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Ep. 71: Political Violence and the 2020 Election Nov 02, 2020

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David Kilcullen is one of the world's leading experts on counterinsurgency and military strategy. He is a former diplomat and soldier who served as a counterinsurgency advisor during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where he advised Condoleezza Rice and Gen. David Petraeus.

Kilcullen is also the founding chairman of Caerus Associates

His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year. His new book is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West.

David Kilcullen explores the possible and likely scenarios for political violence and social upheaval on Election Day.

What are the likely tactics and strategies that right-wing extremists, paramilitaries, and other groups would potentially use to disrupt Election Day and American society more broadly?

David Kilcullen also shares his concerns about a possible armed insurgency if not a type of civil war in the United States if political polarization and extremism continue to escalate – especially if Trump somehow steals a second term in office.

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Ep. 70: Donald Trump is Something Much More Dangerous Than an Apparent Sociopath or Psychopath Oct 29, 2020

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Dr. Dan McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy, at Northwestern University. He is the author of almost 300 articles and chapters as well as seven books including The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By.

Dr. McAdams' work has been featured in leading media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and elsewhere.

His most recent book is The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning.

McAdams warns that Donald Trump exists only in the present moment, a man without a future or a past, and lacking any sense of a life narrative or ethics beyond winning at all costs. This aspect of Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the country and the world.

McAdams also cautions that Donald Trump is a type of unique and strange person who defies any one singular category of mental diagnosis. Ultimately, leaders like Donald Trump bring ruin and destruction to the countries they lead.

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Ep. 69: Ralph Nader Explains that the Worse Things Get for Regular People the More Powerful Big Business Becomes Oct 26, 2020

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Ralph Nader is an author, attorney, consumer advocate and activist, as well as five-time presidential candidate who has been fighting for the freedoms and rights of the American people for six decades.

His new book (with co-author Mark Green) is Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All.

Ralph Nader explains how the plutocrats and the corporatocracy are benefitting from the pandemic and why America's mainstream news media and other voices have largely been silent if not complicit.

Nader also warns that voting for the Democratic Party (what he describes as the "lesser of two evils") helped to create the disaster that is the Age of Trump and the Republican Party's war on democracy and the American people.

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Ep. 68: Timothy Snyder Warns That as Election Day 2020 Approaches America is in The Midst of a Slow-Motion Reichstag Fire Emergency Oct 18, 2020

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Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. His new book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary.

Dr. Snyder explains why America's mainstream news media continues to avoid describing Donald Trump and his regime as fascist and authoritarian – and how such behavior, to this late date, continues to empower and normalize his fascist authoritarian movement.

Dr. Snyder also details how Donald Trump and his regime used the coronavirus — and the pain and social injustice it has revealed and made worse — as a weapon against democracy and the American people.

And at the end of this conversation, Timothy Snyder warns that the United States is in the midst of a years-long slow-motion Reichstag Fire emergency that Election Day 2020 may not resolve.

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Ep. 67: Philosopher Cornel West Reflects on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice Oct 13, 2020

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Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters, Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire.

Dr. West reflects upon questions of right and wrong, karma, and justice as related to how Donald Trump was recently hospitalized because he was infected by the virus. Dr. West also explains how true liberals and progressives should respond to Donald Trump being hospitalized – even though he is evil and cruel.

Dr. West also shares his thoughts on a democracy in crisis and how the American people should best focus their emotions and energies if and when Trump is no longer president.

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Ep. 66: The American People are Living in Donald Trump's Horrible Reality TV Show And Cannot Escape It Oct 07, 2020

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James Poniewozik is chief television critic at the New York Times and author of the new book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.

He explains what type of character Donald Trump is. How does Trump imagine his role? How did Donald Trump master the new rules of television and the media in the 21st century to gain so much power?

James Poniewozik also ponders what would be the perfect ending for Donald Trump the character, and his bizarre epic story.

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Ep. 65: Rev. Al Sharpton Warns That Donald Trump is a Dirty Street Fighter Which is Why The Democrats Don't Know How to Defeat Him Sep 29, 2020

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Rev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, "Keepin' it Real". His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads.

Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance.

He also explains how Joe Biden should prepare to debate Donald Trump, a man that has no limits of morality or human decency but who is also a devious master of the television genre and political performance art.

And Rev. Sharpton answers why the Democrats and many members of the news media have been unable to grapple with and accept the moral and political crisis represented by Donald Trump and his movement.

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Ep. 64: Authoritarianism, the Pandemic, and Trump's War on Science and the Truth Sep 28, 2020

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Holden Thorp is a chemist, biologist, inventor, and now editor-in-chief of Science magazine, which has the largest number of paid subscribers for a peer-reviewed general science publication in the world. He has served as provost at both Washington University and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Holden Thorp is the author of the recent widely read essay at Science magazine, "Trump lied about science".

Holden Thorp explains why he finally decided to publicly condemn Donald Trump and why America's scientific community should have spoken out sooner about key questions of politics and society – especially in a time of crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.

He also details how science is inherently political and that scientists have a profound responsibility to society – a claim which is directly counter to what many Trump-supporters and other reactionary conservatives dishonestly try to assert.

And Holden Thorp shares his deep worry that after the pandemic, deep social inequality will remain unaddressed, which in turn will mean that the next national (or global) health emergency will be even worse and therefore more devastating for the most vulnerable Americans.

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Ep. 63: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Put America's Multiracial Democracy on Life Support Sep 24, 2020

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Tim Wise is one of the United States' and the world's leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America, White Like Me, Speaking Treason Fluently, and Under the Affluence. His new book is Dispatches from the Race War.

Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America's multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement.

He also shares how the Trump regime's move to immediately replace Ginsburg with a white neofascist is but another example of the toxic power of white racism in America and its profoundly negative impact on society as a whole.

And Tim Wise counsels that yes, the loss of Justice Ginsburg should upset and terrify all good people of conscience in America but that now is not the time to surrender to defeatism but rather to rally and fight back.

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Ep. 62: Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump's "Honey Trap" Sep 15, 2020

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Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News' senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent and in his other professional roles, Sciutto has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries including Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. His new book is "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World".

Sciutto explains that there is no strategic logic or so-called "madman theory" guiding Donald Trump and his control over the country's foreign policy. Sciutto warns that America's foreign policy is now guided by Donald Trump's personal whims, delusions, authoritarianism, narcissism, greed, corruption, and personal fealty to Vladimir Putin.

Jim Sciutto also details how Donald Trump has brought the United States to the brink of what could have been a horrible war with North Korea and Iran – but it was only because the country's senior military officials did not allow Trump to follow through on his worst impulses that disaster was avoided.

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