Inside-America

Two rulings last week by the US Supreme Court one overturning a 50-year-old court decision that guaranteed a woman’s national right to terminate a pregnancy, the other expanding the right to bear arms have thrown America’s growing divisions into sharp relief, calling into question whether the Court truly represents public opinion in the US.

Guests:

Fred Hicks, Democratic Political Strategist; Stephen Stamboulieh, Attorney for Gun Owners of America

Stephen Marche, Author of The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future

While the US marks Juneteenth, a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, racial disparities and the struggle for justice in America continues.

Guests:

Jeffery Robinson, Founder and Executive Director of The Who We Are Project

Rev Mark Thompson, Activist and Host of Make it Plain with Mark Thompson

Minkah Makalani, Professor of History at Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Boycotts and a public outcry over the Biden administration’s decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the Summit of the Americas, amid growing signs of the United States’ waning influence and regional decline.

Guests:

Earl Anthony Wayne, Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs

Jorge Heine, Former Chilean Ambassador to China

Sheila Xiao, Coordinator of the 2022 People’s Summit for Democracy

Washington deploys hundreds of US troops to Somalia and targets Al Shabab militants amid concerns over the goals and effectiveness of the Biden Administration’s strategy in the Horn of Africa.

Guests:

Abdusalam Omer, Former Somalian Foreign Affairs Minister from 2015 to 2017

Sarah Harrison, Senior Analyst at the International Crisis Group

The Biden administration airlifts over a million baby formula bottles from Europe as it struggles to fill a nationwide shortage, amid a growing political and public health crisis and calls to address the systemic issues that caused the shortage in the first place.

Guests:

TiffanyAnn Goodson: Working Mother and Member of Mocha Moms;

Peter Pitts, Former Associate Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration;

JD Scholten, Senior Adviser to American Economic Liberties Project

A public health order known as Title 42 will continue to be used by US law enforcement to expel migrants at the southern border, following a court ruling last week that blocked the Biden administration’s attempts to lift the restrictions imposed by the Trump administration at the beginning of the pandemic.

Guests:

Rodney Scott, 24th Chief of the United States Border Patrol from 2020 to 2021

Eddie Morales, Texas State Representative

Tyler Mattiace, Mexico and Guatemala Researcher for Human Rights Watch

Shock, condemnation and calls for an independent investigation into the killing of a Palestinian-American journalist — as some members of Congress urge the Biden administration to hold Israel accountable.

Guests:

Adam Shapiro, Director of Advocacy for Israel-Palestine with Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)

Laura Albast, Senior Editor at Institute for Palestine Studies

Mitchell Plitnick, President of ReThinking Foreign Policy

With the US Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, a landmark ruling that legalized abortion across the United States fifty years ago, activists and lawmakers on both sides get ready for what comes next.

A special grand jury has been selected to look into Donald Trump’s alleged election interference in Georgia, as another grand jury in New York ends its investigation into the former president’s business practices — with no indictment.

Full interview of former US attorney general Alberto Gonzales from Inside America 4/20 - ‘The US and the ICC.’