's $75 Million Bribe That Avoids Melania's Early "Career" as a Naked Model and Friend of Epstein | Armed and Untouchable: The Deadly History of ICE</description>
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      <title>January 28, 2026 - Dean Baker | Brad Carson | David Faris</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump Tanks the Dollar After the World Saw a Demented Fool at Davos Rambling Like a Lunatic | The Fight Over State Preemption As Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund a War Chest to Defeat AI Regulation | The Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Tanks the Dollar After the World Saw a Deme…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump Tanks the Dollar After the World Saw a Demented Fool at Davos Rambling Like a Lunatic | The Fight Over State Preemption As Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund a War Chest to Defeat AI Regulation | The Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror</description>
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      <title>January 27, 2026 - Dr. Jessie Daniels | Richard Hasen | Joshua Horwitz</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:25</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Influence of Nazi Slogans and White Supremacist Anthems Inside Trump's White House, DHS and Department of Labor | AG Bondi's Attempt to Extort Voter Rolls From Minnesota to End ICE Terror | The Government's Killing of an American Citizen With a Concealed Carry Permit Has Rattled NRA and Gun Rights Advocates  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Influence of Nazi Slogans and White Supremaci…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Influence of Nazi Slogans and White Supremacist Anthems Inside Trump's White House, DHS and Department of Labor | AG Bondi's Attempt to Extort Voter Rolls From Minnesota to End ICE Terror | The Government's Killing of an American Citizen With a Concealed Carry Permit Has Rattled NRA and Gun Rights Advocates  
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      <title>January 26, 2026 - Tom Nolan | Benjamin Carter Hett | Nicholas Heras</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:59:00</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>The Trickle Down Effect of Trump's Lawlessness and How Ice is Undermining Professional Policing | Similarities Between Hitler's Brown Shirts and Trump's ICE | The Possibility of a Renewed U.S./Israeli Strike on Iran Now That Trump's "Armada" is in Place
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Trickle Down Effect of Trump's Lawlessness an…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Trickle Down Effect of Trump's Lawlessness and How Ice is Undermining Professional Policing | Similarities Between Hitler's Brown Shirts and Trump's ICE | The Possibility of a Renewed U.S./Israeli Strike on Iran Now That Trump's "Armada" is in Place
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      <title>January 25, 2026 - Radley Balko | Benn Steil</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2026_01_25full-3</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:58:45</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Believe the Trump Administration As Much As Can We Believe Anything Putin Says? | Trump's Brutal Demolition of the World Order 
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Bel…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Another Shooting in Minneapolis, Can We Believe the Trump Administration As Much As Can We Believe Anything Putin Says? | Trump's Brutal Demolition of the World Order 
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      <title>January 22, 2026 - Lisa Graves | Joseph Lowndes | Will Bunch</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2026_01_22full-4</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:04</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Republicans Try to Discredit Jack Smith's Testimony While Trump Calls Him "A Deranged Animal" But Smith Made Clear He Will Not Be Intimidated | The Same Conditions That Dragged Down Biden To Defeat Are Now Weighing On Trump | House and Senate Democratic Leaders Appear Unwilling to Go To the Mat to Reform ICE 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Republicans Try to Discredit Jack Smith's Testimo…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Republicans Try to Discredit Jack Smith's Testimony While Trump Calls Him "A Deranged Animal" But Smith Made Clear He Will Not Be Intimidated | The Same Conditions That Dragged Down Biden To Defeat Are Now Weighing On Trump | House and Senate Democratic Leaders Appear Unwilling to Go To the Mat to Reform ICE 
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      <title>January 21, 2026 | David Cay Johnston | Christian Leuprecht | Jonathan Taplin</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-21-2026-david-cay-johnston-christian-leuprecht-jonathan-taplin-1</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:27</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>After Piling on About Biden's Mental Acuity, the Press is Mostly Silent on Trump's Obvious Madness | The Country's Closest Friend and Neighbor is Making Precautionary Military Plans Against a U.S. Invasion Ordered by Trump | Will the Counterculture Led By Artists Rise Again?</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>After Piling on About Biden's Mental Acuity, the …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Piling on About Biden's Mental Acuity, the Press is Mostly Silent on Trump's Obvious Madness | The Country's Closest Friend and Neighbor is Making Precautionary Military Plans Against a U.S. Invasion Ordered by Trump | Will the Counterculture Led By Artists Rise Again?</description>
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      <title>January 20, 2026 - Mae Ngai | Paul Pillar | Joshua Landis</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:23</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>On the One Year Anniversary of the Return of Trump On How He Has Weaponized Immigration | Trump's Billion Dollar a Head Board of Peace and the Reality on the Ground in Gaza | The Latest Sellout of the Kurds With Trump Backing the New Syrian Government as it Releases ISIS Prisoners  
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      <itunes:subtitle>On the One Year Anniversary of the Return of Trum…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>On the One Year Anniversary of the Return of Trump On How He Has Weaponized Immigration | Trump's Billion Dollar a Head Board of Peace and the Reality on the Ground in Gaza | The Latest Sellout of the Kurds With Trump Backing the New Syrian Government as it Releases ISIS Prisoners  
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      <title>January 19, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | Rebecca Riddell | Justin Elliott</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Caligula Moment of the Madman in the Oval Office Waging War Against Half of Our Country and Our Allies Abroad | The Latest Report From Oxfam "Resisting the Rule of The Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power" | Corruption Inside DHS and ICE Awash With $170 Billion to Wage War Against Their Fellow Americans
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Caligula Moment of the Madman in the Oval Off…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Caligula Moment of the Madman in the Oval Office Waging War Against Half of Our Country and Our Allies Abroad | The Latest Report From Oxfam "Resisting the Rule of The Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power" | Corruption Inside DHS and ICE Awash With $170 Billion to Wage War Against Their Fellow Americans
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      <title>January 15, 2026 - Aaron Regunberg | Dr. Louisse Shelley | Andrew Miller</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Resource Imperialism and Imperial Racketeering | The "Putinization" of American Foreign Policy | Israel and Gulf Allies Urged Trump to Pause Bombing Iran as US Naval Assets Head For the Region
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Resource Imperialism and Imperial Rackete…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 14, 2026 - Mikkel Runge Olesen | Dr. Nancy Okail | Jacob SilvermN</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland Amid Mafia-like Threats From Trump | Unconfirmed Reports of an Off Ramp For Trump if Iran Stops the Killings and Delays Executions | The Return of the Fascist Troll Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans and is About to Buy the Next
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      <itunes:subtitle>Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers o…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Vance and Rubio Meet With the Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Greenland Amid Mafia-like Threats From Trump | Unconfirmed Reports of an Off Ramp For Trump if Iran Stops the Killings and Delays Executions | The Return of the Fascist Troll Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans and is About to Buy the Next
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      <title>January 13, 2026 - Emmanuel Mauleón | Ray Takeyh | Mark Fitzpatrick</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The DoJ Goes After the Victims Wife While Exonerating the ICE Shooter Who Murdered Renee Good | With Over 3,000 Killed By the Iranian Regime, Will Trump Come to The People's Rescue as Promised? | Can the Europeans and the UN With Its R2P (Responsibility to Protect) Help to Stop the Regime's Killing of Its Own People?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The DoJ Goes After the Victims Wife While Exonera…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The DoJ Goes After the Victims Wife While Exonerating the ICE Shooter Who Murdered Renee Good | With Over 3,000 Killed By the Iranian Regime, Will Trump Come to The People's Rescue as Promised? | Can the Europeans and the UN With Its R2P (Responsibility to Protect) Help to Stop the Regime's Killing of Its Own People?
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      <title>January 12, 2026 - Robert Hockett | Annelle Sheline | David Daley</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Bondi's Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman | As Violence Escalates Inside Iran, Clashes Between Saudi Arabia and the UAE Intensify | Trump's Assault on America's Election Systems Across Many Fronts
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      <itunes:subtitle>Bondi's Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Bondi's Department of Crime Manufactures Trumped Up Charges Against The Fed Chairman | As Violence Escalates Inside Iran, Clashes Between Saudi Arabia and the UAE Intensify | Trump's Assault on America's Election Systems Across Many Fronts
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      <title>January 11, 2026 - Karen Greenberg | Mohsen Milani | Alfred McCoy</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA's Deadly War on "Woke" Women | Is Iran's Cruel and Corrupt Clerical Government About to Fall? | As Trump Effortlessly Destroys America, a New Cold War Emerges
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump, Vance, Hegseth and MAGA's Deadly War on "W…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 8, 2026 - David Schultz | Alejandro Velasco | Ryan Cooper</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Government Goon Executes the Kind of Person MAGA Hates, a Liberal White Woman | Did The Venezuelan Leadership Sacrifice Maduro and His Cuban Protectors in A Secret Deal With Trump and Rubio? | Trying to Make Sense of Trump's Belligerent Bluster Over Greenland
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Government Goon Executes the Kind of Pers…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 7, 2026 - Ana Pottratz Acosta | Dr. Allen Frances | Oona Hathaway</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>One Of Trump and Miller's ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis | No Tyrant in History Had the Power to Destroy Like Trump Has at His Fingertip | A Former Special Counsel to the DOD's General Counsel on Trump's Great Unravelling of International Law 
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      <itunes:subtitle>One Of Trump and Miller's ICE Thugs Just Executed…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>One Of Trump and Miller's ICE Thugs Just Executed a 37 Year-Old Woman, a Legal Observer, in Minneapolis | No Tyrant in History Had the Power to Destroy Like Trump Has at His Fingertip | A Former Special Counsel to the DOD's General Counsel on Trump's Great Unravelling of International Law 
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      <title>January 6, 2026 - Spencer Sunshine | Miguel Tinker Salas | Stephen Wertheim</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6 | Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuelan and There in More Misery to Come | Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Annivers…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Republicans Try to Bury the Truth on the Anniversary of January 6 | Trump Has Already Made Life More Miserable For Venezuelan and There in More Misery to Come | Trump and Miller Espouse Imperialism as American Fascism is on the March 
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      <title>January 5, 2026 - Robert Pape | Jacob Heilbrunn | Adele Stan</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert's Warning That "Venezuela is Primed For Resistance...Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming..." | Is Trump, Who Does Not Believe in Democracy, Replacing One Dictator With Another? | In Two Months Trump Will be Erecting Another Monument to Himself
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert's Warning Th…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Terrorism and Guerrilla War Expert's Warning That "Venezuela is Primed For Resistance...Far Worse Than Iraq. Chaos is Coming..." | Is Trump, Who Does Not Believe in Democracy, Replacing One Dictator With Another? | In Two Months Trump Will be Erecting Another Monument to Himself
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      <title>January 4, 2026 - David Smilde | Francisco Mondaldi | Nader Hashemi</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil But Support Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador Whose Authoritarian Leaders Like Him and Keep on Maduro's VP While Spurning the Nobel Prize-Winning Leader of Venezuela's Opposition | Trump's Venezuela Oil Grab to Recover "Stolen" U.S. Oil and Then Pump Baby Pump |"Locked And Loaded": Trump Vows to Rescue Iranian Demonstrators From a Brutal Government Whose Economy is Cratering From U.S. Sanctions
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Cana…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Monroe Doctrine: Threaten Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil But Support Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras and Ecuador Whose Authoritarian Leaders Like Him and Keep on Maduro's VP While Spurning the Nobel Prize-Winning Leader of Venezuela's Opposition | Trump's Venezuela Oil Grab to Recover "Stolen" U.S. Oil and Then Pump Baby Pump |"Locked And Loaded": Trump Vows to Rescue Iranian Demonstrators From a Brutal Government Whose Economy is Cratering From U.S. Sanctions
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      <title>January 1, 2026 - Richard Parker | John Nichols</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 | Could 2026 Be the Beginning of the End of Trump’s Reign of Ruin?
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 | Could 2026 Be the Beg…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Hopeful Welcome to 2026 | Could 2026 Be the Beginning of the End of Trump’s Reign of Ruin?
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      <title>December 31, 2025  - Lisa Graves | Aram Shabanian</title>
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An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unrepresentative Supreme Court | The Ongoing War in Ukraine As It Evolved This Year 
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An Interview on the Increasing Power of the Unre…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 30, 2025  - Olga Lautman | Luke Goldstein | Anand Giridharadas</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face | How Google and Big Tech Are Trying to Stop States From Regulating AI | The Enduring Scandal That Above All His Other Outrages, Might Bring Trump Down 
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      <title>December 29, 2025  - Nina Burleigh | Robert Young Pelton | Rachel VanLandingham</title>
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      <itunes:summary>We continue to look back on 2025 by reviewing some of our favorite interviews from November and early December:
More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real Smoking Gun Remains Epsteins Ties to Israeli Intelligence | An Investigation Into the CIA-Run Kill Or Capture Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trumps Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War 
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      <itunes:subtitle>We continue to look back on 2025 by reviewing som…</itunes:subtitle>
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More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real Smoking Gun Remains Epsteins Ties to Israeli Intelligence | An Investigation Into the CIA-Run Kill Or Capture Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trumps Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War 
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      <title>December 28, 2025 - Sean Wilentz | David Adler | Ken Klippenstein</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A 2025 Retrospective - We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | An Activist on a Boat in a Flotilla Heading to Gaza That the Israelis Have Attacked With Drones | Trump and Miller’s National Security Directive NSPM-7 Outlaws the Common Beliefs of Over Half of the Country
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      <title>December 25, 2025 - James Carroll | Steven Simon | Barbara Walter</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Christmas Message | A 2025 Retrospective -The New Hegemon in the Middle East: Israel | Trump’s Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascism
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Christmas Message | A 2025 Retrospective -The N…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 24, 2025 - Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis | Gil Duran | Brooke Harrington</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Christmas Eve | A Look Back at 2025 Starting In January - A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives | Since Musk’s Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government
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      <itunes:subtitle>Christmas Eve | A Look Back at 2025 Starting In J…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 23, 2025  - Sidney Blumenthal | Jasper Nathaniel</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Latest Dump of the Epstein Files and Susie Wiles' Expose of the Rot at the Top of the U.S. Government | A Reporter Whose Video of a West Bank Settler Beating An Elderly Palestinian Woman Went Viral Leading to a Rare Arrest
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Latest Dump of the Epstein Files and Susie Wi…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 22, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Ben Armbruster | Ariel Dorfman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Relationship Between Antisemitism and Criticism of Israel | The CBS News Editor Appointed by the Ellisons Spikes a 60 Minutes Segment to Re Edit a More Trump-Friendly Version | Ariel Dorfman From Chile on the Election of a Far-Right President Who Will Free Pinochet's Murderers, Torturers and Kidnappers  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Relationship Between Antisemitism and Critici…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Relationship Between Antisemitism and Criticism of Israel | The CBS News Editor Appointed by the Ellisons Spikes a 60 Minutes Segment to Re Edit a More Trump-Friendly Version | Ariel Dorfman From Chile on the Election of a Far-Right President Who Will Free Pinochet's Murderers, Torturers and Kidnappers  
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      <title>December 21, 2025 - Moira Donegan | James Zirin | Samuel Moyn</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Deteriorating Mental and Physical Health| Trump's DoJ Releases 10% of the Heavily Redacted Epstein Files Trying to Shift the Focus From Trump to Clinton | Ending the Oligarch-Friendly Illegitimate Rule of the Supreme Court
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      <title>December 18, 2025 - Mike Lofgren | Francisco Rodríguez | Tim Wu</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Mad, Fact-Free Diatribe to the Nation Telling Us How Bad Biden Was and How Great He Is | A Tanker Blockade and the Venezuelan Navy Going Up Against the U.S. Navy: What Could Go Wrong? | The Former White House Tech and Competition Czar on How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Mad, Fact-Free Diatribe to the Nation Tel…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Mad, Fact-Free Diatribe to the Nation Telling Us How Bad Biden Was and How Great He Is | A Tanker Blockade and the Venezuelan Navy Going Up Against the U.S. Navy: What Could Go Wrong? | The Former White House Tech and Competition Czar on How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
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      <title>December 17, 2025 - Greg Sargent | Sven Beckert</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>A Profile of the Dark Force Behind the Indiscriminate Roundup of Immigrants and the Revival of the Political Paranoia of the "Red Scare" | With Young Americans Rejecting Capitalism, a Deep Dive Into the History of Capitalism
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Profile of the Dark Force Behind the Indiscrimi…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 16, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Karen Greenberg | Henry Giroux</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop Hopes of Joining NATO? | Doubts of Putin's Interest in Peace in a Europe Rattled by Trump's National Security Strategy | Higher Education in a Time of Fascists and Autocrats Taking Over the World 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop Hopes of Joining NATO? | Doubts of Putin's Interest in Peace in a Europe Rattled by Trump's National Security Strategy | Higher Education in a Time of Fascists and Autocrats Taking Over the World 
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      <title>December 15, 2025  - Jordan Baker | Jonathan Alter | Victoria Hui</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia | Trump's Disgusting Reaction to the Murders of Rob Reiner and His Wife | Today's Conviction of the Hong Kong Freedom Activist Jimmy Lai 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia | Trump's…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Hanukkah Terror Attack in Australia | Trump's Disgusting Reaction to the Murders of Rob Reiner and His Wife | Today's Conviction of the Hong Kong Freedom Activist Jimmy Lai 
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      <title>December 14, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Sam Rosenthal | Jaz Brisack</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Assessment of Trump's New National Security Strategy | Why Democrats Lost the Last Election and What They Must Do to Win the Next One | A Gen Z Union Organizer on Standing Up For a Better Workplace
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      <itunes:subtitle>An Assessment of Trump's New National Security St…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 11, 2025 - David Smilde | Harold Meyerson | Dalia Dassa Kaye</title>
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      <title>December 10, 2025 - John Judis | Deb Otis | Nina Burleigh</title>
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      <title>December 9, 2025  - William LeoGrande | Victor Pickard | Mike Pepi</title>
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      <title>December 8, 2025  - William Cohan | Aram Shabanian | Ari Berman</title>
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      <title>December 7, 2025 - Rachel VanLandingham | Lydia Camarillo | Jordan Schwartz | Lisa Graves</title>
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      <title>December 4, 2025 - David Broder | Mstyslav Chernov | Casey Michel</title>
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      <title>December 3, 2025  - Paul Waldman | Michael Kimmage | Sarah Leah Whitson</title>
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      <title>December 2, 2025 - Tom Nichols | Jonathan Metzl | William Hartung</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Secretary of Defense Hegseth Needs to Step Down Now! | Could the Democratic Underdog Win Today in Deep Red Tennessee? | With Affordability the Big Issue, Why Can We Afford Guns and Not Butter?
