Tommy and Ben discuss the latest news out of Ukraine, including the increasingly vocal criticism of the war effort from Putin’s allies and talk of nuclear weapons use. Then they cover the election results in Brazil, prisoner releases, trickle down economics get humiliated in the UK, a coup in Burkina Faso, and shorter updates from around the world. Then Tommy speaks with Yeganeh Rezaian from the Committee to Protect Journalists about the protests in Iran, her experience with Iran’s brutal morality police, and what Americans and the US government should do to support this movement.
Russian bounties with Rep Adam Schiff
John Bolton’s sh*tty book
Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
Why policing is better abroad
The world is watching
False START
The corruption of Mike Pompeo
Flynnocent After Proven Guilty
Mercenaries invade Venezuela
TMZ at the DMZ
Kim Jong Un-healthy?
Samantha Power Hour
The Navy’s coronavirus clusterf*ck
How a virus can threaten democracy
A criminally negligent coronavirus response
Our new coronavirus reality
Coronavirus and oil shocks rock the global economy
A fragile peace deal in Afghanistan
Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy record comes under attack
Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus
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