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 — October 31, 2025 9:36 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 — October 31, 2025 9:36 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 — October 31, 2025 9:36 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 — October 31, 2025 9:36 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 — October 31, 2025 9:36 PM 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
The World Economy’s Centre Of Gravity Shifts To Asia
On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju i… Popular Resistance — October 31, 2025 8:19 PM ET
The US And Israel: Tale Of Two Rogue Settler-Colonial States
Over the last two weeks, images of starving Palestinians in a dystopian backdrop of bombed out buildings reflect the horrific reality of a terrain tha… Popular Resistance — October 31, 2025 8:14 PM ET
Family Of British Journalist Detained In US Say UK Has Failed To Help
The family of a British Muslim journalist detained by US authorities since the weekend have called for the UK government to support his immediate rele… Popular Resistance — October 31, 2025 8:12 PM ET
Sudan Urges London Halt UAE Arms Sales Over RSF Atrocities
Sudan has urged the UK to end arms sales to the UAE, following reports that a Dubai-backed militia accused of genocide in Darfur has been equipped wit… Popular Resistance — October 31, 2025 8:09 PM ET
Resistance Grows To Europe’s 2026 Budget Plans
It’s the peak of the 2026 budget season in Europe, and military and arms spending are dominating the debate. Under the European Union’s militariza… Popular Resistance — October 31, 2025 6:44 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
Trump Urges Senate GOP to Use “Nuclear Option” on Filibuster to End Shutdown
Progressives have long warned that Republicans would scrap the filibuster if it interfered with their agenda. TruthOut — October 31, 2025 2:23 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
Katie Miller Threatens Cenk Uygur With Deportation During Heated Debate
Miller also accused Uygur of being antisemitic toward her, despite Uygur making no mention of her faith or ethnicity. TruthOut — October 31, 2025 2:09 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
DHS Is Funneling $10 Billion to the Navy to Build a Network of Immigration Jails
The new jails are expected to look like the tent camps built at Fort Bliss, an immigration policy expert says. TruthOut — October 31, 2025 1:49 PM 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. TruthOut — October 31, 2025 1:33 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
Ralph Nader: GOP Leadership Surrenders Congressional Powers
Mr. Trump has articulated no limiting principle that would preclude assassinating political opponents, active or retired, including Members of Congres… ScheerPost — October 31, 2025 5:30 AM ET
U.S., China Reach Trade Truce as Trump & Xi Meet for First Time in Years
The deal could lower tensions between the world’s two leading economies, and “the fact that they met at all has to be a good thing,” says Northw… ScheerPost — October 31, 2025 5:25 AM ET
Russia Says It Will Respond If the US Starts Testing Nuclear Weapons
President Trump ordered the Pentagon to test nuclear weapons, though it's unclear if he meant nuclear explosions or nuclear-capable missiles. ScheerPost — October 31, 2025 5:20 AM ET
UAE Funnels British Weapons to Sudan Militia Committing Genocide: Report
The Rapid Support Forces seized El-Fasher over the weekend and have since been linked to multiple mass killings in the North Darfur city. ScheerPost — October 31, 2025 5:15 AM ET
Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
It is a book that could only be written by a man sustained by a spiritual faith that inspired his four subjects to face their own deaths without flinc… ScheerPost — October 31, 2025 5:10 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
Rage Against the ICE Machine
A New York City woman wearing a navy blue polka-dot dress has gone viral for her defiant resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent… CounterPunch — October 31, 2025 1:57 AM ET
Exclusive: Germany Coordinated ICJ Testimony on Arms Exports With Israel
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the International Court of Justice, documents from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin… Drop Site News — October 31, 2025 1:01 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
Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War
Hacked emails show how Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak tried to engineer a Russian-led solution to remove Bashar al-Assad… Drop Site News — October 30, 2025 4:21 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
Caitlin Johnstone: Everyone Is 12 Now
The mainstream western worldview is like a children’s cartoon, with the Bad Guys doing Bad Things simply because they are Bad, and the Good Guys str… Consortium News — October 30, 2025 2:00 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
Palestinianism & the Global Call for Disarmament
Dr. Ghassan Shahrour on expanding the concept of disarmament beyond arsenals to dismantling the systems that arm injustice. Dr. Ghassan Shahrour Commo… Consortium News — October 30, 2025 12:00 PM ET
10 new Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis; Trump agrees to one-year trade truce with Xi; Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces execute at least 460 people inside a hospital
Drop Site Daily: October 30, 2025… Drop Site News — October 30, 2025 11:07 AM 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
It's Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):… The Caitlin Johnstone Newsletter — October 29, 2025 8:32 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