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How the demonstrations in Turkey and the US bombing of Yemen affect the fate of Gaza – and will Iran be next

By MariaApril 1, 2025Newest Podcasts

Mohammad Marandi from the University of Teheran gives a close-up portrait of the countries surrounding Israel/Palestine Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025.
The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years.
There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city’s jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and [ . . . ]

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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Hundreds, Francesca Albanese

By MariaMarch 25, 2025Newest Podcasts

Reaction to the breach of the cease fire on March 18 Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. She was in London, England, when Israel broke the Cease Fire in Gaza on March 18, 2022, and killed more than 400 people in that first night.
She was being interviewed on Channel4News on the topic of genocide. And I’m presenting this half hour with minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs to build into the exchange in order to avoid the accusation of antisemitism. The interview is dated March 18 and, just a week later, had over a quarter million views.
This program has minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Fascism, The False Revolution, Archive TWO

By MariaMarch 18, 2025Newest Podcasts

How western capitalist states cooperated with Fascism as bulwark against communism The overwhelming response from those who heard this program was disbelief – how can an analysis of Fascism made in 1995 be so relevant for 2025! This talk was recorded before a standing room audience of 1,200 in Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995.
Fascism, as Mussolini allegedly said, should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” And history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present, corporate power increased. When the power of capital is untrammeled, Parenti says, all of us are at risk. The environment, the sacred [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive

By MariaMarch 11, 2025Newest Podcasts

A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman Explains Why Trump and Zelensky Argued

By MariaMarch 4, 2025Newest Podcasts

Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions:
Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat??
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years.
Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs’ Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament Shakes Europe

By MariaFebruary 25, 2025Newest Podcasts

On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace.
His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them:
The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine.
To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ]

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Picks And Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaFebruary 18, 2025Newest Podcasts

On the most powerful tool for crime ever invented: The personal computer David Moscrop invited Cory Doctorow and Yanis Varoufakis to a conversation. They discuss how the concentration of wealth and power and surveillance is made possible by the internet where someone like Elon Musk uses digital power to determine the outcome of an election, and then proceeds to dismantle democratic institutions.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, science fiction author and activist. Doctorow had just announced that his most recent book: Picks And Shovels was going into distribution. Picks & Shovels is the origin story of the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former Finance Minister of Greece and author [ . . . ]

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Netanyahu and Trump – Who Set a Trap for Whom – with Alastair Crooke

By MariaFebruary 11, 2025Newest Podcasts

Who benefits from a transfer of Gaza to the U.S. and the expulsion of Palestinians When Judge Andrew Napolitano set up this interview with Alastair Crooke on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had just spent a week in Washington, DC, meeting with donors, Congressional leaders, and military personnel at the Pentagon. When Netanyahu and Trump finally met and had their joint press conference, many observers in the audience wondered who had the upper hand – in other words: “who set a trap for whom”. And when the world heard for the first time of Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and expel the Palestinians it was unclear whose idea that was and who benefits.
Maybe there is nobody [ . . . ]

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What Tariffs & Immigrants Really Mean for the Economy, with Dr. Richard Wolff

By MariaFebruary 4, 2025Newest Podcasts

Thanks to Project Censored Radio and co-host Eleanor Goldfield This program was produced on the day when Donald Trump both threatened and postponed tariffs on Mexico and Canada. The interview with Richard Wolff was held five days earlier in the Project Censored studio by Eleanor Goldfield.
Goldfield asks Richard Wolff how these tariffs might be aimed at you and me rather than at Mexico and Canada. She also elicits an extraordinary explanation of how immigrants have built the wealth of the US – rather than having been a drain.
Richard Wolff is visiting professor at the New School University in New York City; and the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.
The Project Censored Show [ . . . ]

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Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz: Why the US Invaded Afghanistan and Iraq

By MariaJanuary 28, 2025Newest Podcasts

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Dennis Fritz, the author of the book: Deadly Betrayal This book gives an extraordinary and timely update to the fraudulent claim that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. It’s a detailed insider account of how a Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence, pressure the United Nations, forced a Congressional authorization for the use of force, and scared the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq.
Dennis Fritz is a Pentagon insider and senior enlisted leader with nearly three decades standing. He worked directly for – and advised – some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense. They included General Richard B. Myers, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs [ . . . ]

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Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Black History Month 2025

By MariaJanuary 21, 2025Newest Podcasts

TUC Archive: Fred Gray, just out of law school, made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama Rosa Parks was only Fred Gray’s second case. Gray represented Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus – and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, [ . . . ]

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Will Trump Deliver Peace? Professor Jeffrey Sachs says that Israel might prevent it

By MariaJanuary 15, 2025Newest Podcasts

To everybody’s surprise the Trump Camp placed a quote by Sachs, critical of Netanyahu, on his Truth-Social site Sachs is professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He has been special adviser to three United Nations Secretary Generals and currently serves under Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez.
The quote posted on Trump’s social media came from a talk and debate given by Prof. Sachs on October 22, 2024, at the prestigious Cambridge Union in England. In spite of the extraordinary analysis of causes and pretexts of wars presented by Sachs, and some of his provocative statements, the speech remained unnoticed for 2 1/2 months until Donald Trump brought it to Truth Social and world media discovered it [ . . . ]

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The new cold war that the U.S. unleashed against China – Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaJanuary 7, 2025Newest Podcasts

How China Can Win Yanis Varoufakis is a former finance minister of Greece, university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. A video of this candid and fact filled talk before a Chinese audience has recently surfaced.
How did China, on the flimsiest of pretexts, end up in the crosshairs of both Biden and Trump? Varoufakis reveals the related danger to the U.S. financial system that apparently is so serious that this new Cold War might even turn into a shooting war.
The video of this talk was recorded just before the U.S. November 2024 elections, and it is 12 precious minutes longer than this radio program. I highly recommend you find it on YouTube under the title [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman: America’s Problematic Policies in Syria

By MariaDecember 31, 2024Newest Podcasts

How suddenly Syria’s entanglement with all surrounding states becomes the center of world attention
Chas Freeman’s knowledge of the area and history is personal and professional and detailed. Freeman served in the United States Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, and dealt with the Gulf War.
On Friday, December 27th, he was interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid, an Iranian-Brazilian university lecturer, on his podcast “Dialogue Works”. The channel is dedicated to peace. These are excerpts from their 53 minute long conversation.
You can watch the full 53 minute long video on the YouTube channel Dialogue Works under the title: Amb. Chas Freeman: America’s Problematic [ . . . ]

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WWI – The Christmas Truce of 1914 – TUC Archive for 2024

By MariaDecember 24, 2024Newest Podcasts

Silent Night in trenches of the Western Front The Christmas Truce was an unofficial cease-fire on parts of the Western Front. Guns fell silent for one to several days. Soldiers emerged from the trenches and talked, exchanged gifts and kicked around a soccer ball. Trenches were close in some places, separated by 50 yards or less.
The Story of the Christmas Truce WWI is a documentary film about this spontaneous cease-fire. Thanks to historians Peter Hart, Taff Gillingham and Robin Schaefer, and their choice of rare documentary photos, footage and archived letters from soldiers of both sides.
This archival TUC Radio program first went into distribution on December 13, 2022. By coincidence on the same day that nearly 1,000 faith leaders called [ . . . ]

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