Loud & Clear

By Brian Becker

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Tune in to Loud and Clear with Brian Becker for the latest news, commentary and searing political analysis. We bring you independent experts, activists and political writers.

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08.27.2020
Did the Police Give a Wink and Nod to Kenosha Shooter?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik news analysts Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek.Loud & Clear’s series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important ongoing developments...
08.26.2020
After Police Shooting of Jacob Blake, Two Protesters Shot Dead
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including “Blows Against the Empire: U.S. Imperialism in Crisis.”Two protesters...
08.25.2020
Stocks Soar...And So Does Unemployment and Hunger
Today is Loud & Clear’s weekly series about the biggest economic news of the week with special guest -- Prof. Richard Wolff. Yesterday saw Day 1 of the Republican National Convention. And although the likes of Breitbart, the One...
08.24.2020
Protests Rage After Police Shoot Man in Front of His Kids in Wisconsin
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kofi Ademola, an activist and organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement.Police over the weekend shot two more black men, killing one, and anti-police violence...
08.14.2020
The Modern Day Pirates
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran.The US military announced last night that Iran had...
08.13.2020
Cops & Politicians Demand Long Prison Sentences for Protesters
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Aislinn Pulley, an organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement.Protestors in Bend, Oregon last night were sprayed by ICE agents with pepper spray, the use...
08.12.2020
Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Police, Prisons & Pentagon?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Margaret Kimberley, an activist, columnist, and author, whose latest book is called “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents,” and KJ Noh, a San Francisco...
08.11.2020
Fury at Police Violence Reaches Boiling Point in Chicago
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Kofi Ademola, an activist and organizer with the Black Lives Matter movement.Protests continued overnight and over the past weekend in both Portland and Chicago, and...
08.10.2020
Editors or Censors? The Hidden Hand Behind Wikipedia
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a bestselling author and journalist who is senior editor of The Grayzone and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels.”Four days ago, Twitter announced...
08.07.2020
Millions Face Long Term Unemployment and Homelessness
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall. He’s an award-winning columnist and political cartoonist and you can check out his work at www.rall.com.Discussions between the White House and Congressional...
08.06.2020
Congress Fiddles While the Unemployed Burn Through Life Savings
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Pete Dolack, an activist and writer with Trade Justice New York Metro, who focuses on human rights, social justice, and environmental and trade issues and...
08.05.2020
Behind the Beirut Explosions
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Rania Khalek, a journalist and political activist whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Intercept, Aljazeera, Salon, VICE, and elsewhere.Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, experienced a...
08.04.2020
Mass Evictions Are On The Way For Millions of American Working Families
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Professor Richard Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work whose latest book is “Understanding...
08.03.2020
Attack on TikTok: US Relies on Economic Gangsterism Not "Free Market"
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute, Renmin University of China, and an award-winning resident columnist with several Chinese media organizations.Microsoft CEO spoke with President...
07.31.2020
Delay the Election? Trump's Trial Balloon Is Shot Down
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer, the author of the book “The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to...
07.30.2020
What Is Trump’s Real Game Plan with “Election Delay” Tweet
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik news analysts Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek.Loud & Clear’s series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important ongoing developments...
07.29.2020
US Officials Blame Russia for COVID Confusion in US...Not Trump
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books--“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War.”The spread of Covid-19 is worse in the...
07.28.2020
Biden’s VP Choices: Neocon War Hawk or Prosecutor?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ajamu Baraka, the National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace and a longtime human rights activist, organizer, and political activist, and the 2016 Green Party nominee...
07.27.2020
Police & Vigilantes Carry Out Attacks Against Anti-Racist Protesters
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Lillian House, an organizer with the Denver Liberation Center and has been deeply involved in protests across Colorado.In Denver, Colorado, this weekend, two white men...
07.24.2020
China Hits Back After Trump Evicts Consulate in Houston
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analysts and producers Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell.Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in...
07.23.2020
The Staggering Number of Jobless Americans Is Growing Every Day
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dr. Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US policy from Reagan to...
07.22.2020
Trump Shuts Down China's Consulate in Houston, Escalating Confrontation
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute, Renmin University of China, and an award-winning resident columnist with several Chinese media organizations.The Trump Administration today ordered...
07.21.2020
Democrats Give Even More Power & Money to Trump in NDAA Vote
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Lee Camp, a writer, comedian, activist, journalist, and host of the television show “Redacted Tonight,” on RT America, and his latest book is called “Bullet...
07.20.2020
Trump Unleashes "Kidnapping" Tactics in Portland
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Mara Verheyden Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.A viral video is making the rounds on social media and in the...
07.17.2020
Which way forward for COVID-19 Crisis?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Jim Kavanagh,veditor of thepolemicist.net, and Walter Smolarek, Sputnik News analysts and producer.In The Week in Review, we take a look at the biggest stories of...
07.16.2020
