Former US diplomat and former senior foreign policy advisor Jim Jatras joins Misfits hosts Michelle Witte and John Kiriakou to discuss the mass demonstrations in Israel, how the US is relating to the Israeli political crisis, IRS agents visiting journalist Matt Taibbi's house as he continues to publish Twitter Files documents, the FBI’s purchase of internet data by private companies, and Washington’s UN mission opposing an independent investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline explosions.
Zero Hour founder and author Jamie Margolin discusses a lawsuit in Montana that youth are leveraging to address climate change, how successful similar legal battles have been elsewhere, and what the trial could look like moving forward.
Professor of law and public policy at Cornell University Robert Hockett discusses an opinion piece in The Hill claiming that Democrats need a post-populist economic platform, the ongoing strikes and demonstrations across France and Germany and how they signify global economic instability, whether the American labor movement could return to a militancy it wielded in the past, how Mexico’s push for energy sovereignty threatens some in Washington, and how former Governor Chris Christie is trying to remain relevant in the GOP primary.
Community organizer and immigration activist Maru Mora Villalpando discusses the Supreme Court signaling that it will uphold a law making it a crime to encourage undocumented immigration, the state of US-Mexican relations, and a deadly fire in a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez.
The Misfits also discuss a fishy cheating scandal that caught two men up in convictions, and a new Sam Bankman-Fried indictment relating to bribery of Chinese officials.
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