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Cornel West returns to talk about his presidential run, 2024, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and why "multicultural militarism" can't defeat "raw fascism."

Then Ukrainian-American journalist Lev Golinkin talks about Washington Warmongers' smearing of Tulsi Gabbard and the Ukraine proxy war.

Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary and ran for president as an independent in 2024. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.

Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time.com, among others; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live.

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Jill Stein and Butch Ware give their FIRST interview since the Presidential election. But first, Palestinian analyst Mouin Rabani talks Palestine, Lebanon, Amsterdam and whether Donald Trump is a departure or continuation of Joe Biden.

Jill Stein is is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She was the 2024 presidential nominee for the Green Party.

Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. He is associate professor of History at UC Santa-Barbara. He was the 2024 vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party.

Mouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian analyst, oo-editor of Jadaliyya and non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He was previously Senior Analyst Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group, and head of political affairs with the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. He is a contributor to the book Deluge:

Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm.

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Journalist Thomas Frank and historian Matt Karp discuss how Kamala Harris lost. But first, Palestinian Youth Movement organizer Lea Kayali talks about the "Mask Off Maersk" campaign which seeks to cut ties with one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies that directly ships weapons and weapons components that facilitate Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine and is the author of the books

"What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," "Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?", "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism," among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal.

Matthew Karp is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," (Harvard University Press). Karp is now at work on two books, both under contract with Farrar, Straus, & Giroux."Millions of Abolitionists: The Republican Party and the Political War on Slavery," is about the emergence of American antislavery mass politics. His other book is a meditation on the politics of U.S. history, and explores the ways that narratives of the American experience both serve and shape different ideological ends — in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and today. Karp is a contributing editor for Jacobin. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and The London Review of Books.

Lea Kayali is an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians and Arabs in diaspora. In her organizing, she has supported the Evict Elbit campaign which ousted the weapons manufacturer from their innovation hub in Massachusetts, and was involved in the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine encampment. She is currently organizing with the PYM’s Mask Off MAERSK campaign, which aims to expose the logistics giant’s role in facilitating the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Tune in to hear Katie watch the election results with Eugene Puryear, Rania Khalek, and special guests including Jill Stein and Claudia de la Cruz!

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Jewish Voice For Peace brings you an evening with renowned historian and author Rashid Khalidi in conversation with Katie Halper. Dr. Khalidi will discuss current events in Palestine, his seminal, best-seller book "The 100 Years War on Palestine," student protests and his decision to retire from Columbia University.

Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies Emeritus at Columbia

University. He received a B.A. from Yale University and a D. Phil. from Oxford

University, and has previously taught at the Lebanese University, the American

University of Beirut, and the University of Chicago. He was editor and later co-editor of

the Journal of Palestine Studies, and has served as President of the Middle East

Studies Association. He is the author of eight books, including The Hundred Years’ War

on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, and of over

100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has co-edited three books.

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Katie is joined by Maura Finkelstein a tenured Jewish professor of Anthropology at Muhlenberg College fired over an Instragram repost about Zionism. Then Katie talks to Rami Younis, a Palestinian writer, journalist, activist and co-director of "Lyd," a science fiction documentary he co-directed about the once-thriving Palestinian city of Lyd. Rami reacts to Israel's recent decision to ban the film.

Maura Finkelstein is a writer, ethnographer, and associate professor of anthropology. She is the author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai, published by Duke University Press in 2019. Her writing has also been published in Anthological Quarterly, City and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology Now, Post45, Electric Literature, Allegra Lab, Red Pepper Magazine, The Markaz Review, the Scottish Left Review, Mondoweiss, and Al Jazeera. She has been nominated for a Pushcart (2021), was a finalist for the Witness literary award (2022), was a Tin House Scholar (2023), and was recently the recipient of the 2024 New Directions Award from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association.

