October 16 - Predicting a Donald Trump Victory in November; Putin's Denial of Interfering in the US Election; A Call for a Ceasefire in Yemen

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with a prediction that Donald Trump will win the presidency which comes from Allan Lichtman, an historian of American politics at American University who has studied both the American right and the presidency.  He is the author of “White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement” and “The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Way of Predicting the Next President”, Allan Lichtman’s prediction system that has correctly predicted the outcomes of all U.S. elections since 1984. We discuss why he thinks Trump will win the presidency and, as Trump’s campaign turns to the so-called Alt-Right, how far the country has moved to the right so that enough Americans will come out to vote for Trump which if it were to happen, would be a greater shock than the “Brexit” vote and a repudiation of all the polls.

Part 2

Then with President Obama considering options to retaliate against Russia for hacking into and interfering with our elections, we speak with Robert English, a Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California who studies Russia, the former USSR, and Eastern Europe. He worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense and the Committee for National Security and joins us to discuss Putin’s denial that he is interfering in our elections and whether a blank check for Hillary Clinton coming out of this election will mean the return of the neocons and a return to neo-liberal economics.

Part 3

Then finally we look into the call on Sunday by the United States and the U.K. for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen following the bombing of a funeral procession by the Saudis and cruise missile attacks on U.S. destroyers off the coast enforcing a blockade that severely damaged a Littoral Combat Ship the U.S. Navy leased to the U.A.E. Charles Schmitz, the president of the American Institute of Yemeni Studies who is a professor of Geography at Towson University, joins us to discuss the complexity of the four-sided civil war between the Houthis, the former leader of Yemen who is now a warlord, the so-called government that the U.S. and the U.N. recognize, and what’s left of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.