The DSR Network
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The DSR Network
This podcast will take you on a smart, direct, sometimes scary, sometimes profane, sometimes hilarious tour of the inner workings of American power and of the impact of our leaders and their policies on our standing in the world. Hosted by noted author and commentator David Rothkopf and featuring re...
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FTA: The Latest from the Decline of US Civilization
Original Air Date: 6/13/25
In case you missed it, things are still not great here in the United States. Thankfully, we have Ed Luce joini...
Best of the Daily Blast: Paul Krugman Brutally Wrecks Trump’s Europe Deal: “Scam on His Voters”
Original air date: July 30, 2025
You’ve probably heard that President Trump and the European Union have reached a big trade deal. This...
FTA: Unconventional Wisdom About the Iran Crisis and the NATO Summit
Original Air Date: 6/25/25
When it comes to foreign policy news this week, our cup runneth over. Between the confusing narratives surroun...
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Explodes in Rage at Journos as Shock Poll Exposes a Key Weakness
Original air date: September 17, 2025
President Trump seems even more angry at the media than usual. His lawyers just filed a lawsuit a...
FTA: A Richness of Embarrassments
Original Air Date 4/2/25
It’s Liberation Day in America according to the administration, but what exactly are we being liberated from? Th...
Best of the Daily Blast: MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
Original air date: October 14, 2025
President Trump’s allies are suddenly raging over the October 18th “No Kings” protests. MAGA Mike Joh...
FTA: Former Generals React to Trump-Hegseth Quantico Speeches
Original Air Date: 10/1/25
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth held a part-pep rally, part-declaration of war on the U.S. Constitution in Quant...
Best of the Daily Blast: Fox News Accidentally Makes RFK Fiasco at Hearing Even Worse for Trump
Original air date: September 5, 2025
At a Senate hearing on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. got massac...
FTA: Stop Waiting for Us to Become an Autocracy. We're Already There
Original Air Date: 6/9/25
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to California is not just about immigration and Los Angeles - it is a...
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
Original air date: November 17, 2025
Anxiety is rising among President Trump’s staunchest allies that he’s politically lost his way. The...
FTA: What They’re Not Telling You About Signalgate
Original Air Date: 3/26/25
Signalgate is an intelligence travesty. But the problems extend beyond the masterclass in how not to handle se...
Best of the Daily Blast: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fresh Epstein Bombshell Should Terrify Trump
Original air date: November 14, 2025
President Trump is angrily urging Republicans not to join Democrats in pushing for release of the...
FTA: What're We Getting in Return for All of Trump's Gifts to Russia?
Original Air Date: 3/5/25
Trump is in a very generous mood, at least if you’re Vladimir Putin. Between the public dragging of President Z...
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Explodes in Rage as Dem Governor’s Harsh Takedown Draws Blood
Original air date: August 28, 2025
This week, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker delivered an extraordinary takedown of President Trump ov...
FTA: Emergency Podcast: The Scary Episode You Need to Hear
Original Air Date: 3/3/25
What happens when the United States effectively switches sides on the global stage? When allying with Russia up...
Best of the Daily Blast: Trump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Epstein Lie as Musk Goes for Jugular
Original air date: July 29, 2025
President Trump just offered some bizarre new ramblings about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. But he unde...
FTA: Special Episode: America Attacks Iran…What’s Next?
Original Air Date: 6/22/25
The moment has finally arrived: America has bombed Iran. As the dust settles, we’re left with more questions t...
Need to Know: We Can End the Madness
Let’s face the facts: we’re in a period of sheer insanity. Far-right politics is becoming increasingly normalized by our radical administration. Corpo...
FTA: Emergency Episode: After the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Fiasco
Original Air Date: 2/28/25
There’s no way to sugarcoat it — the Trump/Zelensky meeting was a disaster. The betrayal of Ukraine is confirm...
Need to Know: The Debate Democrats Need to be Having on US-Israel Policy
Public perception of the US-Israel relationship has swung wildly in recent years. With a growing number of Americans more critical of the Israeli gove...
