Israel Would Be Crazy to Launch An All-Out War On Lebanon. Here’s Why, with Elijah Magnier
Israel’s leadership looks increasingly irrational and desperate as they seek to escalate on all fronts, eyeing Lebanon next. What would an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah look like in the Levant and across the region? To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by veteran war correspondent and analyst Elijah Magnier.
Why the FBI Still Wants to Keep Native Leader Leonard Peltier in Prison at 79
Leonard Peltier, the longest-held Indigenous political prisoner in the U.S., had his first parole hearing in over a decade on Monday. Peltier, an activist who started organizing with the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 1970s, has spent nearly 50 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Nick Tilsen, president and CEO of […]
Why Latin America Is Leading the Charge to Cut Ties with Israel
Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced the country will be suspending its coal exports to Israel over the genocide in Gaza. Israel gets nearly half of its coal from Colombia, and Petro emphasized it will continue to pressure Israel’s economy “until the genocide stops.” Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to discuss how […]
Eyewitness DR Congo: The War Over the Cobalt in Your iPhone Destroys Millions of Lives
The death toll continues to climb in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as fighting escalates between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda. The decades-long conflict has killed approximately six million people and displaced millions more. Akilimali Chomachoma, a journalist covering the Democratic Republic of […]
The Law is Clear: Palestinians Have Right to Resist Occupation with Vijay Prashad
President Joe Biden is joining with Trump backers in Congress in imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court – the ICC – because the court issued a statement that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes. Meanwhile the U.S. is sending more bombs and missiles to Israel as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee […]
UC Academic Workers Authorize Strike Against Attacks on Student Protests for Gaza
In a historic vote, over 48,000 academic workers and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811 have authorized a strike against the brutal police crackdown on the student Palestine encampment at the University of California at Los Angeles’s (UCLA). After the incident, the union local filed Unfair Labor Practices charges against the University […]
From Gaza to Goma: Why the West is Backing the Crisis in the DR Congo
12 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo were killed after two separate bomb attacks hit refugee camps where thousands of internally displaced people are sheltering. The fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group, a proxy force backed by Rwanda, has displaced over 150,000 people. Kambale Musavuli of […]
30 Years After Apartheid South Africa: Are Racist Parties Worming Their Way Back?
Thirty years after the end of apartheid South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) the governing party, faces a real threat that they could lose their majority to the racist right-wing in the May 29 national elections. Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, spokesperson for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the biggest labor union in […]