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      <title>December 1, 2025 - Alejandro Velasco | Alex Lawson | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
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      <title>November 30, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Christine Fair | Tamar Jacoby</title>
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      <title>November 27, 2025 - Richard Parker | Jackie Mitchell | Brian Holmes</title>
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      <title>November 26, 2025 - Adele Stan | Julia Loktev</title>
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      <title>November 25, 2025 - Harry Litman | James Green | Tom Mockaitis</title>
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      <title>November 24, 2025 - Anand Giridharadas | Robert Benson | Peter Dreier</title>
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      <title>November 23, 2025 - Dan Alexander | William Cohan | Anders Aslund</title>
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      <title>November 20, 2025 - Lucian Truscott IV | JB Branch | Alexander Sammon</title>
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      <title>November 19, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | David Halperin | Christopher Miller</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Weakened Trump As a Split in MAGA Emerges With …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 18, 2025 - Ken Klippenstein | Sarah Leah Whitson | Brendan Benedict</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Loophole in the Epstein Files Bill Passed by the House Today 427 to 1 That Allows Trump to Classify What He Does Not Want the Public to See | The Former Pariah's Lavish White House Welcome With Trump Dismissing MBS's Murder and Dismemberment of a Critic as "Things Happen" | Meta Wins the Antitrust Case Against the Tech Giant on the Basis Facebook Has Lost So Much Market Share to TikTok and YouTube
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Loophole in the Epstein Files Bill Passed by …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 17, 2025 - Jonathan Larsen | Mietek Boduszynski | Ben Freeman</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Cast of Characters Feeding the Bogus and Delu…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 16, 2025 - Daniel Boguslaw | Faiza Patel | Aaron Regunberg</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders and How Much th…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 13, 2025 - Matthew Petti | Louise Shelley | Christopher Prebble</title>
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      <itunes:summary>One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email Trove Linking Epstein With Israeli Intelligence | The Damaging Scandal of Zelensky's Former Media Partner on the Lam With $100 Million in Energy Repairs Stolen | Does the U.S. Need Trump's Security Pact With Saudi Arabia?
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      <itunes:subtitle>One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 12, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | Fred Turner | Jonathan Guyer</title>
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      <itunes:summary>More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real "Smoking Gun" Remains Epstein's Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley's Migration to Texas with Musk's Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He's Destructive, Erratic or Reckless
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      <itunes:subtitle>More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Rea…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real "Smoking Gun" Remains Epstein's Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley's Migration to Texas with Musk's Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents Say He's Destructive, Erratic or Reckless
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      <title>November 11, 2025 - John Sweeney | Michael Mann | Olga Lautman</title>
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      <title>November 10, 2025 - Jeet Heer | Joshua Landis | Jennifer Kavanagh</title>
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Can Trump Overcome Supporters of Israel in Congress to End US Sanctions and Stabilize Syria? | Hegseth Wants Defense Contractors on a "Wartime Footing" as He Plans to Attack Venezuela
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      <title>November 9, 2025 - Jeff Wise | David Graham | J.W. Mason</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Assessment of Air Safety as Air Travel Melts Down | Following Orban's Example, Trump's Announces His Plan to Rig Election So That "We will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election" | A Followup on Mamdani's Victory on How He Will Deal With the Affordability Crisis
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      <title>November 6, 2025 - Rick Wilson | Michael McDonald | John Lawrence</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Mounting Evidence the MAGA Spell Has Been Broken | As a Blue Wave Looms, What Will Trump Do to Rig the Next Election? | Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Decision to Retire
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      <title>November 5, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Alexander Keyssar | Michael Edison Hayden</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Having Shunned Mamdani, Will the Democratic Establishment Now Embrace Him? | California Governor Newsom's Warning That Trump Will Do Anything and Everything to Rig the Next Election | The Republicans Are the Real Radicals and They Have a Nazi Problem
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      <title>November 4, 2025 - Marion Nestle | Ryan Cooper | Dr. Ashley Koning</title>
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      <itunes:summary>After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Struggle Within the Democratic Party 

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      <itunes:subtitle>After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Cal…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 3, 2025  - Javier Corrales | Paul Glastris | Daniel Harawa</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Wants to Take Out Maduro Without a War But Replacing Venezuela's Corrupt and Criminal Hierarchy Will Not Be So Easy | Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One | Will SCOTUS Shred Its Last Vestige of Legitimacy and Side With Trump on Tariffs? 
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      <title>November 1, 2025 - Joseph Cirincione | Will Bunch | Fatemeh Jamalpour</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Man With His Finger on the Button Doesn't Kno…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 30, 2025 - Miles Taylor &amp; Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno | Jochen Hellbeck</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Today's Launch ofDEFIANCE.ORG to Help Americans Push Back Against Trump's Revenge | As Putin Behaves Like A Nazi Killing Ukrainian Civilians, Hitler's Murderousness Mobilized the Russians, 26 Million of Whom Died Defeating Nazism
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      <itunes:subtitle>Today's Launch ofDEFIANCE.ORG to Help Americans P…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 29, 2025 - Gina Plata-Nino | Bartlett Naylor | Dennis Hogan</title>
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      <itunes:summary>As Trump Rewards Billionaires and Mike Johnson Protects Pedophiles, Americans and Their Children Are About to Go Hungry | The CEO to Worker Pay Ratio Has Gone From 20 to 1 to 360 to 1 But Now Musk Expects a $1 Trillion Paycheck | Trump's Theatrical War on Drugs Has Key Ally Colombia Exiting the Stage;</itunes:summary>
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      <title>October 28, 2025 - Michael Hudson | Kent Harrington</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Reality Versus Fiction in Trump's Asia Tour of Japan Then on to South Korea To Meet Xi | An assessment of Trump's Claim of a "New Golden Age of the U.S. Japan Alliance" 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Reality Versus Fiction in Trump's Asia Tour of Ja…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 27, 2025 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Stephen Marche | Sarang Shidore</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump's Ego and Its Frailty as the Most Powerful Man in the World Craves and Demands Praise and Flattery | Trump's Declaration of Economic War on Canada Over a Reagan TV Ad | An Assessment of What Was Achieved and What Was Not at the ASEAN Summit  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump's Ego and Its Fr…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 26, 2025 - Sean Wilentz | Sidney Blumenthal | Timothy Shenk</title>
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      <title>October 23, 2025 - David Faris | Richard Briffault | Tamar Jacoby</title>
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      <title>October 22, 2025 - Jared Abbott | Robert McElvaine | Priya Jain</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Although the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palace
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      <itunes:subtitle>Although the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Although the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palace
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      <title>October 21, 2025  - David Cay Johnston | James Zirin | William LeoGrande</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Tears Down the East Wing For a Gilded Ballroom While Washington's Government Workers Aren't Getting Paid | Trump's Judges Overturn District Court Rulings For Troops to Intimidate Portland and Chicago | Will Trump Attack Venezuela to Please Little Marco? 
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      <title>October 20, 2025 - Van Gosse | Dr. Annelle Sheline | Kim Lane Scheppele</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Outlandish Vulgarity Has Support in the GOP and Deep Roots in American Politics | Witkoff and Kushner in Israel to Plug Holes in the israel/Hamas Peace Plan With VP Vance Arriving tomorrow For More Damage Control | The Contentious Trump/Zelensky Meeting at Which Trump Parroted Putin's Talking Points and Russian Propaganda  
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Outlandish Vulgarity Has Support in the G…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Outlandish Vulgarity Has Support in the GOP and Deep Roots in American Politics | Witkoff and Kushner in Israel to Plug Holes in the israel/Hamas Peace Plan With VP Vance Arriving tomorrow For More Damage Control | The Contentious Trump/Zelensky Meeting at Which Trump Parroted Putin's Talking Points and Russian Propaganda  
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      <title>October 19, 2025 - John Nichols | Joe Feagin | Stephen Kinzer</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America | In Spite of JD Vance's Craven Lies, Group Chat Reveals Trump's Appeal to Young Republican Racists, Misogynists and Even Incels | Signs that Trump and Rubio's Plan To Use Military Force Against Venezuela Are Behind the Head of Southcom Stepping Down
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      <itunes:subtitle>Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No King…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America | In Spite of JD Vance's Craven Lies, Group Chat Reveals Trump's Appeal to Young Republican Racists, Misogynists and Even Incels | Signs that Trump and Rubio's Plan To Use Military Force Against Venezuela Are Behind the Head of Southcom Stepping Down
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      <title>October 16, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | David Smilde | Kenneth Vogel</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Another Summit After the Alaska Fiasco | Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Action Against Venezuela Announcing "We Are Looking at Land Now" | Friends and Relatives of Our Political Leaders Cash in on Dirty Money From Disreputable Despots
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Anot…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Another Summit After the Alaska Fiasco | Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Action Against Venezuela Announcing "We Are Looking at Land Now" | Friends and Relatives of Our Political Leaders Cash in on Dirty Money From Disreputable Despots
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      <title>October 15, 2025 - David Daley | Dustin Wahl | Richard P. Swanson</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>SCOTUS Appears Poised To Gut the Voting Rights Act Again to Give Republicans 10 to 12 New House Seats at the Expense of Black Voters Before Votes Are Cast in the Midterms | Younger Candidates Challenging the Gerontocracy Ruling Our Politics | The Weak and Vindictive Case Trump Has Ginned Up Against Leticia James

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      <itunes:subtitle>SCOTUS Appears Poised To Gut the Voting Rights Ac…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>SCOTUS Appears Poised To Gut the Voting Rights Act Again to Give Republicans 10 to 12 New House Seats at the Expense of Black Voters Before Votes Are Cast in the Midterms | Younger Candidates Challenging the Gerontocracy Ruling Our Politics | The Weak and Vindictive Case Trump Has Ginned Up Against Leticia James

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      <title>October 14, 2025 - Asher Kaufman | Harold Meyerson | Nina Burleigh</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious While Trump, Miller and Vance's Demonization of the American Left is Ludicrous, We Look Into Rifts Between the Fundis and the Realos | How Far Will the Country Sink Into the Trump Abyss of Corruption, Venality, Malevolence and Vulgarity?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making th…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious While Trump, Miller and Vance's Demonization of the American Left is Ludicrous, We Look Into Rifts Between the Fundis and the Realos | How Far Will the Country Sink Into the Trump Abyss of Corruption, Venality, Malevolence and Vulgarity?
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      <title>October 13, 2025 - Aaron David Miller | Sarah Leah Whitson | Paul Pillar</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peace Deal and Trump's Middle East Peace Plan | The Absence of Palestinian Representatives in the Peace Deal and Reconstruction Plans Underway | So Far So Good But Can All the Benchmarks Be Met? 
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peac…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 12, 2025 - Alejandro Velasco | Gil Duran | Thom Hartmann</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to...Maria Corina Machado Not Donald J. Trump | The Latest Moves by the Shadowy Power Broker Who Owns J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel | Thom Hartmann on His Latest Book The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink
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      <itunes:subtitle>And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to...Maria Corina …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to...Maria Corina Machado Not Donald J. Trump | The Latest Moves by the Shadowy Power Broker Who Owns J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel | Thom Hartmann on His Latest Book The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink
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      <title>October 9, 2025 - Mitchell Plitnick | Michael Klare | Danny Goldberg</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages | Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act | Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on M…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages | Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act | Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present 	
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      <title>October 8, 2025 - Lawrence Douglas | Robert Pape | Lincoln Mitchell</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:03:36</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>The James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7
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      <itunes:subtitle>The James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Get…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7
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      <title>October 7, 2025 - William Hartung | Garrett Epps | Cory Doctorow</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:01:13</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>On the Second Anniversary of the October 7 Massacre: The Role of $21.7 Billion in U.S. Military Aid | The Trump Judge Who Blocked His Deployment to Portland Saying "This is a Nation of Constitutional Law, Not Martial Law" | Cory Doctorow on How the Digital World Has Turned to S**T
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      <itunes:subtitle>On the Second Anniversary of the October 7 Massac…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>On the Second Anniversary of the October 7 Massacre: The Role of $21.7 Billion in U.S. Military Aid | The Trump Judge Who Blocked His Deployment to Portland Saying "This is a Nation of Constitutional Law, Not Martial Law" | Cory Doctorow on How the Digital World Has Turned to S**T
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      <title>October 6, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Maria Victoria Murillo | Chuck Collins</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:04:18</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Is Trump Crazier Than Ever Or Has He Always Been Crazy? | Trump Moves To Bail Out American Soybean Farmers Who Lost the Chinese Market Because of Trump and Now Trump is Bailing Out Argentina's Milei Who Has Opened His Soybean Market to China | 905 U.S. Billionaires (Up From 66 in 1989) Now Own $7.8 Trillion Compared to the $4.1 Trillion of 66 Million American Households
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Trump Crazier Than Ever Or Has He Always Been …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>October 2, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Lisa Graves</title>
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      <title>October 1, 2025 - Ken Klippenstein | Stephen Marche | Sasha Abramsky</title>
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      <title>September 30, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Stuart Schrader | Michael Mann</title>
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      <title>September 29, 2025 - Guy Ziv | James Thurber | Jim Manley</title>
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      <title>September 28, 2025 - Harry Litman | David Adler | Robert Malley</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Consiglieres Running Trump's Private Law Firm…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 25, 2025 - Sidney Blumenthal | Mark Hannah | Jacob Silverman</title>
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      <title>September 24, 2025 - Richard Parker | George Beebe | Chris Whipple</title>
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      <title>September 23, 2025 - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Caplan | Maha Nassar</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>September 23, 2025  - Dulcie Leimbach | Arthur Ca…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 21, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Henry</title>
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      <title>September 18, 2025 - William Cohan | Craig Aaron | Aziz Huq</title>
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      <title>September 17, 2025 - Dean Baker | Ben Freeman | Jonathan Alter</title>
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      <title>September 16, 2025 - Gil Duran | Scott Horton | Nizar Farsakh</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Peter Thiel's Obsession With the Antichrist Brings Techno-Fascism and Christo-Fascism Together | The Senate Grills the Unqualified and Incompetent Kash Patel as the FBI's Top Talent is Purged | Israel Invades Gaza City as a UN Report Concludes Israel is Commititng Genocide in Gaza  
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      <title>September 15, 2025 - Ben Burgis | Reverend Billy | Stephen Biddle</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Ben Burgis Who Debated Charlie Kirk on "Democratic Socialism vs. Conservative Populism" | Echoes of the 60's and 70's From Protest Songs Against Trump and MAGA Fascism | An Assessment of the Military Standoff Between Russia and Ukraine
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ben Burgis Who Debated Charlie Kirk on "Democrati…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 14, 2025 - Kim Lane Scheppele | Jared Holt | Reality Winner</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare War on the Democratic Party Which Miller Calls "A Domestic Terrorism Organization" | Charlie Kirk's Christian Nationalism is Embraced by the Shadow Rulers J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and Russ Vought | Reality Winner Got 5 Years in Prison While Trump Got a Free Pass From a Judge he Owns For Far, Far Worse Breaches of the Espionage Act of 1917

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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump and His Co-President Stephen Miller Declare…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 11, 2025 - Barbara F. Walter | Thomas Mockaitis | Bruce Cumings</title>
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      <title>September 10, 2025 - Jonathan Katz | Harold Meyerson | Juan Cole</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incursion Into Poland | Why Are Democratic Leaders Avoiding Popular And Promising Candidates Like Mamdani and Maine's Oysterman? | Qatar Was Not Warned About the Israeli Attack Which Happened at 3.46 Because the US Told Them About it 10 Minutes Later at 3.56 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Putin Tests the NATO Alliance With a Drone Incurs…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>The US Tells the Europeans We Will No Longer Work With Them Against Disinformation Warfare</title>
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      <title>Did the US Allow Israel to Strike an Allied Country That Hosts the Biggest US Base in the ME?</title>
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      <title>With a Sept. 30 Gov Shutdown Looming, Do the Dems Get Blamed or Do They Let the Republicans Own it?</title>
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      <title>September 9, 2025 - Daoud Kuttab | Olga Luatman | Bill Scher</title>
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      <title>September 8, 2025 - Anne Nelson | Bruce Fein | Rick Perlstein</title>
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      <title>September 7, 2025 - Miguel Tinker Salas | Aram Shabanian | Brette Steele</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Escalates Threats Against Venezuela as Rubio Calls For a Regional Latin American Campaign of Extrajudicial Killings | The Weak and Cynical Trump Plans For Defending Ukraine In a Possible Deal With Putin | The Consequence of DHS Violence Prevention Funding Cuts to Minnesota Just Ahead of the Minneapolis Mass Shooting of Kids on Their First Day of School
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      <title>The Moral and Strategic Collapse of US Policy in the Middle East</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>September 4, 2025  - Jonathan Guyer 
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      <title>September 4, 2025  - Thomas Bollyky | Juliegrace Brufke | Jonathan Guyer</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>RFK Jr. Grilled by Senate Democrats Who Want him …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 3, 2025  - Lisa Graves | David Smilde | Dr. Ariel Cohen</title>
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      <itunes:summary>With Trump's DoJ and House Republicans on the Side of a Depraved Socialite Instead of the Victims of Her Sex Trafficking, Maxwell's Survivors Had to Speak in Front of the Capitol Today | Is Trump Cooking Up a Nice Little War to Take Out Maduro as a Distraction From Epstein? | ICE's Shameful Deportation of Asylum Seekers Back to Russian Torture and Imprisonment 
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      <title>September 2, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | Orville Schell | Eric Blanc</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Federal Court Rules That Trump and Hegseth Violated the Posse Comitatus Act and That Trump is Creating a National Police Force With Him As Its Chief | Does Xi Jinping Command the World Stage Because of His Diplomatic Skills or Because of Trump's Blundering Lack of Diplomacy? | A Mayor Mamdani Will Need A Mass Movement Behind Him To Overcome an Establishment Out to Crush Him  
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Federal Court Rules That Trump and Hegseth Viol…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>September 1, 2025 - Steven Greenhouse | Sylvia Allegretto | Michael Kazin</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The State of Working America Under Assault From Trump and Project 2025 | How Trump and Project 2025 Have Turbocharged the Plutocratic Takeover of American Democracy | The History of Labor Day As Opposed to May Day That Others Celebrate
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      <itunes:subtitle>The State of Working America Under Assault From T…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 31, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Lawrence Gostin | Seth Harp</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump, Hegseth, Ratcliffe, Gabbard, Patel, Bongin…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 28, 2025 - David Schultz | Moira Donegan | Kevin O'Leary</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While They Were Praying in Church on Their First Day at School | The Sadistic Absurdity of Trump, Miller, Noem, Lewandowsky and Homan | Democrats Can Learn From Our Best President's Strategic Shift in the Civil War to Save Our Democracy From America's Worst President 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Another Mass Murder of Children, This Time While …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 27, 2025 - Mikkel Runge Olesen | Rick Wilson | Lawrence Douglas</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Support of Trump's Plot to Steal Greenland | Trump's Antisemitic Conspiratorial Rant Threatening George Soros and His Son | Having Survived a Coup Attempt, Can We Endure Dictatorial Creep?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The U.S. is Caught Spying on a NATO Ally in Suppo…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 26, 2025 - David Faris | Robert Hockett | Emma Ashford</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Another Governor, Illinois' Pritzker, Stands up t…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 25, 2025 - Stephen Noerper | Philip Rocco | David Hearst</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Since Oval Office Flattery is Required, South Korea's President Praises Trump's Garish Redecoration Only to Have Trump Heap Praise on the North Korean Dictator Who Wants to Annihilate South Korea | A Directionless DNC Meets Today With Coffers Empty and a Growing Split Between Younger Activists and Older Centrists While Trump's GOP Moves to Wipe Out the Opposition and Install a Dictator | 5 More Palestinian Journalists Killed Today as Starvation Takes Hold in Gaza
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      <itunes:subtitle>Since Oval Office Flattery is Required, South Kor…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 24, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | James Fallows | Bill McKibben</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He Has Done With "Russiagate" and "Stop the Steal" But This Time Are the American People That Stupid? | Joining the Residents of Washington DC As They Demonstrate Against the Military Occupation of Our Nation's Capital | Among the First to Warn About Global Warming, Bill McKibbon on His New Book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump Rewrites His Epstein/Maxwell History as He Has Done With "Russiagate" and "Stop the Steal" But This Time Are the American People That Stupid? | Joining the Residents of Washington DC As They Demonstrate Against the Military Occupation of Our Nation's Capital | Among the First to Warn About Global Warming, Bill McKibbon on His New Book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
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      <title>August 21, 2025 - Peter Stone | Osita Nwanevu</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Patrols the Streets of the Nation's Capital as He Wages War on the Truth | A Case For a Real Democracy in the U.S.A.