Rami Younis is a Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist and activist from Lyd. He was a 2019-20 Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School. As a journalist, he mainly wrote for the online magazine +972 and served as both writer and editor of its Hebrew sister site, “local call”, a journalistic project he co-founded, designed to challenge Israeli mainstream journalism outlets. Rami served as a parliamentary consultant and media spokesperson for Palestinian member of Knesset (Israeli parliament) Haneen Zoabi. Rami is also co-founder and manager of the first ever “Palestine Music Expo”: an event that connects local Palestinian music scene to the world wide industry. Younis was the host of the Arabic-language daily news show, “On the Other Hand."

Lyd is a feature-length, sci-fi documentary that shares multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel. From the perspective of the city herself, voiced by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents. Lyd was once a thriving Palestinian city with a rich history. In 636AD, It was even considered the first capital of Palestine. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, Lyd became an Israeli city, and in the process, hundreds of Lyd’s Palestinian residents were massacred by Israeli forces, and most of the city’s 50,000 Palestinian residents were exiled. Today, the city has a Jewish Israeli majority and a Palestinian minority and is disinvested and divided by racism and violence. For Palestinians, Lyd’s story is a painful and tragic fall from grace, which is why the film dares to ask the question: what would the city be like had the Israeli occupation of Lyd never happened?

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Tonight’s Katie Halper Show was a live screening AND discussion organized by Code Pink at The People's Forum the TRT investigative documentary “Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land.” TRT's film reveals the terror tactics of the Israeli settler group Hilltop Youth, an organization that builds outposts in order to steal more land from Palestinians. Then Katie moderates a discussion with Ashish Prashar, Tyler Reynolds & Daniel Santiago.

Ashish Prashar is a political strategist, human rights activist and former advisor to the Middle East Peace Envoy. Ashish has appeared as a regular commentator in media outlets, including CNN, The Guardian and USA Today. Tyler Reynolds is a musican and martial arts instructor who just returned from volunteering in the West Bank. Daniel Santiago is a high school teacher and community organizer from Jersey City who volunteered with Faz3a for two weeks in the West Bank and was shot in the leg by the Israeli Army.

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Rami Khouri is a Palestinian American journalist and a senior public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC.

He’s the co-editor of the book: 'Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters'

Arturo Desimone, is an Aruban-Argentine writer, artist, and active member of the social movement Llamamiento Argentino Judío.

Arturo challenges the mainstream media narrative that how October 7th was the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust. He talks about the 2000 Jews disappeared under the last military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

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Jordanian-Palestinian Journalist Sam Husseini talks about Israel, Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and confronting French foreign minister about his country's failure to properly implement the ICJ's orders in the genocide case against Israel. Writer Norman Solomon talks about the ignored threat of nuclear war, the presidential elections and media bias and his book War Made Invisible.

Sam Husseini is an independent journalist currently writing at husseini.substack.com. Husseini has also written for a variety of publications, including CounterPunch, The Nation, The Washington Post, USA Today and Salon. He has written extensively about Palestine and international law. Last year he repeatedly wrote about the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Husseini regularly attends State Department briefings, asking tough questions. Husseini is founder of VotePact.org, which encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly. He is also a visual artist.

Norman Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and national director of RootsAction.org. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book “a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy.” The paperback edition of War Made Invisible was published this fall with a 30-page afterword about the Gaza war.

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Beirut-based journalist Séamus Malekafzali reports back on Lebanon where he was living until a few days ago. Journalist Prem Thakker suggests the U.S. is "picking a fight with Hezbollah," breaks down the smearing of Rashida Tlaib, and reacts to the State Department's hypocrisy on Israel. And Katie reads "The Perplexing Smiles of the Children of Palestine,” a poem by Marcellus Williams who was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday night, despite exonerating evidence and the pleas of the victim's family, the prosecutor and the jurors.

Prem Thakker is a reporter at Zeteo News. He was previously a politics reporter at The Intercept, and is a former reporter at The New Republic. His work has also appeared in The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, CNN podcasts, and his newsletter Better World.

Séamus Malekafzali is a journalist on the Middle East and Global South who writes for The Nation, The Baffler and at https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com

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