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Posted Jul 06, 2026
Nationwide Revolt Against Mass AI Surveillance on a Winning Streak
Interview with Hanna Riley Fernandez, a writer and activist based in Burlington, Vermont, conducted by Scott Harris
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Democratic Socialist Candidates Win Stunning Primary Victories in NYC and Nationwide
John Tarleton discusses The Indypendent's coverage of the city's historic June 23rd Democratic primary election, with a focus on Democratic Socialist of America party...
Fighting Trump GOP Voter Suppression and Authoritarian Election Rigging Schemes
Carol Evans talks about Common Cause's concern about and work to protect this November's midterm election from interference and manipulation by the Trump administration...
Supreme Court Ends TPS Protections for Haitians, Syrians, Opening Door to Mass Deportation
Guerline Jozef discusses Haitian Bridge Alliance's view on the consequences of two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings: the Mullin v. Doe case that overturns...
Pro-Palestinian ‘Swarthmore 9’ Trial Defendants Stand Up for Free Speech
Brendan Cook discusses his and his co-defendant’s trial that begins on July 1st, stemming from the group's May 3, 2025 arrest on third-degree "defiant...
Special Feature
Can Cuba Dig In Against Trump’s Threats?
William LeoGrand, expert in U.S. policy toward Latin America and Cuba, discusses the dire conditions in Cuba and that nation's prospects for surviving the Trump regime's oil embargo and threats to "take the Island." Kary Love, a self-described country lawyer from Michigan, discusses his recent article at Counterpunch.org, "Being Honest With Ourselves 250 Years After July 4, 1776."
Panel: Scott Harris, Ruthanne Baumgartner, and Richard Hill.
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Resistance Roundtable: AI —The Good, Bad, and Ugly; and A New Immigrant Support Initiative
Professor Richard Wolff, economist and author, discusses the current state of the U.S. economy in the face of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and...
Iran’s Asymmetric Warfare
The Roundtable speaks with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.) about Iran's asymmetric military assets, which he says are giving it the ability to stalemate the...
Women’s History Month Special: Kathy Black, Life-long Union Activist, Talks About the On-going Struggle
The Monthly Labor Report welcomes Kathy Black, who served as the president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)...
Trump’s Dementia + Megalomania = Violent Police State
Mel Goodman, a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University and a former CIA analyst, assesses Donald Trump’s irrational and authoritarian second term foreign and domestic...
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