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1) Trump Takeover of Venezuela for Oil Follows Decades Long Destabilization Campaign

Alexander Main, Director of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about President Trump's regime's illegal kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, imposition of a naval blockade, seizure of oil tankers, and the president's declaration that the U.S will run Venezuela and take control of that nation's oil for many years ahead. He’ll also address Trump’s threat to attack other nations including Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Greenland and Canada and Iran.

2) Minnesota Explodes in Protest after ICE Killing of Renee Good

Pastor Doug Pagitt, Executive Director of the Minneapolis-based national organization Vote Common Good, that organizes religious activists to take action against the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda, talks about this moment of crisis in the aftermath of the ICE shooting death of ICE observer Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of 3.

3) Trump Aligned Oligarchs Launch Media Mergers to Transform Outlets into MAGA Propaganda Platforms

Victor Pickard the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change Center, talks about recent mega media mergers, spinoffs, and the effort by Trump-supporting oligarchs to buy up media properties that could dramatically impact news coverage and cultural content. He'll touch on his recent co-written piece, "The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis."

4) US Venezuela Attack Rouses U.S. Senate to Pass War Powers Resolution

Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses her recent commentary, "Trump Will Try to Defend Aggression Toward Venezuela. It’s Still Illegal." She'll also comment on the legal and accountability issues related to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.