It’s headline time!!!  We discuss the UN Special Rapporteur’s report on torture regarding the prison and torture site at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a bit on the recent fighting and refugee situation in Nargorno-Karabahk.  We’re also joined by Jake Tucker to discuss the major strikes going on right now, including the UAW and the pending end of the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Jake Tucker is an anti-war US Army veteran from 2001-09, stop-lossed and deployed to Iraq for 15 months during the surge in 2007-8.  He is a socialist and anti-imperialist activist and organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as ANSWER Coalition and the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee.  Jake was also a hotel worker, union organizer and shop steward with UNITE HERE Local 23 in San Antonio, TX from 2013-2021

Sources:

A new and more just global contract is imperative, says Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel at UN General Assembly

The Big 3 Want You To Think Striking Workers and the Climate Are at Odds. They’re Not.

Let Cuba Live!

Meeting of Malcolm X and Fidel Castro

Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Guantanamo

Torture Enters the Courtroom

After First Ever Guantánamo Visit, U.N. Rapporteur Finds Dehumanized, Traumatized Men Subjected to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment That May Rise to the Level of Torture

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