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 […]
Iran Would’ve Become Trump’s Afghanistan: Another Failed War
Obaidullah Baheer, PhD scholar at The New School and lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan, joins the show from Kabul to discuss the US escalation against Iran as Trump deepens America’s endless wars in the Middle East. Drawing on Afghanistan’s 20-year experience under US occupation, Baheer explains how Washington’s talk of “peace” whitewashes a […]
Los Angeles Police Blew Off My Finger for Protesting ICE
Sergio joined the June 14 ‘No Kings’ protest in Los Angeles to stand with undocumented immigrants after Trump called in the National Guard to the streets. He was chanting “peaceful protest” when a sheriff’s grenade tore off his index finger. “I saw my finger explode in real time,” he tells BT, holding up his mutilated […]
Israel vs. Iran: Why Didn’t China Step In? with Vijay Prashad
Twelve days of war between Israel and Iran have ended in a fragile ceasefire. Some have criticized China’s cautiousness in directly supporting Iran during the attacks, while others argue the war exposed the limits of Beijing’s foreign policy. Why didn’t China step in to help its ally? Are we really in a multipolar era? Vijay […]