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DiEM25   How did the German left end up defending genocide, occupation, militarism, and apartheid — all in the name of antifascism? In this hard-hitting follow-up episode, hosted by Johannes Fehr of MERA25 Germany, the twisted rise of the Anti-Deutsche (Anti-German) ideology — a fringe but powerful current within the German left that unconditionally backs Israel’s violence and silences any critique of its apartheid policies, labeling it as antisemitism, is exposed. What began as an attempt to confront Germany's Nazi past has become a tool to suppress solidarity with Palestinians and crush true internationalist resistance. Yuval Gal Cohen, an Israeli anti-Zionist activist from Jewish-Israeli Dissent, JID Leipzig, and Udi Raz, a Jewish activist from Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East, break down how memory politics and imperial alliances have corrupted antifascism, leaving no room for dissent. This isn't just about Germany — it’s about the hollowing out of the left ac...

The Jimmy Dore Show   Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin recently stalked the Senate halls to confront Senators over their vote to continue funding weapons shipments to Israel that will be used to perpetuate genocide in Gaza. Most of the elected officials fled from Benjamin and her questions but Arkansas’s Tom Cotton stopped to inaccurately accuse Code Pink of being funded by the Chinese Communist Party as if that somehow washes away all the blood on his hands. Guest host Aaron Maté and Jimmy Dore Show producer Malcolm Fleschner discuss the cardio benefits these Senators get from all the running away from their responsibilities they are engaging in over Gaza. 

In recent years, the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has risen as a formidable player in global affairs, positioning itself as an alternative to the Western-dominated geopolitical order   by Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam   Part 1 In recent years, the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has risen as a formidable player in global affairs, positioning itself as an alternative to the Western-dominated geopolitical order led by the United States. With Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. President, tensions between the U.S. and BRICS have intensified. Trump has openly criticized BRICS, threatening tariffs and economic measures if these nations pursue initiatives like a new currency to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar.  This hostility underscores the U.S. perception of BRICS as a threat, particularly as a source of geopolitical power for developing countries, including those in Africa. In this context, African nations have a comp...

Geopolitical Economy Report   The US military is preparing for war on China, and has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making "Japan into a war-fighting headquarters". Ben Norton discusses the extremely aggressive policies of Trump, Biden, and beyond.   Related: WikiLeaks reveals what else is behind US imperialists' obsessive hostility against China

The Jimmy Dore Show   Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is also a convicted terrorist and Jewish supremacist, has been touring the US, speaking on college campuses and meeting with political groups, and he even traveled to Mar-a-Lago. His visit has been met with widespread protests, however. Ben Gvir was confronted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New Haven, Connecticut, following a speech he gave at Shabtai, a private Jewish society at Yale that’s not officially affiliated with the university. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how Ben-Gvir’s security detail was able to assault protesters with impunity — and that in fact police officers approach an assaulted protester to demand that he step away from Ben-Gvir’s group.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports a growing number of burn victims in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war amid poor health care under the total siege on the territory. The MSF warned that 70 percent of the victims have been children. “Since May 2024, MSF teams working in Nasser Hospital have provided over 1,000 surgical operations to burn patients, 70 percent of which have been children, most under the age of five,” the Geneva-based aid organization said in a statement on Friday. “Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some people have as much as 40 percent of their total body surface burned,” due to “bomb explosions and improvised cooking methods.” “As the Israeli authorities maintain the siege on Gaza, blocking access to basic aid, medical and life-saving supplies, many patients are left to endure excruciating pain with limited or no relief,” it added. MSF noted that its “teams have seen an increase in the number of ...

by Alan Macleod  Part 1   Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine voices in Germany, a journalist regularly attacked as a Russian operative is facing up to three years in prison for defamation of an Israel-based journalist. Hüseyin Dogru, founder of red. media , has been charged with defamation for actions relating to a spat with Nicholas Potter, a German state-funded reporter working for the Israeli outlet, The Jerusalem Post . In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post , claiming that red. media , MintPress News , and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Worse still, he strongly insinuated that all three were promoted and funded by the governments of Russia, Syria, and Iran.   The charges are false (see MintPress ’ rebuttal here ), and are particularly ironic, coming as they do from a journalist who is funded by the German Foreign Of...

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Al Jazeera English   The greenback has depreciated against other major currencies since Donald Trump's inauguration in January. Investors are worried that Trump's tariffs could cause a recession in the United States, and they have rushed to the exit. Is the president bothered? Trump appears to be of two minds when it comes to his nation's currency. He wants a dominant dollar because it gives the US geopolitical leverage. But, he says, a weaker greenback spurs US manufacturing. Some economists say the president could devalue the dollar. His team has backed the idea of a "Mar-a-Lago Accord" to weaken it. BRICS countries are also decreasing their reliance on the dollar.    Related: Trump's tariffs: A unique opportunity for BRICS and the Global South to fully escape from dollar tyranny

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