U.S. War Machine

Trump ordered the massive bombing of Iran in June. Next he bombed Venezuela and kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026. Is Trump now setting his imperial sights on Cuba? Brian Becker is joined by Manolo De Los Santos, the executive director of The People’s Forum in New York.

When Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly shot two National Guard officers stationed near the White House on the morning of November 26, he had only been in the United States a few years. But his history with the country that occupied his homeland of Afghanistan began long before. Lakanwal came to the...

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...

Yara Shoufani of the Palestinian Youth Movement discusses the Trump-Netanyahu Gaza “peace plan,” designed without any Palestinian input and envisioning British war criminal Tony Blair overseeing Gaza. She calls it a U.S.-Israeli ploy to “turn the tables and isolate Hamas” while forcing Palestinians into a lose-lose surrender. “No matter how...

Eugene Puryear discusses the shutdown of the federal government over GOP attempts to eliminate Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies. Over 14 million Americans stand to lose healthcare, Trump is poised to lay off hundreds more federal workers as part of the shutdown amid a plummeting job market, and the...

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...

Voulette Mansour, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement joins the show to discuss the new People’s Arms Embargo campaign to stop the flow of F-35 fighter jet parts to the Oakland International Airport. The airport operates as a major hub for shipments of military cargo to Israel, which has...

Carley Riggins, a Community organizer with the Akron Palestine Solidarity Collective and the Ohio Divest Coalition, joins the show to discuss the “No New Bonds” campaign, a statewide push to force Ohio to stop funneling hundreds of millions into Israel bonds that bankroll occupation, settlement expansion, and the genocide in...

Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, director of Pan Africanism Today, joins the show to discuss the second anniversary of the Alliance of Sahel States. The alliance between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger formed as a result of the popular anti-colonial uprising that swept Niger in 2023. Ghedi-Alasow discusses how AES, a counterweight to...