Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025
This week’s segment includes excerpts of a discussion regarding the New York City mayor’s race and the focus on Zohran Mamdani. But first, we hear… Black Agenda Report — November 1, 2025 7:03 PM ET
U.S. Threats Against Venezuela Target the Entire Region
Gerald Perreira is the chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana. He joins us from Guyana to discuss Donald Trump’s re… Black Agenda Report — November 1, 2025 7:03 PM ET
Zohran Mamdani and the New York City Mayor's Race
Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on James Fauntleroy’s YouTube program, Jaybefaunt. They discussed the upcoming mayoral election in New York… Black Agenda Report — November 1, 2025 7:03 PM ET
The Shutdown and Neverending Hostility to the Welfare State
The federal government shutdown is a fight between Trump and democrats, but it is also emblematic of the tenuous nature of the welfare state in the U. Black Agenda Report — November 1, 2025 7:03 PM ET
The United States and Israel: The Tale of Two Rogue Settler-Colonial States United by A Commitment to White Supremacy and Barbaric State Violence
The genocide in Gaza, the threat to Venezuela, and the targeting of Iran are not isolated crises. They are coordinated fronts in a single war effort a… Black Agenda Report — November 1, 2025 7:03 PM ET
No War On Venezuela: Week Of Coordinated Protests – Nov. 15 To 23
The US military is hurrying its aircraft carrier battle group, with destroyers, jet warplanes and nuclear submarines to the shores of Venezuela, while… Popular Resistance — November 1, 2025 6:14 PM ET
UN Human Rights Chief Condemns ‘Unacceptable’ US Strikes
On Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued the first clear United Nations (UN) condemnation of US military strik… Popular Resistance — November 1, 2025 5:52 PM ET
Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War In Venezuela
As the Trump administration continues to murder people in small boats on the high seas and mounts the largest U.S. military buildup in decades in the… Popular Resistance — November 1, 2025 5:43 PM ET
Six Indicted On Federal Charges In Chicago Over Anti-ICE Protests
Six people have been indicted on federal charges stemming from protests in Chicago. The indictment accuses the defendants of conspiring “to prevent… Popular Resistance — November 1, 2025 5:30 PM ET
SNAP Axe Could Fall On Grocery Shoppers And Workers Alike
Beginning November 1, 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as “food stamps,” are se… Popular Resistance — November 1, 2025 5:25 PM ET
Trump Administration Defies Court Orders to Resume Food Aid for 42 Million Americans
Two judges ordered the USDA to use contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing during the shutdown. TruthOut — November 1, 2025 4:08 PM ET
Billionaires Keep Spending Against Mamdani. War with Colombia? And a Graham Platner interview.
The latest from Drop Site News. Drop Site News — November 1, 2025 3:18 PM ET
The Money Versus Mamdani in the Final Stretch of NYC Mayoral Race
Unpacking the expensive eleventh-hour efforts by billionaires targeting Zohran Mamdani. Drop Site News — November 1, 2025 3:16 PM ET
U.S. Expanded Drug-Cartel Target List to Include Colombian Sites Amid Rubio Push for Venezuelan Regime Change
Trump has not made a decision on where or whether to launch strikes on land, with a diplomatic solution still possible. Drop Site News — November 1, 2025 3:16 PM ET
The Anti-Zionist Movement in Latin America w/ Vozes Judaicas por Libertação and JudíesxPalestina
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with anti-Zionist Jewish community organizers in Brazil and Argentina from Voz… CounterPunch — November 1, 2025 12:43 PM ET
DHS Seeks to Combine State Driver’s License Records With Citizenship Data
Critics warn the DHS database could wrongly flag citizens as noncitizens, risking voter access and trust. TruthOut — November 1, 2025 11:45 AM ET
Jamaican Americans Mobilize for the Island’s Recovery After Hurricane Melissa
Power lines, roads, and bridges were damaged, and more than half a million people were left without electricity. TruthOut — November 1, 2025 10:51 AM ET
Trump Is Punishing Blue States by Defunding Their Infrastructure Projects
Trump is cancelling billions of dollars in federal funding for congressionally approved projects already underway. TruthOut — November 1, 2025 10:31 AM ET
New Painting: Roger Waters
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire. The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — November 1, 2025 9:16 AM ET
Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes
“[The department officials] said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on these vessels to do the strikes, they just need to prov… ScheerPost — November 1, 2025 5:30 AM ET
Israeli Lawyer Resigns for Leaking Video of Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Prisoner
The arrest of the guards in the video launched protests from far right Israeli groups last year. ScheerPost — November 1, 2025 5:25 AM ET
Did U.S. Cover Up Shireen Abu Akleh Killing? Whistleblower Says Report Was Watered Down for Israel
Steve Gabavics says the U.S. government soft-pedaled the finding that Israeli forces intentionally killed her to appease the Israeli government. ScheerPost — November 1, 2025 5:15 AM ET
Francesca Albanese Names Over 60 States Complicit in Gaza Genocide
