OPEC Mulls Cuts, Brazil Elections, SCOTUS and Pork, Tepid on Taiwan

Jim Jatras, former US diplomat and former senior foreign policy advisor to the Senate Republican leadership, joins Misfits John Kiriakou and Michelle Witte to discuss movements on the battlefield in Ukraine, prospects for peace there and who might broker it, reports that OPEC could cut oil production, and the end of the ceasefire in Yemen. Aline Piva, a researcher and journalist based in Sao Paulo, breaks down the results of the first round of voting in Brazil’s presidential elections this weekend, why the result wasn’t what everyone expected, and what might happen in the runoff. Author and journalist Daniel Lazare discusses the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, the January 6 hearings, how we should understand public polling on war, the political fallout of the NordStream pipeline bombing, the ongoing protests in Iran, revelations about UK government interference in Italian politics, and Donald Trump’s latest social media scandal. Farmer and civil rights activist John Boyd, president of the nonprofit National Black Farmers Association, discusses the animal welfare case before the Supreme Court, the lengths big agricultural producers will go to to protect their grip on the industry, and the current administration’s broken promises to farmers.