Chemical weapons in Syria: Made in the USA?

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda.

Syria’s government says it has discovered chemical agents at the depots of armed opposition fighters -- manufactured in the United States and the UK!

Donald Trump’s chief political strategist Steven Bannon has given a wide ranging interview in which he distances himself from the so-called ‘Alt-Right’ and claims that an existential “economic war with China is everything”. Kevin Zeese, the co-director of Popular Resistance, joins the show.

Republican Party leaders in Congress are distancing themselves from Donald Trump’s emotional expression of solidarity with forces within the white supremacist movement. Trump calls the removal of Confederate monuments sad and ‘so foolish', receiving praise from KKK leaders. Brian is joined by editorial cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall.