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Posted Jun 01, 2026
Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat
Interview with Peter Kornbluh, author and director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., conducted by Scott Harris
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Trump Appears Unable to Escape His Own Iran War Quagmire
David Faris talks about the issues examined in his recent Nation Magazine article, "Why Ending the Iran War May Be a Never-Ending Story." As...
Trump Created the MAGA Antiwar Opposition to His Own War
Heather Parton discusses her recent commentary, "Trump’s antiwar claims blow up in his face after Iran fiasco." Opposition to the president's war with Iran...
Trump’s Beijing Summit Reveals China’s Rise, U.S. Decline
Mel Goodman, a former CIA analyst and author of Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA, discusses the issues raised in...
Ominous Signs: Why Trump and GOP Believe They’ll Never Face Accountability
Paul Street talks about his recent Counterpunch.org commentary, "Why Trump Is So Indifferent to Public Opinion in an Election Year." Street is author of...
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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 the AI juggernaut.
Community organizer Seth Garbin talks about a new initiative, Danbury Unites for Immigrants launched to support immigrant communities in Danbury, CT.
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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...
The Legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson: Pioneering Labor Solidarity
The Labor Report talks with Gene Bruskin, veteran labor organizer, anti-war activist and playwright known for leading one of the most significant private sector...
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