Iran Strikes Back: Will Trump Escalate and Risk ‘Economic Meltdown’? with Prof. Marandi
Tehran-based Professor Mohammad Marandi responds to Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in Qatar and Bahrain on our show in real-time: “The Iranians had to retaliate.” Marandi calls the missile fires on the US’s largest base in the Middle East a necessary “show of strength” to deter further US-Israeli aggression and avoid full-scale war. He […]
Trump’s Iran Fail: Endless Wars Won’t Stop US and Israel’s Decline with Prof. Wolff
The Trump Administration bombed Iran and then within 24 hours announced a ceasefire. Professor Richard Wolff analyzes Trump and Netanyahu’s erratic actions and the bigger picture behind them.
Under Israel’s Bombs in Iran: ‘Netanyahu Was Begging for a Ceasefire’ with Prof. Marandi
Trump and Israel started a dangerous war against Iran but Trump called it off after dropping massive bombs. What happened? Was the United States defeated again? How did Iran pull off a victory? Brian Becker is joined by Professor Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies who teaches at the University of Tehran. Join […]
Kenya’s Gen Z Uprising: “We Won’t Stop Until State Repression is Crushed”
Booker Ngesa Omole, General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya, joins the show from Nairobi, where mass youth-led protests have erupted against the deepening economic crisis and police repression enabled by President William Ruto. Ngesa Omole explains how this week’s protests were sparked by the commemoration of the #EndBadGovernance protests that swept Kenya one […]
Palestine is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, with Yasha Levine
The internet wasn’t made to set us free. It was designed to surveil, suppress, and control. On this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek speaks with journalist and author Yasha Levine to expose how Big Tech became the digital arm of empire. From AI-generated kill lists in Gaza to Silicon Valley billionaires coding the future of […]
Trump and the Den of Thieves, aka Congress with Prof. Wolff
Trump and the Republicans have passed in the Senate a sweeping tax bill that is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest, making permanent Trump’s huge 2017 tax cuts for the wealthiest and giving hundreds of billions to corporations —while slashing millions of people’s access to healthcare and nutrition. Professor Richard Wolff […]
Why Trump Backed Down From War With Iran
Sina Toossi, senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy, joins the show to break down the latest flashpoints in the Israel-Iran war that ended in Trump’s ceasefire and open scorn at Israel for initially violating it. Toossi discusses what the 12-day war and US retreat says about the limits of US-Israeli power in […]
BDS Win: Activists Force Shipping Giant Maersk to Cut Israeli Settlement Ties
Lea Kayali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), discusses a huge win for their “Mask Off Maersk” campaign: shipping giant Maersk announced they are cutting ties to companies with links to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. After months of pressure from activists, including in-depth reports exposing Maersk’s transport of F-35 […]