Could COVID-19 Be Here Forever?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analysts and producers Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell.Loud & Clear’s series, In the News, is where the hosts look at the most important...
07.15.2020
Political Chaos Reigns as 2020 Election Approaches
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall, an award-winning columnist and political cartoonist whose work is at www.rall.com.2020 is taking some odd political turns. Last night in the Alabama primary,...
07.14.2020
Will 2007 Epstein Sweetheart Deal with Govt Save Ghislaine Maxwell too?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of three books--“The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War.”Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman accused of procuring and...
07.13.2020
As COVID ravages the US, Bankers Loot Small Business Programs
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dave Lindorff, an investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to The Nation, Extra!, and Salon.com, and whose writings are at ThisCantBeHappening.net.States across...
07.10.2020
"How Dare You Bring Me Bad News!" - Trump to Health Policy Advisers
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analyst and producer Nicole Roussell and, in the second half hour, special guest Kym Smith, an South Carolina organizer in the ongoing protest...
07.09.2020
Trump’s Taxes Still Hidden After SCOTUS Ruling, But for How Long?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent who in 2002 was named Time Magazine person of the year along with two other whistleblowers.The Supreme Court...
07.08.2020
Under the Lash: Trump Says He'll Cut Funding if Schools Don't Reopen
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Chicago Teachers Union member and activist Nick Stender.Covid-19 is continuing to spread rapidly, with 34 states reporting record numbers of cases yesterday, the same day...
07.07.2020
Democratic Party Elites Moving to Defeat Anti-Police Protests
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Eugene Puryear, an author, activist and host of the new program BreakThrough News.Major cities in the United States have suffered from serious gun violence for...
07.06.2020
What If There Is No Vaccine for COVID-19?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Robert Gallo, MD, the Homer & Martha Gudelsky Distinguished Professor in Medicine, co-founder and director of the Institute Human Virology at the University of Maryland...
07.02.2020
“Independence Day” for Who?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, a professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including “The Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins...
07.02.2020
100,000 new infections per day? Coronavirus Second Wave Arriving
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, John Kiriakou is joined by Ted Rall, an award-winning commentator and editorial cartoonist whose work you can find at www.rall.com.New coronavirus infection cases are surging across the country, with marked increases in 45...
06.30.2020
Nearly Half of US Population Is Out of Work
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Professor Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work whose latest book is “Understanding Socialism.”Today is Loud &...
06.29.2020
After 18-year Afghanistan Occupation: Media Blames Putin for US Deaths
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, John Kiriakou is joined by Matthew Hoh, who worked for 12 years in United States Marine Corps and the Departments of Defense and State and resigned in 2009 from the State Department over...
06.26.2020
Huge COVID Spikes in US As Trump Tries to Cut Health Care for Millions
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, John Kiriakou is joined by Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease physician and vice chair of the Infectious Disease Society of America’s Global Health Committee. The House of Representatives today is voting on...
06.25.2020
US Indicts Julian Assange Again - But Why?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Joe Lauria, the editor-in-chief of Consortium News, founded by the late Robert Parry, and the author of the book "How I Lost, By Hillary...
06.24.2020
Mike Flynn Walks Free After Appeals Court Ruling
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Daniel Lazare. He is a journalist and author of three books--The Frozen Republic, The Velvet Coup, and America's Undeclared War.A federal appeals court ruled today...
06.23.2020
Trump v. Silicon Valley on Worker Visa Shutdown
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Professor Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work whose latest book is “Understanding Socialism.”Today...
06.22.2020
COVID-19: Why Are Some Countries Succeeding & Other Countries Failing?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by KJ Noh, a peace activist and scholar on the geopolitics of Asia, and a frequent contributor to Counterpunch and Dissident Voice.China two weeks ago announced that it had...
06.19.2020
Juneteenth Protests Shut Down Ports & Tulsa Braces for a Trump Rally
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Eugene Puryear, an author, activist and host of the new program BreakThrough News; and Estevan Hernandez, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition who has been...
06.18.2020
Why Did the Supreme Court Rule for Immigrant "Dreamers" & Not Trump?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Juan José Gutiérrez, the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition.The Supreme Court today, in a landmark 5-4 decision, ruled that the Trump...
06.17.2020
Trump & Pence Tell Nation “It’s All Under Control” as COVID Cases Spike
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, who is at www.rall.com.Coronavirus cases are surging in parts of the country with Florida, Texas, and Arizona...
06.16.2020
We Are Now in the Third Major Capitalist Economic Crisis in 20 Years
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Professor Wolff, a professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and founder of the organization Democracy at Work whose latest book is “Understanding Socialism,”...
06.15.2020
Police Executions of Unarmed Black People Continues; Atlanta Rises Up
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by community organizer Monica Johnson who attended the protests over the weekend and Sputnik news analyst Nicole Roussell.Peaceful protests continued across America over the weekend, with...
06.12.2020
Protests Grow, Monuments Fall: Is the Military Breaking from Trump?
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Sputnik News analysts and producers Walter Smolarek and Nicole Roussell.Friday is Loud & Clear’s weekly hour-long segment The Week in Review, about the week in...
06.11.2020
Racist Monuments and Icons Fall as Nationwide Protests Continue
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Rebecca Keel, Virginia organizer with Southerners on New Ground.Anti-racism and anti-police protests are surging across the country with protesters demanding action to address the problems...

