G-20’s Heavy-Handed Rule and Boundless Greed

 

The Host of the G-20’s Heavy-Handed Rule and Boundless Greed

Then, with the impulsive practitioner of kidnapping, torture, murder and dismemberment, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, hosting the virtual G-20 summit underway, we speak with Justin Scheck, the co-author of a new book Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power and a Pulitzer Prize finalist who has been writing for The Wall Street Journal since 2007 covering white collar crime across four continents. He joins us to discuss MBS’s efforts to attract foreign investment at the same time acting with heavy-handed impunity and boundless greed in his pursuit of absolute power.  

 

The Australian Journalist Who Broke the Story of War Heroes as War Criminals

Then finally we go to Australia where last Thursday the head of Australia’s military General Campbell told the world about the findings from a four-year military inquiry into the brutal warrior culture inside its elite SAS special forces revealing the murder of 39 Afghan civilians who were executed to “blood” junior soldiers. Joining us is Chris Masters, the award-winning Australian journalist and author of No Front Line, Australian Special Forces at War in Afghanistan who first broke the story of an Australian war hero now accused of being a war criminal for which he and the Sydney Morning Herald are being sued by a billionaire press baron. 

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