Hinkle chats with Col. Douglas Macgregor, one of a handful of (ex) military truthtellers, and a common sense geopolitical analyst. While Macgregor is not a “progressive” in the classical sense of the term, he is rational and fair when examining the actions and history of US-designated “adversaries”, countries like Russia and China who, as fully sovereign nations, would like to have normal, peaceful and mutually rewarding relations with the US but which are obsessively punished and persecuted by the US’s ruling class as they represent de facto challenges to its supremacist unipolar entitlements. In a word, Macgregor is not a knee-jerk, flag-waving imperialist.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—Another dispatch on the Ukraine war by probably one of its most deednable observers, this time Brian is joined by Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security expert based in Russia, and US Navy veteran. We will discuss the latest developments in Ukraine including a recent Pentagon briefing and Western media claims made in recent days.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—China’s response to Pelosi’s provocation has thankfully been relatively measured, though we’re about to see Taiwan fully encircled by the Chinese navy for a show of force unlike anything we’ve seen in decades, and Chinese sanctions upon Taiwanese commerce are still being announced. There will be political pressure in Beijing to escalate tensions with the US so as not to look weak, and the intensity of the new cold war has certainly been ratcheted up a notch, but when it comes to hot war it looks like humanity’s better angels have prevailed for now.
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Pelosi and her delegation disembarked from a U.S. Air Force transport plane at Songshan Airport in downtown Taipei and were greeted by Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu and Sandra Oudkirk, the top U.S. representative in Taiwan.
“Our congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan honors America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant democracy,” Pelosi said in a statement shortly after landing. “America’s solidarity with the 23 million people of Taiwan is more important today than ever, as the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy.”
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JIMMY DORE—The mainstream US media likes to depict support for Ukraine in its struggle against Russia as universal, implying a united global community pushing back against the aggressive, imperialist-minded Putin. In reality the global south is not on board with this narrative, with the nations of Africa in particular preferring to stay neutral in this war and primarily evincing concern with ending the fighting to ensure that domestic food scarcity doesn’t worsen. But that’s not good enough for the US and Europe, which have begun implicitly threatening African nations with consequences if they don’t fall in line and declare their full-throated support for Ukraine. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger are joined by independent journalist Hermela Aregawi (http://twitter.com/HermelaTV) to discuss the Ukraine War’s role in food scarcity in the Horn of Africa and Democratic war criminal Samantha Power’s recent visit to the region to drum up opposition to Putin and Russia.