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      <title>August 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Jeremi Suri | Natalie Melnyczuk</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Protestors at DC's Union Station Yell at Vance, Hegseth and Miller Who Calls Them "Crazy Communists" as They Bring Cheeseburgers to National Guard Troops | Texas Gerrymanders 5 Seats For Trump Who is Trying Everything to Stop the Democrats From Taking the House in 2026 | Can Ukraine Hold the Front Against a Russian Offensive Which is Why Putin Doesn't Want a Ceasefire?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Protestors at DC's Union Station Yell at Vance, H…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 19, 2025 - David Andelman | Ori Goldberg | James Moore</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of the Giveaway | After Sunday's Massive Demonstrations, Can Israel's Opposition Stop the War on Gaza? | The Fascistic Thuggery of Republican Legislators in Texas
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Pathetic Idea of Diplomacy and the Art of…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 18, 2025  - Charles Kupchan | Richard Hasen | Jeff Hauser</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Damage Control at the White House to Prevent Trump's Sellout of Ukraine to Putin | Trump Wants to Get Rid of Mail-in Ballots and Undo the Constitution's Bedrock of States Controlling Elections | Trump's Burgeoning War Chest to Buy theNext Election Just as Musk Bought the Last 
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      <title>August 17, 2025 - Angela Stent | Michael Gorham | Jacob Silverman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Shameful Amateurism of Trump's Reality TV Diplomacy as He Sells Out Ukraine While Fawning Over a Wanted War Criminal | A Specialist on Russian Media on the Summit the Russian Public Saw on Putin-Controlled State Media | The Possibility of Crypto-Corruption Greasing the Skids to the Summit
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Shameful Amateurism of Trump's Reality TV Dip…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 14, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Julie Roginsky | Robert Stern</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Performative Takeover of the Street of Washington DC as Its Residents Cry "Fascists", "Pigs" and "Go Home" | What Can Democrats Do To Be Proactive, Not Reactive to Trump | California Governor Newsom's Announcement of a November 4 Special Election to Counter the Texas Gerrymander 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Performative Takeover of the Street of Wa…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 13, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Simon Shuster | Steven Simon</title>
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      <itunes:summary>How Ukrainians Feel About the Upcoming Summit to Which They Are Not Invited | The 31 Years-Long Dictatorship That Served as a Backchannel For the Putin/Trump Summit | Trump and Hegseth Have Captured the Generals Who Will Show Loyalty Over Legality and Not Rescue us From Trump as Milley, Mattis and Kelly Did Last Time 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>How Ukrainians Feel About the Upcoming Summit to …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 12, 2025  - Sarah Leah Whitson | George Beebe | Lucian Truscott IV</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The UN's Palestinian Representative's Call For a UN Peacekeeping Protection Force in Gaza | What a Peace Plan to End Russia's War on Ukraine Could Look Like | Trump Moves to Use the Military for Domestic Law Enforcement as the Pentagon Plans For Rapid Reaction Forces to Put Down Civil Dissent 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The UN's Palestinian Representative's Call For a …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 11, 2025 - Adele Stan | Dr. Guy Ziv | Dr. Trita Parsi</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Like a Tinpot Dictator, Trump Takes Over the Nation's Capital, Sending Troops Into the Streets as a Show of Force | The Growing Rift Between IDF Generals and Netanyahu as More of Israel's Allies Call For a Palestinian State | The Possibility of a New War Erupting Soon Between Israel and Iran 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Like a Tinpot Dictator, Trump Takes Over the Nati…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 10, 2025 - Anders Aslund | Olga Lautman | Renée DiResta</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Yet Another Sellout by Trump to His Handler Putin | Since Zelensky Will Have to Reject Trump's Phony Peace Deal, Will That Be Trump's Excuse to Abandon Ukraine? | Gabbard's Ridiculous Revisionist History Aimed to Please the Liar-in-Chief
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      <itunes:subtitle>Yet Another Sellout by Trump to His Handler Putin…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 7, 2025 - David Salvo | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | David Bell</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Low Expectations Among Experts For the Upcoming Putin/Trump Summit in the UAE | Decades of US Efforts to Woo India Away From Russia and Forge a Strategic Partnership Against China Blown Up Overnight By Trump | The Dark Side of A.I. as Silicon Valley Techno-Utopians Oversell Their Products Again 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Low Expectations Among Experts For the Upcoming P…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 6, 2025 - John Nichols | Alexander Motyl | Matthew Klein</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Will the Lawless Trump Regime Have the FBI Arrest the Democratic Lawmakers Who Fled Texas to Stop Trump's Power Grab? | As Trump Tries to Persuade Putin Ahead of Friday's Deadline, Can Putin End His War on Ukraine? | An Authoritative Analysis on the Economy and Where Trump is Taking it
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will the Lawless Trump Regime Have the FBI Arrest…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 5, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Steven Harper | Chris Hedges</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files and Laura Loomer is Back in the Oval Office | The Dirty Deal Already Made Between Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell | As Netanyahu Plans to Reoccupy Gaza, Speaker Johnson Meets Settlers Telling Them They Are the "Rightful Owners" of Palestinian Territory
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      <itunes:subtitle>The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files and Laura L…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The House Subpoenas the Epstein Files and Laura Loomer is Back in the Oval Office | The Dirty Deal Already Made Between Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell | As Netanyahu Plans to Reoccupy Gaza, Speaker Johnson Meets Settlers Telling Them They Are the "Rightful Owners" of Palestinian Territory
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      <title>August 4, 2025 - David Daley | Lloyd Green | Paul Pillar</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Power Grab to Win the House in the Midterms Before a Vote Has Been Cast | With Signs of Stagflation and Recession Emerging, It's Time For the Democrats to Hammer Trump on the Economy | How Will Trump Respond to the Letter From 600 Top Israeli Officials Asking Him to Get Netanyahu to Stop the Killing in Gaza?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Powe…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Texas Democrats Try to Stop the Trump/Abbott Power Grab to Win the House in the Midterms Before a Vote Has Been Cast | With Signs of Stagflation and Recession Emerging, It's Time For the Democrats to Hammer Trump on the Economy | How Will Trump Respond to the Letter From 600 Top Israeli Officials Asking Him to Get Netanyahu to Stop the Killing in Gaza?
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      <title>August 3, 2025 - Matt Gold | Scott Horton | Charles Derber</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Tariff Spree and Shooting the Messenger With the Bad Jobs Report | Trump Accuses Obama of "Treason" As He Tries to Rewrite History Based on Forgeries by Russian Intelligence | American Sociocide in the Misanthropic Era of a Malevolent Sociopath
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Tariff Spree and Shooting the Messenger W…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 31, 2025 - Melinda St. Louis | Michael Gerrard | Dean Baker</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Drop Charges Against Trump's Fellow Fascist Bolsonaro | Time To Rename the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Destruction Agency | In Spite of Trump's Bullying, the Fed Chair Holds Steady on Interest Rates
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      <itunes:subtitle>50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Dr…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Drop Charges Against Trump's Fellow Fascist Bolsonaro | Time To Rename the Environmental Protection Agency the Environmental Destruction Agency | In Spite of Trump's Bullying, the Fed Chair Holds Steady on Interest Rates
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      <title>July 30, 2025 - Erwin Chemerinsky | Stephen Wertheim | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Trump-controlled US Senate Elevates Bove as the Law is Weaponized to Keep Unqualified Ideologues On As US Attorneys | The Good and the Bad of Having a Foreign Policy Amateur in the Oval Office | The Senate Tries To Make the Epstein Files Public as the Republicans Stonewall Protecting Their "Dear Leader" 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Trump-controlled US Senate Elevates Bove as t…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 29, 2025  - Robert Kuttner | Daniel Treisman | Mitchell Plitnick</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Announce First- Details Later Trade Deal With the EU and "Air Farce One: When Gift Becomes Grift" | Trump's New Ultimatum To Putin Seen as a Step Towards War | Trump Rebukes Netanyahu Over Starving Children But OK's Plan to Annex Gaza 
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      <title>July 28, 2025 - Katherine Stewart | Aziz Huq | Peter Loge</title>
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      <itunes:summary>As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "Intellectual" Gloss J.D. Vance Puts on the Administration's Racist and Cruel Policies | What the Supreme Court's Liberals Are Trying to Tell the American People | The Pathetically Thin-Skinned Most Powerful Man in the World Demands "Dear Leader" Worship While Suing Media Outlets That Tell the Truth About Him
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Trump Appears More Bonkers, We Look Into the "Intellectual" Gloss J.D. Vance Puts on the Administration's Racist and Cruel Policies | What the Supreme Court's Liberals Are Trying to Tell the American People | The Pathetically Thin-Skinned Most Powerful Man in the World Demands "Dear Leader" Worship While Suing Media Outlets That Tell the Truth About Him
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      <title>July 27, 2025 - Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan | Matt Angle | Nina Burleigh</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Why Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their Border and What Should Stop It | Trump's Brazen Plan to Gerrymander the Already Gerrymandered State of Texas to Have 80% of the Power With Only 55% of the Vote | Trump and His Law Firm the DoJ Make Nice With a Convicted Sex Trafficker of Underage Girls as MAGA Media Portrays Maxwell as a Victim to Justify Trump's Pardon of Her
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why Thailand and Cambodia Are Fighting Over Their…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 24, 2025 - Omar Shakir | Jared Abbott | Andrew Hartman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza Grows | An Analysis of Working Class Social and Economic Attitudes For the Democratic Party to Consider | A New Books Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism While Trump Calls Democrats Marxist Lunatics
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      <itunes:subtitle>International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 23, 2025 - James Thurber | Christopher Bing | Alex De Wall</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Bipartisan Discharge Petition Working Around Speaker Johnson's Protection of Trump and Epstein | The Weaponization of Confidential IRS Data Now Being Handed Over to ICE and DHS | The Deliberate Starvation of Children in Gaza With Over 1,000 Palestinian Aid-Seekers Killed Since May
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Bipartisan Discharge Petition Working Around …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 22, 2025  - Mike Lofgren | Tim Weiner</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the House to Protect the Best Friend of a Pedophile and Child Sex Trafficker | The Decline of the Intelligence Community Trying to Survive an Anti-Intellectual Regime  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Good Christian Mike Johnson Shuts Down the Ho…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 21, 2025 - James Zirin | Jacques Berlinerblau | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal to Find Out Who the Leaker Is? | Cancelling Comedians to Muzzle the American Tradition of Political Satire | The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse Driving Us Into a Hellscape: Trump, Miller and Vought
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journa…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Trump Suing Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal to Find Out Who the Leaker Is? | Cancelling Comedians to Muzzle the American Tradition of Political Satire | The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse Driving Us Into a Hellscape: Trump, Miller and Vought
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      <title>July 20, 2025 - Nancy Gertner | Sean Wilentz | Richard Parker</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emil Bove, Will Trump Get His "Roy Cohn" on the Supreme Court? | We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | A Way Out of America's Descent Into Authoritarianism
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      <itunes:subtitle>With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emi…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With the Upcoming Senate Confirmation Vote on Emil Bove, Will Trump Get His "Roy Cohn" on the Supreme Court? | We Are Past a Constitutional Crisis and Should be Working on Restoring Our Democracy and Reviving the Constitution | A Way Out of America's Descent Into Authoritarianism
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      <title>July 17, 2025 - Will Sommer | Scott Horton | Lisa Graves</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, Trump Now Calls His MAGA Cultists "Stupid" and "Weaklings" | AG Bondi's Firing of Maurene Comey Whose Father is High Up on Trump's Enemies List | Today's Walkout by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Feeding Them Lies and Delusions For Years, Trump Now Calls His MAGA Cultists "Stupid" and "Weaklings" | AG Bondi's Firing of Maurene Comey Whose Father is High Up on Trump's Enemies List | Today's Walkout by Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee
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      <title>July 16, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Bill Hing | Sylvia Allegretto</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America
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      <itunes:subtitle>Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Sl…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Israel Bombs Damascus as the Syrian Government Slaughters the Druze Minority, Exposing the Different Interests of Israel and the U.S. When it Comes to the Jihadi in a Suit Leading the New Syria | Geo Group and Core Civic Feast on Taxpayer Money as ICE Detains Whoever They Can Snatch | Apparently the Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America
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      <title>July 15, 2025 - Robert Hockett | David Halperin | Matthew Hongoltz-Hettling</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its Chairman Jerome Powell | The Consequence of the Supreme Court Allowing Trump to Continue Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education | What is Behind the War Inside MAGA Over Not Releasing the Epstein Files As Promised? 

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Elodie Lauten - Despair Postlude

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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Escalates His War Against the Fed and Its C…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 14, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | Casey Michel | Juan Cole</title>
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      <title>July 13, 2025 - Kevin Hall | Cynthia Schneider | James Green</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Could a Top Trump Official Who Lied About Being Born in the Soviet Union be a Russian Plant? | Trump Slashes Soft Power While Adding a $Trilion to Fighting a Nuclear War That Can Only Be Prevented by Diplomacy | Trump Slaps a 50% Tariff on Brazil Along With 35% on Canada and 30% on the EU and Mexico 	
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      <title>July 10, 2025 - Johnathan Buma | Kent Harrington | David Cortright</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Deliberate Effort to Destroy the FBI is Going Great Guns with Patel and Bongino in Charge | Trump's Vengeance and Obsessive War Against Reality Over Russia's Help in Electing Him Has the Former Heads of the CIA and FBI Now Under Investigation | The Growing Danger of Nuclear From a Trillion Dollar US Nuclear Buildup Over the Next Ten Years
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      <title>There is Vast Evidence of Trump's Seedy Ties to the Despicable Epstein</title>
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      <title>July 9, 2025 - James Risen | Nina Burleigh | Stephen Semler</title>
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      <title>The Pentagon Budget Has Doubled Since 2000 With Trump's Big, Bad Bill Pushing it to $1.06 Trillion</title>
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      <title>The Meltdown In MAGAworld Over the So-called Epstein "Client List"</title>
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      <title>July 8, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Tom Mockaitis | Dr. Annelle Sheline</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Intergenerational Greed and Inaction Led to Underinvestment in Flood Prevention in Kerr County, Texas | Ken Klippenstein's Documents Expose the Military Fiasco Yesterday in Los Angeles's MacArthur Park | The Unctuous War Criminal Recommended the Easily-Flattered Felon For a Nobel Peace Prize 
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      <title>The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS</title>
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      <itunes:summary>July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore 
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      <itunes:subtitle>July 7, 2025 - Sarang Shidore 
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      <title>July 7, 2025 - Jeff Masters | Olga Lautman | Sarang Shidore</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Extreme Weather and Its Connection to Climate Change as Trump and DOGE's Cuts Impacted The National Weather Service's Response to the Tragic Flash Floods in Texas | Putin's Cabinet Officials Commit "Suicide" as More Top Oil Executives Fall From 10th Floor Windows | The BRICS Summit and Trump's Threats to Countries That Side With BRICS 

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      <title>July 7, 2025 - Tamar Jacoby | Stavroula Pabst | Samuel Moyn</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Gets Stiffed Again by His Idol Putin as Chi…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 3, 2025 - Edward McCaffery | Greg Treverton | Raed Jarrar</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Republican's Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaires Tax Breaks Immediately While Delaying Cuts to Medicaid and Food Assistance Until After the Midterms | In Spite of Ratcliffe's Spin to Please His Boss, the CIA Report Finds That Putin Did Help Trump and Hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Election | US Contractors Shoot Gazans For Sport as Hamas Approves the US Plan for a Hostage Release  	
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Republican's Cynical Ploy to Give Billionaire…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 2, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Patrick Sullivan | Oona Hathaway</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Another Big Media Company Caves to Trump's Extortion | Four of the Worst Horrors in the Awful Republican Megabill | As Trump Uses War and the Threat of War, He Ignores the UN and the US Congress
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      <title>July 1, 2025 - Will Bunch | James Thurber | Meghan Pazik</title>
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      <title>June 30, 2025 - Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren | Assal Rad</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Supreme Court Has Sold Out the Constitution a…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 29, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Garrett Epps | Sam Tanenhaus</title>
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      <title>June 26, 2025 - Dr. Trita Parsi | Michael German | Dr. Allen Frances</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Supreme Leader Congratulates Iranians on Thei…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 25, 2025 - Jennifer Kavanagh | Joseph Cirincione | Brian Levin</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>With Trump and Hegseth's Bombastic Claims of "Tot…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 24, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Susan Kang | Ali Afshari</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Waffling on Article 5 of the NATO Treaty as European Leaders Try to Avoid a Clash Between Him and Zelensky at the Summit Underway | Today's NY City Race For Mayor Exposes the Division in the Democratic Party as a Talented Young Leader Faces a Disgraced Relic | Iran's Divided Opposition With the US and Israel-Backed MEK and Shah's Son Hated For Their Collusion With Israel 
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      <title>June 23, 2025 - Eli Clifton | Maziar Behrooz | Eleni Schirmer</title>
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      <title>June 22, 2025 - David Albright | Elizabeth Saunders</title>
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      <title>June 19, 2025 - Steven Simon | Adam Weinstein | Mark Fitzpatrick</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump on the Brink of Embroiling the US in Anothe…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 18, 2025 - Nicholas Heras | Ben Burgis | Deborah Baker</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's "To Do Or Not To Do" on Bombing Iran | Th…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 17, 2025 - David Hearst | Marci Shore</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Putting the US in Alignment With Israel, Trump Cl…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 15, 2025 - David Schultz | Sidney Blumenthal | Paul Pillar</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>MAGA Political Hatred Has Moved From Talk to Acti…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 12, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Sasha Abramsky | McKenzie Funk</title>
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      <title>June 11, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Gerardo Chagolla | Barry Naughton</title>
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      <title>June 10, 2025 - Michael Hiltzik | Tom Mockaitis | Alexander Reid Ross</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Escalating War of Words Between President Trump and Governor Newsom | In Sending in the Marines Against Protesters in LA, is Trump Stoking a Possible Civil War? | Trump Offers Up His Tesla For $69, Trashing His Former Best Buddy and Biggest Donor Who Bought Him the Presidency</itunes:summary>
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      <title>June 9, 2025 - Manuel Pastor | John Lawrence | Barbara Walter</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Eyewitness to Trump's Dictatorial Dream of Crushing Blue State Opposition on His Way to Becoming An American Fuhrer | With Trump Itching to Provoke an Insurrection to Justify a Dictatorship, Has LA Played Into His Hands? | Trump's Dual Strategies of Scaring Off Protests and Instigating Provocations to Enact Fascism
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      <itunes:subtitle>An Eyewitness to Trump's Dictatorial Dream of Cru…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 8, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Harold Meyerson | Michael Gorham</title>
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      <itunes:summary>More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce | Political Activism Versus Centrist Pragmatism: The Choices Facing the Moribund Democratic Party in New York City's Mayoral Race | Trump Claims Putin is "Tapping Him Along" But is Trump Stringing Us All Along?
