Loud & Clear

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, who recently returned from Afghanistan.Secretary of Defence James Mattis made an unannouncedvisit to Afghanistan on Monday. The visit came on the heels of Donald Trump dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb on the country and the Taliban stepping up its attacks across the country -- is a serious U.S. escalation on the horizon?As the U.S. sends aircraft carrier USS Vinson and a accompanying “armada” of vessels toward the Korean Peninsula ahead of another important holiday in the North, Xi Jinping has urged restraint in a phone call with Donald Trump. Brian speaks with Will Griffin, an organizer with U.S.-based Stop THAAD in Korea and US Militarism in Asia and & Pacific, andKevin Zeese, co-director of Popular Resistance.Venezuela’s opposition openly calls for an economic war against the government of Nicolas Maduro as deadly right-wing protests continue around the country, but la