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Behind the News: Trump's Middle East Plans w/ Mouin Rabbani

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mouin Rabbani surveys the Gaza ceasefire and Trump’s plans for the Middle East. Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton discuss the new book they co-edited, Sex Work Today.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello and welcome to behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood.

0:36.3

Orthodoxy partly extends its region

0:38.1

to 2025 with the Regulation 2 segments today, but three guests. Mouin Rabani will talk about the

0:44.0

ceasefire deal in Gaza, and in a possibly jarring change of subject, Angela Jones and Bernadette

0:49.5

Barton will talk about sex work today. Before all that, a few words on the reinstallation of Emperor Trump.

0:55.8

There will be much to cover in the coming months on this alarming lesion, a task Mouin Robani

1:00.3

begins by talking about its Middle Eastern policy, whatever exactly that is. I just want to make a

1:05.5

couple of points of my own right now. Moments ago, I looked at the White House website,

1:09.6

whitehouse.gov.

1:11.2

It features a Lenny refinstallish video montage, minus refinstalls considerable skills,

1:16.9

centering on the heroic figure of Trump, appointed by God, to save us from collapse.

1:21.5

It's frightening.

1:22.6

The invocation of God, a Christian god, by Trump and his supporters, is offensive to me,

1:27.2

not that I'm a religious

1:27.9

person, but that everything he and his movement, if that's what you want to call it, stand for,

1:32.5

is it odds with the peace and love message one usually associates with Jesus.

1:36.4

When the Trump gang was reminded of this by the Episcopal Archbishop of Washington the other day,

1:41.1

he squirm with discomfort. J.D. Vance rolled his eyes upward, and later,

1:45.6

a Republican congressman declared that she should be deported. The early torrent of executive orders,

1:51.1

some of which, it's been said, look to have been written by Chat G.P.T. are just one horror after

1:55.9

another, cracking down on trans people, immigrants, scientists, public health, free expression,

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