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      <title>June 5, 2025 - Miles Taylor | John Nichols</title>
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      <itunes:summary>What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth | Trump's America: The United States of Cruelty
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      <title>June 4, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Oleh Kotsyuba | Mohsen Milani</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest | Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | Trump Pressure Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely
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      <title>June 3, 2025  - William Arkin | Halie Soifer | Johnathan Buma</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Pentagon's Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare | The Latest Attacks on Jewish Americans As Our President Continues to Signal his Anti Semitic Leanings | A Former FBI Counterintelligence Whistleblower on the Wrecking of the FBI by Patel and Bongino
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Pentagon's Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrica…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Pentagon's Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare | The Latest Attacks on Jewish Americans As Our President Continues to Signal his Anti Semitic Leanings | A Former FBI Counterintelligence Whistleblower on the Wrecking of the FBI by Patel and Bongino
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      <title>June 2, 2025 - Michael Swaine | Ryan Cooper | George Packer</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown | Trump and Musk's Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide | Part 2 of George Packer's Atlantic Article on Our Next President, "The Talented Mr. Vance" 
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      <description>The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown | Trump and Musk's Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide | Part 2 of George Packer's Atlantic Article on Our Next President, "The Talented Mr. Vance" 
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      <title>June 1, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Lisa Graves | George Packer</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less | Trump Calls Leonard Leo a "Sleazebag" and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society | The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump's Term is Up
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      <itunes:subtitle>President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs as the Senate Takes Up His "Big, Beautiful Bill" Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less | Trump Calls Leonard Leo a "Sleazebag" and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society | The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump's Term is Up
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      <title>May 29, 2025 - Aram Shabanian | Olga Lautman | Chris Hedges</title>
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      <itunes:summary>How the Trump Wrecking Crew Are Destroying Our Defense and National Security | How the Media Falls for Trump's Theatre While Ukraine Burns | A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza 
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      <itunes:subtitle>How the Trump Wrecking Crew Are Destroying Our De…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How the Trump Wrecking Crew Are Destroying Our Defense and National Security | How the Media Falls for Trump's Theatre While Ukraine Burns | A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza 
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      <title>May 28, 2025 - Daniel Treisman | Jacob Heilbrunn | David Victor</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He P…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 27, 2025 - Mike Konczal | Joe Cirincione | Jacob Silverman</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 21:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Cruelest Cuts in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | Trump's Golden Dome - A Massive Boondoggle and Payoff to Musk and Thiel | As Trump Monetizes His Presidency, Thanks to Crypto, His Family's Net Worth Increased by $2.9 Billion to $ 5.4 Billion
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Cruelest Cuts in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill |…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 26, 2025 - Lucian Truscott IV | Dr. Bandy Lee | Anders Aslund</title>
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      <title>May 25, 2025 - Rabbi Steven Jacobs | Mitchell Plitnick | Omar Shakir</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France and Canada For the Murders of Young Israeli Diplomats in DC | A Path Forward For Those Who Want to Stop the Killing of Innocents | The Ongoing Humanitarian Nightmare in Gaza 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France an…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 22, 2025 - Rob Johnson | Joan Williams</title>
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      <itunes:summary>What Will the Senate Do With Trump's Robin Hood In Reverse "Big, Beautiful Bill"? |1 Why the Democratic Party's "Brahmin Left" Lost America's Working Men and Women and How to Win Them Back
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      <title>May 21, 2025 - Rebecca Riddell | Dr. Steven Nabieu Rogers | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The 10 Richest Americans Made $365 Billion More in 2024 and Trump and the GOP Wants to Give Them a Huge Tax Break | In an Oval Office Ambush of South Africa's President, Trump Spewed Lies Musk Had Filled His Head With | More Conspiracy and Quackery From RFK Jr. Before Today's Senate as Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums and Alien Enthusiasts Wreck Science
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      <title>May 20, 2025 - Alexander Motyl | Asher Kaufman | Patrick Bond</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Deference to Putin and His Unwillingness to Press For a Ceasefire and Sanction Russia If It Refuses Stuns European Leaders | As the UK, France and Canada Condemn Israel's Gaza Offensive and the Starving of Children, Trump Does Not Come To Netanyahu's Defense | A South African Perspective on Trump's Welcoming of Its White "Refugees"
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      <title>May 19, 2025 - George Beebe | Natalie Melnyczuk | Casey Michel</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Phone Call Today With Putin and Others and the Need For More Than a Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire | A Ukrainian Perspective on Trump's Conversations With the Warring Parties | Trump and Family Have Elevated Corruption to an Industrial Scale 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Phone Call Today With Putin and Others an…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 18, 2025 - Steven Pifer | Tamar Jacoby | Omar El Akkad</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Putin Plays Trump Again Not Showing Up For Farcical "Peace" Talks in Istanbul | A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace But Not Surrender on Putin's Terms | The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53, 272 As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libya
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      <itunes:subtitle>Putin Plays Trump Again Not Showing Up For Farcic…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 15, 2025 - Alan Morrison | Gabriel Chin | Gregory Treverton</title>
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      <title>May 14, 2025 - Joshua Landis | Nader Hashemi | Angela Stent</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria Calling Its New Le…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 13, 2025 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Jon Hoffman | Alex Lawson</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi Arabia, Not the Peace Deal With Putin He Expected To Sign, But He Still Hopes to Sign a Deal With Iran | As Trump Throws His Lot in With Rich Arabs, How Much is Netanyahu Out in the Cold? | The Good "Christians" Speaker Johnson and the OMB's Vought Are Working Tirelessly to Hurt the Poor and Reward the Rich
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 12, 2025 - Scott Horton | Paul Pierson</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's FBI is Trying to Silence a Whistleblower who Revealed Russian Recruitment of Musk and Thiel | The Mismatch Between Our Constitution and Weaponized Partisan Politics  
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's FBI is Trying to Silence a Whistleblower …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 11, 2025 -  Lucan Way | James Zirin | Leah Litman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Manhandling Congresswomen and Arresting a Mayor Makes it Clear We Already Have an Authoritarian Government | As Stephen Miller Talks of Suspending Habeas Corpus, Justices Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson Warn it is Time to Stand Up | The Law is Being Put to the Test by a Lawless President Who Has Been Given Immunity by a Supreme Court Captured by Right Wing Billionaires
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      <itunes:subtitle>Manhandling Congresswomen and Arresting a Mayor M…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 8, 2025 - Massimo Faggioli | Jane Via | Jeff Wise</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The 267th Pope is an American and a Peruvian Citizen Who Spent 2 Decades in Peru as a Missionary | A Roman Catholic Woman Priest on The Men-Only Cardinal's Choice of Pope Leo XIV | Is It Safe To Fly After Musk Gutted the FAA and a Reality TV President Chose a Reality TV Secretary of Transportation?
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      <title>May 7, 2025 - Annelle Sheline | Sumit Ganguly | Faith Williams</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Claiming the Houthis Have Cried Uncle, Next…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 6, 2025 - Frank Vogl | Will Bunch | Laurence Rees</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office by the Most Corrupt President in US History | How the Trump Mafia Family's Extortion Can be Stopped | Understanding the Nazi Mind and How it Applies to Trump
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office b…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 5, 2025  - Dr. Guy Ziv | Paul Blumenthal | Michael Kimmage</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Netanyahu's Plan to "Capture" Gaza Is a Death Sentence For the Remaining Hostages | Does Trump Want to Repeal the 20th Century? | What If America Abandons Ukraine, the Linchpin of European Security? 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu's Plan to "Capture" Gaza Is a Death Sen…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 4, 2025 - Lindsay Koshgarian | Craig Aaron | Timothy Naftali</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Budget Cuts the Well Being of the American People While Boosting Exclusion, Retribution and Destruction | Trump Defunds PBS and NPR in His War Against the Truth and Facts | Trump Turns the World Against Us as First Canadians and Now Australians Vote Against Pro-Trump Candidates
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      <title>May 1, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | James Liebman | Eric Blanc</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Secu…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 30, 2025 - Christine Fair | Sidney Blumenthal | Paul Pillar</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Two Nuclear Powers India and Pakistan are Poised …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 29, 2025 - Andrew Latham | Rick Perlstein | Greg Grandin</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Thanks to Trump's Bullying, Bluster and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada | A Presidential Historian on Trump's 100 Day Reign of Ruin | The Intertwined Two Americas as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South
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      <itunes:subtitle>Thanks to Trump's Bullying, Bluster and Bombast t…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Thanks to Trump's Bullying, Bluster and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada | A Presidential Historian on Trump's 100 Day Reign of Ruin | The Intertwined Two Americas as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South
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      <title>April 28, 2025 - Lisa DeMio | Moira Donega | Sean Wilentz</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State | Thiel, Musk and Vance's Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children | The Historical Comparisons Between Hilter's Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump's First 100 Days
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      <itunes:subtitle>Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New H…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State | Thiel, Musk and Vance's Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children | The Historical Comparisons Between Hilter's Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump's First 100 Days
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      <title>April 27, 2025 - Simon Shuster | Craig Holman | Gareth Gore</title>
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      <itunes:summary>On the Sidelines of the Pope's Funeral, Zelensky Meets With Trump to Discuss the White House's Charade of a Peace Plan/Giveaway to Putin | Trump Orders the DOJ to Investigate Act Blue to Get Private Data on 15 Million Democratic Donors | Opus Dei and "Traditionalist" Forces Inside the Catholic Church Maneuver to Replace a Pope They Hated With a Reactionary
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      <itunes:subtitle>On the Sidelines of the Pope's Funeral, Zelensky …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>On the Sidelines of the Pope's Funeral, Zelensky Meets With Trump to Discuss the White House's Charade of a Peace Plan/Giveaway to Putin | Trump Orders the DOJ to Investigate Act Blue to Get Private Data on 15 Million Democratic Donors | Opus Dei and "Traditionalist" Forces Inside the Catholic Church Maneuver to Replace a Pope They Hated With a Reactionary
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      <title>April 24, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Jameel Jaffer | David Graham</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Why Should Putin Accept Trump's Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised? | One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump's Extortion | Inside Project 2025 and the Right Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why Should Putin Accept Trump's Peace Deal When H…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Olga Lautman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla's Sales Slump on "Paid" Demonstrators | Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destr…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla's Sales Slump on "Paid" Demonstrators | Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield
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      <title>April 22, 2025 - J.W. Mason | Kate McElwee | Malcolm Harris</title>
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      <title>April 21, 2025 - Kenneth Briggs | Frances Kissling | Lawrence Korb</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Sadness Around the World at the Death of a Good Man, Pope Francis | The Gap Between a Tolerant and Empathetic Pope and the Reactionary Male-Dominated Institution He Headed | Another Scandal From the White Nationalist, Racist, Book-Burning Reality TV Hire of Trump's at the Pentagon
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      <title>April 20, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Justin Wolfers | Jake Werner</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Putin's Brief Easter Ceasefire and Trump's Warning he Might "Take a Pass" if a Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal Can't be Made | Trump Threatens To Fire the Chairman of the Fed Which He Can't Do But That Won't Stop Him From Trying | In Picking a Trade War With China, Trump Might End Up With a Real War 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Putin's Brief Easter Ceasefire and Trump's Warnin…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 17, 2025 - Bruce Fein | Bill Scher | Scott Kennedy</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With "The Dog Ate My Homework" Excuses | A Little-Noticed FEC Ruling Opens the Door For the Next Frontier of Plutocracy | The Tariff War Trump Has Launched Against China That He Will Surely Lose
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Contin…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With "The Dog Ate My Homework" Excuses | A Little-Noticed FEC Ruling Opens the Door For the Next Frontier of Plutocracy | The Tariff War Trump Has Launched Against China That He Will Surely Lose
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      <title>April 16, 2025 - Edward McCaffery | Nancy Altman | Craig Unger</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack as the Deliberate Destruction of the IRS Continues | The Deliberate Destruction of Social Security With Biden the Wrong Person to Lead the Effort to Save it | An Assessment of Rumors about Witkoff's Ties To Russian Money-launderers 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack as the De…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 15, 2025 - Ryan Enos | Aram Shabanian | Nader Hashemi</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Harvard Stands up to Trump Then He Hits Then For $2.2 Billion and Threatens Their Tax-exempt Status | Trump's Escalating War on the Press as he Threatens CBS Over an Accurate 60 Minutes Report on Ukraine | A Professor Who Just visited His Postdoctoral Student in an ICE Detention Camp
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      <title>April 14, 2025  - Ben Wizner | Ana María Méndez-Dardón | Steven Simon</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Is Trump Using El Salvador's Techno-Autocrat Bukele as an Excuse to Defy the Supreme Court? | Trump and Erik Prince's Plans to Rendition 100,000 Prisoners from American Jails to El Salvador | The New Hegemon in the Middle East: Israel 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Trump Using El Salvador's Techno-Autocrat Buke…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Trump Using El Salvador's Techno-Autocrat Bukele as an Excuse to Defy the Supreme Court? | Trump and Erik Prince's Plans to Rendition 100,000 Prisoners from American Jails to El Salvador | The New Hegemon in the Middle East: Israel 
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      <title>April 13, 2025 - Manuel Pastor | Stephen Walt | Christopher Whipple</title>
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      <itunes:summary>How to Ruin a Country | From a Nation of Immigrants to a Nation of Hate, Xenophobia, Exclusion and Cruelty | An Inside Look Into the Fateful Campaign That Brought Back Trump to Finish Off America
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      <itunes:subtitle>How to Ruin a Country | From a Nation of Immigran…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How to Ruin a Country | From a Nation of Immigrants to a Nation of Hate, Xenophobia, Exclusion and Cruelty | An Inside Look Into the Fateful Campaign That Brought Back Trump to Finish Off America
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      <title>April 10, 2025 - Joseph Stiglitz | Barry Eichengreen | Christopher Meissner</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | The Hollow Nature of Trump's Promise of Gain After the Pain
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      <title>April 9, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Matt Gold | Gregory Brew</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday?  	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting t…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday?  	
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      <title>April 8, 2025 - Barry Naughton | Trita Parsi | Alexander Sammon</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From Vance | Trump Announces Talks Between Iran and the US in Oman on Saturday | Trump's DOJ Will No Longer Stop Crypto Scams and Cyber Command Will No Longer Stop Ransomware Attacks
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      <itunes:subtitle>Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From Vance | Trump Announces Talks Between Iran and the US in Oman on Saturday | Trump's DOJ Will No Longer Stop Crypto Scams and Cyber Command Will No Longer Stop Ransomware Attacks
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      <title>April 7, 2025 - William Cohan | Mike Lofgren | Michael Kazin</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Urges Americans Not to Be "Weak or Stupid" as the Meltdown on Wall Street Continues | Who Benefits From Trump and Musk's Deliberate Destruction of the American Economy, Our Government and Our Standing in the World? | Saturday's 1,200 "Hands Off" Demonstrations in American Towns and Cities and Others Around the World 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Urges Americans Not to Be "Weak or Stupid" …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 6, 2025 - Denver Riggleman | Stephen Wertheim | Karthik Sankaran</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Looney Girlfriend Purges the NSC and NSA | The Future of NATO and a Europe Without the US | In Search of a Methodology Behind the Economic Lunacy of Trump's Tariffs?
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      <title>April 3, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Sarang Shidore | Jonathan Cohn</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Growing Grassroots Revolt Against the Slash and Burn of the American Government, Our Institutions and Our Democracy by Trump and Musk | Trump's Broadside of Tariffs Amid a Blizzard of Lies From the Rose Garden | After Trump, Musk and RFK Jr. Have Purged Scientists, Researchers, Innovators and Experts, Who Will Make America Great Again?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Growing Grassroots Revolt Against the Slash a…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>April 2, 2025 - Richard Parker | Jonathan Guyer | Simon Billenness</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Hope on the Horizon for Democrats | Trump's Erratic Middle East Policy as He Threatens to Bomb Iran While Israel Annexes Gaza | Will the Earthquake in Myanmar Spell the End of the Military Junta?
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      <title>April 1, 2025 - Michael Martin | Matthew Klein | Michael John Williams</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Thanks to Musk, the US is Not Helping the Victims…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Thanks to Musk, the US is Not Helping the Victims of the Earthquake in Myanmar Because There Are Only 15 Employees Left at USAID | Who Will be Freed on Trump's "Liberation Day" Tomorrow When We'll All Be Paying More? | More Nuclear Proliferation as Europeans Plan to Develop Their Own Nuclear Deterrent and Tactical Battlefield Nukes
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      <title>March 31, 2025 - Paul Pillar | Henry Giroux | Lloyd Green</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran or Does he Want to Nuke Their Underground Nuclear Facilities | Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From the Argentine Junta, Pinochet and the Nazis | A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on Republican Vulnerabilities and How the Democrats Can Up Their Game
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Ir…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran or Does he Want to Nuke Their Underground Nuclear Facilities | Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From the Argentine Junta, Pinochet and the Nazis | A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on Republican Vulnerabilities and How the Democrats Can Up Their Game
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      <title>March 30, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Aziz Rana</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power | An Examination of the Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse as Our Democracy is Destroyed is on the Left  
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      <title>March 27, 2025 - Annelle Sheline | Thomas Bollyky | Ruth Conniff</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Team Trump's Amateurs and Incompetents Exposed on the Signal Group Chat Prepare to Bomb the Houthis Again, Maybe This Time With "Clean Opsec"? | RFK Jr's Brutal Cuts to HHS as His Quackery Harms Kids From Cod Liver He Recommends Instead of a Measles Vaccination | Are We About to See a Defeat of Musk in Wisconsin After Successfully Buying the White House, the Senate and the House?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Team Trump's Amateurs and Incompetents Exposed on…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 26, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Michael Hiltzik | David Daley</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Heading Into the Generational Fight Against MAGA Fascism | Can Social Security be Saved From Musk's Wreck Then Rob | Trump's Executive Order to Rig Elections in His Favor He Claims Have Been Rigged Against Him
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      <title>March 25, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Gregory Treverton | Samuel Moyn</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Trump Team Group Chat Revels VP Vance is Running the Presidency Along With Stephen Miller | Incompetent and Unqualified Heads of US Intelligence on Display Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Today | The Courts Will Not Save Us Since They Got Us Into This Mess
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Trump Team Group Chat Revels VP Vance is Runn…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 24, 2025 - David Phillips | Asher Kaufman | Olga Lautman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Greenlight's Erdogan's Crackdown While Musk Removes Turkish Opposition Content on X | The Strategy Behind Netanyahu's Resumption of His War on Gaza | The Pathetic Asymmetry Between Seasoned Russian Diplomats and Intelligence Professionals Negotiating Against Trump's Real Estate Buddy Witkoff </itunes:summary>
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      <title>March 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Robert Suettinger</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Musk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries
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      <itunes:subtitle>Musk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | I…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 20, 2025 - David Bateman | Ken Vogel | Alex Isenstadt</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The MAGA Trump/Vance Takeover of American Education Using Money to Control Minds and Eradicate Intellectual Inquiry | Trump and the GOP Aim to Cripple the Left by Defunding Democrats and It's Underway | Vengeance Drives Trump As He Tears Down People and Institutions
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      <itunes:subtitle>The MAGA Trump/Vance Takeover of American Educati…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 19, 2025 - Marci Shore | Michael Gorham | Henri Barkey</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Could Massive Demonstrations Against Despots and Kleptocrats in Serbia and Hungary be a Model For the US to Get Rid of Trump and Musk? | Russia Claims Victory After Trump's Call With Putin Who Paid No Price For Rejecting Trump's Ceasefire Deal | Will Erdogan Get Away With the Brazen Jailing of the Leader of Turkey's Opposition?
