Mid-atlantic - Conversations About Us, Uk And World Politics

Le Pen, the far-right candidate for the French presidency, offered a worldview reminiscent of the Trump presidency, forget Brexit, here comes Marine Le Pen!Russia warns of nuclear weapons in Baltic if Sweden and Finland join NatoElon Musk Tech entrepreneur offers to buy Twitter for $41.4bn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, with President Biden calling her "one of the nation's brightest legal minds". Ms Jackson, 51, will be the first black woman to serve in the court's 233-year history and only the third African American, replacing liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer when he retires at the end of the court's term in June. She has two degrees from Harvard. Before coming president, Biden first promised to nominate a black woman to the top court two years ago while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today I’m joined by Emily Channell-Justice the Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University to discuss part two of our discourse about how peace could be formed in Ukraine. In this section, we look at how the conflict will change the domestic and foreign policy of the US, UK and other countries around the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If the war ends in the next two weeks could we have a peace agreement? What if the Russians cease operations as the Ukrainians are making small gains. Can Russia Keep Crimea and Donetsk and Ukraine have enforceable security guarantees from the West, could that bring peace? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Karolina Wigura is a historian of ideas, board member of the Kultura Liberalna Foundation in Warsaw and a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in BerlinShe writes for the Guardian and the New York Times amongst other publicans and lives in Warsaw and works in Berlin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the world watches with alarm the despotic takeover of Ukraine by Russian forces, we speak to Carla Seaquist about its ramifications for Europe, The US and the world.About CarlaFor more than two decades—after shifting from playwriting to commentary on 9/11—prolific writer and public thinker Carla Seaquist has worked at the intersection of politics, culture, and the American character, and addressed top issues through hundreds of essays, first for The Christian Science Monitor, then HuffPost and Medium. Carla earned a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary American and European art and music at the American University, School of International Service, and her Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). For more on Carla, see her homepage, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Durings Ukraine’s 30-years of independence since the Soviet Union’s collapse, it has had to contend with neighbouring Russia’s tightening grip and expanding power on the country's geopolitical future. Instead of following the current Russian invasion and the heroic defence of the Ukrainian people today I want to look at Ukrainian politics from 1991 to 2022 with Grreg Satell who lived in Kiev and witnessed the 2004 Orange Revolution and the growing sense of Ukrainian national identity. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A loose coalition of truckers and conservative groups that began in western Canada has brought the country to a standstill provoking the Prime Minister to invoke emergency powers, we ask TV pundit Laura Babcock why this happened and what it means. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gregory is one of two co-founders and Chief Operating Officer for the U.S. based OSET Institute (“OSET”), a non-partisan non-profit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley.  He leads all aspects of the Institute's resource development, corporate partner R&D alliances, public outreach, election official stakeholder relations, and government and legal affairs.  OSET is an election technology research and development institute working with elections officials worldwide. The mission is simple: increase integrity; improve turnout; and lower taxpayer cost.  The strategy is delivery.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Johnson is facing fury from The Conservative party over a drinks party at Downing Street on 20 May 2020. He admitted at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that he had joined colleagues in the garden for around 25 minutes to thank them for their hard work during the pandemic, while the country was on a strict lockdown. Mr Johnson claimed he had "believed implicitly that this was a work event". Senior Tories have publicly called for his resignation since the statement, including the leader of the Scottish Tory's, Douglas Ross. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Senator Manchin's opposition, along with that of Senator Kyrsten Sinema, effectively kills the Biden administration's hopes of passing Build Back Better before the end of the year.Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, said on Sunday that he couldn't support the legislation, an ambitious package of social policies including prolonging Child Tax Credit, expanding Medicare, instituting paid employee leave, subsidizing child care and early-childhood education, as well as investing in clean energy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Boris Johnson triggers plan B of working from home, mask-wearing and Covid passes for nightclubs and theatre in The UK, following warnings from scientists that Omicron spreads more easily, we ask just how do you end a pandemic? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

German lawmakers elected Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as new chancellor ending 16 years of CDU rule under Merkel. Scholz will lead Germany's first federal "traffic light" coalition, made up of the SPD, the ecologist Greens and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). We speak to Tiryn Fischer about German politics See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In a week that has seen Thirty-one people drown after a refugee boat capsizes in the English Channel, we ask has Boris reached his low point?Has the last week proved that the US Justice system is blind to race and ideology with the verdicts for Ahmaud Arbery and Kyle Rittenhouse cases? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we are joined by Steve O'Neil in London, Paul Dudderidge in LA and Mike Holden in Burnley England.In a week that has seen the England team put 10 goals past San Marino? Can No 10 move on from the sleaze row? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We speak to the founder of MotherOceanBlue.com Zakia Rashid about education to elicit social change and education for the ocean its systems, ecology and the problems of human impact. She is a passionate conservationist, and a shark ambassador. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Currently, Hébert is a national affairs writer with the Toronto Star she frequently appears on CBC Television's The National and other media commenting on Canadian politics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justin is the brains behind the podcast and Clubhouse room Politics and Media 101. He has 7 years of communications and policy experience in U.S. politics Before his career in PR, Justin led the legislative and media strategies addressing Hurricane Maria as an appointed official for the Democratic Government of Puerto Rico. Prior to switching political allegiance to the democrats, Justin was an advisor to a U.S. Congressman and managed a national opposition research portfolio for the Republican National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign to influence top-tier print and broadcast outlets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Laura Babcock is a National TV/radio commentator and host, for CBC and the Executive Director of the Oakville Chamber of Commerce. She gives the takeaways of the 2021 Canadian election. She is joined on stage by John Gunnison and Juston Higgins.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party will form Canada's next government following a tightly contested general election against conservative rival Erin O'Toole. The Liberals, fell short of the target of winning the necessary 170 seats to form a majority government. The Conservatives won 122 seats with the remaining seats in the next Parliament held by the left-leaning New Democratic Party, The Greens and the Quebec-based separatist party Bloc Quebecois. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justin T. Russell has over 30 years of experience in government service, government relations, and international affairs, covering a wide range of issues. We speak to him about the world after Afghanistan. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.