Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was Americas version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russias today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukra

All refugees lives are threatened equally, so why are Ukrainians handed the welcome mat as it is denied to most others? On this show, Columbia University Professor and co-author Helen Benedict shares

Despite the obvious divides, both sides in todays fierce split may actually share a lot in common and can be pulled together for a better America by something traditional called Civic Republicanism.

Suddenly in 2023, the aspiration of being the only democracy in the middle east is unraveling itself from within. With its turn to the far right, antidemocratic political Zionism is overpowering trad

In her CounterPunch essay, Medea Benjamin co-founder of CodePink writes of surprisingly good things that happened in 2022. On this show, she cites many genuinely positive developments and some hopeful

How did so many blue collar regions go from Obama 2012 to Trump 2016? Our guest today Robin Johnson, himself of the mid-west, says Thomas Franks was wrong judging and dismissing this demographic; Demo

From mere crisis to real emergency, one big political change in Brazil offers realistic hope for saving the planet. No exaggeration. On this show global south veteran journalist James North explains t

Bradley Onishi is himself a deconverted Christian nationalist. His new book is titled Preparing for War; The Extremist History of White Christian NationalismAnd What Comes Next. On this show, he an

No one likes to be ignored. We saw what happened when the 2016 Democratic nominee skipped those states. The truth is it was a liberal heartland: McGovern, Wellstone, Mondale, etc. Our guest is histori

Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Restoring lost glory. We see it not only in Putins Russia but in many former empires. Nostalgia is a factor in racist nationalist bloodletting