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      <title>March 18, 2025 - Omar El Akkad | David Faris | Simon Rosenberg</title>
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      <itunes:summary>As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge the Comfort Zone of What is Happening in Distant Lands | As Musk and Trump Tear Through the Fabric of American Society, the Days of Choosing Between Gutless Liberals and Callous Conservatives are Over | What Kind of Opposition Will Emerge at This Critical Moment For the Survival of American Democracy? 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge the Comfort Zone of What is Happening in Distant Lands | As Musk and Trump Tear Through the Fabric of American Society, the Days of Choosing Between Gutless Liberals and Callous Conservatives are Over | What Kind of Opposition Will Emerge at This Critical Moment For the Survival of American Democracy? 	
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      <title>March 17, 2025 - John Nichols | Jonathan Zimmerman | Nader Hashemi</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Growing Grassroots Opposition Movement to Catch up to the Damage Musk and Trump Are Doing | Musk's Gutting of the Department of Education Before Trump Abolishes it | The Bombing of the Houthis as a Prelude to a "Peace" Deal With Iran Meant to Deliver Trump a Nobel Prize  
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Growing Grassroots Opposition Movement to Catch…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Growing Grassroots Opposition Movement to Catch up to the Damage Musk and Trump Are Doing | Musk's Gutting of the Department of Education Before Trump Abolishes it | The Bombing of the Houthis as a Prelude to a "Peace" Deal With Iran Meant to Deliver Trump a Nobel Prize  
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      <title>March 16, 2025 - Malcolm Nance | Aram Shabanian | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:05</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:subtitle>March 16, 2025 - Malcolm Nance | Aram Shabanian |…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>March 13, 2025 - David Enrich | James Galbraith | Ben Burgis</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:07:56</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called Legacy Media | An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap | Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump's Conflation of Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called Legacy Media | An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap | Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump's Conflation of Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism
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      <title>March 12, 2025 - Tom Mockaitis | Robert Creamer | Michael Swaine</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_12full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:04:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policy
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      <itunes:subtitle>With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Exp…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsized Influence Over China Policy
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      <title>March 11, 2025 - Matt Gold | Margo Schlanger | Mihir Desai</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_11full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:16</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He's Meeting With Nervous | Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as "Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American | As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World's Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortune
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has t…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He's Meeting With Nervous | Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as "Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American | As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World's Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortune
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      <title>March 10, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Jacob Silverman | David Halperin</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/trumps-war-on-education-will</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:59</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism | The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Trump's War on Education will Create an American Idiocracy
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism | The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Trump's War on Education will Create an American Idiocracy
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      <title>March 9, 2025 - Scott Horton | Anders Aslund | Mike Albertus</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_08full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:16</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour in Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the Executioners | An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms | As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Reven…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour in Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the Executioners | An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms | As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs</description>
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      <title>March 6, 2025 - Orville Schell | Andy Kroll</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_06full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:35</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stunt
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing A…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stunt
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      <title>March 5, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Alex Lawson | Karen Greenberg</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/march-5-2025-dr-allen-frances</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:31</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Repl…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?
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      <title>March 4, 2025 - Lucan Way | Dean Baker | Corey Brettschneider</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_04full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:46</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies? 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As H…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies? 
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      <title>March 3, 2025 - Anna Merlan | Casey Michel | James Thurber</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/march-3-2025-anna-merlan-casey</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy  

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Exuma – Subway Bound For Hell

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      <itunes:subtitle>The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model E…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy  

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Exuma – Subway Bound For Hell

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</description>
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      <title>March 2, 2025 - Angela Stent | Stephen Crowley | Natalie Melnyczuk</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_03_02full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:summary>Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamroll…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?
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      <title>February 27, 2025 - Alexander Motyl | Victor Pickard | Brooke Harrington</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/february-27-2025-alexander</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:08:42</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Able to Turn the Press Into His Propaganda and PR Arm as Putin and Orban Have Done? | Since Musk's Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Ab…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Able to Turn the Press Into His Propaganda and PR Arm as Putin and Orban Have Done? | Since Musk's Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US Government </description>
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      <title>February 26, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Mike Lofgren | Dr. Guy Ziv</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing_2025_02_26full</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:22</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader | Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent's Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats | Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump an…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader | Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent's Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats | Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?
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      <itunes:summary>As Assessment of the Damage Already Done by Musk and His Teenage Techies | The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders and Citizens to Recognize Trump's Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World | Trump's Lies-Laden Keynote Speech to CPAC
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      <title>February 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Eric Blanc | Erik Baker</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump's Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power | In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump's Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent | The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking as We Head Into An Era of Techno-Serfdom
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump's Dumbest…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>In Crushing the Federal WorkForce, Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make His Tax Cuts Permanent</title>
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      <title>February 19, 2025 - Simon Shuster | Emma Ashford | Katherine Stewart</title>
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      <title>February 18, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | John Ganz | Jacob Heilbrunn</title>
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      <title>February 17, 2025 - Daniel Treisman | David Andelman | James Risen</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>While Trump Brings Putin Out From the Cold of Int…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 15, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Kim Lane Scheppele | James Zirin</title>
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      <title>February 13, 2025 - Allison McManus | Michael Hiltzik | Timothy Shenk</title>
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      <title>February 12, 2025 - Steven Pifer | Michael Kimmage | Daoud Kuttab</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Hegseth Gives Up Ukraine's Leverage Before Russia…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 11, 2025 - Nicholas Grossman | Lucan Way</title>
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      <title>February 10, 2025 - Jason Stanley | Jacques Berlinerbau | Allison Pugh</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Has Fascism Already Arrived in America? | The MAG…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>February 9, 2025 - Kathleen Clark | Katherine Stewart | Vanda Felbab-Brown</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader | The One-Two Punch of Plutocracy and Theocracy Taking Over the Country | The Tinderbox in Eastern Congo Threatening a Regional War
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      <description>Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader | The One-Two Punch of Plutocracy and Theocracy Taking Over the Country | The Tinderbox in Eastern Congo Threatening a Regional War
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      <title>February 6, 2025 - David Super | Lisa Graves | Michael German</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/Trump Buyout Trick | The Moral Authoritarian and Billionaire Worshipping Author of Project 2025 About to Head the OMB | Collusion Between the Far Right and American Policing is About to Get Worse Under Trump, Bondi and Kash Patel
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      <itunes:subtitle>Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/T…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/Trump Buyout Trick | The Moral Authoritarian and Billionaire Worshipping Author of Project 2025 About to Head the OMB | Collusion Between the Far Right and American Policing is About to Get Worse Under Trump, Bondi and Kash Patel
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      <title>February 5, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Leila Hilal | Jeet Heer</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:03:11</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist "Crusader" at the Pentagon Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire | A Palestinian Perspective on Trump's US-Owned Gaza as a "Riviera of the Middle East" | The Growing Alarm at Musk Having Every American's Social Security Number, Address, Email, Income and Personal Details
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      <itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist "Crusa…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist "Crusader" at the Pentagon Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire | A Palestinian Perspective on Trump's US-Owned Gaza as a "Riviera of the Middle East" | The Growing Alarm at Musk Having Every American's Social Security Number, Address, Email, Income and Personal Details
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      <title>February 4, 2025 - Robert Kuttner | Ioan Grillo | Van Jackson</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:05:40</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy | Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China and Now India | The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy | Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China and Now India | The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions 	
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      <title>February 3, 2025 - Steve Radelet | Moira Donegan | Adele Stan</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/february-3-2025-steve-radelet-moira-donegan-adele-stan</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:20</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freezes Foreign Aid for 90 Days | The Failure of the Democrats and the American Left In Allowing a Disastrous Misanthrope to Be Elected President Not Just Once, But Twice | Do 76 Million Americans Not Want a Functioning Government and Prefer to be Entertained by a Reality TV Star?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freez…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Musk Shuts Down USAID After Trump Illegally Freezes Foreign Aid for 90 Days | The Failure of the Democrats and the American Left In Allowing a Disastrous Misanthrope to Be Elected President Not Just Once, But Twice | Do 76 Million Americans Not Want a Functioning Government and Prefer to be Entertained by a Reality TV Star?
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      <title>February 2, 2025 - William Yeomans | Karen Dolan | Michael Brenes</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/february-2-2025-william-yeomans-karen-dolan-michael-brenes</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:11</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Lawless, Petty and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI | Musk and Trump's Shock and Awe Campaign to Wreck and Loot the US Government | Trump Slaps Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in a Dangerous and Misguided Frenzy of America First Nationalism  	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Lawless, Petty and Vindictive Purge of th…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Lawless, Petty and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI | Musk and Trump's Shock and Awe Campaign to Wreck and Loot the US Government | Trump Slaps Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in a Dangerous and Misguided Frenzy of America First Nationalism  	
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      <title>January 1, 2025 - Gregory Treverton | Jeff Wise</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard | Rather Than Fix the FAA, Our Reality TV President Blames DEI For the Potomac Plane Crash
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      <itunes:subtitle>Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Rol…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard | Rather Than Fix the FAA, Our Reality TV President Blames DEI For the Potomac Plane Crash
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      <title>January 29, 2025 - Dr. Amesh Adalja | Dr. Peter Katona | Mae Ngai</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-29-2025-dr-amesh</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:41</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Carloline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a "Predator?" | RFK Jr. and the Spread of Medical Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories | Trump Has Already Violated His Oath of Office on the 14th Amendment Birthright and the Funding Freeze He Had to Rescind 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Carlolin…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Carloline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a "Predator?" | RFK Jr. and the Spread of Medical Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories | Trump Has Already Violated His Oath of Office on the 14th Amendment Birthright and the Funding Freeze He Had to Rescind 	
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      <title>January 28, 2025 - Michelle Garcia | Sam Quinones | Thomas Berger</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-28-2025-michelle-garca-sam-quinones-thomas-berger</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:01</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway | Trump Will Hurt the Construction Industry Now in Demand to Rebuild Houses Lost to Hurricanes and Wildfires | Can Musk Buy Elections in the UK and Germany As He Just Did Here? 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway | …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway | Trump Will Hurt the Construction Industry Now in Demand to Rebuild Houses Lost to Hurricanes and Wildfires | Can Musk Buy Elections in the UK and Germany As He Just Did Here? 	
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      <title>January 27, 2025 - Dharna Noor | Dr. Herb Lin | Natalie Melnyczuk</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-27-2025-dharna-noor-dr-herb-lin-natalie-melnyczuk</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:07:11</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress | China's DeepSeek AI Model Threatens US Dominance as Tech Stocks Tumble | Will Trump Fall For Putin's Flattery?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry Which…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress | China's DeepSeek AI Model Threatens US Dominance as Tech Stocks Tumble | Will Trump Fall For Putin's Flattery?
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      <title>January 26, 2025 - Michael Weinstein | Russell Muirhead | Michael Albertus</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-26-2025-michael-weinstien-russell-muirhead-michael-albertus</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:16</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are Creating Affirmative Action for White Losers, Drunks and Incompetents | Trump's Wrecking Crew and the Politics of Destruction | Trump Eyes Panama, Greenland and Canada For a Land Grab
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      <itunes:subtitle>In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>In Their Jihad Against DEI, Trump and Hegseth Are Creating Affirmative Action for White Losers, Drunks and Incompetents | Trump's Wrecking Crew and the Politics of Destruction | Trump Eyes Panama, Greenland and Canada For a Land Grab
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      <title>January 23, 2025 - Gil Duran | George Beebe | William Hartung</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/january-23-2025-gil-duran-george-beebe-william-hartung</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:42</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump's Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives | Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia's to End Its War On Ukraine | The Tech-Industrial Complex's Plans to Capture the Defense Budget 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump's Fi…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump's Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives | Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia's to End Its War On Ukraine | The Tech-Industrial Complex's Plans to Capture the Defense Budget 	
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      <title>January 22, 2025 - Anthea Butler | Loch Johnson | Craig Unger</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Real Christian Confronts Trump Unlike the Christo-Fascists and Evangelical Hucksters Who Worship the False Idol | Trump's Choices to Head American Intelligence Might As Well Have Been Chosen By Putin | The Treason That Helped Elect Nixon, Reagan and Trump
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Real Christian Confronts Trump Unlike the Chris…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 21, 2025 - Michael Podhorzer | Elizabeth Goitein | Spencer Sunshine</title>
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      <itunes:summary>How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy | Trump's Plans From 1798 to Use the US Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels | In Releasing Jailed Militia Leaders, Is Trump Following Mussolini and Hitler's Playbook of a "Blackshirt" and "Brownshirt" Assault on Democracy?
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      <itunes:subtitle>How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a P…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 20, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Sidney Blumenthal | Molly White</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren | The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises | The Crypto Grift of $Trump Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief
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      <itunes:subtitle>Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Childr…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren | The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises | The Crypto Grift of $Trump Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief
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      <title>January 19, 2025 - Sean Wilentz | Fred Turner | Cayce Myers</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sadness of Biden | Biden's Warning of a Tech-Industrial Complex and That We Are Losing Our Democracy to Plutocracy | The Future of TikTok Which the Supreme Court Shut Down Today  
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sad…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Incoming Horror of Trump and the Outgoing Sadness of Biden | Biden's Warning of a Tech-Industrial Complex and That We Are Losing Our Democracy to Plutocracy | The Future of TikTok Which the Supreme Court Shut Down Today  
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      <title>January 16, 2025 - Steven Simon | Quinn Slobodian</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal | Biden's Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hos…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal | Biden's Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex 	
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      <title>January 15, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Elliot Egin | Corey Brettschneider</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>What Latitude Will "Little Marco" Have As Secretary of State? | The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General | Trump's Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the People
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      <itunes:subtitle>What Latitude Will "Little Marco" Have As Secreta…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>What Latitude Will "Little Marco" Have As Secretary of State? | The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General | Trump's Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the People
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      <title>January 14, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Rachel VanLandingham | Laurie Levenson | Annelle Sheline</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Determined to Do Trump's Bidding and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense | A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth's Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice | Jack Smith's January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial | Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Deter…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats Determined to Do Trump's Bidding and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense | A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth's Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice | Jack Smith's January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial | Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas 	
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      <title>January 13, 2025 - David Cay Johnston | Lawrence Korb | Aaron Reichlin-Melnick</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Hearings Begin on Tuesday For Trump's Disastrously Unqualified Nominees | How Pete Hegseth Compares to Former Heads of the Pentagon | The Laken Riley Act Will Empower Anti-Immigrant Zealots</itunes:summary>
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      <title>January 12, 2025 -  LeRoy Westerling | David Smilde | James Zirin</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes, Trump Offers Insults | The Third Inauguration of Venezuela's Maduro Who Lost the Last Election in a Landslide | The Scofflaw-in-Chief is Now the Felon-in-Chief
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      <itunes:subtitle>Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes, Trump Offers Insults | The Third Inauguration of Venezuela's Maduro Who Lost the Last Election in a Landslide | The Scofflaw-in-Chief is Now the Felon-in-Chief
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      <title>January 9, 2025 - James Fallows | Glen MacDonald | Mark Whailing</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Today's Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter at His State Funeral | How Climate Change Supercharged the Wildfires That Swept Through LA | A Former LAFD Battalion Chief on What it is Like to Confront a Wall of Flame Driven by 80 MPH Winds
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      <itunes:subtitle>Today's Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 8, 2025 - Harry Litman | Dr. Jon Kelley | Jamie Court</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Years of MAGA Jurisprudence | Environmental and Ecological Factors Behind the Wildfires Raging in LA | Will Homeowners Get Their Insurance Payouts and Will Insurance Still Be Available in Fire-Prone Areas?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Y…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Years of MAGA Jurisprudence | Environmental and Ecological Factors Behind the Wildfires Raging in LA | Will Homeowners Get Their Insurance Payouts and Will Insurance Still Be Available in Fire-Prone Areas?
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      <title>January 7, 2025 - Scott Horton | Stephen Kinzer | Alexander Cooley</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him | At Today's Rambling Press Conference Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland and Make Canada the 51st State | Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Socia…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him | At Today's Rambling Press Conference Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland and Make Canada the 51st State | Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?
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      <title>January 6, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Andrew Latham | Thanassis Cambanis</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Orwellian January 6 Victory - Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered | Today's Resignation of Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office | The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State</itunes:summary>
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      <title>January 5, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Ruth Ben Ghiat | Craig Aaron</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks | An American Despot is About to Take Charge With So Much More Power Than Hitler Had in 1933 | A Republican Court Kills Net Neutrality to Reward Unpopular and Antiquated Cable and Telecom Giants
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>January 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen Wertheim</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Yea…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year's Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel | Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter Who Tried to Bridge Divides | Could Trump be a Peacemaker Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize?
