Rania Khalek Dispatches from the Underclass

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What are Colombians protesting? Why are police gunning them down? And why is it being ignored? I was joined by Camila Escalante and Ollie Vargas, Bolivian-based journalists for the independent outlet Kawsachun News. They spoke about the police killing protesters in Colombia, state-backed massacres of social activists, Colombia’s role as a US-backed destabilizing force in […]

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Intersectional regime change? Queer drone strikes? Katie Halper joins Rania Khalek to discuss the CIA’s latest recruitment video series “Humans of CIA,” which weaponizes identity politics and left buzzwords to woke-wash imperialism and advance the agendas of war and empire. Support our work at Breakthrough News on Patreon!

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  What’s really behind the nightmare at the border? In a special mixed media edition of my BreakThrough News program Dispatches, I expose a bipartisan crisis of imperialism decades in the making. Check it out! PODCAST (subscribe to Dispatches with Rania Khalek onSPOTIFY). VIDEO

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Is the US really ending the “forever war”? What does it mean for Afghans on all sides of the conflict? Rania Khalek is joined by Aziz Hakimi, an Afghan expert and researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, who has done extensive field work throughout Afghanistan, for a comprehensive discussion on Afghanistan’s past and future in […]

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In recent days, disturbing videos emerged of far right Israeli Jewish mobs roaming the streets of occupied East Jerusalem openly chanting for genocide and attacking Palestinians. Over 100 Palestinians were injured and at least 20 were hospitalized. Israeli police fired at Palestinians attempting to defend themselves with stun grenades, tear gas, skunk spray, and water […]

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