‘Hands Off Asia means socialism today,’ says Vijay Prashad at Colombo conference
Over 70 delegates from 43 organizations and 17 countries have gathered in Sri Lanka to discuss the many dimensions of true sovereignty and the process of its collective construction.
BT Live: Trump Strikes Again | NATO’s Drive to War | The China Report
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From the NATO stage in Turkey, Trump declared early Wednesday the Iran ceasefire’s "over,” as far as he’s concerned, hours after ordering airstrikes on more than 80 targets on day 4 of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s massive and defiant funeral procession across Iran and Iraq. Tehran’s response? Bomb the Gulf, of course, while summiting NATO leaders watch whatever this is, with all the markers of a return to war, from Ankara.
So… are we back where we started?
Plus, on this week's The China Report, Amanda Yee speaks with analyst Zoon Ahmed Khan about China's new Ethnic Unity Law and how it is being weaponized by U.S. media.
Thursday, July 9 | 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
BT Live: Democrats’ Left Insurgency | Cuba in the Crosshairs | Khamenei Funeral
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Trump’s spiraling about the “communist menace” as the Mamdani effect triggers tectonic shifts to the left – and away from the Democratic establishment – in New York, where State Assemblywoman and proud DSA member Claire Valdez just took the highly competitive primary for New York's 7th Congressional District and is widely expected to win the general election. Valdez joins the show to discuss the Palestine litmus test for Democratic candidates, the rise in anti-war working class consciousness, and voters’ growing demand to be represented by politicians with the courage to embargo Israel. What are her demands for the Democratic primary field looking at 2028, and how will she stand up to establishment pressure and attempts to co-opt the people power behind her, as she (very likely) heads to the US Capitol come November?
Meanwhile in Iran, millions of people are mourning Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a six-day public funeral procession across Iran and Shia holy sites in Iraq. Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and host of the Iran Podcast, joins to discuss what officials say is the biggest state funeral in Iran's history.
Plus, Empire Files journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin joins to discuss the new BreakThrough News film she co-directed, Cuba After Castro, featuring the first American interview with President Miguel Díaz-Canel, and the latest news from Havana.
Thursday, July 7 | 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
BT Live: ‘FRANCE OUT FOR GOOD’ Burkina Faso | The End of TPS | US Turns 250
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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.
BT Live: US Sanctions Are Sabotaging Venezuela’s Earthquake Response
Join Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra who will break down the Prairieland sentencing, AIPAC’s defeat in the New York primaries, and where the US-Iran deal stands.
BT Live: ‘Antifa’ Crackdown | The China Report
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Eight activists connected to ICE protests at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas have been handed down staggering prison sentences after being convicted on terrorism-related charges. What does the case mean for people’s resistance to Trump?
Israel’s back to bombing Lebanon after the longest pause since the war began, meanwhile Congressional Democrats pushed through an Iran war powers resolution a week and a half after Iran won the war. In New York, a different kind of red wave as three Zohran-backed candidates win big against AIPAC.
And The China Report with Amanda Yee returns with North Korea's economic success story and the recent Xi Jinping-Kim Jong Un summit in Pyongyang.
Tuesday, June 23 | 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
BT Live: Iran-Israel Ceasefire | Eyes on Lebanon | Musk the Trillionaire | DRC Updates
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As billions of frozen Iranian dollars thaw in sanctions relief and oil tanker traffic picks up again in the Strait of Hormuz, all eyes are on “deconfliction” in southern Lebanon as Israel’s refusal to withdraw threatens to blow up the ceasefire. Proxy war violence and a massive Ebola outbreak continue to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, where mass protests have erupted against constitutional reform that critics are slamming as a power grab by President Félix Tshisekedi. Plus the far-right claims victory in Colombia’s presidential election, and why Elon Musk hitting trillionaire status is bad news for the rest of us.
Tuesday, June 23 | 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
Noboa autoriza la presencia de militares extranjeros en Ecuador y les promete inmunidad
La decisión se tomó tras el retorno del presidente ecuatoriano de Estados Unidos. Varios políticos de oposición muestran que la decisión se basa en el fracaso de la política de seguridad de Noboa y advierten sobre el peligro para la oposición de la pérdida de soberanía.