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      <title>January 1, 2025 - Wendy Brown | Richard Beck | Brooke Harrington</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism? | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the US | Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditio…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism? | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the US | Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders
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      <title>December 31, 2024 - Jason Stanley | Gareth Gore | Timothy Shenk</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:18:00</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level | With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy
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      <itunes:subtitle>We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level | With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy
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      <title>December 30, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Samuel Moyn | Steve Benen</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:15:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
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      <itunes:subtitle>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Su…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
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      <title>December 29, 2024 - Miles Taylor | Oona Hathaway | Nick Bryant</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:26:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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      <title>December 25, 2024 - Rev. Mitri Raheb | James Carroll</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-25-2024-rev-mitri-raheb-james-carroll</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outs…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025
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      <title>December 24, 2024 - Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis | Diane Winston</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-24-2024-rev-dr-liz-theoharis-diane-winston</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court | The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump's Team of "Christian" Zionists
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court | The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump's Team of "Christian" Zionists
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      <title>December 23, 2024 - Lisa Graves | John Nichols | Wendy Via</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-23-2024-lisa-graves-john-nichols-wendy-via</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:05:36</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel's Federal Bureau of Retribution | Will Elon Musk's Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel? | With Trump Back Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Now
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponizat…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel's Federal Bureau of Retribution | Will Elon Musk's Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel? | With Trump Back Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Now
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      <title>December 22, 2024 - Robert Hockett | James Thurber | Robert Benson</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-21-2024-robert-hockett-james-thurber-robert-benson</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:54</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doing
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and M…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doing
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      <title>December 19, 2024 - Brooke Harrington | Kim Lane Scheppele</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-19-2024-brooke-harrington-kim-lane-scheppele</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:35</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders | MAGA Republicans Follow Orban's Model With Project 2025 While Trump Moves to Control the Media as Orban Did, Turning a Democracy Into a Kleptocracy and Dictatorship 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders | MAGA Republicans Follow Orban's Model With Project 2025 While Trump Moves to Control the Media as Orban Did, Turning a Democracy Into a Kleptocracy and Dictatorship 	
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      <title>December 18, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Thomas Mockaitis | Christopher Shaw</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-18-2024-alexander-sammon-thomas-mockaitis-christopher-shaw</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:59</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Star Who Appeals to the Youth and Latino Vote | An expert on Terrorism on Charging Luigi Mangione With Terrorism | Jeff Bezos Bends the Knee Today at Mar a Lago as Trump Muses About Privatizing the USPS
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Sta…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Star Who Appeals to the Youth and Latino Vote | An expert on Terrorism on Charging Luigi Mangione With Terrorism | Jeff Bezos Bends the Knee Today at Mar a Lago as Trump Muses About Privatizing the USPS
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      <enclosure length="146674490" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1989249691-user-830442635-december-18-2024-alexander-sammon-thomas-mockaitis-christopher-shaw.mp3"/>
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      <title>December 17, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Jonathan Metzl | Suzanne Schneider</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-17-2024-paul-waldman-jonathan-metzl-suzanne-schneider</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:28</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates | The Latest of 323 School Shooting This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6 and Shot Herself at Her Christian School | Our "Christo-Fascists" Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decry
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Pree…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates | The Latest of 323 School Shooting This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6 and Shot Herself at Her Christian School | Our "Christo-Fascists" Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decry
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      <title>December 16, 2024  - Annelle Sheline | Matt Bruenig | Thomas Berger</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Jordan Faces Collapse With Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank | An Alternative to Our Broken "Healthcare" System That Does Not Waste Trillions While Delaying and Denying Care | The Fall of the German Government and Whether Support For Ukraine Will Continue</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Jordan Faces Collapse With Israel's Proposed Anne…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>December 15, 2024 - David Hearst | Jason Wilson | Alex Scribener</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Is Another Arab Spring Possible With Syria's New Leader and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood? | With Trump's Manic Fanboy Kash Patel in Charge of the Country's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency, Patel's Delusional List of "Traitors" Will Soon Fill the MAGA Gulag | Georgia's Pro-EU Protests Intensify as the Pro-Russian Parliament Installs a Right Wing Footballer as President
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Another Arab Spring Possible With Syria's New …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Another Arab Spring Possible With Syria's New Leader and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood? | With Trump's Manic Fanboy Kash Patel in Charge of the Country's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency, Patel's Delusional List of "Traitors" Will Soon Fill the MAGA Gulag | Georgia's Pro-EU Protests Intensify as the Pro-Russian Parliament Installs a Right Wing Footballer as President
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      <title>December 12, 2024 - Robert Young Pelton | Nader Hashemi | Stacy Mitchell</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:20</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Pa…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Will Trump and His Shills For Russia like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard Turn Us Into Putin's America? | Israel and Turkey Appears to be the Winners in Syria While Russia and Iran are the Losers | How Rising Food Prices Played a Decisive Role in the Election and Efforts to Rein In Food Monopolies Like WalMart 
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      <title>December 11, 2024 - Wendell Potter | David Ignatius | Wladimir van Wilgenburg</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-11-2024-wendell-potter-david-ignatius-wladimir-van-wilgenburg</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive "Healthcare" in the Developed World | How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels | The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan's Murderous Militia in the New Syria
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      <itunes:subtitle>Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and M…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Wall Street's Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive "Healthcare" in the Developed World | How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels | The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan's Murderous Militia in the New Syria
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      <title>December 10, 2024 - John Donohue | Anthony Grasso | John Stoehr</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:30</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins | America's Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO's Get a Slap on the Wrist | Kash Patel's FBI Will Go After Trump's Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin's Spies
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetecta…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins | America's Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO's Get a Slap on the Wrist | Kash Patel's FBI Will Go After Trump's Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin's Spies
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      <title>December 9, 2024 - Paul Pillar | Dr. Nancy Okail</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:04:01</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics | How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump's "America First" Unilateralism and Biden's "America is Back" Nostalgia</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics | How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump's "America First" Unilateralism and Biden's "America is Back" Nostalgia</description>
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      <title>December 8, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Patrick Blanchfield | Helaine Olen</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-8-2024-olga-lautman-patrick-blanchfield-helaine-olen</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:29</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him | Rage for Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System | Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Out
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him | Rage for Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System | Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Out
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      <title>December 5, 2024 - Eric Kingson | Richard Beck</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-5-2024-eric-kingson-richard-beck</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:37</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the US
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      <itunes:subtitle>"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along W…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>"It's Going to Be Fun" Says Ramaswamy Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare | How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the US
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      <title>December 4, 2024 - Sarah Anderson | Joshua Landis | Stavroula Pabst</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-4-2024-sarah-anderson-joshua-landis-stavroula-pabst</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:05:16</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As Trump Forms a Government Of, By and For Plutocrats | The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret US-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran | What Trump's Pick of Feinberg as Number 2 at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Champion of Working Class Voters' Big Con As Trump Forms a Government Of, By and For Plutocrats | The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret US-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran | What Trump's Pick of Feinberg as Number 2 at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget
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      <title>December 3, 2024 - Stephen Noerper | Juan Cole | David Shapiro</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-3-2024-stephen-noerper-juan-cole-david-shapiro</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:28</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down | Trump Threatens There'll Be " All Hell To Pay in the Middle East" If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration | Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?
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      <itunes:subtitle>South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>South Korea's President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down | Trump Threatens There'll Be " All Hell To Pay in the Middle East" If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration | Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?
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      <title>December 2, 2024 - Max Kiefel | Lincoln Mitchell | Scott Horton</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-2-2024-max-kiefel-lincoln-mitchell-scott-horton</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:04:48</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants | Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged While the Democrats Remain Silent | Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Democrats as a Vision Starved Blob Made up of Candidates, Billionaire Donors and Data Addled Consultants | Trump Wins by Calling the System Rigged While the Democrats Remain Silent | Will the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue?</description>
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      <title>December 1, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | William Arkin | Steven Simon</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/december-1-2024-robert-kuttner-william-arkin-steven-simon</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:06:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains
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      <itunes:subtitle>If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump's Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg's Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains
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      <title>November 28, 2024 - Richard Parker | Moira Donegan | Stephan Schwartz</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/november-28-2024-richard-parker-moira-donegan-stephan-schwartz</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:06:09</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times | How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny | What We As Individuals Can Do to Resist and Overcome the Coming Darkness
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      <itunes:subtitle>What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>What We can Be Thankful For in These Bleak Times | How Women Can Resist and Fight Back Against a Regime of Hate and Misogyny | What We As Individuals Can Do to Resist and Overcome the Coming Darkness
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      <title>November 26, 2024 - Scott Kennedy | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Habib Battah</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico and Canada | Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the US | An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexi…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 25, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Nitish Pahwa | Amanda Tyler</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A 60 Day Ceasefire Expected Soon Between Israel and Hezbollah | With Elon Musk Musing About Buying MSNBC, We Look Into the Future of Cable TV | Christian Nationalists Make Inroads Into Indoctrinating Texas Schoolchildren</itunes:summary>
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      <title>November 24, 2024 - Thomas Mockaitis | James Green | Stephen Biddle</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Country as the Enemy and That There Will Be Civil War | The Arrest of Coup Plotters in Brazil Who Trump Supports For a Military Takeover That Could Happen Here | Putin's Latest Nuclear Sabre Rattling as NATO Crosses Its Red Lines
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Coun…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Country as the Enemy and That There Will Be Civil War | The Arrest of Coup Plotters in Brazil Who Trump Supports For a Military Takeover That Could Happen Here | Putin's Latest Nuclear Sabre Rattling as NATO Crosses Its Red Lines
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      <title>November 21, 2024 - James Zirin | Craig Holman | Richard Falk</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Gaetz Withdraws AG Nomination as Trump's Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations | The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead | An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofits
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      <itunes:subtitle>Gaetz Withdraws AG Nomination as Trump's Pentagon…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Gaetz Withdraws AG Nomination as Trump's Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations | The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead | An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofits
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      <title>November 20, 2024 - Noah Hurowitz | William Cohan | Michael Gorham</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Can a MAGA Bill to Kill Nonprofits They Don't Like Disguised as an Anti-Terrorism Bill Be Stopped Tomorrow? | As Comcast Sheds MSNBC, Could Elon Musk Buy it and Turn it Into a Platform For Right Wing Trolls? | The US and NATO Are Poised For Hybrid Warfare Retaliation From Putin Now That US Missiles are Striking Russia
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      <itunes:subtitle>Can a MAGA Bill to Kill Nonprofits They Don't Lik…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 19, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Lawrence Gostin | Victoria Hui</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Evidence of Drug Use and Underage Sex by Matt Gaetz is Cracking Open as the Senate is Soon to be Put to the Test | With the Focus on Trump's Appalling Choices, Will RFK Jr Slip By? | 45 Hong Kong Democracy Activists Jailed Under China's National Security Law
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      <itunes:subtitle>Evidence of Drug Use and Underage Sex by Matt Gae…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 18, 2024 - Lawrence Wilkerson | Wendy Brown</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Consequences of Biden Authorizing Missile Strikes From Ukraine Into Russia | Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right Wing Populism?</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>The Consequences of Biden Authorizing Missile Str…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 17, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Tom Nichols | Mark Galeotti</title>
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      <itunes:summary>"Trump 2.0: Here Comes The Night" | A Hari Krishna-Like Cult Member and Russian Asset in Charge of US Intelligence! | Russia's Military: It's History and It's War Today
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      <itunes:subtitle>"Trump 2.0: Here Comes The Night" | A Hari Krishn…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 14, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Robert Young Pelton | Gregory Treverton</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agencies
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Choice of an Unqualified and Incompetent Ideologue to Head the DOJ Who Has Be Charged With Sex Trafficking an Underaged Girl Across State Lines | Trump's Choice of a Fox Propagandist, Grifter and Supporter of For-Profit Colleges That Rip off Veterans to be Secretary of Defense | Trump Wants a Member of a Fringe Hindu Cult and Fan of the Syrian and Russian Dictators to be the Next Head of Our Intelligence Agencies
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      <title>November 13, 2024 - Anders Aslund | Jacob Silverman | Molly White</title>
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      <itunes:summary>It Looks Like Trump is No Longer Afraid of Being Blackmailed By Putin | Trump Shows Up at the Congress Today With His New Playmate Elon Musk | The Outsized Role the Crypto Industry Played in Electing Trump and Republicans
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      <itunes:subtitle>It Looks Like Trump is No Longer Afraid of Being …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>It Looks Like Trump is No Longer Afraid of Being Blackmailed By Putin | Trump Shows Up at the Congress Today With His New Playmate Elon Musk | The Outsized Role the Crypto Industry Played in Electing Trump and Republicans
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      <title>November 12, 2024 - Ankush Khardori | Jeet Heer | Adam Weinstein</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement in History Thanks to Garland, McConnell and Roberts | Senator Murphy Agrees With Bernie That Democrats Have Abandoned the Working Class | Saudi Arabia and Iran Get Closer in Anticipation of a Trump Presidency 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement i…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Greatest Failure of Federal Law Enforcement in History Thanks to Garland, McConnell and Roberts | Senator Murphy Agrees With Bernie That Democrats Have Abandoned the Working Class | Saudi Arabia and Iran Get Closer in Anticipation of a Trump Presidency 
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      <title>November 11, 2024 - Josh Paul | Lucian Truscott IV | Will Bunch</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Too Little Too Late, Biden is Finally Ready to Stand Up to Israel | On Veterans Day, Will We Have Trump Wars and More American Veterans? | We are Entering America's Strongman Era 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Too Little Too Late, Biden is Finally Ready to St…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Too Little Too Late, Biden is Finally Ready to Stand Up to Israel | On Veterans Day, Will We Have Trump Wars and More American Veterans? | We are Entering America's Strongman Era 
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      <title>November 11, 2024 - Timothy Shenk | Sean Wilentz | Robert Benson</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy | The Failure of the Legal System to Bring a Career Criminal to Justice Before he Took Over the World | The Global Implications of the Enormous Power Trump Will Wield
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      <itunes:subtitle>With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>November 7, 2024 - James Thurber | Jeff Hauser | Michael Kazin</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:03:48</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing 15 Seats to Flip the House, Will Trump End Up With the Trifecta of White House, Senate and House? | The Frightening and Less Frightening Contenders for Trump's White House and Cabinet Positions | Democrats Have Joined the Global Trend of Left and Social Democratic Parties Losing to the Far Right
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      <itunes:subtitle>With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing 15 Seats to Flip the House, Will Trump End Up With the Trifecta of White House, Senate and House? | The Frightening and Less Frightening Contenders for Trump's White House and Cabinet Positions | Democrats Have Joined the Global Trend of Left and Social Democratic Parties Losing to the Far Right
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      <title>November 6, 2024 - John Nichols | Lily Geismer | Charles Kupchan</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/november-6-2024-john-nichols-lily-geismer-charles-kupchan</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:22</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Votes Than 2020 While Harris Won 66 Million, Far Less Than Biden's 81 Million in 2020 | The Education Divide With Harris Winning the Educated and Trump the Less Educated | Will Trump and Vance's "America First" Isolationism Define the Next 4 Years?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Vot…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Votes Than 2020 While Harris Won 66 Million, Far Less Than Biden's 81 Million in 2020 | The Education Divide With Harris Winning the Educated and Trump the Less Educated | Will Trump and Vance's "America First" Isolationism Define the Next 4 Years?
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      <title>November 5, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Eoghan Gilmartin | Andrew Davis &amp; Jeff Biggers</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/november-5-2024-alexander-sammon-eoghan-gilmartin-andrew-davis-jeff-biggers</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:57</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Most of Which Goes to the Big Media Companies | Hundreds Died in Spain In What Was Not Just a Natural Disaster | The Issue Not Discussed in This Election, Nuclear Disarmament
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      <itunes:subtitle>$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Mo…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Most of Which Goes to the Big Media Companies | Hundreds Died in Spain In What Was Not Just a Natural Disaster | The Issue Not Discussed in This Election, Nuclear Disarmament
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      <title>November 4, 2024 - Jared Holt | Greg Palast | David Faris</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/november-4-2024-jared-holt-greg-palast-david-faris</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:10</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat That "Bad Things Could Happen" If He Loses the Election | The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway by Partisan Vigilantes to Purge Voter Rolls | Kamala May Win Big and She Has to Because Trump's GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat That "Bad Things Cou…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat That "Bad Things Could Happen" If He Loses the Election | The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway by Partisan Vigilantes to Purge Voter Rolls | Kamala May Win Big and She Has to Because Trump's GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete</description>
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      <title>November 3, 2024 - Joshua Dyck | Karen Greenberg | Adele Stan</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/november-3-2024-joshua-dyck-karen-greenberg-adele-stan</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:29</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Fai…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"</description>
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      <title>October 31, 2024 - David Daley | Austin Ahlman | Steven Harper</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-31-2024-david-daley-austin-ahlman-steven-harper</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:56</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?"
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?"
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      <title>October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal | Richard Briffault</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-30-2024-justin-higgins-sidney-blumenthal-richard-briffault</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:58:53</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginia
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      <itunes:subtitle>The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wo…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginia
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      <title>October 29, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Peter Montgomery</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-29-2024-sarah-leah-whitson-luis-martinez-fernandez-peter-montgomery</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:31</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"
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      <itunes:subtitle>Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"
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      <title>October 28, 2024 - Anne Nelson | David Cay Johnston | Lincoln Mitchell</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-28-2024-anne-nelson-david-cay-johnston-lincoln-mitchell</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:44</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia</description>
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      <title>October 27, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | James Risen | Jeffrey Winters</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-27-2024-nader-hashemi-james-risen-jeffrey-winters</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:54</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Ap…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?
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      <title>October 24, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Victor Pickard | Jonathan Alter</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-24-2024-aram-shabanian-victor-pickard-jonathan-alter</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:37</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine? | Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump | This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liar
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      <itunes:subtitle>What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending C…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine? | Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump | This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liar
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      <title>October 23, 2024 - Lydia Camarillo | Steven Greenhouse | Alexander Stille</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-23-2024-lydia-camarillo-steven-greenhouse-alexander-stille</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:26</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist"
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      <itunes:subtitle>How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the El…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election and Trump's Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans | As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring | A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump's Former Chief of Staff's Comment That Trump "Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist"
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      <title>October 22, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Rachel Bitecofer | Lara Friedman</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-22-2024-dr-bandy-lee-rachel-bitecofer-lara-friedman</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:00:58</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Together
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psy…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Author of the Goldwater Rule Which Gagged Psychiatrists Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia | Trump's Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps Are the Same as Hitler's Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship | The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Together
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      <title>October 21, 2024 - James Carville | Mitchell Plitnick | Denver Riggleman</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-21-2024-james-carville-mitchell-plitnick-denver-riggleman</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:27</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?</itunes:summary>
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      <description>We Should Take Trump's Fascistic Plans Seriously | Kamala Harris's Stand on Gaza Satisfies No One | Were the Leaks From US Intelligence on Israel's Plans to Attack Iran Authorized or Unauthorized?</description>
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      <title>October 20, 2024 -  Lawrence Douglas | Benjamin Carter Hett | Stephen Wertheim</title>
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      <itunes:summary>43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontation
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      <itunes:subtitle>43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequen…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Most Consequential Election That Could be Decided by a Few Counties | With One Third of Americans Agreeing With Trump That "Immigrants Poison the Blood of America" His Bad Genes Invasion Claim Echoes Nazi "Criminal Biology" | "Competitive Coexistence" With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontation
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      <title>October 17, 2024 - Dov Waxman | Jacob Silverman | Mike Lofgren</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Killing of Sinwar and the Burning Alive Seen Around the World of a Promising Young Palestinian | The Blatant Buying of a Next Trump Presidency (However Short it May Be) by Right Wing Plutocrats | The Goebbels-Like Nature of the Trump/Vance Campaign of Lies 	
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      <title>October 16, 2024 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Sung Yoon Lee | Sarang Shidore</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar?
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      <itunes:subtitle>More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>More Important Than Trump's Mental Decline is the Rising Possibility of JD Vance as the Tech Bros President of the United States | A Report From South Korea on the Rising Fury of Kim and His Sister and the Desertion of North Korean Troops in Ukraine | As BRICS Expands, Is it a Dictators Club or an Alternative to the Domination of the Dollar?
