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​There is so much that National Public Radio could do to make itself better and raise the expectations of its listening audience.
The US government bombed Venezuela, and Donald Trump abducted President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country to be tried in a show trial on politically motivated charges. Ben Norton explains the real reasons behind the USA's imperialist war on Venezuela.
"The 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today," said Progressive International.
This war also does not reflect the will of the people. Nearly 70% of Americans oppose another war and reject the endless cycle of military interventions carried out in their name.
In Uganda’s 2021 presidential election, music star, activist and opposition leader Bobi Wine, together with his wife, rallies his people in a dangerous fight for freedom from President Museveni’s oppressive 35-year regime.
It’s far easier to end up on the wrong end of the spectrum than you might think.
"The work, my friends, has only just begun."
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.
Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off America’s wealth for themselves. So, what can you do?
Their ideas have been tried over and over again. Every time is met with disaster, yet they want to do it again.
​I hope you can look back on 2025 as the year movements for peace and justice freed political prisoners, slowed the war machine, and helped turn the public against endless wars.
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In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
Paul Jay and host Barry Stevens analyze rising progressive movements, from Mamdani's victory in New York City to Sanders and AOC drawing massive crowds in red states, and why working-class consciousness has always been the real threat to American elites. They discuss why...
Today we uncover the global plot to install "christian nationalism" - it feels ridiculous even writing that sentence, but I mean there's no other way to describe it. Strap in!
On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical...
Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity due to his “time spent with” Epstein and/or Bannon.
​We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can lead to irreversible consequences.
In Cold War Two, the USA is pressuring countries to cut ties with China and recognize Taiwan separatists. Donald Trump blatantly meddled in Honduras' 2025 election and backed a political coup to put in power right-wing oligarch Nasry "Tito" Asfura, who strongly supports...
If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a head-of-state rather than the rule of law, would his message of peace, mercy, and resistance to...
Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," the man who brought optimism back to America. But behind the smile was a ruthless counter-revolution.
Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.
The US government is seizing oil tankers and stealing Venezuela's crude. Donald Trump boasted that the USA will "keep" the oil and the ships. This is piracy. Ben Norton explains how Washington is blatantly violating international law in its imperialist war on Venezuela.
In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first intended for the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, and the rejected.
​The sicknesses that caused the Iraq War and the Wall Street crash are alive and well in American society, mutating from administration to administration.
The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.
Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been reduced to a spectacle of distraction, dead trees, credit card receipts, and gift wrapping.
I'm sick of using a website that rewards white supremacy, is swarmed with bots, and doesn't even work. So as of today, I'm no longer using it. You can find us literally anywhere else. And if you want to support a candidate who puts their money where their mouth is, chip in at...
This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk.
This epic four hour doumentary explores the "ingredients" that contributed to the rise of fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. It argues that fascism wasn't a simple anomaly but emerged from a complex mix of historical, social, and psychological factors.
“Politicians should not be rewarded for enabling a genocide nor in perpetuating Israel's periodic bombing attacks on Palestinians.”
The exploding popularity of progressive politicians and the policies they embrace is not an anomaly. It's a signpost.
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How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for intercepting ships in the Red Sea to counter Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and demands that the Hague modify its founding charter to guarantee the US impunity for its war crimes. The United States claims its geopolitical adversaries are "rogue states", but overwhelming evidence...
The recent release of emails and photos revealing new details about Noam Chomsky's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked controversy across the political spectrum.
​Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers refuse to kill.
The only thing that definitively clears suspicion for ICE is biometric identification. The presumption is that people may lie, documents may be forged, but biometric scans are objective and certain. People are guilty until an algorithm proves them innocent.
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political and economic philosophy of our time. Yet despite capturing both major parties and shaping...
The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.
We hear it constantly: "You're too harsh on Democrats. You're helping Republicans by criticizing our side. Now is not the time—we need unity against the rising threat of fascism."
Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.
Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.
This is Peter Thiel - a major player in Silicon Valley who wants to transform humanity. But what does he actually want? What’s his problem with democracy? And is there an endgame? - fern
Over the past year, Silicon Valley has gone fully mask off in favor of fascism and oligarchy. Gone are the days of the Valley’s veneer of idealistic futurism, where technology was supposed to level the playing field and make us more connected than ever.
In many parts of the world we're living it, seeing it rise, meanwhile the establishment is unable or unwilling to do anything about it. There is also a lack of grassroots organizing or a coherent leftist strategy to counter it.
Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted that he wants to take the country's oil and give it to US corporations: "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back". Ben Norton explains how...
As American hegemony transforms into something that will be determined by “the forces of historical contingency,” how can regular people fight back against the increasingly violent Empire?
Hunger Strikers are Dying for Gaza & no one’s allowed to talk about It.
