At 82, Ruchell Magee Is the Longest-Serving Political Prisoner & Should Be Released
Ruchell Magee is 82 and has been behind bars for 58 years, the longest-serving political prisoner in the country. He was the sole survivor of the 1970 Marin County Courthouse Rebellion in California. In the attempt to free the Soledad brothers, guards shot and killed three prisoners and the judge. Kameron Hurt, organizer with […]
Russiagate Unravels Further — How to Explain It to Your Family at Thanksgiving, w/ Aaron Mate
Igor Danchenko was charged with deliberately feeding false information to Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous and now widely discredited ‘Steele Dossier,’ which alleged Kremlin involvement in the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Aaron Maté, journalist at The Grayzone & host of the show ‘Pushback with Aaron Maté,’ explains this indictment and how the […]
Could U.S.-China Cold War Thaw, or Was Xi-Biden Meeting All Talk?
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President Biden last week, at Biden’s request, and it went far longer than anticipated. While Biden reaffirmed official support for the One China policy after several recent bellicose remarks about Taiwanese succession, the meeting was likely not a shift toward peace from the United States. That’s the view of […]
Cuban Official on CIA Meddling: ‘Cubans Are Not Cowards’
Despite months of build up in the U.S. media, expected protests in Cuba were nearly non-existent. Johana Tablada de la Torre, Cuba’s Deputy Director of U.S. Affairs, joins BT to explain what happened last week and why more Cuban people continue to defend their government in the face of a U.S. blockade and very difficult […]
Justice or the New Jim Crow: Will Arbery’s Killers Be Convicted?
The trial against Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, Travis and Greg McMichaels and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., is more than a trial of three white supremacist murderers. At first, the county prosecutor refused to even prosecute them, citing “citizen’s arrest” defense. Then the judge allowed Black jurors to be struck for speaking out against racism. […]
Fake ‘Shoplifting Surge’ is the Just Latest in Crime Wave Propaganda
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. It’s the story that has been burning up local news, Fox News, conservative radio, gentrified community listservs and even the press conferences of the Mayor of San […]
Between the Lines: What’s Really Going on in Nicaragua
Just days after President Daniel Ortega was overwhelmingly re-elected as leader of Nicaragua, U.S. President Joe Biden signed off on a new round of sanctions on the Central American country under the RENACER Act. Polling shows more than two-thirds of Nicaraguans support Ortega and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), whose social welfare programs benefit […]
Media Silences Ethiopian Voices as U.S.-Backed TPLF Plunges Country Deeper Into War
U.S. corporate media and social media corporations are supporting the violent and oppressive Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, despite the terror the TPLF is creating in Ethiopia. After losing the election to current Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2018, the TPLF is marching toward Addis Ababa with the intent to take over the government by force […]