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      <title>October 15, 2024 - Dr. Lance Dodes | Nizar Farsakh | Andrew Latham</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu's Plan to Starve 400,000 in Gaza Prompts the US to Warn Military Aid Could be Cut Off in 30 Days | Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Colluding With Criminals to Assassinate a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soil
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu'…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Obvious Mental Deterioration | Netanyahu's Plan to Starve 400,000 in Gaza Prompts the US to Warn Military Aid Could be Cut Off in 30 Days | Canada Expels 6 Indian Diplomats For Colluding With Criminals to Assassinate a Sikh Activist on Canadian Soil
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      <title>October 14, 2024 - Fawaz Gerges | Dr. Trita Parsi | Wendy Via</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netanyahu's "Delusion" He Can Reshape the Middle East by Eliminating Hezbollah | How Much do Biden and His Top Officials Believe the Middle East Can be Reshaped by Israeli Military Power | Reports Armed Militias Motivated by Trump and Vance's Lies are Stopping FEMA From Delivering Aid in North Carolina</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netan…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Intensifying Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Netanyahu's "Delusion" He Can Reshape the Middle East by Eliminating Hezbollah | How Much do Biden and His Top Officials Believe the Middle East Can be Reshaped by Israeli Military Power | Reports Armed Militias Motivated by Trump and Vance's Lies are Stopping FEMA From Delivering Aid in North Carolina</description>
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      <title>October 13, 2024 - Bill Scher | Sidney Blumenthal | David Noll</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update on Polls and Predictions | Is America Itself on Trial in This Election and Could it Soon Descend Into Darkness Like Germany in the 1930's? | The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States in Our Vigilante Nation
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      <itunes:subtitle>With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With the Fateful Election 3 Weeks Away, an Update on Polls and Predictions | Is America Itself on Trial in This Election and Could it Soon Descend Into Darkness Like Germany in the 1930's? | The Political Violence Spilling Out of Red States in Our Vigilante Nation
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      <title>October 10, 2024 - Thanassis Cambanis | Jonathan Weiler | Pamela Yates</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitarian Law For IDF Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Trump/Vance's Lies on Whether Harris Will Win North Carolina | A New Film Exposing the Border Industrial Complex and the Profitable Business of Immigration</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitari…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The UN Warns Israel it is in Breach of Humanitarian Law For IDF Attacks on UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon | The Impact of Hurricane Helene and Trump/Vance's Lies on Whether Harris Will Win North Carolina | A New Film Exposing the Border Industrial Complex and the Profitable Business of Immigration</description>
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      <title>October 9, 2024 - Christopher Steele | Timothy Shenk</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:03:09</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin Emerges, We Speak With Former British Intelligence Professional Christopher Steele | With Republicans Making Inroads Into the What's Left of the New Deal Coalition, How the Democratic Party Could Repair its Frayed Connection to the Working Class
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      <itunes:subtitle>As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As More Evidence of Trump's Collusion With Putin Emerges, We Speak With Former British Intelligence Professional Christopher Steele | With Republicans Making Inroads Into the What's Left of the New Deal Coalition, How the Democratic Party Could Repair its Frayed Connection to the Working Class
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      <title>October 8, 2024 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Anders Aslund | Rob Jackson</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-8-2024-dr-annelle-sheline-anders-aslund-rob-jackson</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:05:29</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A Former State Department Official on Why Biden and Harris Appear Helpless as Netanyahu Pushes the Middle East to the Brink | Bob Woodward's Latest Revelations of Trump's Continuing and Treasonous Contacts with Putin | As Global Warming Drives Superstorms, How We Can Restore the Atmosphere
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Former State Department Official on Why Biden a…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Former State Department Official on Why Biden and Harris Appear Helpless as Netanyahu Pushes the Middle East to the Brink | Bob Woodward's Latest Revelations of Trump's Continuing and Treasonous Contacts with Putin | As Global Warming Drives Superstorms, How We Can Restore the Atmosphere
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      <title>October 7, 2024 - Haggai Matar | James Acton | Stephen Ujlaki</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-7-2024-haggai-matar-james-acton-stephen-ujlaki</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:57</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 Attack as Hezbollah Missiles Rain Down on Haifa, Tiberias and Carmiel | How an Israeli Retaliation Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Backfire | It's Time For Trump's "Christian" Soldiers to Ask, is Trump the Antichrist?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 At…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Israel's One Year Anniversary of the October 7 Attack as Hezbollah Missiles Rain Down on Haifa, Tiberias and Carmiel | How an Israeli Retaliation Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities Could Backfire | It's Time For Trump's "Christian" Soldiers to Ask, is Trump the Antichrist?
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      <title>October 6, 2024 - David Daley | David Graham | Brett Murphy</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-6-2024-david-daley-david-graham-brett-murphy</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:44</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Jankowski, Leonard Leo and John Roberts Have Stacked the Deck Against Them | The Many October Surprises and a Guide to the Cases Against Trump | The Flow of US Weapons Continues Unabated as Civilian Deaths Mount in Gaza and Lebanon
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Janko…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Democrats Have to Win Big Because Chris Jankowski, Leonard Leo and John Roberts Have Stacked the Deck Against Them | The Many October Surprises and a Guide to the Cases Against Trump | The Flow of US Weapons Continues Unabated as Civilian Deaths Mount in Gaza and Lebanon
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      <title>October 3, 2024 - Dennis Aftergut | Gareth Gore</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-3-2024-dennis-aftergut-gareth-gore</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:53</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level
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      <itunes:subtitle>What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack S…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>What May Be the Only Chance We Have to See Jack Smith's Case Against Trump for January 6 | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level
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      <title>October 2, 2024 - Andrew Miller | Paul Pillar | Lane Windham</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/october-2-2024-andrew-miller-paul-pillar-lane-windham</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:37</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworkers' Strike on the Election
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      <itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Netanyahu is in the Driver's Seat With Biden and Harris Reluctant Passengers | Under Attack by a Foreign Power, Lebanese and Iranians Rally Around the Flag | The Likely Impact of the East Coast Dockworkers' Strike on the Election
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      <title>October 1, 2024 - Nick Heras | Andy Levin | Katherine Stewart</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of America in Tonight's VP Debate?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as th…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Iran Fires 400 Ballistic Missiles at Israel as the Escalation Ladder Has Both Threatening Responses and Responses to Responses | As Michigan Shapes up to be a Critical Swing State, Could Jill Stein be a Spoiler Along With Conservative Muslims Making Alliances With the Christian Right | Will Tim Walz Expose J.D. Vance's Sick Dystopian Vision of America in Tonight's VP Debate?
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      <title>September 30, 2024 - Aaron David Miller | David Phillips | Alexander Motyl</title>
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      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Boxed Harris in to Support His War in Gaza and Lebanon | How Turkey's Erdogan, Who Has Stolen Billions, Threw Chump Change to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams | An Assessment of Zelensky's US Visit and the Real Reason Trump Hates Him</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Bo…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Now That He is Suddenly Popular, Netanyahu Has Boxed Harris in to Support His War in Gaza and Lebanon | How Turkey's Erdogan, Who Has Stolen Billions, Threw Chump Change to the NYC Mayor Eric Adams | An Assessment of Zelensky's US Visit and the Real Reason Trump Hates Him</description>
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      <title>September 29, 2024 - Mohsen Milani | Frederick Clarkson | Maximina Juson</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:03:21</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on Monday
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Bac…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Repeated Humiliations, Will Iran Strike Back at Israel in a Wider Middle East War? | J.D. Vance Doubles Down in His Embrace of Christian Nationalism and "Christo-Fascism | The Filmmaker of the Feature Documentary on the Electoral College One Person, One Vote Which Premieres on PBS's Independent Lens on Monday
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      <title>September 26, 2024 - Steven Simon | James Zirin | Dr. Bradley Onishi</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:23</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Which Netanyahu Rejected | New York's Mayor Charged with Bribery, Wire Fraud and Seeking Illegal Campaign Donations | How J.D. Vance and His Backers Plan to Legislate Morality
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      <itunes:subtitle>The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ce…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The US and 21 Allies Call For a Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire Which Netanyahu Rejected | New York's Mayor Charged with Bribery, Wire Fraud and Seeking Illegal Campaign Donations | How J.D. Vance and His Backers Plan to Legislate Morality
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      <title>September 25, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Dulcie Leimbach | Dr. Oleh Kotsyuba</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:59</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Israel Appears Poised For a Ground Invasion of Lebanon | UN Activities and Speeches Today and Yesterday | Zelensky Tries to Get the UN to Focus on Ukraine While a War in Lebanon Looms
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      <itunes:subtitle>Israel Appears Poised For a Ground Invasion of Le…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Israel Appears Poised For a Ground Invasion of Lebanon | UN Activities and Speeches Today and Yesterday | Zelensky Tries to Get the UN to Focus on Ukraine While a War in Lebanon Looms
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      <title>September 24, 2024 - Simon Shuster |Philip Stark | Jacob Ware</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-24-2024-simon-shuster-philip-stark-jacob-ware</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:01</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We Are Closer To Peace Than We Think" | Trump Can Steal the Election Since He Has the Software For the Voting Machines in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado | An Expert on Terrorism on How Election Violence is Already Underway
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      <itunes:subtitle>Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Zelensky's "Victory Plan" And His Remark That "We Are Closer To Peace Than We Think" | Trump Can Steal the Election Since He Has the Software For the Voting Machines in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Colorado | An Expert on Terrorism on How Election Violence is Already Underway
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      <title>September 23, 2024 - Habib Battah | Ari Berman | Cleo Paskal</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-23-2024-habib-battah-ari-berman-cleo-paskal</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:54</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, Biden and Harris Will be the Losers But Seem Helpless in Stopping the Escalation | Trump and Vance Are Not Trying to Win Over Voters But Are Focused on Stopping the Democratic Vote and the Counting of Votes | An Analysis of the Quad Meeting of the PMs of Australia, India and Japan Biden Hosted
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, B…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Netanyahu Goads Hezbollah and Iran Into War, Biden and Harris Will be the Losers But Seem Helpless in Stopping the Escalation | Trump and Vance Are Not Trying to Win Over Voters But Are Focused on Stopping the Democratic Vote and the Counting of Votes | An Analysis of the Quad Meeting of the PMs of Australia, India and Japan Biden Hosted
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      <title>September 22, 2024 - Marilyn Marks | Jonathan Weiler | Sidney Blumenthal</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-22-2024-marilyn-marks-jonathan-weiler-sidney-blumenthal</link>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Republicans Have Stolen the Software for the Voting Machines in Georgia and Can Manipulate the November Results at Will | Trump Abandons His "Black NAZI" Gubernatorial Candidate in North Carolina He Recently Referred to as "Martin Luther King on Steroids" | Can Trump and Vance Win With a Campaign Based on Racist Hatred?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Republicans Have Stolen the Software for the …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Republicans Have Stolen the Software for the Voting Machines in Georgia and Can Manipulate the November Results at Will | Trump Abandons His "Black NAZI" Gubernatorial Candidate in North Carolina He Recently Referred to as "Martin Luther King on Steroids" | Can Trump and Vance Win With a Campaign Based on Racist Hatred?
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      <title>September 19, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Michele Goodwin | Rob Larson</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-19-2024-olga-lautman-michele-goodwin-rob-larson</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:04:05</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala Harris Injured a Black Girl in a Hit and Run That Did Not Happen | Women Are Dying Because of Abortion Bans by Trump and "Christian" Republicans Who Won't Let Doctors Practice Medicine For Fear of Going to Jail | How Bilious Billionaires Like Musk Are More Influential Than World Leaders 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala H…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Musk Promotes Russian Fake News Claiming Kamala Harris Injured a Black Girl in a Hit and Run That Did Not Happen | Women Are Dying Because of Abortion Bans by Trump and "Christian" Republicans Who Won't Let Doctors Practice Medicine For Fear of Going to Jail | How Bilious Billionaires Like Musk Are More Influential Than World Leaders 
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      <title>September 18, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Robert Baer | Juan Cole</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-18-2024-robert-hockett-robert-baer-juan-cole</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:00</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into?
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      <itunes:subtitle>How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Wil…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How the Lowering of Interest Rates by the Fed Will Impact the Economy and the Election | Does Netanyahu Have an "October Surprise" in Store for the Harris/Walz Campaign? | Are We at the Beginning Stage of Another War in the Middle East That the US Will be Dragged Into?
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      <title>September 17, 2024 - Thannasis Cambanis | Lisa Graves | Jared Yates Sexton</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-17-2024-thannasis-cambanis-lisa-graves-jared-yates-sexton</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:20</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Lead to a War in Lebanon? | Chief Justice Roberts Does Not Call Balls and Strikes, He Rigs the Playing Field Before the Game | As Incendiary Hate, Racism and Paranoia From Trump and Vance Escalates, What Can We Expect If They Lose the Election?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Le…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Will Another Humiliation of Hezbollah and Iran Lead to a War in Lebanon? | Chief Justice Roberts Does Not Call Balls and Strikes, He Rigs the Playing Field Before the Game | As Incendiary Hate, Racism and Paranoia From Trump and Vance Escalates, What Can We Expect If They Lose the Election?
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      <title>September 16, 2024 - Thomas Zeitzoff | William McNulty | Jo-Marie Burt</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-19-2024-thomas-zeitzoff-william-mcnulty-jo-marie-burt</link>
      <itunes:duration>00:59:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another Assassin Whose Politics Are All Also Over the Map With Both Having Easy Access to Military-Style Assault Rifles | Americans Who Want to Help Ukraine Defend Against Russia: Good and Bad | The Growing Phenomenon of "Caudillismo" in Latin America
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      <itunes:subtitle>Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Another Assassination Attempt on Trump by Another Assassin Whose Politics Are All Also Over the Map With Both Having Easy Access to Military-Style Assault Rifles | Americans Who Want to Help Ukraine Defend Against Russia: Good and Bad | The Growing Phenomenon of "Caudillismo" in Latin America
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      <title>September 15, 2024 - George Beebe | Amy Wilentz | Joe Conasen</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:06:19</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukraine From Striking Deep Into Russia or Is He Not Bluffing When He Says Doing So Will Mean Russia Is “At War” With NATO? | The Reason Haitians Are in Ohio Is That US Foreign Policy Has Made Haiti Unlivable | Rather Than Race-Bait Harris Head On, Trump and Vance Are Using Racism as the Main Driver of Their Campaign
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      <itunes:subtitle>Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukra…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Is Putin Using Psychological Warfare to Stop Ukraine From Striking Deep Into Russia or Is He Not Bluffing When He Says Doing So Will Mean Russia Is “At War” With NATO? | The Reason Haitians Are in Ohio Is That US Foreign Policy Has Made Haiti Unlivable | Rather Than Race-Bait Harris Head On, Trump and Vance Are Using Racism as the Main Driver of Their Campaign
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      <title>September 12, 2024 - Arthur Goldwag | Ahmet Yayla | Sasha Abramsky</title>
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      <itunes:duration>00:59:58</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republ…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump is Hanging Out With Laura Loomer Who Republicans Are Blaming For His Disastrous Debate | Erdogan Inflames Tensions With the US and Israel While Secretly Profiting From Oil and Arms Sales to Israel | What America Would Be Like After a MAGA Takeover Based on the MAGA Takeover of Two Counties in Washington and Northern California</description>
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      <title>September 11, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Debbie Walsh | Tim Golden</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emerges
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      <itunes:subtitle>In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>In Last Night's Debate, the Reality TV Star Trump Appeared to Lose His War Against Reality | The Obstacles Women Face in Politics That Harris is Navigating | On the 23rd Anniversary of 9/11, New Evidence of Saudi Involvement With the Hijackers Emerges
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      <title>September 10, 2024 - Jon Hoffman | Greg Sargent | Jason Stanley</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:02:30</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press
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      <itunes:subtitle>Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate a…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Foreign Policy in Tonight's Harris/Trump Debate and Whose Finger Do You Want on the Nuclear Button | Democratic "Irrational Exuberance" With the Polls and "Sane-Washing" by the Mainstream Media | We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press
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      <title>September 9, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Thomas Barfield | Stephanie Baker</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-9-2024-nina-burleigh-thomas-barfield-stephanie-baker</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:24</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happen
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Proj…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Mein Kampf of the MAGA Republican Party, Project 2025 | Today's Republican Report on the Withdrawal From Afghanistan is a Political Hit Job on VP Harris | How Putin's Shadow Fleet of "Ghost" Tankers Are an Accident Waiting to Happen
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      <title>September 8, 2024 - Natalie Manaeva Rice | Steven Pifer | Allan Lichtman</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-8-2024-natalie-manaeva-rice-steven-pifer-allan-lichtman</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:05:35</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024
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      <itunes:subtitle>Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propaga…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots | UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia's "Reckless Campaign of Sabotage" | The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024
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      <title>September 5, 2024 - Jared Holt | Jonathan Metzl | Natalie Melnyczuk</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-5-2024-jared-holt-jonathan-metzl-natalie-melnyczuk</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:39</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via Pro-Trump Influencers Now Running Away From Their Kremlin Paymasters | But For Police Failures, The Gun Culture and No Red Flag Laws, the Latest School Shooting Would Never Have Happened | The Shakeup In Zelensky's Government Who is Pleading For Patriot Missiles in Warehouses as Russian Missiles Kill His Civilians 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via P…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Russia Interferes in Our Elections Underway Via Pro-Trump Influencers Now Running Away From Their Kremlin Paymasters | But For Police Failures, The Gun Culture and No Red Flag Laws, the Latest School Shooting Would Never Have Happened | The Shakeup In Zelensky's Government Who is Pleading For Patriot Missiles in Warehouses as Russian Missiles Kill His Civilians 	
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      <title>September 4, 2024 - Robert Creamer | David Hearst | Tom Collina</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-4-2024-robert-creamer-david-hearst-tom-collina</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:19</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Ticket Win the Presidency? | Could the Arsonist Netanyahu Spark a Wider War With Jordan a Powder Keg About to Explode | A New Nuclear Doctrine to Confront Russia, China and North Korea Simultaneously
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      <itunes:subtitle>Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Tic…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Another School Shooting and Can a Progressive Ticket Win the Presidency? | Could the Arsonist Netanyahu Spark a Wider War With Jordan a Powder Keg About to Explode | A New Nuclear Doctrine to Confront Russia, China and North Korea Simultaneously
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      <title>September 3, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Daley | Scott Horton</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-3-2024-paul-pillar-david-daley-scott-horton</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:46</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 Connections
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli P…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Mounting Pressure on Netanyahu From the Israeli Public as the UK Cuts Off Arms Sales | How the Republicans Are Funding and Boosting the Cornel West and Jill Stein Campaigns | The Putin-Orban-Heritage Foundation-Project 2025 Connections
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      <title>September 2, 2024 - John Nichols | Betsey Stevenson | Dr. Harley Shaiken</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-2-2024-john-nichols-betsey-stevenson-dr-harley-shaiken</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:04:44</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to Sign</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance He…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How Much Will the Harris/Walz Pro-Labor Stance Help Get Them Elected With 70% of Americans Approving of Unions? | America's Growing Economic Inequality | The Democratic Party Will Need a House and Senate Majority to Pass the PRO Act for President Harris to Sign</description>
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      <title>September 1, 2024 - James Risen | Rabbi Steven Jacobs | Jennifer McCoy</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/september-1-2024-james-risen-rabbi-steven-jacobs-jennifer-mccoy</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:37</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election a…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Media's Horse-race Coverage of the Election as CNN's Pathetic Harris/Walz Interview Asks Trump/Vance Attack Lines to Avoid the "Liberal Media" Label | Give a Post-Gaza Israeli/Palestinian Peace a Chance | The Domestic Threat to Democracy Posed by Trump and Project 2025
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      <title>August 29, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Andra Gillespie | Beth Daviess</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/august-29-2024-paul-waldman-andra-gillespie-beth-daviess</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:03:44</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Will Tonight's CNN Interview With Harris and Walz Answer Policy Questions? | Could Another Historical Breakthrough be the Election of a Black and Asian Woman Married to a Jew? | The Ties Between JD Vance and His New Press Secretary and the Shadowy Christian Nationalist Mens-Only Society for American Civic Renewal 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Wi…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Pressure From Republicans and the Press, Will Tonight's CNN Interview With Harris and Walz Answer Policy Questions? | Could Another Historical Breakthrough be the Election of a Black and Asian Woman Married to a Jew? | The Ties Between JD Vance and His New Press Secretary and the Shadowy Christian Nationalist Mens-Only Society for American Civic Renewal 	
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      <title>August 28, 2024 - Richard Parker | Alan Abramowitz | Nader Hashemi</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/august-28-2024-richard-parker-alan-abramowitz-nader-hashemi</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:01:36</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Policy Details, Harris/Walz Are Winning on Charisma and Change | Today's Harris/Walz Bus Tour of Georgia | An Olive Branch to the US From Iran's Supreme Leader as We Wait For His Promised Retaliation Against Israel
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      <itunes:subtitle>As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Pol…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As the Press and Republicans Clamour For More Policy Details, Harris/Walz Are Winning on Charisma and Change | Today's Harris/Walz Bus Tour of Georgia | An Olive Branch to the US From Iran's Supreme Leader as We Wait For His Promised Retaliation Against Israel
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      <title>August 27, 2024 - Rick Wilson | Matthew Seligman | David Andelman</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/august-27-2024-rick-wilson-matthew-seligman-david-andelman</link>
      <itunes:duration>01:02:53</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>How Many Disaffected Republicans Can Kamala Harris Peel Off in a Center Left - Center Right Alliance? | Could Jack Smith's Appeal to the 11th Circuit Result in Judge Cannon Being Taken Off the Case? | Is the Current Crisis in France Politics as Usual?
