July 26 – Trump’s Cynical Move Against the Transgender Minority; The Impact of US Sanctions on the European Gas Market Dominated By Russia; Criminalizing Political Speech in Order to Stop the BDS Movement

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the latest policy reversal of an Obama initiative announced by Trump on Twitter that the U.S. Government will no longer “accept or allow” transgender Americans to serve in the U.S. military. The author of “The Human Agenda: Conversations About Sexual Orientation and Gender”, Joe Wenke, a writer, social critic and LGBT activist, joins us to discuss what appears to be Trump’s new routine of daily distraction, this time scapegoating a vulnerable community in a cruel and cynical attempt to distract the public from the Russia investigation which is closing in on him and his family. We look into Stephen Bannon’s White House strategy of pandering to bigots who call themselves “Christians” in the alt-right’s phony battle against the bi-coastal secular humanists consumed by identity politics who don’t care about the white working class in the flyover states.

Part 2

Then we assess the impact on the European gas market dominated by Russia’s Gazprom of the sanctions bill that just passed overwhelmingly in the House on a 419-3 vote. Fadel Gheit, the former Senior Energy Strategist for Oil and Gas with Oppenheimer and Company joins us to discuss what inroads U.S. shale gas and Qatari LNG have made into the European market and how much the new sanctions will affect Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline project under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany that bypasses Ukraine and Poland.

Part 3

Then finally we examine the Israel Anti-Boycott Act introduced into the Senate by Democrats at the behest of AIPAC, the American Israel Political Action Committee, which is meant to head off the Boycott Divestment Sanctions, BDS movement, in America that already has proven effective in Europe. M.J. Rosenberg, a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters joins us to discuss how this bill will criminalize political speech and subject Americans to up to 20 years in jail and a million dollar fine for just requesting information about BDS boycotts.