Police State

Meghnad Bose, independent journalist and University of Memphis Professor of Journalism, joins the show to discuss his new BreakThrough News investigation exposing how over $1 billion in Americans’ retirement funds are funneled into private prison giants GEO Group and CoreCivic, which detain the vast majority of ICE detainees. Bose also...

Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Video of the incident shows she was attempting to drive away and posed no obvious threat when an agent began shooting, though Trump administration officials claim...

On September 30th, in the middle of the night, hundreds of men dressed in tactical military gear descended upon an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore. Blackhawk helicopters were circling above. The agents threw flashbangs and began kicking down front doors. When residents looked out their windows, they saw masked...

Donald Trump is sending the U.S. military into cities and towns all over the country to wage war against U.S. residents…what he calls “the enemy within.” And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summoned military generals from all over the globe to Quantico, VA, to amplify this. Brian Becker is joined...

Flock Safety was once a small technology startup with a mission to solve and “eliminate” non-violent crime. Today, it’s one of the largest providers of automated license plate readers in the United States, and is building a vast network of live video cameras and audio detectors that may already be...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office due to the reign of terror the administration has perpetrated. Trump has also sued the Maryland federal judiciary for making him follow proper deportation procedures. Professor Richard Wolff & Brian...

Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, argues Democratic politicians aren’t putting up meaningful opposition to Trump’s DC police state since they’re in favor of tough-on-crime policies. From curfews and youth incarceration to slum clearances, Grandpre argues that their “balanced approach” is just right-wing policing repackaged...

From doctors to journalists, and from children to mothers, Israel’s imposed famine spares no one in Gaza.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a constitutional rights attorney and Co-Founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, joins the show to discuss Trump’s unlawful federal takeover of D.C., declaring a “crime emergency” despite a 30-year decline in violent crimes. Verheyden-Hilliard explains how this manufactured crisis is a prototype for martial law that...

Trump has declared a police state in D.C., announcing a federal military takeover. Despite recent violent crime rates in D.C. at a 30-year low, he cited “crime” as the reason—but professor Richard Wolff & Brian Becker discuss his real goals. Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the...