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On today’s show: Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA,” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. and Paves Way for More Hate Speech L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse”

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On today’s show: Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA,” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. and Paves Way for More Hate Speech L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse”
On today’s show: “Outrageous”: Representative Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland, Canada Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon? With Trudeau Out and Conservatives Set to Win, Canada Needs a Real … Continued
On today’s show: The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of Doctors, and More Jimmy Carter’s “Decency & Humanity” Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin
On today’s show: American Historical Association Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin and Global Politics
On today’s show: New Year’s Attacks by Green Beret and Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad Fuel Violence at Home? “From Ground Zero”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won’t End Houthi Resistance; Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi
On today’s show: “Exhausted”: Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life and Death in Gaza, and “Duty” to Report on Genocide “Dead Calm”: BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown
On today’s show: A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled” “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone Trump Escalates War on Press; Some Outlets Are “Capitulating Preemptively” to Pressure
On today’s show: Ukraine Faces a “Cold, Dark Winter,” as Russia Strikes Energy Infrastructure; Biden to Send New Aid Veteran Israeli Negotiator Gershon Baskin: Netanyahu Remains Obstacle to Ceasefire Deal Gaza: Doctors Warn Thousands of Palestinians Could Die This Winter from Cold, Hunger, Disease
On today’s show: “A Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Health System “Total Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Jimmy Carter Dead at 100: Former President Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2007 DemocracyNow! Interview on Palestine
On today’s show: Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters “We’re Not for Sale”: Greenlandic Member of Danish Parliament Responds to Trump’s Vow to Buy Island Imperialist Fantasy: Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama Canal, Invade Mexico Tech Investor Roger McNamee: Big Tech Backs Trump … Continued