Annika Brockschmidt: America’s Holy Warriors + What a ”No Fly Zone” Really Means

Sam Goldman interviews Annika Brockschmidt, German freelance journalist and podcast host, author of America's Holy Warriors: How the Religious Rights Endangers Democracy.

Follow Annika on Twitter at @ardenthistorian. If you speak German you will want to check out her podcast (co-hosted with recent Refuse Fascism podcast guest Thomas Zimmer), Kreuz und Flagge (Cross and Flag). Read her recent piece on Religion Dispatches: Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

Then, we share a clip of a conversation with Andy Zee and Paul Street, members of the Refuse Fascism editorial board, from The RNL Show, discussing Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and what a US-enforced "no fly zone" actually means. Read Paul's recent article: Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now: Reflections on War, Peace, and Ukraine.

Recommended Reading on Abortion Rights Emergency:

Florida’s Abortion Ban Will Obliterate Access in the South by Anna Eskamani

Idaho’s New Anti-Abortion Law Offers Cash Bounties to Rapists’ Family Members by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern

The Pseudoscience That Could Kill Women by Sarah Jones

Missouri’s Proposed Anti-Abortion Law Has an Eerie Resemblance to the Fugitive Slave Act by Pema Levy

RiseUp4AbortionRights.org is calling for more emergency mobilizations; find out more at riseup4abortionrights.org.

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Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown