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Let's Not Screw Up This Impeachment Thing, OK?
Next week public hearings on impeachment will begin. Democrats, led by Rep. Adam Schiff, will make the case that Donald Trump sought to bribe a foreign…
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It Can Happen Here: As Tyranny Looms and Becomes More Likely Daily
Look around. Count the good and great political leaders in the world today. That didn't take long did it? Why not? What has happened? Where have all the…
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Pelosi? How Many Prosecutors Does She Have?
Once, when presented with an argument that the Pope would appreciate it if he laid off persecuting Russian Catholics, Stalin responded, "The Pope? How many…
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Will Trump's Efforts to End "Forever Wars" End Up Undermining Lasting Peace?
Donald Trump has promoted a foreign policy that seeks to reverse or undermine many of the lasting tenets of post WWII U.S. foreign policy. He wants to retreat…
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"No Need to Thank Us, America. It's What We Do.": The Deep State Rides to the Rescue Again
The not-so-secret secret of Trump foreign policy is that there is no policy. But the better kept secret is that we have one seeming policy from the President…
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King Me: How Trump and the DOJ Are Not Just Ignoring the Constitution But Trying to Undo the American Revolution
This was the week the cracks began to show in Republican defenses of the indefensible. Oh sure, there were more distractions, shenanigans and lies. But between…
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Trump is a One Man Crime Wave...and What Do the Dems Do Now?
From describing Trump's violations of the Constitution's foreign and domestic emoluments clauses as the Trump Administration's "original sin" to grappling with…
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Alas, Poor Democracy, I Knew Him, Horatio...
What if the problem is not Trump. Or Boris Johnson. Or the rest of the current occupants of the global leadership clown car? What if the problem runs deeper?…
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The Only Pro in the Trump Administration is the One in Quid Pro Quo
It has been a few days of staggering incompetence, ignorance, corruption and betrayal from the Trump Administration. The Kurds were betrayed not once but…
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A Turning Point in the Impeachment Investigation: Is the End for Trump Nearing?
As every day brings new testimony from former members of the Trump Administration that confirms there was widespread acknowledgment that what the President and…
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Trump's Catastrophe: What Do We Do When the President is the Greatest Threat We Face?
Donald Trump gave the greenlight to a Turkish invasion of Syria that has already led to manifold calamities. We betrayed our Kurdish allies. They are already…
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Congratulations, We've Given Birth to a Bouncing Baby Constitutional Crisis!
You've been waiting for it. You've been talking about it. You've been listening to our Rosa Brooks say we weren't there yet for a year now. But, finally…
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The Dangerous Consequences of the "Great and Unmatched Wisdom" of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has given the blessing of the U.S. to a Turkish invasion of Northern Syria that could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe for the Kurds, the…
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Impeachable Offenses R Us: The Trump Administration Hurtles Toward...What?
With new scandals and controversies emerging every hour on the hour, it is hard to know which are serious, which are distractions and which are just…
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Are the Democrats Ready for Impeachment?
The die is cast. Impeachment hearings are underway. The Trump presidency is in great (and well-deserved) peril. But, getting from where we are to an…
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Have We Turned the Corner on Impeachment?
A week ago a substantial majority of Americans opposed even an impeachment inquiry. Today, a majority of all Americans support such an inquiry and fully half…
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Making Sense of the Ukraine Whistleblower Revelations
It's not just you. We're all lying beneath the rubble of substantial portions of American democracy trying to figure out what hit us. Fortunately, you have us…
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What Tiny 16 Year-Old Towers Over America's President?
The answer of course to the question posed in the title of this podcast is Greta Thunberg, the extraordinary young Scandinavian leader who has delivered the…
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The Biggest National Security Threat We Face is President Trump: A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta
Few Americans in our history have had such wide-ranging and distinguished careers as Leon Panetta. A former Secretary of Defense, Director of Central…
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Watershed or More Water Under the Bridge: Examining the Ukraine Whistleblower Case
Every few weeks Trump does something that leads everyone to exclaim, "Now he really has done it! This will be the end of him." And every few weeks after people…
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Donald Trump is the MRSA of Presidents: A Grave Threat Our System Can't Fight Off
Our political system has built into it a kind of immune system to protect it from abuse and abusers. But just as how in life, bacteria develop that are…
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Anyone Have Any Ideas for What Dem Foreign Policy Should Be? Bueller? Bueller?
We're getting into the serious campaigning for president and so far it's fair to say foreign policy hasn't really been front and center. Or anywhere to speak…
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Stand by For An Avalanche of Sh*t: Trump Foreign Policy Post-Bolton & Pre-Election
John Bolton may not be National Security Advisor any more but it hardly matters because he wasn't actually ever really National Security Advisor to begin with…
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The Impeachment Investigation Kicks Into Gear: A Newsmaker Conversation with Rep. Ted Lieu
Today the House Judiciary Committee announced the new guidelines for its impeachment investigation. We are joined on this special edition of National Security…
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Summer's Over, Now Things are Really Going to Get Crazy
We bet you think that there was plenty of crazy to go around this summer and that you were as unsettled by each day's news as you could be. Nonsense. We live…
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Putin's Hand Puppet Makes An Appearance in France
In the second of two episodes following up on the G7 meeting in Biarritz, Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law and Evelyn…
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Four Minutes from Armageddon
If the president of the United States decides to launch a nuclear attack, our system is designed for him to be able to do so quickly and for virtually no one…
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We Are Not Prepared for Today's Global Threats...or Tomorrow's
In a far reaching and incisive conversation with Michael Morell, host of CBS News "Intelligence Matters" podcast and former Acting Director of Central…
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Special End of Summer Collusionpalooza!!!
The collusion hits just keep on coming on Deep State Radio. We don't just have the 2016 oldies that made the Mueller Report so great (or so long, anyway)…
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Nuclear Powered Missiles, Explosions, Radiation Plumes in Russia: Nothing to See Here
David Sanger of the New York Times brings us up to date on the latest from the Russian nuclear program--which means catastrophes near the arctic circle with…
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Greenland, The 51st State
In an obvious attempt to infuriate Puerto Rican statehood advocates, Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. And if a few thousand Republicans would move up…
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Attention Planet Earth: Listen to this Pod and Learn What the Next US Presidency Will Be Like
The day after Donald Trump leaves office in January 2021 (as we'll assume for the sake of argument and/or sanity that he does), what happens to America's…
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A Conversation with General James Clapper: Priorities for an Intel Community in Flux
General James Clapper was both the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, one of the most distinguished…
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Tobogganing Toward Gomorrah Revisited
On this episode of Deep State Radio Kori Schake of IISS and Ed Luce of the Financial Times join host David Rothkopf to discuss the state of global crises from…
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Rising to the Challenge of White Supremacist Terror in a Country With a Racist President
On this special edition of Deep State Radio live, we have an in-depth one-on-one conversation with Barbara McQuade, former U.S. Attorney and frequent…
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"This is the Best Time to Be Your Worst Selves"--Trump's Message to the World
America is reeling from two more mass shootings. White nationalism and our gun pathology have combined with the encouragement of the White House to create…
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How Many Articles of Impeachment Does Donald Trump Deserve?
Now that a majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives support an impeachment inquiry and the House has argued in court that such an inquiry is…
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Are We on a Slippery Slope Toward Authoritarianism...and Can the "Deep State" Save Us?
On this edition of National Security Magazine we have an in-depth discussion with former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin about the president's proposed…
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The Last of the Grown Ups Is Leaving the Building
Dan Coats was not a perfect Director of National Intelligence, but he was a good one, a truth-teller in an administration of slavering sycophants. He will be…
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The Back Channel: A Conversation with America's Most Distinguished Diplomat About the Past & Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Ambassador Bill Burns is one of the most distinguished US diplomats of the past 50 years. In a wide ranging conversation based upon his great memoir "The Back…
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Is Impeachment Dead and If It Is, Can Democracy Be Far Behind?
