Tommy talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about the rise of fascism around the world and her concerns about how it is being enabled (and emulated) by Donald Trump. Then they talk about how Trump should respond in Syria, and Albright’s visit to North Korea in 2000 for meetings with Kim Jong-Il.

Show Notes:

Recent Clips:

• New York Times Op-Ed: Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?
• NPR: Madeleine Albright Warns: Don’t Let Fascism Go ‘Unnoticed Until It’s Too Late’
• CBS: Madeleine Albright on fascism and the “most undemocratic president” in U.S. history
• Newsweek: Madeleine Albright Says Obama Should Have Enforced the Red Line in Syria
• Colbert Interview: Madeleine Albright Says ‘See Something, Say Something, Do Something’
• Breitbart: Albright: Trump Like Mussolini Plucking Away Democracy ‘One Feather At a Time’

News:

• New York Times: America’s Three Bad Options in Syria
• New York Times: Iran-Israel Conflict Escalates in Shadow of Syrian Civil War
• Washington Post: Kremlin backers warn of threat of war with U.S. as Syria tensions rise
• New Yorker: Israel Wages a Growing War in Syria
• The Atlantic: Assad Defies Another American President
• The Guardian: Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme?
• Bloomberg: What Trump Can Learn from Madeleine Albright About North Korea Talks

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