ITT Sound Off: Unchecked American Power
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio get into the latest on Russia’s increasing escalation in Ukraine. They also talk about the double standard in the Olympics’ treatment of U.S. athlete Sha’Carri Richardson compared to Russian athlete Kamila Valieva. And, they discuss the U.S. government’s extradition request for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
ITT Staff Picks:
“I came to believe that Ukraine matters because its fate is, in some sense, our own,” writes Franklin Foer in this piece for The Atlantic.
“U.S. sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is calling out Olympic and anti-doping officials, after Russian skater Kamila Valieva was allowed to compete despite testing positive for a banned drug,” reports Bill Chappell in this piece for NPR.
El Faro English reports on the extradition request from the U.S. government for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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| 0:22.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:29.8 | From futuro media and PRX, it's in the thick what's up fam. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm Julio de Caloarela and we are together. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, anyway, it's our first time in the studio together was I was I was we're in the studio |
| 0:48.7 | together in Harlem, really office. |
| 0:52.0 | Take a moment. |
| 0:53.0 | I love this. |
| 0:54.0 | It's pretty exciting to be here. |
| 0:55.0 | All right. |
| 0:56.0 | So let's get to our first topic, which is scary. |
| 0:59.4 | It's just scary and it's very scary. |
| 1:01.6 | Also, again, as I've said on the show for those of us in the media, watching people in the |
| 1:06.7 | media get really kind of hyped up about this, which is the latest with Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:11.8 | So on Thursday, Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken addressed the United Nations, warning |
| 1:16.6 | of a possible invasion from Russia into Ukraine. |
| 1:20.6 | He laid out step by step predictions of how the attack would go. |
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