Facepalm America

Devlin Barrett of the Washington Post talks with us about the new division of the Justice Department being created to deal with domestic terrorism. Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/domestic-terrorism-justice-threat/2022/01/11/dfd8d82c-72eb-11ec-8b0a-bcfab800c430_story.html

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Beowulf speaks with Ryan Cooper, author of "How Are You Going to Pay for That? Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics." It turns out the economy is actually supposed to work for us instead of the other way around - who knew?

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We speak with Eli Hager of ProPublica who tells the story of Arianna Bermudez, her son David, and a system that puts the onus on the those who need help the most. The original story is at https://www.propublica.org/article/a-mother-needed-welfare-instead-the-state-used-welfare-funds-to-take-her-son

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Beowulf talks about the recent jobs report and speaks with Gene Ludwig with The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity about why unemployment numbers are way undercounted.

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Beowulf names the corporate donors to the Sedition Caucus, talks to Drew Harwell of the Washington Post about infighting in the QAnon set, and may just have you a new job as nut driver...

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Malcolm Nance speaks with us about the January 6th insurrection and this week's anniversary. Malcolm Nance is a former naval intelligence and counter-terrorism officer and a historian. His most recent book is The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It. And his upcoming book is They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency.

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We discuss robots the kind that can perform useful tasks, but also take your job... or possibly your life.

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Facepalm America thrills you and chills you with tales of sewage terror from Billings, Montana, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles, CA. Check out one of the originals here: https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/it-could-happen-to-you-billings-couple-takes-sewer-back-up-fight-to-montanas-highest-court

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We continue our conversation with General Peter Zwack and discuss the prospect of Russia invading Ukraine and how the US might react. Retired Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack is a Wilson Center Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute. In 1980 he began his 34-year U.S. Army career as an intelligence and security officer in a nuclear capable artillery battalion. Three decades later, he served as the U.S. Senior Defense Attaché to the Russian Federation from 2012–2014. He is the author of Afghanistan Kabul Kurier: One Soldier's Story of the Taliban, Tribes & Loyalties, Opium Trade, & Burqa and Swimming the Volga: A U.S. Army Officer's Experiences in Pre-Putin Russia.

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General Peter Zwack joins us for a discussion of whether there could be another civil war in the United States, how the military might be involved, and how we can prevent if from happening. Retired Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack is a Wilson Center Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute. In 1980 he began his 34-year U.S. Army career as an intelligence and security officer in a nuclear capable artillery battalion. Three decades later, he served as the U.S. Senior Defense Attaché to the Russian Federation from 2012–2014. He is the author of Afghanistan Kabul Kurier: One Soldier's Story of the Taliban, Tribes & Loyalties, Opium Trade, & Burqa and Swimming the Volga: A U.S. Army Officer's Experiences in Pre-Putin Russia.

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