An unprecedented effort by European leaders to sway US President Donald Trump on Ukraine. They're hoping to influence any deal with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. But what's the status of the trans-Atlantic alliance now? A relationship of equals or is Trump fully in charge?

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Hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents are now on the streets of Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump says it’s to fight “out of control” crime, even as city data shows crime has been falling. What impact does this unprecedented federal takeover have on DC’s residents and democracy?

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After 15 years in office, Sheikh Hasina’s stranglehold on power starts to loosen. A grievous insult leveled at student protesters catapults a long simmering dispute over government jobs into a full fledged rebellion. When students take to the streets, the government deploys armed gangs to beat them into submission. It’s a tactic that has worked in the past, but this time the students are fighting back like never before.

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Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, argues Democratic politicians aren’t putting up meaningful opposition to Trump’s DC police state since they’re in favor of tough-on-crime policies. From curfews and youth incarceration to slum clearances, Grandpre argues that their “balanced approach” is just right-wing policing repackaged in the language of reform.

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Kurt Hackbarth, writer for Jacobin and host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, joins the show to discuss Mexico’s historic achievement under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 13.4 million people lifted out of poverty in six years, including 2 million from extreme poverty. Hackbarth explains how AMLO’s social programs, wage increases, and labor reforms fueled this unprecedented progress and how the US continues to interfere, impose tariffs, and pressure Mexico, seeking to block its path to independent development.

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The Western elite once claimed ignorance during the Holocaust. Today, Israel’s genocide in Gaza unfolds in full view, yet nothing is done. The most powerful states arm the perpetrator while the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine they have long celebrated is now ignored, except where it continues to serve the U.S. empire.

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Trump met with Putin. Hillary Clinton praised his “better understanding” of Ukraine. Europe bowed its head and posed for a photo. And Ukraine? Still collapsing — politically and militarily. After terrible human suffering, the war is lost, arms control is dead, and sanctions have failed. Meanwhile, BRICS can’t stop U.S. rampaging in the Middle East, and Europe remains the obedient junior partner, with its leaders now fully committed to a policy of senseless militarization.

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The Trump administration is considering buying a 10% stake in tech company Intel to prop up the struggling chip maker. Professor Richard Wolff explains why they might do this, and what it means about the U.S. economy and the U.S. government's competition with China.

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Muhammad Shehada, Palestinian writer and analyst, joins the show to discuss Israel's “giant machinery” of propaganda attempting “to brainwash, to overwhelm people, to push them away from trying to understand what's happening” in Gaza. Despite the enormous price tag of its disinformation machine, Israel itself is now admitting in Hebrew media that “our propaganda is collapsing.”

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Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, joins the show after Trump branded Washington a city of “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” and called in the National Guard and FBI to patrol its streets. Grandpre will explain how liberals rushing to oppose Trump’s crackdown are pushing many of the same policies under a softer label. From curfews and youth incarceration to slum clearances, Grandpre will argue that their “balanced approach” is just right-wing policing repackaged in the language of reform.

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