Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer who is the author of “The Plot to attack Iran” and Kevin Zeese, the co-coordinator of Popular Resistance at popularresistance.org.The Senate voted this week 85-10 to give the Pentagon a budget of $716 billion for fiscal 2019. That’s an increase of $82 billion from this year. Economists warned that such major budget increases are untenable over the long term because of the size of the federal deficit. And Congress doesn’t seem to care about the optics of such a vote in the middle of the immigration crisis—despite the facts that some of this funding will go to keeping immigrants in military bases, and that it’s the US-supported coups in Latin America that have been a big contributing factor to immigration.On today’s regular Friday segment covering the upcoming midterm elections, the hosts talk about developments in races all across America as they tighten up. Jacqueline and Abdus Luq