Target USA Podcast by WTOP

Target USA Podcast by WTOP


Latest Episodes

427 | Remembering "Zomi" Frankcom
April 03, 2024

Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, worked for the World Central Kitchen. She was one of seven WCK staff killed in an Israeli drone strike on April 1st in Gaza. She is remembered fondly by her friend Brian Weaver, founder of Hoops Sagrado.Learn more about your ad

426 | The view of democracy in Russia
March 27, 2024

Eeva Eek Pajuste, Policy Advisor, Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the view of democracy in Russia is "totally different" from the Western view. She explains how the early days after the collapse of the Soviet Union shaped that view. It's also

425 | Vladimir Putin gets another six year term
March 20, 2024

Daniel Fried, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, lays out bluntly the consequences of Putin getting another term as President of Russia and what he's doing to get the U.S. Congress to support Ukraine. Also, Ukrainian journalist Nataliia Bozhyk speaks out a

423 | Why are Kremlin opponents dying?
March 14, 2024

Why are Kremlin opponents dying?

424 | EXPAT STORIES: Nataliia Bozhyk is a native of Odesa, Ukraine now living in Ireland
March 13, 2024

Nataliia talks about the hardship, the unlikely friendship that helped her get out of Ukraine, her work in Ireland and her message to the U.S. government.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

422 | What happened to Alexei Navalny?
February 28, 2024

Luke Harding, correspondent for the Guardian and author of several books about Russian corruption and assassinations, has himself been detained by the Kremlin. He talks about Alexei Navalny's death, what likely happened and Russia's "forever game" of Amer

421 | NATO's concern with a second Trump Presidency
February 21, 2024

Former US President Donald Trump, who's running for another term said recently he wouldn't help NATO countries that were attacked by Russia if they were not contributing 2% of their GDP to their own defense programs. Kurt Volker, former US Ambassador to N

420 | U.S. officials deeply concerned about Chinese cyber threat
February 14, 2024

Andrew Scott, Associate Director for Chinese Operations at CISA indicates that this is a wide-ranging and very sophisticated threat. If successful, it would give the Chinese government complete control over critical US infrastructure whenever they want it

419 | God, Guns and Sedition: A new book about far right extremism in the US
February 07, 2024

Counterterrorism expert Bruce Hoffman talks about the new book he's co-written on the rise of far right extremism in the US.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

418 | The US urged to "crush" Iran's regime in response to the killing of U.S. servicemembers
January 31, 2024

Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran says the the Iranian "regime" is the "head of the snake" of trouble in the region. And it should be "crushed". Jafazadeh was targeted by the regime