In this special discussion in the wake of Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, Ryan Goodman of Just Security and…
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Racism, Hatred and the Moment in American and World Politics
According to Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, this is a particular fraught moment in the long history of the…
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And Now for Something Even More Stupid and Dangerous Than the Usual Dangerous Stupidity
As the great foreign policy scholar Dean Wormer of Faber College once said, "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." It's also no way to run…
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To Celebrate 200 Episodes: A Little Piece of the Thorny Crown of Entropy for Everyone
Remember the scene in "Mean Girls" where Cady breaks the prom queen tiara into piece for everyone? Well, that's what we do here as we celebrate 200 podcasts…
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200 Podcast Episodes Later How Bad Have Things Gotten for America?
It's not our fault. The month before DSR started Comey got fired, Mueller got hired, and we were off to the races with the Greatest Witch Hunt in History. Many…
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200th Episode Special, Part I: A Glimmer of Hope?
As part of our celebration of 200th episode, we had a special conversation with Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's "The Last Word" and one of the keenest…
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Ivanka's in Charge, Everybody, Nothing to Worry About!
When the special relationship starts coming apart at the seams because of an unfortunate outbreak of stating the obvious, who you gonna call? Ivanka! From the…
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Special July 4th Episode: America Really Does Not Suck!
Yes, our Constitution is not exactly working as planned. Yes, checks and balances are not checking or balancing. Yes, the president and his family are behaving…
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It's a Great Time to Be a Nuke!
President Trump became the first American president to enter North Korea. That's the good news. He also seems to be heading for a deal with North Korea that…
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Good Question for the Next Debate: Do You Have a Son-in-Law and Will He Control Your Foreign Policy?
So, there was this war with Iran, remember? Then there wasn't. Then there were cyberattacks. But what did they do? And were they legal? And why did we do them?…
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50/50 in 2020: Why So Many Candidates are Pledging Gender Parity in National Security Leadership
From one perspective, this is not a particularly auspicious moment for women at the top ranks of the US government. There are fewer women in leadership roles…
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Should You Care if the US and Russia Are Engaged in a Cyberwar Right Now?
There's a lot we don't know about cyberwar. But that doesn't mean we can stop progress from happening while we figure it out. So, Russia attacks us, we attack…
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America Loves Foreign Policy. No, Really...
It is conventional wisdom that Americans want nothing to do with the world save for cheap imports and K-Pop music. Even New York Times columnists say so. But…
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R.I.P. "A Nation of Laws Not Men", 1780-2019
In 1780 John Adams wrote "For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other." It…
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The Great Successor: A Conversation with Anna Fifield on Her New Book on Kim Jong Un
Anna Fifield, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, has written an extraordinary new book providing never before available insights into North Korea's…
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One on One with Prof. Lawrence Tribe: A Different Path Toward Impeachment
Impeachment has become a charged word in our national political debate. But the framers of our Constitution saw it as an essential tool in protecting the…
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National Psychosis or Constitutional Rot, the Question Remains: Is there a Cure?
The disinformation war of the President, AG Barr and their associates is unlike any we have ever seen in US history...and this is a country that knows a thing…
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30 Years After Tiananmen: What Direction is China Heading?
With his new book, "China's New Red Guard: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong" author Jude Blanchette describes vividly a shift in the…
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Balloons Over London: The Latest Dispatch from the Milkshake Wars
Much as the barrage balloons that used to float above London during the blitz were ominous reminders of dire impending threats, so too does the large…
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Targeter: A Conversation with Nada Bakos on the Past, Present and Future of Intelligence
Nada Bakos was a CIA targeter during the height of the War on Terror. She has just completed a compelling new book on her experiences on the ground in the…