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‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 22, 2022: BYP100 Charts “Explicitly Socialist” Course… Gerald Horne on Pelosi’s Junket to Taiwan… Headlines on Abortion, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, New Developments in Emmett Till Murder, and More…. 
Speaking at the People's Summit, D'Atra Jackson, national director of BYP100, embraces socialism as the cure for systemic inequality and racist policing. Gerald Horne weighs in on the plans of House S
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 15, 2022: Should We Really Blame NATO for the Ukraine War? (Yes) With Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker
During a week when imperialist hubris was on full display, Eugene Puryear and Brian Becker examine how the U.S. fomented war in Ukraine in a bid to maintain unipolar hegemony. Plus headlines on Jaylan
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 8, 2022: The Farce of You Lie… Little to Celebrate as U.S. Supreme Court Tramples Human Rights and Nation is Besieged by Violence… Gerald Horne and Greg Carr on the Legacy of U.S. Settler Colonialism
With recent extreme rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, striking down abortion rights, gun safety laws, and the ability of the federal government to curb fossil fuel emissions, even politicians are des
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JULY 1, 2022 – Horne: Extreme Right Supreme Court and Jan. 6 Armed Rioters Signal Pre-Fascism in U.S…. Jacquie L’uqman on Abortion, Race and Class… Plus Headlines…
New evidence about heavily armed protesters on January 6 and a series of extreme decisions by the far-right Supreme Court, prompt Gerald Horne's bleak prognosis for United States. And as demonstration
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 24, 2022: Voices in Crowd at Moral March on Washington… Jon Jeter on Jan. 6 Hearings, Media and More… Headlines on Far-Right Supreme Court Decisions, Including Abortion, and More…. 
For many of the tens of thousands converged in Washington, DC, for the Poor Peoples Campaign Moral March on Washington, the key demand was to shift billions spent on war and overseas to instead be spe
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 17, 2022–Judge: The Next Trump Coup Attempt is Underway… Poor People’s Campaign Steps Off in DC… Chantal James Debut Novel About Post-Hurricane Katrina… Plus More Headlines
As the January 6 Commission reveals details of an attempted coup by Donald Trump, a retired federal judge says that the real threat is the next coup being planned in plain sight. We speak historian an
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE10, 2022: Gerald Horne on the Roots of U.S. Fascism… Headlines on Jan. 6 Commission… Uvalde Testimony… COINTELPRO in DC? and More
What do the attacks of January 6, the horrific massacre of children in Uvalde, and the U.S. obsession with guns all have in common? The answer is the state of Texas. We spend the hour with our geopoli
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 3, 2022: Attorney Soffiyah Elijah On The Release of Sundiata Acoli… Young Activists on School Shootings, Abortion and Climate… Headlines on Advanced Weapons to Ukraine… And More
After serving 49 years behind bars, political prisoner Sundiata Acoli is released from prison. We speak to a key organizer, Attorney @Soffiyah Elijah, who worked for decades for Acoli's release. And f
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 27, 2022: Washington’s War on Dissent Continues… With Journalist Dan Cohen… Cuban Foreign Minister Speaks… Headlines on Texas Shooting and More
As Washington's war on dissent continues, I speak to journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen for this month's extended segment on culture and media. And as the United States attempts to bar Cuba, Venezuela
‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR MAY 20, 2022: The F-Word: Gerald Horne on White Supremacist Violence, From Buffalo, to Ukraine, to Palestine… Women Vow to Fight back for Abortion Rights… Lawmaker Asks Could She be Imprisoned for a Miscarriage?… P
On this show, we explore the truth about white supremacist violence -- from Buffalo, to Ukraine, to Palestine, for this month's episode of the F-WORD on fascism with professor Gerald Horne. And, as th





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