Ray McGovern, the 27-year CIA officer and chair of the National Intelligence Estimates-turned antiwar agitator, joins Trip the Beltway Fantastic this week to talk about how the United States has deferred to Israel’s regional agenda for decades, and under Donald Trump has cleaved the two nation’s foreign policies together in dangerous ways, leaving us in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict with Iran.
Ray touches on a explosive new report this week about how Congress is trying to shift U.S. aid to Israel into the shadows, creating co-production and other “cooperation” agreements with the Israeli military. We also talk about AIPAC and its influence on Capitol Hill, the dwindling support for Israel among the American public, and how national figures like Mike Pompeo appear to be serving as mouthpieces for special interests including Israel and the military industrial complex.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is Editorial Director of Responsible Statecraft and Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute. She was a regular news writer and reporter for Antiwar.com from 2009 to 2014. She served for three years as Executive Editor of the The American Conservative magazine, where she had been reporting and publishing regular articles on national security, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007. From 2013 to 2017, Vlahos served as director of social media and online editor at WTOP News in Washington, D.C. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter for Fox News at the channel’s Washington D.C. bureau, as well as Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today magazine.
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