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Week in Review: Sweden’s Rising Hard-Right, Turkey’s Economic Woes, NYT Slams Constitution, and Much More
Show Notes
- Swedes will be heading to the voting booth soon and polls suggest a hard-right, anti-immigrant party could become the nation’s most popular party. Recent violence apparently perpetrated by Muslims could increase the chances of this political shift.
- Turkey is having serious economic problems—and it looks like they could actually drive Turkey and Europe into a closer relationship.
- President Donald Trump’s critics say he is exceeding his job description as outlined in the Constitution. But the New York Times says the U.S. Constitution isn’t the solution—it’s the problem.
- We’ll also talk about Japan working to revise its pacifist postwar Constitution, emerging details of a proposed deal between Israel and Hamas, U.S. claims that Russia is planning to attack orbiting satellites in a future conflict, and Donald Trump declaring war on opioids.
Links
- Sweden’s Rising Hard-Right
- Turkey’s Economic Woes
- Japan Considers Constitutional Revision
- NYT Slams Constitution
- Israel-Hamas Truce
- Russia’s Satellite Killers
- Foiled Bioterror Attack in Germany
- President Trump Accuses China and Mexico of Waging Chemical War on U.S.