Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and Walter Smolarek are joined by John Wight, host of Radio Sputnik's Hard Facts, and by Dick Nichols, correspondent for Green Left Weekly. Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has taken a step back from the edge and declined to issue a declaration of independence in his much-anticipated address. Will there be international mediation, or will Madrid’s intransigence continue? Also in the first hour, Brian and Walter discuss the possibility of another Israeli attack on Lebanon, and are joined from Beirut by Jana Nakhal, an independent researcher and a member of the central committee of Lebanese Communist Party. The collision course initiated by the Trump administration against Iran continues at full speed, with the Iranian government promises a “crushing” response to the anticipated U.S. designation of the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. Middle East analyst Robert Carter joins the show. The Republican Party civil war has flared up once agai