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  • Explosive Trade War with China: What Are Trump’s Real Goals?

    Explosive Trade War with China: What Are Trump’s Real Goals?
    May 22 2025
    Trump increased already huge tariffs today, bringing total tariffs on China to 125% of goods (at 104% at the time of recording). China has retaliated, and the stock market plunged $7 trillion in value after tariffs were announced last week (before bouncing back after this recording). Trump says this is about bringing back jobs, but what is the reality? Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear discuss Trump’s real goals.
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    56 min
  • Inside 'The Teacher': Farah Nabulsi’s Feature Film on Occupation & Palestinian Resistance

    Inside 'The Teacher': Farah Nabulsi’s Feature Film on Occupation & Palestinian Resistance
    May 21 2025
    Oscar-nominated filmmaker Farah Nabulsi joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to talk about her powerful new film The Teacher, an emotional and political drama set in the occupied West Bank. Inspired by true events, The Teacher follows a Palestinian schoolteacher as he confronts personal trauma, settler violence, and the capture of an Israeli soldier by the resistance, forcing impossible moral decisions that reflect the brutal reality of life under military occupation.
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    45 min
  • A Full-Time Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness in the US

    A Full-Time Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness in the US
    May 21 2025
    Brian Goldstone, author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” joins the show to discuss the alarming new epidemic of full-time workers falling into homelessness. Goldstone argues that skyrocketing rents, low wages, and weak tenant protections are making the “working homeless” the new face of the nation’s housing crisis.
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    16 min
  • Abducted, Expelled and Fired, But Still Fighting Back: Students to March

    Abducted, Expelled and Fired, But Still Fighting Back: Students to March
    May 21 2025
    As Trump escalates the crackdown on student activists, recently expelled and fired Columbia student Grant Miner joins the show to discuss the growing resistance. Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW, was fired just one day before UAW contract negotiations with the university were set to begin, and just days after ICE agents abducted Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil. “The movement isn’t stopping. Students are more fired up than ever. They think playing dirty will stamp it out– but it won’t work,” says Miner. Now, he’s joining thousands in Washington, DC, on April 5 to protest the targeting of students who have been standing with Palestine. “We need to show Trump that Americans won’t stand for people being abducted in the service of arming a foreign genocide and apartheid state.”
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    19 min
  • Trump Wages Tariff War on the World, But China Won’t Be Bullied

    Trump Wages Tariff War on the World, But China Won’t Be Bullied
    May 21 2025
    Last week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on the rest of the world. On this week’s China Report, journalist Eugene Puryear joins Amanda to discuss the real reasoning behind these tariffs, how China will respond, and what this trade war signals for U.S. global dominance and multipolarity.
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    46 min
  • IShowspeed’s Visit to China Breaks the Propaganda Barrier

    IShowspeed’s Visit to China Breaks the Propaganda Barrier
    May 20 2025
    As the US escalates to war against China, there has been a concerted program of demonization against China in the form of Sinophobic propaganda drawing on racist stereotypes: China is dangerous, dirty, and despotic. Yet, after Covid travel bans were lifted, tourists began flocking to China and streaming thousands of videos that refuted these tropes.
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    1 h et 2 min
  • Musk's Real Plan is to Loot Social Security w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

    Musk's Real Plan is to Loot Social Security w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
    May 20 2025
    On today's episode, Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Musk’s recent statements on Social Security and the Trump administration’s agenda to cut and privatize the vital program that so many seniors rely on to survive. They’re cutting the Social Security budget, firing workers, and grabbing hold of the most sensitive data in the Social Security system.
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    13 min
  • US, Israel and HTS ‘Squeeze Lebanon from All Sides’

    US, Israel and HTS ‘Squeeze Lebanon from All Sides’
    May 20 2025
    Dr. Anis Germani, a Lebanese medical doctor and political analyst, joins the show to discuss how HTS militants in Syria continue to occupy Lebanese territory and launch attacks on border towns, flouting a ceasefire meant to de-escalate clashes with Damascus’s forces. Dr. Germani will highlight how these assaults coincide with Israel’s intensifying attacks on Lebanon and their own disregard for ceasefire agreements, further inflaming tensions across the region.
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    17 min