Episodios

  • Ecuador Election: Noboa Sent Troops to the Polls, Then Declared Himself Winner

    Ecuador Election: Noboa Sent Troops to the Polls, Then Declared Himself Winner
    May 23 2025
    Zoe Alexandra, Editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to discuss Ecuador’s April 13 election “irregularities”, where right-wing incumbent Daniel Noboa was declared the winner despite polls favoring progressive presidential candidate Luisa González, who calls it "the most grotesque election fraud in Ecuador’s history" and demands a recount. Alexandra explains how Ecuador’s year-and-a-half-long state of emergency has “had a chilling effect on people's participation in a democratic process.”
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    20 m
  • Trade War Will Be a ‘Colossal Blunder’ For U.S. w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

    Trade War Will Be a ‘Colossal Blunder’ For U.S. w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
    May 23 2025
    Trump's trade war against China is escalating, but so far it seems to have only facilitated a growing political and economic isolation of the United States. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the real motives behind Trump’s seemingly chaotic tariff declarations, including how Greenland factors in, and what may lie ahead.
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    30 m
  • Trump says ‘very serious negotiations’ with Iran for peace

    Trump says ‘very serious negotiations’ with Iran for peace
    May 22 2025
    US President Donald Trump has met Qatari and American business leaders in Doha ahead of his departure for the United Arab Emirates - the final stop on his regional tour. President Trump hailed the trade agreements signed between the US and Qatar. He also praised Qatar’s efforts in negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal. Trump said he wants to negotiate with Iran and see the country reintegrated into the global trade system.
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    36 m
  • Politics & diplomacy: Exclusive Interview with Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim

    Politics & diplomacy: Exclusive Interview with Malaysia's Anwar Ibrahim
    May 22 2025
    Anwar Ibrahim came to power in Malaysia soon after ex-PM Najib Razak was jailed for his role in the $4.5bn 1MDB financial scandal. He has faced criticism after a royal pardon slashed Najib’s sentence while alleged 1MDB mastermind, Jho Low, remains at large. Anwar leads ASEAN this year as it confronts Donald Trump’s tariffs and rising transnational crime, including a cyber-scam industry in Cambodia worth billions of dollars.
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    25 m
  • Naim and Wadee'a

    Naim and Wadee'a
    May 22 2025
    This documentary short explores the life and times of the filmmaker’s Palestinian grandparents, Naim Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi , and the consequences they suffered in Jaffa because of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionists in 1948. Their lives are recounted through the oral testimonies of the couple’s three daughters and other relatives. The film weaves together personal memories to depict a couple’s life before their expulsion—and the lasting impact of displacement on their family.
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    21 m
  • 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 m
  • 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 m
  • 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 m
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