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Loud & Clear episodes:

Did the Police Give a Wink and Nod to Kenosha Shooter?

After Police Shooting of Jacob Blake, Two Protesters Shot Dead

Stocks Soar...And So Does Unemployment and Hunger

Protests Rage After Police Shoot Man in Front of His Kids in Wisconsin

The Modern Day Pirates

Cops & Politicians Demand Long Prison Sentences for Protesters

Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Police, Prisons & Pentagon?

Fury at Police Violence Reaches Boiling Point in Chicago

Editors or Censors? The Hidden Hand Behind Wikipedia

Millions Face Long Term Unemployment and Homelessness

Congress Fiddles While the Unemployed Burn Through Life Savings

Behind the Beirut Explosions

Mass Evictions Are On The Way For Millions of American Working Families

Attack on TikTok: US Relies on Economic Gangsterism Not "Free Market"

Delay the Election? Trump's Trial Balloon Is Shot Down

What Is Trump’s Real Game Plan with “Election Delay” Tweet

US Officials Blame Russia for COVID Confusion in US...Not Trump

Biden’s VP Choices: Neocon War Hawk or Prosecutor?

Police & Vigilantes Carry Out Attacks Against Anti-Racist Protesters

China Hits Back After Trump Evicts Consulate in Houston

The Staggering Number of Jobless Americans Is Growing Every Day

Trump Shuts Down China's Consulate in Houston, Escalating Confrontation

Democrats Give Even More Power & Money to Trump in NDAA Vote

Trump Unleashes "Kidnapping" Tactics in Portland

Which way forward for COVID-19 Crisis?

Could COVID-19 Be Here Forever?

Political Chaos Reigns as 2020 Election Approaches

Will 2007 Epstein Sweetheart Deal with Govt Save Ghislaine Maxwell too?

As COVID ravages the US, Bankers Loot Small Business Programs

"How Dare You Bring Me Bad News!" - Trump to Health Policy Advisers

Trump’s Taxes Still Hidden After SCOTUS Ruling, But for How Long?

Under the Lash: Trump Says He'll Cut Funding if Schools Don't Reopen

Democratic Party Elites Moving to Defeat Anti-Police Protests

What If There Is No Vaccine for COVID-19?

“Independence Day” for Who?

100,000 new infections per day? Coronavirus Second Wave Arriving

Nearly Half of US Population Is Out of Work

After 18-year Afghanistan Occupation: Media Blames Putin for US Deaths

Huge COVID Spikes in US As Trump Tries to Cut Health Care for Millions

US Indicts Julian Assange Again - But Why?

Mike Flynn Walks Free After Appeals Court Ruling

Trump v. Silicon Valley on Worker Visa Shutdown

COVID-19: Why Are Some Countries Succeeding & Other Countries Failing?

Juneteenth Protests Shut Down Ports & Tulsa Braces for a Trump Rally

Why Did the Supreme Court Rule for Immigrant "Dreamers" & Not Trump?

Trump & Pence Tell Nation “It’s All Under Control” as COVID Cases Spike

We Are Now in the Third Major Capitalist Economic Crisis in 20 Years

Police Executions of Unarmed Black People Continues; Atlanta Rises Up

Protests Grow, Monuments Fall: Is the Military Breaking from Trump?

Racist Monuments and Icons Fall as Nationwide Protests Continue