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Sudan is one year into a civil war that has left millions facing starvation and displacement as the conflict rages on. The internal struggle for power between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has displaced nearly 10 million people and killed more than 12,000 and...

Last week, 19 students at Pomona College in Southern California were arrested by riot police and banned from campus after holding a pro-Palestine protest on their campus. Melia, one of the students arrested at the sit-in, joins the show to discuss Pomona Divest from Apartheid activism and the significant repression...

Mexico has cut all diplomatic ties with Ecuador after Ecuadorian police officers forcibly raided the Mexican Embassy in Quito and detained former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas. Glas had been granted political asylum by Mexico earlier that day amid intensified political persecution against him. Andrés Arauz, former Ecuadorian presidential candidate...

Gaza is changing the world.  What was widely treated as a regional issue six months ago has quickly changed the global geopolitical landscape. Israel now threatens to drag the entire region into a regional war and Palestine has become a decisive political issue in several countries. Simply put, there’s no...

The right-wing Modi government raided the offices and arrested the Editor-in-Chief of Newsclick, a major progressive news outlet, last October. Now, they’re preparing an over 8,000-page document of false accusations saying the outlet is controlled by the Chinese government, and responsible for everything from the farmers’ protests to unrest in...

Last week, 19 students at Pomona College in Southern California were arrested by riot police and banned from campus after holding a pro-Palestine protest on their campus. Melia, one of the students arrested at the sit-in, joins the show to discuss Pomona Divest from Apartheid activism and the significant repression...

Javier Milei, Argentina’s far-right President, was elected for his dramatic proposals to gut the public sector and impose total austerity on his country. His supporters claimed that his policies would end the country’s deep economic crisis.    But six months into his presidency, Milei has backed off on many of...

Joe Biden called Benjamin Netanyahu and told him that if Israel didn’t do more to protect civilians and aid workers, the US would change its position on Israel and possibly leverage weapons shipments in the future. But this vague statement could just be cover to distance the Biden administration from...

On March 25, the UN Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to be implemented during the month of Ramadan and to end on April 9. The resolution was able to pass because the US did not exercise its veto power as it did...

ISIS-K, an offshoot of ISIS called Islamic State in Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall outside Moscow that killed 133 people. While US officials were quick to put the blame on ISIS, Russia’s President Putin claimed that the attackers were aided...