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We begin with revelations that the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates made a secret trip to the U.S. for meetings in Trump tower with Stephen Bannon, Jared Kushner and General Michael Flynn and later in the Seychelles met with the founder of Blackwater Erik Prince, who has a mercenary military force operating out of the UAE. Joining us to look into the role of the UAE in the 9/11 attacks is Kristen Breitweiser, 9/11 widow, activist and author of “Wake Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow”. We discuss her article at The Huffington Post “UAE: Financial and Transit Hub of 9/11 Terror” and the extent to which the Trump Administration has made secret deals with the UAE and Saudi Arabia who are behind the blockade of Qatar and are actively encouraging the U.S. to intervene in Iran. |
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Then we will look further into the growing evidence that the Trump Administration is frantically trying to fabricate any excuse to demonstrate Iran’s non-compliance with the terms of the P5+1 nuclear deal signed by Obama which Trump has decried on the campaign trail and later as president as “the worst deal in history”. The author of “The Great Satan versus the Mad Mullahs: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other”, William Beeman, a Middle East Specialist for more than 30 years who has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department, the Department of Defense, the U.N. and the U.S. Congress, joins us to discuss his article at NewAmericaMedia.org “Trump Administration Signals Plans to Abandon Iran Deal”. |
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Then finally with more demonstrations expected tonight on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, we speak with the Dean of the Berkeley Law School Erwin Chemerinsky, the co-author of a new book “Free Speech on Campus”. He joins us to discuss the potential of clashes between outside groups on the right like the Proud Boys and the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights and the RefuseFascism.org group on the left promoting demonstrations against a conservative speaker Ben Shapiro. Later this month Stephen Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos will cause more disruption and expense for the university in the hope they will be banned and thus become martyrs for free speech.
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