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While harshly condemning the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Labour Party's leftist leader requested evidence that the Russian government carried it out. A deluge of smears followed.

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--Senate Expands 'Lobbyist Bill' to Deregulate Real Estate

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On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Leo Panitch says it’s a dilemma that the gradualism of European social-democracy and attempts at a more radical transformation have so far both failed; Panitch says a first step towards democratizing the economy is to make finance a public utility - with host Paul Jay

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--Stephen Hawking: Fighter for Progressive Politics (0:20)

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--Israeli Military Strangles Its Own Weapons Manufacturer to Privatize It (31:28)

--Not Without Black Women: Women in Baltimore work to amplify (48:00)

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--The CIA's New Torturer-in-Chief (0:20)

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--UN Rapporteur: US Sanctions Cause Death in Venezuela (19:34)

--Newly Tapped Sec of State Mike Pompeo Comes with Deep Ties to the Koch Brothers (41:41)

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--Wilkerson: Trump Won't Make Peace with North Korea (0:20)

--Will Trump Help Saudi Arabia Build a Nuclear Program? (18:18)

--Western Governments Whitewash Saudi Dictator MBS as 'Reformer' (33:20)

--Elites Impose Education Policies They Would Never Accept for their Children (44:13)

On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Panitch talks about how the Labour Party moved from being a Tony Blair party of class reconciliation and war, to a truly left mass party with more than 600,000 members that may take power

A majority of United Nations members support a just resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, but U.S. political cowardice and the influential Israel Lobby thwart it, says veteran UN correspondent Ian Williams

In a complex proxy war that has killed so many, where should leftists and people of conscience stand? Independent journalist Rania Khalek and scholar Yasser Munif debate the ongoing siege of Eastern Ghouta and the wider Syrian war

Media reports say the U.S. is considering selling nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia. Analyst Ali al-Ahmed is skeptical, and says Trump has just removed the fig leaf of concern for human rights abuses by the Gulf dictatorship.