In Syria it’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ (For Assad)
Following an overnight round of US-backed airstrikes in Syria earlier this month, President Trump famously declared via tweet fiat, “Mission Accomplished!” Lara Setrakian, who founded the independent ...
21 Apr 201814min
Fallout from a Fake Democracy
Nine out of every ten Venezuelans live in poverty and the average Venezuelan has lost 24 pounds in the past year alone. This is not what democracy looks like. In this week's show, Venezuela expert M...
13 Apr 201812min
Haasstile Actors
President Donald J. Trump is on the cusp of waging three wars at once: political, economic, and boots-on-the-ground real. So says Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass in a remarkabl...
7 Apr 201830min
The World Watches. The ICRC acts.
Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee for the Red Cross personally visits many of the most desperate regions of the world on a regular basis. His job, over the past few years, has...
24 Mars 201811min
Pre 9/11 Vibes with Ali Soufan
"If you look at the eve of 9/11, the full membership of al-Qaeda was 400 people. But today the people who adhere to bin Laden-ism, to the ideas of Osama bin Laden, are thousands upon thousands. Some e...
17 Mars 201813min
Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Remember when President Trump allegedly referred to many African nations as "sh&#hole countries"? Soon after in Davos, he met with a prominent leader of one of those countries: Rwandan president and h...
2 Mars 201812min
From Vlad to Worse
The Beach Boys aren't the only ones picking up good vibrations. According to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, Russian surveillance of his Moscow residence was so intense that officia...
23 Feb 201822min
The Rescue Situation
The worst time to have a global crisis of diplomacy is during a global crisis of refugees. In today's show, David Miliband, the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, talks about hum...
16 Feb 201815min
