Day: December 8, 2024

The Fall of Assad Could End Putin, But Trump Will Rescue Him

We begin with the fall of the Assad regime in Syria as a serious blow to Putin who is already suffering unsustainable losses in Ukraine and appears more vulnerable and paranoid than ever as the delusional dictator and his inner circle desperately remind Trump that he owes them while suggesting someone might assassinate the president-elect, who obediently is poised to rescue Putin, just when we could be rid of this menace to Russia and the world. Joining us is Olga Lautman, a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis who is also the creator and co-host of the Kremlin File podcast series, which features expert discussions on the Kremlin’s internal affairs, global operations, and tactics used from their hybrid warfare toolkit to destabilize Western democracies. She has a Substack newsletter covering Russia, Ukraine, Eastern, and Central Europe with a focus on Russia’s intelligence operations available at olgalautman.substack.com where her latest article is “Elon Musk: Shadow President of the United States.”

Rage Across the US at the Sickness-for-Profit “Healthcare” System

Then we examine the boiling rage across America at the US healthcare system better described as a sickness-profit system as law enforcement authorities look for the assassin responsible for the murder of the head of the country’s largest insurer. Joining us to discuss America’s ready access to guns as the last resort of the powerless is Patrick Blanchfield, a freelance writer and Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, n+1, Dissent, The New Inquiry, Foreign Policy, and many other outlets, and he is the co-host of Ordinary Unhappiness, a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now.

Musk Will Put Millions Out of Work While Making Billions Out of the Government He is Hollowing Out

Then finally, as the unelected co-president and richest man in the world relishes the prospect of putting millions out of work while making billions out the government he will be hollowing out, we will discuss the easy target of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Musk and his Silicon Valley buddies want to “Delete CFPB” as he posted on X. Joining us is Helaine Olen, managing editor at the American Economic Liberties Project and a reporter in residence at the Omidyar Network. She is the author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and a co-author of The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated. A contributing editor at MSNBC, we will discuss her latest articles, “Why Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ an agency that protects your money” and “Mehmet Oz loves promoting this inferior Medicare substitute.”