Episode #196 - SUNDAY WIRE: 'States of Nature'

Published: July 30, 2017, 3:52 p.m.

Alternate Current Radio Presents: SUNDAY WIRE

This week we deliver another LIVE broadcast from the sunny shores of Devon in the UK, as SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen is joined by Mike Robinson, editor of the UK Column, as we discuss this weeks top news stories both foreign and domestic. While the Trump White House is embroiled in another episode of political archaos, the US votes to resume sanctions against Russia, while Israel threatens to break the fragile Russian-brokered ceasefire in Syria. Trump drawn fire from liberal progressives and Hollywood over his recent announcement to ban transgender soldiers from US military. We also discuss Charlie Sheen and Whoopi Goldberg's appearance in new 9/11 film trailer due out this fall. Later in the first hour we'll discuss the recent controversy over a new US law that would make organized protests or boycotting Israel illegal in the US. In the third hour, we'll try and connect with 21WIRE Associate Editor Vanessa Beeley on the ground in Aleppo, Syria. Later in the program we'll also try and connect with SUNDAY WIRE intrepid correspondent for culture & sport, Basil Valentine, reporting from the Port Elliot Literary Festival in St Germans, Cornwall and joined by the lovely and talented Tamara The Political Poetress.