LAW AND DISORDER MAY 12, 2025
Co-hosts Michael Smith and Jim Lafferty get a closer look at the latest U.S. negotiations with Iran and Israel's demand to dismantle Iran's nuclear energy program. Richard Becker will join hosts. He's the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Act Now to Stop War and End Racism explains in detail what is at stake.
Hosts then speak with Nadia Ben-Youssef, the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights about a new report submitted by four human rights groups denouncing the accelerated disintegration of democracy in the US. The report is titled Entrenching Authoritarianism: Expanding the Terrorism Framework and the Infrastructure of Surveillance to Repress Expression and Stifle Dissent