Niger Uprising One Year Later: Coup or ‘Pan-African Revolution’ in Progress?
Before the 2023 popular anticolonial uprising that removed Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum from power, “extreme poverty had reached 42% of the Nigerian population” explains Alex Anfruns Millán, over a year later, Niger is now regarded among the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Millán, a journalist and author of Niger: Another Coup D’État… or the Pan-African Revolution? […]
The LA Fires Are Exposing the Predatory Nature of For-Profit Insurance
The LA fires are exposing the predatory nature of for-profit insurance. 2.8 million California homeowners had their fire insurance canceled because the companies knew what was likely to come.
Why Israeli Soldiers Are Now Afraid to Travel Abroad: The Hind Rajab Foundation
Haroon Raza, co-founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), joins the show to discuss Brazil’s historic arrest warrant for a vacationing Israeli soldier accused of Gaza war crimes, following a complaint issued by the HRF. Raza explains how HRF’s global campaign to hold individual IDF soldiers and their accomplices accountable for the Gaza genocide has […]
How the New York Times is ‘Manufacturing Consent’ for US Intervention in Mexico
Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, calls out the New York Times for its latest debunked article on ‘fentanyl’ production in Mexico. Published just weeks before Trump’s return, who’s vowed to invade Mexico to fight cartels, Hackbarth slams the authors for joining the tradition of Judith Miller, Anat Schwartz, Jayson Blair, and […]
‘NATO Lost’: Ukraine War Backfires, Brings Russia and China Closer Together
Professor Glenn Diesen, author of The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order, says NATO’s strategy in Ukraine has failed, citing recent polling that most Ukrainians no longer support the nearly three-year counter-offensive on Russia. Diesen explains why the proxy war to ‘knock out Russia’ has only backfired for the US and NATO: “Instead of […]
BRICS and Belt and Road: Will China Lead In the 21st Century?
BRICS and Belt and Road are just two of the key features of China’s modern day foreign policy and, some would argue, a new form of internationalism. These development projects are part of China’s more assertive stance toward the United States in recent years, under the leadership of Xi Jinping. But this recent phase in […]
FIFA’s Hypocrisy: Russia Banned While Israel’s Genocide Doesn’t Even Get a Penalty
Ashish Prashar, Political strategist and former advisor to the Middle East peace envoy, joins the show to expose FIFA’s glaring hypocrisy over Palestine. Despite Israel killing 368 Palestinian footballers since the start of the Gaza genocide, the world’s governing body for soccer refuses to ban Israel from international matches—yet it swiftly banned Russia over the […]
Is TikTok’s Time Up? Will the Supreme Court Strike Down Free Speech to Spite China?
On this episode of The China Report, co-host KJ Noh and guest host Eugene Puryear discuss the upcoming US Supreme Court hearing that could lead to an effective ban on TikTok in the United States. The two discuss the impact on First Amendment rights if SCOTUS rules against TikTok and how this case fits into […]