​If you care about children; if you say you’re “pro-life;” if you consider yourself a good or moral person, you should care about how the US treats all children.
​When military members have claimed such power and refused blind military obedience—during the Vietnam War and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—it has had a significant impact on this country’s politics and policies, as well as on individual lives.
​We are drifting from a system based on legal principles to one in which the will of a single leader determines who is guilty and who is innocent, and who lives and who dies.
Democracy Now! speaks with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late.
The far right is gaining power in Europe, fuelled by conspiracies about migrant invasions and a shrinking white population.
A billionaire put $75 million into the Trump family crypto company. His SEC probe was dropped.
If Obama could kill a 16-year-old American boy without accountability, why wouldn’t Trump believe he has the same power to snuff out the lives of civilians with no due process?
One expert said the Trump White House is "replaying the Bush administration's greatest hits as farce."
The door is wide open to try something new.
The winner of Chile's presidential election, José Antonio Kast, is the son of a German Nazi official. He is a US-backed far-right extremist who loves Donald Trump, Israel, and fascist former dictator August Pinochet. He is also very anti-China, and will assist in Washington's...
In the segment of Due Dissidence, hosts Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular play and analyze a recent Tucker Carlson episode in which Carlson visits wounded Palestinian refugees from Gaza housed in a Qatari rehabilitation compound and denounces Israel’s military campaign as...
Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.
My guest today is Donnie Maclurcan, founder of the Post Growth Institute and a thinker who played a major role in my own journey. In this episode, Donnie breaks down why money accumulation under capitalism necessarily produces rising debt and inequality, leading to human...
Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.
This week on the show Katie talks to Ghada Karmi about the possibility of a one state solution and her latest book, Murjana.
What if Gaza agrees to surrender its weapons? Will Israel leave the Palestinians alone? Will the prospects of a just peace and Palestinian freedom increase exponentially?
​A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.
​When the state hunts its most essential—and most exploited—workers to meet deportation quotas, the myth of border security collapses.
I’m Andres Acevedo, and this is The Market Exit.In this essay, I explore a question I’ve been thinking about for years: Why does everything in our economy seem to demand endless growth?
Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the future.
I posted a photo of Border Patrol agents pinning a man to the ground in a headlock – and the internet made up every excuse in the book to defend the assault.
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
Norman Finkelstein’s Most EXPLOSIVE Interview Yet
Kettling of the Voices reveals the hidden war on democracy in the UK. Following key characters that are targeted by the authorities, the film explores the increase in police tactics used to crush dissent in the city of London and Glasgow.
Declassified presents the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for Israel.
To revel in the image of human beings being blown apart is to confess a kind of moral numbness that civilizations acquire only in their final stages of decay.
The president's latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States.
Resistance to ICE and the Trump regime gets creative…drawing on protest traditions from around the world, and starting some new ones.
Declaring unilaterally that a war exists (when it doesn't) and then bombing unarmed civilian boats in international waters is inherently illegal, regardless of whether anyone is killed by the first, second, or tenth bomb. That’s an act of piracy and murder, not a legal use of...
The moment we allow governments to kill without trial, we step out of the rule of law and into barbarism.
Under international law, executing people outside a genuine armed conflict is an extrajudicial killing. Nothing about these strikes meets the legal threshold for war. But if we don't hold the president to account, a war is exactly what we may get.
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
“Invasion” and “replacement” narratives function as cover stories for the corporate plunder of the working class, turning justified anger away from elites and toward scapegoats.
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
Dena Takruri speaks to Assal Rad about how badly legacy media has failed at one of its most important jobs: covering war crimes and genocide.
The Video Tony Blair Doesn’t Want You To See
In this special episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp takes on capitalism, market economics, and the myths of the “free market” using comedy, data, and real-world examples. From “capitalism creates wealth” to “free markets allocate resources efficiently” and “the poor are...
A feature doc with George Monbiot, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Robin Dunbar that explores the current crisis in social connection, juxtaposed with its fascinating historical origins. Through a series of intimate interviews and beautifully shot scenes, The Power of Friendship...
Streaming December 9–13, 2025.
Directed by Ian MacKenzie http://ianmack.com
In this conversation, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Stephen Kapos – an 88-year-old British-Hungarian Holocaust survivor, who was forced to go into hiding at the age of seven, was separated from his mother and father, lost 15 members of his family to the Nazi concentration camps...
Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield for concentrated private power while marketing itself as anti-authoritarian.
The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring...
Militarism must be exposed for what it is: savage, medieval madness.
Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.
If we’re serious about understanding what makes a society flourish - or disintegrate - history offers plenty of lessons. The idea that hatred, exclusion, and authoritarian nationalism could lead to “greatness” is not only unsupported by the historical record - it is...
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