Episode 611: Arnie Arnesen Attitude December 5 2024
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Part 1:
We talk with Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent at The Nation.
We discuss the government agencies that Trump is staffing. Heer characterizes them as anti-populist, with fealty to the rich. We discuss Trump's view of the world as a gangster's view, and the government to be a government of gangsters. Trump's relationship to NATO and to other countries is one of a kind of 'protection racket' backed up by Putin's threat of violence.
Part 2:
We talk with Barbara Radnofsky and Ed Supkis, authors of a book about the relationship of Alan Shephard and his barber in Texas. The book "The Barber, the Astronaut, and the Golfball" describes both men and their long friendship. It is an insight in the character of both men.
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Music: David Rovics, "Time to Act", for Will Von Sproson
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