U.S. War Machine

Last week, 19 students at Pomona College in Southern California were arrested by riot police and banned from campus after holding a pro-Palestine protest on their campus. Melia, one of the students arrested at the sit-in, joins the show to discuss Pomona Divest from Apartheid activism and the significant repression...

Gaza is changing the world.  What was widely treated as a regional issue six months ago has quickly changed the global geopolitical landscape. Israel now threatens to drag the entire region into a regional war and Palestine has become a decisive political issue in several countries. Simply put, there’s no...

U.S. officials are saying a negotiated ceasefire is near in Gaza, but Israel just killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s three sons in an airstrike, after bombing Iran’s embassy in flagrant violation of international law last week.  Brian Becker is joined by Mohammed Nabulsi, organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement and...

Joe Biden called Benjamin Netanyahu and told him that if Israel didn’t do more to protect civilians and aid workers, the US would change its position on Israel and possibly leverage weapons shipments in the future. But this vague statement could just be cover to distance the Biden administration from...

On March 25, the UN Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to be implemented during the month of Ramadan and to end on April 9. The resolution was able to pass because the US did not exercise its veto power as it did...

ISIS-K, an offshoot of ISIS called Islamic State in Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall outside Moscow that killed 133 people. While US officials were quick to put the blame on ISIS, Russia’s President Putin claimed that the attackers were aided...

As Mexico prepares for its next presidential election in June, the U.S. corporate-owned media is working overtime to smear the outgoing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his popular MORENA party. Kurt Hackbarth, writer and Journalist for Jacobin Magazine, explains that the media campaign against AMLO is retaliation for...

Pro-capitalist ideologues in politics, media and academia have been hard at work slandering the left in an effort to subvert any true understanding of socialist history. They do this by constructing narratives around socialism, communism and leaders of socialist states to lead people to dismiss the idea that there can...

A massive terrorist attack targeting civilians in Moscow killed more than 140 people and wounded hundreds more. Meanwhile, the Biden administration and the Pentagon are demanding billions for more war against Russia in the asymmetric, proxy war being waged in Ukraine. Brian Becker is joined by Eugene Puryear, the author...

What is this new era of “Hyperimperialism” for the US/NATO Empire? Where do Gaza, Ukraine, and the Cold War on China fit in? How is the decline of Global North hegemony shifting the geopolitical landscape? Are there new possibilities for emergent organizations of the Global South? How do we maintain...