Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, and Juan José Gutiérrez, the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition. A DACA deal appears to be dead in light of President Trump’s recent racist comments. But he blames Democrats, whom, he says, are willing to shut down the government if there’s no DACA deal. A group of Foreign Ministers, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meets in Vancouver this week to discuss implementation and enforcement of sanctions on North Korea. Alison Bodine, an anti-war and social justice activist and the Chair of Vancouver's antiwar coalition Mobilization Against War and Occupation, and Walter Smolarek, Sputnik news analyst, join the show. The government of Turkey is planning what it is calling an “imminent” military operation against US-backed Syria Kurdish fighters in the northern Syrian city of Afrin. With 2,000 US special forc