The special UN rapporteur was sanctioned by the US earlier this year for naming companies profiting from the genocide. ScheerPost — November 1, 2025 5:10 AM ET
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on… ScheerPost — November 1, 2025 5:05 AM ET
CN at 30: CN Launches 30th Anniversary Fall Fund Drive
Consortium News was born on Nov. 15, 1995. We are celebrating three decades of a strictly non-partisan, non-ideological approach to the news. It has m… Consortium News — November 1, 2025 2:06 AM ET
PATRICK LAWRENCE: My Bigotry Is Better Than Yours
Graham Platner, a combat veteran running a Democratic primary campaign for a Maine seat in the U.S. Senate, is getting hit with caricatures, which is… Consortium News — November 1, 2025 12:30 AM ET
They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):… The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — October 31, 2025 9:28 PM ET
Chris Hedges Gives the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (GOOD AUDIO): 'Requiem for Gaza'
Chris Hedges recently gave the Edward Said memorial lecture to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. The Chris Hedges Report — October 31, 2025 4:39 PM ET
DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
The post DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks appeared first on ProPublica. ProPublica — October 31, 2025 3:45 PM ET
Trump ambassador pick vows to pressure South Africa over Gaza genocide case
L. Brent Bozell III spread beheaded babies lie. Electronic Intifada — October 31, 2025 3:12 PM ET
State Department Office Finds “Hundreds” of Possible Israeli Rights Violations
The State Department has a bespoke process for probes into Israel that is deferential to its military. TruthOut — October 31, 2025 2:42 PM ET
Thousands of Unexploded Bombs Dropped by Israel Have Turned Gaza into a Minefield
Five children were recently wounded by unexploded ordnance as they were searching for firewood in the rubble of Gaza City. Drop Site News — October 31, 2025 2:20 PM ET
Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
Ilan Pappé discusses his new book and the dynamics causing him to expect that, under a  disintegrated and religious extremist Israel, the “Zionist… Consortium News — October 31, 2025 2:00 PM ET
An Important Message to CounterPunch Readers
The post An Important Message to CounterPunch Readers appeared first on CounterPunch.org. CounterPunch — October 31, 2025 12:19 PM ET
Confidence Falls, Prices Rise as Millions Confront a Trump-Imposed Health and Hunger Crisis
It may be Halloween, but families have been feeling relentless price frights since Inauguration Day. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and President… Common Dreams — October 31, 2025 11:46 AM ET
Vijay Prashad: APEC — A Creature of Its Time
The U.S. retains at least two instruments to exercise power in the Asia-Pacific. RIMPAC provides a military instrument. For economic leverage there is… Consortium News — October 31, 2025 11:30 AM ET
Israel to approve 2,000 new West Bank settlements, Trump prepares to strike Venezuela military targets
Drop Site Daily: October 31, 2025… Drop Site News — October 31, 2025 11:06 AM ET
When we couldn't offer family shelter
I wanted to die instead of admitting I couldn't help my cousins. Electronic Intifada — October 31, 2025 11:04 AM ET
Israel kills dozens of children in a single day during "ceasefire"
International silence during continued bombing of Gaza an “unforgivable moral and humanitarian failure,” civil defense says. Electronic Intifada — October 31, 2025 10:40 AM ET
Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):… The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — October 31, 2025 7:18 AM ET
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
The post Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules appeared first on ProPublica. ProPublica — October 31, 2025 5:00 AM ET
Roaming Charges: Grave Disorders
More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive constitution… CounterPunch — October 31, 2025 2:02 AM ET
Trump’s Destruction is Not Creative
There is no question that DJT is a destroyer. Consider the separation of powers. He has appointed intensely loyal followers to key legal positions, of… CounterPunch — October 31, 2025 1:58 AM ET
Israel’s “Internationally Enabled Crime”
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and g… CounterPunch — October 31, 2025 1:57 AM ET
Jailed in America for Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano says making up crimes where none exist and arresting without investigation — as was the case with Larry Bushart — are crimes… Consortium News — October 30, 2025 5:00 PM ET
Sierra Club Statement on Senate Vote to Overturn Arctic Protections
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to overturn environmental protections in the Western Arctic, clearing the way for oil and gas companies to greatly increa… Common Dreams — October 30, 2025 2:34 PM ET
Arms companies pay shareholders more cash than they generate
Polygraph | Newsletter n°320 | 30 Oct 2025… Polygraph — October 30, 2025 1:57 PM ET
Trump’s Social Security Commissioner Should Resign Immediately
The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works: “This week, Fiserv’s stock price plunged by over 40 percent. T… Common Dreams — October 30, 2025 12:14 PM ET
The Death House
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fas… The Chris Hedges Report — October 30, 2025 9:48 AM ET
New Painting: "Has Anyone Seen The Antichrist?"
