The News with Rick Sanchez - November 02, 2018

Sanction-Mania, USA

National Security Advisor John Bolton spoke in Miami, Florida on Thursday, slamming the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua and threatening them with sanctions. Sanctions seldom change the behavior of targeted countries and more often harm American economic interests. Political commentator Charles Ortel joins Rick Sanchez to offer his insights, arguing that sanctions sometimes work but “very frequently fail.” 

CIA Spied on GOP Under Obama

Under the Obama administration the CIA read the emails of congressional staffers. They call it “routine counter-intelligence monitoring,” but it illustrates trends toward uninhibited surveillance-state power that have been snowballing for two decades. Lionel of Lionel Media joins Rick Sanchez to weigh in. 

A Nation Of Prisoners

Teenage guards forced teenage boys to fight one another in an Ohio prison for entertainment. 25 percent of the world’s prisoners reside in the United States, a total of 2.4 million people. RT America’s Rick Sanchez discusses the “fight night” video, the US prison problem and corruption and lobbying in the private prison industry.