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      <itunes:subtitle>How Many Disaffected Republicans Can Kamala Harri…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 26, 2024 - Allan Lichtman | Michael Gorham | Charles Schmitz</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Harris Surges in the Polls as Trump Tries to Weasel Out of the September 10 ABC Debate With Harris | The French Arrest the Founder of Telegram After a Possible Meeting With Putin | Houthi Recklessness is About to Cause the Fifth Largest Oil Spill in History</itunes:summary>
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      <title>August 25, 2024 - Dr. Allen Frances | Will Bunch | Stephen Biddle</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Contrast Between the Best and Worst of America and Why Does Anyone Support Trump's GOP? | A Wrap Up of the DNC and How Will RFK Jr's Endorsement of Trump Impact Swing States | A Military Analysis of Ukraine's Incursion Into Russia and the Escalation Ladder to Nuclear War
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      <title>August 22, 2024 - Casey Michel | Jacob Heilbrunn | David Klion</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagandists as Russian Election Influence Operations Ramp Up | Last Night's Star Turns at the DNC From Tim Walz and Kenan Thompson on Project 2025 | Trump's Anti-Semitic Attacks on Governor Josh Shapiro
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      <itunes:subtitle>The FBI Cracks Down on American Kremlin Propagand…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 21, 2024 - Bill Scher | Lincoln Mitchell | Orville Schell</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Convention and a Preview of Tonight's | The Generational Change Underway in the Harris/Walz Democratic Party | China Sues Stanford For Mao's Secretary's Diaries With an Inside Look at the CCP From 1935 to 2018
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Review of Last Night's Democratic National Conv…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 20, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Tom LoBianco | Rob Johnson</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators at the DNC in Chicago Have a Point | An Appraisal of Last Night's Speeches at the DNC | The Turnaround in the Polls For the Democrats in the Key Swing States of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Biden Acknowledges the Pro-Palestinian Demonstrat…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 19, 2024 - David Faris | Paul Glastris | Rhona Michie</title>
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      <itunes:summary>An Update From Chicago on the Democratic National Convention | A Presidential Speechwriter on the Delicate Job a President Passing the Baton to His VP | As Bombs Fall on Gaza and Ukraine, Arms Industries Benefit From Tragedy</itunes:summary>
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      <title>August 18, 2024 - Michael Kimmage | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dean Baker</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine the Absence of Which is an Excuse For Trump And the Republicans Not to Support Its Defense Against Russia? | The Irony That Saudi's MbS "Prince Bonesaw" Now Fears Assassination | An Assessment of the Harris/Walz Economic Plan
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will Biden Come Up With a Strategy For Ukraine th…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 15, 2024 - Rashid Khalidi | Adam Kirsch | Sumit Ganguly</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Peace Negotiations For a Gaza Ceasefire Now Minus a Representative From Hamas | The Origins and Definition of Settler Colonialism Which Used to Be Applied to Australia, Canada and the US But is Now is Labelling Israel | Bangladesh: The Latest Example of the US Not Acting According to Its Democratic Ideals 	
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      <title>August 18, 2024 - Steve Benen | Sidney Blumenthal | Andrew Feinberg</title>
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      <itunes:summary>How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign?
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      <itunes:subtitle>How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality C…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and Up To Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality | America's Historical Irony of its Foundation in a Revolution Against a Mad King Only to Possibly Re-elect a Mad King Anointed by the Supreme Court With Monarchical Power and Immunity | Did Trump's Pandering to Young White Men and Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Fanboys on X Help His Campaign?
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      <title>August 13, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | John Lawrence | Anastasia Edel</title>
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      <itunes:summary>With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territory
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      <itunes:subtitle>With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a St…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With War Between Israel and Iran Inevitable, a Strategic Analysis of How Much It Could Escalate | Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's Competing Tax Proposals on Tips Aimed at Winning Nevada | Putin's Long Game Counters the Current Optimism as Ukraine Takes Russian Territory
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      <title>August 12, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Rick Hasen | Mohsen Milani</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's Provocations
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on What Damaging Material Might Be In the Leaked Vetting of J.D. Vance by the Trump Campaign | Trump's Plan to Deny a Harris Victory by Stalling Certification of the Vote at the Local and State Levels to Delay Results and Cause Chaos | How Much Humiliation is Driving Iran's Promised Response to Netanyahu's Provocations
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      <title>August 10, 2024 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Robert Young Pelton | Mitchell Plitnick</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump's Mental Instability and Possible Dementia | How Does the Veteran Community Feel About the Latest Round of Swift-Boating? | Can A Deal For Iran Not to Retaliate in Exchange For A Ceasefire in Gaza be Made?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Americans Are Being Denied the Truth About Trump'…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>August 8, 2024 - David Cay Johnston | Shireen Al-Adeimi | Aram Shabanian</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russia
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Pet…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy and Now He's Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman | How Will the Harris/Walz Team Handle More Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations? | Objectives Behind the Ukrainian Incursion Into Russia
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      <title>August 7, 2024 - Clarissa Hayward | Moira Donegan | Joshua Landis</title>
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      <itunes:summary>With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad | Have The Democrats Learned Their Lesson of Playing it Safe With VP Picks? | Netanyahu Has Provoked and Khamenei Has Promised a War That Nobody Wants 
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      <title>August 6, 2024 - Jonathan Alter | Quinn Slobodian | K. Sabeel Rahman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUS
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      <itunes:subtitle>What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map | The Global Menace of Elon Musk Stoking Racial Unrest in the UK | How to Save Government Oversight and Expertise From the Ravages of SCOTUS
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      <title>August 5, 2024 - David Schultz | David Daley | Pavlina Tcherneva</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recession
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      <itunes:subtitle>Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris's Pick For VP | The Plutocratic Capture of John Roberts's Supreme Court | Wall Street's and the Global Drop in Markets Does Not Spell Recession
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      <title>August 4, 2024 - Brett Eagleson | Ian Haney López | Katherine Stewart</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Right
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      <itunes:subtitle>Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Year…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Evidence the US Government Has Buried For 23 Years Appears Poised to Blow the Lid Off Saudi Involvement in 9/11 | Will Trump's Revival of the "Birther" Dog Whistle Work Against Kamala Harris? | The Noble Lie, J.D. Vance and the New Right
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      <title>August 1, 2024 - Olga Lautman | Adam Weinstein | Lawrence Jacobs</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz
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      <itunes:subtitle>Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies,…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin's Spies, Criminals and Hackers | Will Netanyahu Drag the US Into Another Forever War in the Middle East | A Profile of a Possible VP Pick, Minnesota's Governor Tim Walz
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      <title>July 31, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Haggai Matar | Jim Small</title>
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      <itunes:summary>With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harris
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      <itunes:subtitle>With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanya…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On | The Arrest of 9 IDF Soldiers by Military Police For Gang Rape of Palestinian Prisoners 36 of Whom Have Been Tortured to Death | A Profile of Senator Mark Kelly as a Possible VP for Kamala Harris
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      <title>July 30, 2024 - Harry Litman | Christopher Borick | Molly White</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Them
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      <itunes:subtitle>Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leona…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Biden's Supreme Court Reform Plans Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts | As Governor Shapiro Auditions for the VP Slot, We Look at His Pros and Cons | The Cryptocurrency Industry is All-In For Trump Who is Promising to Give Away the Store to Them
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      <title>July 29, 2024 - Alejandro Velasco | Habib Battah | Jesselyn Cook</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claim…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Venezuela's Maduro Defies Most of the World Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him | On the Brink of Another War as the US and Israel Reject Hezbollah's Claim a Missile That Killed 12 Was Not Theirs | With the GOP Now Seen as a Cult, Why Are Americans Susceptible to Cults?
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      <title>July 28, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lisa Graves | David Smilde</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede?
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      <itunes:subtitle>With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>With Democrats Reeling From Despair to Euphoria, Kamala Harris Steps Out of the Shadows Into the Limelight | After Capturing Our Judiciary, Opus Dei Operatives Are Poised to Capture the Executive Branch With J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts, the Leader of Project 2025 | Since He Should Lose Today's Election in Venezuela, Will Maduro Do a Trump and Not Concede?
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      <title>July 25, 2024 - Andy Kroll | Dewey Clayton | Steven Simon</title>
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      <itunes:summary>More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With Trump
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      <itunes:subtitle>More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>More Alarming Information About Who J.D. Vance is and What he Believes Continues to Surface | Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear as a Possible Running Mate For Kamala Harris | Netanyahu's Visit With Biden and Harris Followed by His Meeting Tomorrow With Trump
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      <title>July 24, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Sarah Leah Whitson | Dr. Guy Ziv</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal Before the Knesset Adjourns 	
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu's 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress | Demonstrations Against Netanyahu Outside Congress Today and the Boycott of His Speech Inside | Netanyahu's Speech Was Aimed at His Domestic Audience With No Ceasefire Since His Coalition Will Collapse If He Makes a Ceasefire Deal Before the Knesset Adjourns 	
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      <title>July 23, 2024 - Gil Duran | Ruth Conniff | Nelson Lichtenstein</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopularity 
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Contours of a Kamala Harris Campaign Emerges Contrasting the Felon With the Prosecutor Who Went After For-Profit College Ripoffs Like Trump University and Investigated Big Oil While Trump Invited Them to Bribe Him | Kamala Harris Campaigns in Wisconsin Today Which Trump Barely Won in 2016 and Biden in 2020 | Project 2025 Is More of a Corporate Wishlist Than a MAGA Manifesto and Trump and Vance Are Running Away From Its Unpopularity 
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      <title>July 22, 2024 - Gautam Mukunda | Anthea Butler | Ben Burgis</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn 
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      <description>How the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn 
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      <title>July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval Office
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Pres…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Their Techno-Fascist Fantasies with Their Bro in the Oval Office
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      <title>July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad
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      <itunes:subtitle>Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Bide…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Mounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad
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      <title>July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason</title>
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      <itunes:summary>J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right
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      <itunes:subtitle>J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ti…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>J.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right
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      <title>July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call Fo…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine?
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      <title>July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Ag…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump
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      <title>July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats
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      <itunes:subtitle>Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Ha…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats
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      <title>July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom
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      <title>July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politics
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      <itunes:subtitle>Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growi…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politics
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      <title>July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk</title>
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      <itunes:summary>As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?
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      <itunes:subtitle>As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Con…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?
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      <title>July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home
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      <itunes:subtitle>Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home
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      <title>July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?
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      <itunes:subtitle>Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washing…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?
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      <title>July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President
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      <itunes:subtitle>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Su…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President
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      <title>July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry</title>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion?
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Historical Assessment of How the Major Politica…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion?
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      <title>July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere</title>
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      <itunes:summary>In the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center Maneuver to Block a Neo-Fascist Takeover of Parliament
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      <itunes:subtitle>In the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls
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      <itunes:subtitle>If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls
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      <title>June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Why Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 25, 2024 - James Risen | Bob Shrum | Thanassis Cambanis</title>
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      <itunes:summary>A Journalist Who Faced Jail Under the Espionage Act on Assange's Plea Deal | Presidential Debate Prep and How to Fact-Check Trump From a Former Democratic Strategist | War Between Israel and Hezbollah Appears Increasingly Likely
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      <itunes:subtitle>A Journalist Who Faced Jail Under the Espionage A…</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 24, 2024 - William Snowden | Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the Ten Commandments to be Displayed in Schools
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      <itunes:subtitle>Trump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>June 23, 2024 - Jeff Goodell | Tad DeLay | Sue Mi Terry</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast B…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump?
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      <title>June 20, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Lawrence Lessig</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It
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      <itunes:subtitle>Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reve…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Secret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It
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      <title>June 19, 2024 - Melanye Price | Sidney Blumenthal | Edwin Lyman</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor Technology That is Old and Less Safe
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      <itunes:subtitle>Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | Th…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Juneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor Technology That is Old and Less Safe
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      <title>June 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon Lee</title>
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      <itunes:summary>America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un 
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      <itunes:subtitle>America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capita…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>America's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un 
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      <title>June 17, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Bob Dreyfuss | Rachel Schmalz</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Elections in Moldova
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      <itunes:subtitle>Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions o…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Elections in Moldova
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      <title>June 16, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Jane Kirtley | David Vine</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary>How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex
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      <itunes:subtitle>How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>How to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex
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      <title>June 13, 2024 - Casey Michel | Paul Pillar | Alexander Stille</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking"
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking"
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      <title>June 12, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | Peter Goodman | Melissa Jacoby</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Hunter Biden Trial as a Political Hit Job With More Humiliation of the Troubled Son Coming in the September Trial | How We Got Hooked On Globalism and a System in Which Corporations Win While Everybody Else Loses | How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
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      <title>June 16, 2024 - Lauren Windsor | Joshua Horwitz | Philippe Marlière</title>
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      <itunes:summary>The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiring
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Jus…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiring
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      <title>June 10, 2024 - Haggai Matar | R. Daniel Kelemen | Michael Kimmage</title>
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      <itunes:summary>Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine 
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      <itunes:subtitle>Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Israel's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine 
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      <title>June 9, 2024 - Gregory Treverton | Nick Bryant</title>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:08</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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      <itunes:subtitle>Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike John…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Already Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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      <title>June 6, 2024 - Michel Paradis | Lindsay Owens | Jacob Hacker</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggl…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay</description>
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      <title>June 5, 2024 - Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Mark Hannah | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | Andrew Latham</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:59:06</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:summary>Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer
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      <itunes:subtitle>Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Bor…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Legal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer
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      <title>June 4, 2024 - Margaret Hu | Justin Bulcher | Michael Brenes</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>00:59:48</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weapons
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      <itunes:subtitle>Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Will Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weapons
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      <title>June 3, 2024 - Chuck Collins | Aram Shabanian | Emiliano Polo</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:35</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets | The Upcoming Ukraine Peace Conference China Won't Attend Because Russia Won't Go and Now Saudi Arabia Won't Attend Because China Isn't Going | Will Scheinbaum's and Morena's Blowout Victory Lead to an Institutional Collapse in Mexico?
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets …</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets | The Upcoming Ukraine Peace Conference China Won't Attend Because Russia Won't Go and Now Saudi Arabia Won't Attend Because China Isn't Going | Will Scheinbaum's and Morena's Blowout Victory Lead to an Institutional Collapse in Mexico?
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      <title>June 2, 2024 - Sophia Rosenfeld | Jennifer Loewenstein | Laura Carlsen</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>After Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Believe He Won the Last Election, Now Trump Has Them Believing the Trial That Convicted Him 34 Times Was Rigged | Are Biden and Netanyahu on the Same Page With the Gaza Ceasefire Plan? | Today's Elections in Mexico Will Result in a Woman as President For the First Time
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      <itunes:subtitle>After Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Bel…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>After Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Believe He Won the Last Election, Now Trump Has Them Believing the Trial That Convicted Him 34 Times Was Rigged | Are Biden and Netanyahu on the Same Page With the Gaza Ceasefire Plan? | Today's Elections in Mexico Will Result in a Woman as President For the First Time
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      <title>May 30, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Robert Young Pelton</title>
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      <itunes:duration>00:58:38</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Why We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflict
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      <itunes:subtitle>Why We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, Wit…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Why We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflict
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      <title>May 29, 2024 - Stephen Biddle | Zach Carter| Dr. Steven Nabieu Rogers</title>
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      <itunes:duration>01:00:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Ian Masters</itunes:author>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>Complaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ticket U.S. Weapons Don't Work, Get Jammed or are Unsuitable | A Possible Trade War with China or a Necessary Stimulus For the Next Green Economy? | Today's Election in South Africa as a Referendum on the ANC
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      <itunes:subtitle>Complaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ti…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>Complaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ticket U.S. Weapons Don't Work, Get Jammed or are Unsuitable | A Possible Trade War with China or a Necessary Stimulus For the Next Green Economy? | Today's Election in South Africa as a Referendum on the ANC
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      <title>May 28, 2024 - Kai Bird | Andrew Cockburn | James Gray</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 20:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
      <itunes:summary>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Money Trail as Closing Arguments Were Heard Today | Bibi and MbS Have Biden in a Trap and the Pentagon and the CIA Have Drunk the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid | The Libertarians Boo Trump and Quickly Reject RFK Jr
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      <itunes:subtitle>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Mon…</itunes:subtitle>
      <description>The Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Money Trail as Closing Arguments Were Heard Today | Bibi and MbS Have Biden in a Trap and the Pentagon and the CIA Have Drunk the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid | The Libertarians Boo Trump and Quickly Reject RFK Jr
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      <title>May 27, 2024 - Lucian Truscott IV | Stephan Schwartz</title>
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      <itunes:summary>On Memorial Day Those Who Serve America vs Those Who Want to Tear it Apart | Consciousness, Authoritarianism and Political Violence
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      <itunes:subtitle>On Memorial Day Those Who Serve America vs Those …</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>May 21, 2024 - Daniel Benjamin | David Ignatius</title>
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