Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communication devices and detonated them remotely, killing 37 people and injuring nearly 3,000, including children.

In this special documentary report, journalist Rania Khalek goes inside the attack, tracing the human toll of one of Israel’s most chilling operations to date. Through interviews with survivors, families, and legal experts, the Khalek exposes the international complicity that made it possible, and the resilience of those who lived through it. This is the untold story of the pager attack.

Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how the Western media enables the violence. A longtime advocate for Palestine, Cunningham reflects on the roots of his activism in an industry where speaking out often invites backlash and blacklisting. “I need to be able to look myself in the mirror,” he says. He also calls out celebrities who stay silent on Gaza: “I’m astonished at the cowardice of people who won’t come forward. If you have a platform, you’re obligated to use it– especially where you see injustice.”

Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner as they organized the Columbia student encampment for Gaza—an action that sparked an international student movement against Israel’s genocide nearly a year ago.

In theaters now, visit the-encampments.com for showtimes and to book your tickets.

Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire?

Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control entire infrastructures of power. And in Europe, elites literally cried over the U.S. pivoting away. Does Europe have any real sovereignty left? Yanis Varoufakis joins Rania Khalek to break it all down.

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Yemen was the only Arab country to consistently take direct military action in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, blocking Red Sea trade routes and launching strikes on Israeli targets. In return, the U.S. and Israel bombed Yemen repeatedly, tightened sanctions, and re-designated Ansarallah, referred to in the West as “the Houthis,” as a terrorist organization. But Yemen did not relent.

Now that a ceasefire has been declared, will Yemen stop its attacks? Will the Resistance Axis continue to strike U.S. and Israeli forces? And what does this mean for the future of U.S.-Yemen relations? In this EXCLUSIVE interview, Rania Khalek speaks with Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarallah, to discuss Yemen’s intervention against genocide, the future of resistance, and the shifting geopolitics of the region.

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Congressional Rep Jamaal Bowman joined Rania Khalek to discuss the bipartisan AIPAC-funded campaign to push him out of office, his evolution on Palestine, his views on the Biden administration and what comes next.