Will Brazil Join the Rightward Shift in Latin America Following Chile, Honduras and Colombia?
We begin with Sunday’s elections in Brazil which produced results incumbent President Lula da Silva, running for his fourth non-consecutive term, called “unexpected,” with Bolsonaro’s son Flavio ahead with 56 million votes to Lula’s 53.7 million. We assess the chances of the son of the right wing thug now in jail winning in the October 25 runoff following a rightward shift in recent Latin American elections in Colombia, Chile and Honduras. Joining us from Brazil is James Green, Professor Emeritus of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office. He has worked on issues related to Brazil for 50 years and is the author or co-editor of 13 books related to Brazil and Latin America.
Sam Altman Says We Should Accept “Bad Things” With AI. What Could Go Wrong?
Then, following Sam Altman of OpenAI’s announcement that we should accept “bad things” from AI in exchange for “the benefits of this technology,” we examine Trump’s refusal to heed the warnings from within the tech industry which might end up being his most asinine legacy with Sasha Abramsky, who writes the Authoritarian Watch column for The Nation. He is the author of several books, including Breadline USA, American Furies, The American Way of Poverty, and Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America. His latest book is American Carnage: How Trump, Musk and DOGE Butchered the US Government and his latest article at The Nation’s Authoritarian Watch we discuss is “Trump is Trusting Tech Companies to Self-Police AI. What Could Go Wrong?”
What Is in The Epstein Files That Trump is So Afraid Of and Will Todd Blanche and Kash Patel Shred Them if the Democrats Win in November?
Then finally we explore why Trump is so afraid of what is in the Epstein Files he has fought so hard to suppress. Joining us to discuss if Trump loses the House and possibly the Senate in the November election, he is likely to have Todd Blanche and Kash Patel destroy the incriminating documents is David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump. A 13 year veteran of The New York Times, he won the Pulitzer Prize and his latest book is The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family. He’s also a professor at The Rochester Institute of Technology and the co-founder of DCReport.org.
David will be joining Ian for a live conversation next Sunday October 11th at 6:30pm at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. You can purchase tickets here.
