Luke Harding: Why Putin's imperial war is unraveling

Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at a Congressional report on how Donald Trump set a course early on in the pandemic that would ultimately lead the US to have the highest Covid death rate in the wealthy world. 

Then we're joined by The Guardian's Luke Harding to talk to us about why Russia's stunning invasion of its neighbor appears likely to end in defeat. Luke's new book, Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival, is coming out in November.

And then we're joined by Salon's Amanda Marcotte to discuss Kanye West's jaw-dropping anti-semitism and the "misogyny-to-fascism pipeline" that may have sent the artist into the right-wing fever swamps. 

Playlist

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