BT Live: ‘FRANCE OUT FOR GOOD’ Burkina Faso | The End of TPS | US Turns 250

BT Live! Join hosts Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra and special guests twice weekly for the breaking news that matters and the sharp left, anti-imperialist analysis you need to keep fighting. 

Burkina Faso has cut diplomatic ties with its former colonizer France, with President Ibrahim Traoré’s revolutionary government rejecting Paris’ “neo-colonial ambitions” and accusing Macron’s government of supporting terrorist networks to undermine sovereignty in the Sahel. It comes as Africa’s fourth-largest gold producer makes big moves to further nationalize its natural resource wealth. Nigerian investigative journalist and author David Hundeyin joins the show to discuss what Burkina’s latest moves may mean for the AES. 

With the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that ends TPS for more than 350,000 immigrants from Haiti and Syria, the Trump administration continues to demolish the Temporary Protected Status program with no countries set to retain it by the end of the year without legal intervention. Jesse Franzblau,

Associate Director of Policy with the National Immigrant Justice Center, joins to discuss the news and what it means for private contractors who benefit from – and influence policy on – the mass US deportation complex.

Saturday marks the US semiquincentennial, 250 years since the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, and ‘tis the season for historical revisionism! As American as apple pie, Zoe and Rania take down some of their favorite origin myths, the fantastical stories – and outright lies – the ruling class relies on to keep the rest of us hooked on the land of the free and the home of the brave.