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Episode 164
Tommy and Ben talk about the new normal as the world combats the coronavirus. They cover how South Korea has successfully reduced cases, how the Trum…
6 years, 2 months ago
Coronavirus and oil shocks rock the global economy
Episode 163
Coronavirus update and explanation of why an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia is rocking the global economy. More crackdowns in Saudi Ar…
6 years, 2 months ago
A fragile peace deal in Afghanistan
Episode 162
Tommy and Ben talk about the fragile peace agreement between the US and the Taliban, the Israeli elections, the escalating fighting between Turkey an…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy record comes under attack
Episode 161
First, Trump’s trip to India, his new and unqualified Director of National Intelligence, and should Democrats attend AIPAC? Then updates on Sudan and…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus
Episode 160
Mike Bloomberg’s foreign policy record and platform. How some 2020 candidates failed a foreign policy quiz. The humanitarian crisis in northwest Syri…
6 years, 3 months ago
How the CIA broke the world’s encryption
Episode 159
Tommy and Ben tell some stories about the New Hampshire primary in 2008, walk through a report on a decades-long CIA/German effort to crack encrypted…
6 years, 3 months ago
Jared still sucks
Episode 158
Today’s topics include: Brexit, updates on the Coronavirus, why Trump made Venezuela a focus of his State of the Union speech, the list of countries …
6 years, 3 months ago
Trump kills the Middle East peace process
Episode 157
First, Tommy and Ben talk about Trump’s plan to help Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu win reelection and how it essentially means the death of t…
6 years, 4 months ago
That’s President Sh*thole to you
Episode 156
Will new facial recognition technology end privacy as we know it? Can Trump scare the Intelligence Community out of testifying before Congress? Why d…
6 years, 4 months ago
Iran and the lies we told along the way
Episode 155
Tommy and Ben cover the latest developments in the Iran crisis, including why the intelligence and legal case for assassinating Soleimani keeps chang…
6 years, 4 months ago