Surveillance State

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...

This Sunday, November 2, over 55,000 runners will traverse all five boroughs of New York City in the TCS New York City Marathon. For the twelfth consecutive year, India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)—a multinational information technology company headquartered in Mumbai, India—will function as the event’s title sponsor, channeling millions into...

New documents show the Trump administration’s plan to destroy the Palestine movement. Written by the architects of Project 2025, it calls for categorizing the movement as a “support network for Hamas” to jail activists and seize their assets. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the origins of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther”

Mahmoud Khalil has been targeted with an obscure provision of an anti-communist, McCarthyite 1950s law. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the history of the law and the Red Scare era that Trump is trying to revive.

Director of The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah joins the show to discuss the UK police raid on his colleague, journalist Asa Winstanley. Earlier this month, the counterterrorism police unit entered Winstanley’s home and seized his electronics to investigate his social media posts providing commentary on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Abunimah...

Days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced sanctions against Russian state broadcaster RT and other non-western-aligned media platforms, Meta banned the accounts of African Stream, a Pan-African digital media organization. Nigerian Investigative journalist and author David Hundeyin, explains how the attacks on Africa Stream are the latest in...

Julian Assange has finally been freed after over a decade of persecution by the US government for exposing its war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Following a plea deal with the US Department of Justice, the WikiLeaks founder was freed from the super-max Belmarsh Prison on Monday, where he was...

In a draconian violation of international law, President Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday to shut down the US-Mexico border. The order authorizes border officials to immediately deport asylum seekers who do not enter the US through official ports of entry, denying thousands of migrants their legal right to...

In a rare show of bipartisan consensus, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a law that makes TikTok one step closer to a total ban in the US. The bill claims that as long as TikTok is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company, this represents a national...

The House is set to review a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the nation’s warrantless surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden. Additionally, this week, imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out in a two-day appeal hearing if he will be extradited to...