The other day I read an article about how Peter Thiel has been going around giving strange speeches in which he speculates about who the Antichrist mi… The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — October 30, 2025 8:20 AM ET
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
The post “Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America appeared first on ProP… ProPublica — October 30, 2025 6:00 AM ET
Details of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks of Trump Administration’s Use of Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
The post Details of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks of Trump Administration’s Use of Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks appeared first on… ProPublica — October 30, 2025 5:30 AM ET
The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.
The post The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse. appeared first on ProPublica. ProPublica — October 30, 2025 5:00 AM ET
Dazed and Confused and Bigly Kingly For A Day
As our decrepit despot traipsed across Asia, he was fêted by leaders anxious to dodge his peevish trade wars by assiduously plying him, as one would… Common Dreams — October 30, 2025 3:36 AM ET
Is Israel 'On the Brink?' (w/ Ilan Pappé)
In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity actually at its most vulnerable point in history? And more imp… The Chris Hedges Report — October 29, 2025 8:37 PM ET
Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):… The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — October 29, 2025 8:29 PM ET
Video: Families living on Gaza beach have nowhere to go
Thousands of Palestinian remain displaced after Israel decimated entire neighborhoods. Electronic Intifada — October 29, 2025 3:39 PM ET
Report: AI Data Center Boom Threatens U.S. Climate Goals
A fossil-fueled surge in U.S. data center growth to serve the artificial intelligence boom threatens to sabotage the country’s already faltering cli… Common Dreams — October 29, 2025 1:21 PM ET
Olive harvest season marked with assault by Jewish settlers
Settlers emboldened by government with ambitions for annexation. Electronic Intifada — October 29, 2025 11:52 AM ET
The National Press Club of Australia Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists - Read by Eunice Wong
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of who… The Chris Hedges Report — October 29, 2025 10:05 AM ET
Does Trump’s Gaza Plan Stop Israel’s Agenda for the Palestinians? | The Bottom Line
Trump’s Gaza plan is in danger of going the way of the Oslo Accords, argues US journalist Chris Hedges: Never to be implemented beyond the first pha… The Chris Hedges Report — October 28, 2025 7:47 PM ET
Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide
From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech H… MintPress News — October 27, 2025 9:48 AM ET
Big profits, rare losses among the top military contractors
Polygraph | Newsletter n°319 | 24 Oct 2025… Polygraph — October 24, 2025 5:44 PM ET
Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestin… MintPress News — October 22, 2025 1:56 PM ET
Israel still holds thousands of Palestinians hostage
Polygraph | Newsletter n°318 | 15 Oct 2025… Polygraph — October 15, 2025 6:46 PM ET
Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal
Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS take… MintPress News — October 15, 2025 4:53 PM ET
US has spent at least $38 billion on Israel since October 2023
Polygraph | Newsletter n°317 | 10 Oct 2025… Polygraph — October 10, 2025 5:19 PM ET
Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report
After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating eviden… MintPress News — October 10, 2025 3:12 PM ET
Lebanon Under Siege with Ghadi Francis: Inside Israel’s Plan to Disarm Hezbollah 
Ghadi Francis joins Mnar Adley to unpack how US and Israeli plans to disarm Hezbollah could ignite new chaos in Lebanon. The post Lebanon Under Siege… MintPress News — October 10, 2025 2:43 PM ET
$38 billion and counting: US military spending on Israel since October 2023
Polygraph | Newsletter n°316 | 9 Oct 2025… Polygraph — October 9, 2025 7:48 PM ET