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Re-Air: What do Americans Need to Know About China? (2710)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2021-10-31T12:30:00-05:00October 31, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Niki Site, Recent Programs|

China continues to cause consternation to the U.S. Our relations with China appear to be at long time low. In his recent confirmation hearings for Director of the CIA, William Burns said, “The adversarial Chinese leadership poses our biggest political threat.” They are also the third-largest trading partner the U.S. has and the second-largest economy in the world and the most formidable competition that the U.S. has. Bringing some new perspectives on this growing concern is David J. Firestein, the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation).

War and Corruption: Do They Go Hand in Hand? (2725)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:22:04-05:00October 24, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Niki Site, Recent Programs|

There seems little doubt that war breeds corruption. Dollars that should go to building a strong military force are often sidelined into individual pockets. Afghanistan is a ”glaring” example of this with government employees and even the military benefiting from aid dollars.

Re-air: What Can We Learn from Dead Philosophers? (2709)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2021-10-18T12:51:28-05:00October 18, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Niki Site, Recent Programs|

Eric Weiner, award-winning journalist, former foreign correspondent for NPR, and best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss, among others, joined hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for a rollicking discussion on his newest work, The Socrates Express, and shared insights from some of our favorite philosophers.

What’s Wrong With the Texas Grid? (2724)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:21:29-05:00October 10, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

The record-breaking temperatures this last winter caused havoc with the Texas power grid. The grid could not deliver the power needed to cope with the temperatures and household needs. As a result, more than 4.8 million homes were left without power, and heat. At least two hundred people died.

Crisis in Afghanistan: What Will It Cost Us? (2723)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:21:02-05:00September 12, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, US Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011 -2012, joins co-host Jim Falk to discuss the present situation in Afghanistan.

The Politics of Envy (2722)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:20:28-05:00September 5, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

Anne Hendershott, Ph.D., in her book The Politics of Envy, explains how envy leads to resentment, which eventually erupts into violence and rage, malicious mobs, cancel culture, and the elevation of dysfunctional political systems such as socialism and Marxism.

Should You Worry About Inflation? (2721)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:20:14-05:00August 8, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

Inflation today is the elephant in the room. Inflation rates are rising. The price of groceries is up, as is real estate, used cars, and most everything else. Gasoline prices have skyrocketed.

Re-air: Cyberwarfare: The Fifth Domain (2701)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2021-08-01T12:30:00-05:00August 1, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

This program focuses on how to defend our security, economy, democracy, and privacy from cyber-attack and how to keep the fifth domain (the Pentagon’s term for cyberspace) a humming engine of economic growth and human progress by not giving in to the dark forces that aim to make it an area of conflict.

Re-air: Personal and Cyberthreats You Must Know About (2602)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:19:38-05:00July 25, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

The digital landscape has made us all more vulnerable to cyberthreats, breaches of security, malware attacks, and scams. Foreign entities continually breach our security and everyone, not just big business and government, is at risk. Are there solutions? How can we protect ourselves and our business? See what our experts have to say.

The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World (2720)

By Niki Nicastro McCuistion|2022-10-25T19:19:19-05:00July 18, 2021|Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|

Peter Zeihan, founder of Zeihan on Geopolitics and author of Disunited Nations, The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World, joins hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk, once again, for a startling conversation on the issues that have changed the geopolitical scene worldwide and forged America’s new role in the world’s infrastructure.