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Several powerful EU leaders are heading to Kyiv in what some believe is a move to set parameters for peace talks. Also, President Biden pledges another billion dollars in weapons to Ukraine and the Dutch Prime Minister admits that Ukraine is being used as a proxy puppet state to fight Russia. \r\n\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>K. J. Noh, peace activist, writer, and teacher, joins us to discuss China. Pentagon officials are now saying that a Chinese assault on China would be treated similarly to the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Also, if the US continues to pledge a de facto defense treaty with Taiwan it may well trigger a Chinese military response.\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, joins us to discuss the economy. Economists are warning that the Federal Reserve rate hike risks plunging the US into a major recession. 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Two American citizens who are fighting in Ukraine have dropped out of touch with their families and are presumed to have been captured. The United States, meanwhile, has said it would send another $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, and it encouraged its NATO allies to send additional aid. And, federal agents have begun investigating how American computer chips made their way into Russian weapons recovered in Ukraine. 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Then the Misfits talk about the upcoming WTO meetings.\r\n\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Darren Thompson, he’s a reporter for Native News Online and Unicorn Riot joins the conversation to talk about double jeopardy. The Supreme Court earlier this week decided on a case involving a man who was tried first by a tribal court and then by a federal court for the same crime, a violent sexual assault. The man, Merle Denezpi, alleged that this constituted double jeopardy, and that he shouldn’t be able to be tried twice for the same crime. The court decided that this wasn’t double jeopardy, because tribal courts and federal courts represent “separate sovereigns,” and so he was being tried for violating both a tribal ordinance and a federal law. \r\n\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Rae Valencia, is a news analyst and producer for Political Misfits joins the conversation to break down the latest results from Tuesday primaries. 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