Loud & Clear
Bombs Away, Bombs Away: Trump and Saudis Promise Arms Bonanza
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:53:05
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Synopsis
On today’s episode of Loud & Clear, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of CodePink, and Vicki Huddleston, a veteran U.S. diplomat and the former head of the United States Interests Section in Havana, join the show.In our first hour, we discuss two big issues. First, there is a rapidly growing pace of U.S. arms sales and the big changes going on in one of its top customers -- Saudi Arabia. Then, the panel talks about the alleged sonic attacks in Cuba.While the total number of deportations has fallen since the Trump administration took office, the number of arrests carried out by ICE is way up. Nearly one year since his election, what has President Donald Trump meant for immigrant communities? Angie Kim, a community organizer with the MinKwon Center for Community Action who received relief through the DACA program, talks about the issue.Is the uptick in airstrikes on Libya in recent days a prelude to an even greater expansion of the U.S. role in the country? More than six years after the U.S./NATO intervention