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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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to the White House for a much-anticipated meeting with Donald Trump on Monday. His last trip was widely considered a failure - with a tense public berating from Trump earlier this year. But on this trip, he had some considerable backup -- from the French president, German Chancellor and UK Prime Minister to the Head of the EU commission.

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With nearly three million Twitch followers, Hasan Piker is one of the internet’s biggest political streamers. He blends humor, culture, and masculinity talk with sharp political commentary, drawing young men away from the US alt-right. And on Gaza, he has become one of the loudest US voices for Palestine.

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It’s 80 years since Indonesia declared unilateral independence from the Netherlands in August 1945. This is the untold story of Indonesian composer Ismail Marzuki, whose music became the soundtrack of the Indonesian struggle against both Dutch colonisation and Japanese wartime occupation. Marzuki was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist whose lyrics and sentimental melodies struck a chord with the national consciousness. But his nationalism also got him into trouble with the Japanese when they invaded during World War II - and he was interrogated, tortured, imprisoned and died young at the age of 44. The film captures the harsh realities of colonial rule but also the transcendent power of art. Marzuki’s story shows how an artist’s voice can help forge a country’s identity and become a symbol of freedom and national pride.

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