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Manolo De Los Santos, Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum and a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, joins the show to discuss the Trump administration’s threats against Venezuela. The US deployed warships off the coast of Venezuela and placed a $50 million bounty on President Nicolás Maduro’s head,...

Josh Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses the brutal massacres of Druze and Alawite communities in Syria by the HTS-backed interim government led by former ISIS and al-Qaeda commander Ahmad al-Sharaa. Despite al-Sharaa’s attempts to distance himself from the violence, Landis...

Alice Kisiya, a Palestinian Christian activist from Beit Jala, joins the show from the occupied West Bank as Israeli settler and military violence escalates. She describes how her family was violently expelled from their land by settlers backed by the Israeli army and police. But after four months of struggle,...

“Zelensky isn’t offering what’s required to achieve peace” in Ukraine, says Prof. Glenn Diesen, author of The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order. “One can criticize Russia’s invasion, but to dismiss any legitimate security concerns it has is very self-destructive.” The West has hit a dead end in its...

The internet wasn’t made to set us free. It was designed to surveil, suppress, and control. On this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek speaks with journalist and author Yasha Levine to expose how Big Tech became the digital arm of empire. From AI-generated kill lists in Gaza to Silicon Valley...

Trump and the Republicans have passed in the Senate a sweeping tax bill that is a massive wealth transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest, making permanent Trump’s huge 2017 tax cuts for the wealthiest and giving hundreds of billions to corporations —while slashing millions of people’s access to healthcare...

Dyab Abou Jahjah, co-founder and President of the Hind Rajab Foundation, joins the show to discuss how the foundation identified the Israeli officer responsible for the January 2024 killing of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, five of her family members, and two rescue workers in Gaza City. Jahjah discusses the foundation’s extensive...

Israel and its apologists claim they’re committing slaughter in Gaza to protect Jews and prevent another Holocaust. But that’s a scam. Historian of Palestine Zachary Foster joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to discuss. He exposes how the pro-Israel establishment in the Jewish American community is helping the Trump administration weaponize antisemitism...

Nora Barrows-Friedman, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, joins the show to discuss Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia student activist abducted by DHS. Trump’s plan to deport Khalil, a permanent resident and the lead negotiator in Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment marks a dangerous escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on...

The Harris-Walz campaign recently unveiled its “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” to court Black men voters at a time when the Democrats are losing their support. “The agenda does not reflect the needs of the Black community,” says Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Grandpre...