Episode 319: Good Bad News, Bad Good News
Summary
Host Dr. Craig Johnson covers the Trump administration’s media bans, extrajudicial deportations, and voter suppression tactics, alongside Germany’s political shift toward the AfD and a UK activist’s arrest for endangering migrants. The episode also highlights right-wing violence in Colombia and Brazil, a civil war resurgence in Ethiopia, and political unrest in Pakistan. It concludes with a historical segment on Heinrich George, a Nazi-era actor who died in Soviet captivity in 1946.
Topics discussed
US News: Trump bans press from White House and Pentagon
US News: Deportations to Equatorial Guinea for torture
US News: Death in ICE custody and UN speeches
US News: Supreme Court approves faulty voter roll plan
US News: Clavicular charged with rape and right-wing rally
Germany: CDU loss to AfD and political fallout
Germany: 105-year-old former camp guard under investigation
UK: Daniel Thomas arrested for cutting migrant boats
Colombia: Right-wing president pushes anti-immigration agenda
Ethiopia: Civil war resumes in the north
Brazil: Election scandal and Lula's UN encounter with Rubio
Pakistan: Capital lockdown ahead of Imran Khan's march
See You in Hell: Nazi actor Heinrich George's life and death
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