Part 1:
We talk with Mel Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. A former CIA analyst, Goodman is the author ofFailure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIAandNational Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism. andA Whistleblower at the CIA.
We discuss how Trump is attempting major regional change by pressuring and attacking Central America, and South America countries, notably, Venezuela. We also discuss how Trump is selling out American interests in Ukraine and Europe.
Part 2:
This is Race Class, with Jonathan Feingold.
As Thanksgiving and its enduring mythologies approach, Jon and Arnie discuss the Trump administrations ongoing campaign to evangelize white supremacy in the United States and abroad. Invoking Trumps anti-DEI Executive Orders, federal officials purged a report on missing and murdered Native Americans while claiming countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights. The cooperation of civil rights rhetoric to undermine civil rights is nothing new. Nor is the strategic use of racism to justify public and private violence against communities of color and distract impoverished white communities from the source of their material precarity. With limited exception, Democrats are proving unable to defuse the GOPs naked racial politics " including the ongoing weaponization of anti-blackness and Jewish identity " to criminalize dissent, control curricula and crack the Left.
Jonathan Feingold
Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
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Music: David Rovics
