Jacobin Radio: Puerto Rico, US-Iran

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Suzi looks at the rising in Puerto Rico with professor, activist, and author Rafael Bernabe in San Juan, Puerto Rico where two weeks of massive protests brought down the corrupt government of Ricardo Rosselló, and continue amid uncertainty about what comes next. The protest movement took off after the Center for Investigative Journalism released nearly 900 pages of chat messages between Rosselló and his inner circle, revealing their misogyny, homophobia, and the contempt they held for the population. But it wasn’t just the most recent events that brought the people’s anger to the boiling point: the economic meltdown of 2008–2009 hit a Puerto Rico already ensnared in a never-ending debt crisis engineered by vulture funds, and when natural disaster hit following economic disaster, conditions went from bad to worse. Bernabe helps us understand this trajectory, and we get his view on what direction he sees for Puerto Rico after the success of the mass movement.

Asli Bâli, UCLA law professor and Middle East expert on public international law, international security, and nuclear non-proliferation, gives us a big picture look at the US-Iran conflict and its defunct nuclear agreement. Trump continues to threaten Iran, aided by the mainstream media who are freaking out over Iran’s supposed breach of the 2015 Nuclear Accord, seemingly forgetting that it was Trump who unilaterally tore up that agreement, arbitrarily imposing a new, brutal sanctions regime. Bâli looks at the deeper context of the chronic but escalating US-Iran conflict, and explores its trajectory now that Trump has essentially abandoned the deal.

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0:15.4	This is Jack of In radio and I'm Susie Weisman. We look today at the rising in Puerto Rico with professor activists and author Raphael Bernabe in San Juan Puerto Rico where two weeks of
0:20.5	massive protests brought down the corrupt government of Ricardo Rosseio and are continuing
0:26.6	amid uncertainty about what comes next.
0:29.1	The protest movement took off after the Center for Investigative Journalism released nearly 900 pages of chat messages
0:36.1	between Rosseo and his inner circle, revealing their misogyny, homophobia, and the contempt
0:41.3	they held for the population.
0:43.0	But it wasn't just the most recent events that brought the people's anger to the boiling point.
0:48.0	The economic meltdown of 2008-9 hit a Puerto Rico already ensnared in a never-ending debt crisis engineered by vulture funds.
0:57.0	And when natural disaster hit following economic disaster, conditions went from bad to worse.
1:02.0	Raphael Bernabe helps us understand this trajectory and we get his take on what direction he sees for Puerto Rico after the magnificent success of the mass movement.
1:11.0	We then talk to UCLA law professor of Middle East expert
1:15.1	Aslevale about the US-Iran conflict and its defunct nuclear agreement.
1:20.3	Trump continues to threaten Iran aided by the mainstream media who are freaking out over
1:25.9	Iran's supposed breach of the 2015 nuclear accord, seemingly forgetting that it was Trump
1:32.1	who unilaterally
1:33.0	tore up that agreement, arbitrarily imposing a new
1:36.4	brutal sanctions regime.
1:38.3	As the Valley looks at the deeper context of the chronic
1:41.3	but escalating US-Iran conflict and explores its trajectory now
1:45.5	that Trump has essentially abandoned the deal. All this on Jacobin Radio ahead. head.
1:55.0	Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman.
2:00.0	Well, as I said in the intro, Puerto Ricardo Rossejo announced he would resign
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