Words Matter: In Search of Optimism About 2026
It’s been a disastrous year in American politics. Donald Trump is going around naming everything after himself and proclaiming everything is great whi...
DSR Daily December 23: Another Trump Vanity Project Revealed
On the DSR Daily for Tuesday, we cover Trump’s announcement of a new fleet of battleships, turmoil at CBS news, a bold new move from Mike Pence, and m...
Venezuela, NATO, Greenland, Trump Battleships & Tinker Bell: A Year End Round-Up
From U.S. military operations in Venezuela to the erosion of trust in NATO, the Trump administration’s foreign policy leaves us in a precarious gepol...
DSR Daily December 22: Trump Ratchets Up Greenland Tensions
On the DSR Daily for Monday, we discuss the appointment of a special envoy to Greenland, a potential ObamaCare subsidies extension, a combative Turnin...
DSR Weekly Wrap-up: A New Name for the Kennedy Center?
On the DSR Weekly Wrap-up for December 19th, we discover the new name for the Kennedy Center, the EU committing to a huge loan to Ukraine, TikTok sign...
Siliconsciousness: Trump, AI and the Big Choices We Face in the Very Near Future
The Trump administration’s executive order targeting state regulations on artificial intelligence is a gift to big tech. They say it eliminates a tang...
The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Brutal Fox News Poll Hits Him Hard
On Thursday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the world that the Kennedy Center has now been renamed after President Donald Trump. He...
Words Matter: Reflecting on Rob Reiner and his Legacy
Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were tragically murdered. Their son, who has history of struggles with addition and mental health, is currently the l...
DSR Daily December 18: Trump’s Unhinged Prime-time Address
On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we discuss Trump’s prime-time address, the House passing a healthcare bill without ACA subsidies, an $11bn weapons sale...
The Daily Blast: Mike Johnson Rattled by New Revolt as MAGA-GOP Fury Boils: “Bullshit!”
In a blow to House Speaker Mike Johnson, four House Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote next year on an extension of Affordable Care Act subs...
Trump Wags a Venezuelan Dog. Or Is Something Else Going On Here?
Trump’s promise of a blockade on Venezuela is an unprecedented escalation. But behind all the bluster and rattled sabres, is there more to the story?...
DSR Daily December 17: Trump’s Blockade of Sanctioned Oil Tankers
On the DSR Daily for Wednesday, we discuss Trump’s order of a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, an expanded travel ban, a telling Vanity Fair shoot...
The Daily Blast: Trump Press Sec Goes Off Rails as Susie Wiles Fiasco Takes Worse Turn
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles gave numerous interviews to Vanity Fair that were way too candid about, well, everything. That prompted press s...
DSR Daily December 16: More Vile Comments from Trump
On the DSR Daily for Tuesday, we cover the President’s vile comments on Rob Reiner, attacks on more supposed drug boats, Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit a...
The Daily Blast: Marjorie Taylor Greene Humiliates Trump over Reiner as MAGA Cracks Up
President Trump offered a disgusting response to the horrific death of Rob Reiner and his wife, narcissistically insisting they’d died of “Trump Deran...
DSR Daily December 15: Tragic Shooting in Sydney
On the DSR Daily for Monday, we break down the tragic shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, the election of far-right Kast in Chile, the conviction...
The Daily Blast: Raging Trump Wrecks GOP’s 2026 Message as MAGA Panic Grows: “Disaster”
President Donald Trump keeps ranting furiously that “affordability” is a Democratic scam. But suddenly he’s now promoting video of himself talking abo...
DSR Weekly Wrap-Up: A No Good Very Bad Day for Trump
On the DSR Weekly Wrap-Up for December 12, we cover Indiana Republicans rejecting Trump’s gerrymandered map, the House overturning Trump’s executive o...
Siliconsciousness: A 2025 AI Report Card for the US
It’s (almost) been one year of the Trump administration. Aside from, well everything else, how has US artificial intelligence policy evolved? Former D...
The Daily Blast: Trump Rages at Pollsters as Latest GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness
President Trump erupted Thursday in a wild rage on Truth Social in which he appeared to blame pollsters for failing to register his world-historical s...