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3 days ago | 
znetwork.org | Ben Becker |Eugene Puryear |Rania Khalek
Dr. Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, breaks down the Republican budget bill, cynically titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed the House and aims to transfer even more wealth to billionaires while gutting the programs working people rely on to survive. Becker explains how, if enacted, the bill would strip healthcare from millions, slash food assistance through the federal SNAP program, lock in massive tax breaks for the rich, and expand Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
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2 weeks ago | 
znetwork.org | Jared Ball |Eugene Puryear |Rania Khalek
Professor Jared A. Ball, host of the podcast iMiXWHATiLIKE and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, joins the show to discuss the centennial of Malcolm X’s birth. He discusses Malcolm’s revolutionary fight for Black liberation, his critique of capitalism and imperialism, and the ongoing effort to whitewash and distort Malcolm and the movement he represented. ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Layan Sima Fuleihan |Eugene Puryear |Rania Khalek
Interview Palestine & Israel US Layan Sima Fuleihan, Education Director at The People’s Forum and editor at 1804 Books, joins the show to discuss the state of the ceasefire in Gaza. The first phase of the ceasefire is set to expire on Saturday, and the deal is in a more precarious position than ever.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
liberationnews.org | Walter Smolarek |Eugene Puryear
Photo: Jimmy Carter meeting with Ronald Reagan in 1981James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr., has passed away at 100, widely lionized around the world more for his post-presidential career than his Presidential tenure. After leaving the Oval Office, Carter would become known for speaking truths rarely uttered in, or from, the halls of power.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Eugene Puryear
Trump speaking to workers in Crosby, Texas in 2019. Credit: Pixabay/public domainPresident-elect Donald Trump has declared his intention to enact tariffs on trade from, at least, China, Mexico and Canada. He’s also threatening tariffs on BRICS nations if they are not sufficiently supportive of the dollar. Trump has also floated an across-the-board tariff on all goods coming into the country, and specific tariffs on individual companies like John Deere.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Junaid Ahmad |Eugene Puryear
Professor Junaid Ahmad breaks down Pakistan’s massive protests, where despite a total lockdown, hundreds of thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters marched on the capital demanding the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Kurt Hackbarth |Rania Khalek |Eugene Puryear
Mexico has inaugurated Claudia Sheinbaum, its first woman president, following her landslide victory in June. Kurt Hackbarth, host of Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast, explains what to expect from the US corporate elite and Mexico’s right wing as Sheinbaum’s pledge to continue AMLO’s progressive Fourth Transformation initiative threatens their plans for the country. ZNetwork is funded solely through the generosity of its readers. Donate
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | David Hundeyin |Eugene Puryear |Rania Khalek
Days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced sanctions against Russian state broadcaster RT and other non-western-aligned media platforms, Meta banned the accounts of African Stream, a Pan-African digital media organization. Nigerian Investigative journalist and author David Hundeyin, explains how the attacks on Africa Stream are the latest in the US government’s offensive against media that challenge US corporate media narratives.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
liberationnews.org | Eugene Puryear
Photo: A worker in a food distribution warehouse. Credit: Rawpixel/Preston Keres (CC0 1.0 Universal)With convention season concluded, one thing is clear: Neither of the two capitalist parties have an answer for the cost-of-living crisis facing the working class. For the working class, the entire conversation around inflation, interest rates, and the economy raises crucial questions — mainly, how can we secure an economic future where workers can thrive, not just barely survive?
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
liberationschool.org | Eugene Puryear
This article was originally published in Liberation News, July 10th, 2024. Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, was, as we saw in part 1 [1], not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class.
