On The Ground

The Trump administration is plotting to deport a standing member of Congress and may be plotting war on Latin America. We speak to political scientist Wilmer Leon for this month’s episode of the F-Word on fascism. And the Oxford Union tried to censor the Palestinian scholar and activist Susan Abulhawa but she sued and won. […]

Sam Husseini’s in-your-face style of journalism is well-known”and now he wants to take the fight to Congress. And the family friends and advocates for Tawfiq Abdul Haqq are demanding justice after a Prince Georges County, Maryland police officer shot and killed the 33-year-old father of two. The show is made possible only by our volunteer […]

The 2026 United Nations General Assembly met during what is arguably the most dangerous time in global affairs since the Cuban Missile crisis. We hear one view from the global majority, by Mia Motley, prime minister of Barbados. And as we live in a time of monumental changes on the world stage, we also live […]

After months of the U.S. strangling Cuba with an illegal oil blockade, several members of Congress held a shadow hearing on Capitol Hill about the deaths, hunger and crippling impact of the medieval-type siege. The hearing, sponsored by Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois and Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, was held Wednesday, September 2nd 2026 […]

On this show, more voices from “Turning the Tide: 9/11, 25 Years Later,” a conference of scholars, scientists, firefighters and a myriad of others who dispute the official narrative of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The conference in New York City occurred as the United States […]

People around the world are marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the U.S., and their aftermath of endless wars, genocide, surveillance, repression and islamophobia. And 25 years later, the movement for 9/11 truth, with scientists and engineers challenging official narratives about what really happened that day, has moved from the […]

As the Trump Administration and the U.S Supreme Court continue to gut voting rights laws, thousands gathered on August 28, 2026 at the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 63rd anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Under the slogan, ‘Defend the Vote,’ the march lifted up the promise that voters can […]

Israel has killed at least 22,000 Palestinian children, maimed and injured another 44,000, including hundreds killed or wounded since the so-called ceasefire in Gaza during October 2025. Two UN reports released recently document how Israel kills Palestinian children with impunity, including in the Occupied West Bank. This show includes complete June 23, 2026 press conference […]

“HOW TRUMP HAPPENED: A View from History,” is the title of lecture that Professor Gerald Horne delivered at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota on February 6, 2026. Rather than view Donald Trumps two presidential wins as anomalies, Gerald says these victories are a predictable outcome of centuries of class collaboration among this country’s European […]

On this show, part two of our coverage of DC marking one year of Trump’s occupation, with armed national guard and police from up to two dozen federal agencies in our neighborhoods. The result is several federal police-involved shootings and deaths, a crackdown on Black and Brown youth, immigrants and the unhoused. But DC is […]

DC residents are protesting one year of Trump occupation. With the National Guard and federal police patrolling neighborhoods, residents are resisting any plan to make militarized policing the new normal. Plus, August 8 and 9 2026 marks the 81st anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed a quarter of a […]

Wanted war criminal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meets Trump at the White House and protest erupts on the streets of DC. And Professor Gerald Horne weighs in on the latest in the unprovoked war on Iran by Isarel and the U.S.  Plus headlines on ICE terror, voting rights, Nolan Wells death, DoorDash boycott in […]

The Trump administration ramps up its attack on journalists, freedom of speech, and the First Amendment, and dusts off a McCarthyite red scare attack on the left. We speak to Jon Jeter for this month’s episode of “On the Media.” DC residents protest a planned ICE headquarters in their neighborhood. Plus headlines:Iran escalation, Code Pink […]

The U.S. resumes bombing Iran, and Iran fights back. We discuss the latest in West Asia, Ukraine and here in the U.S. with historian Gerald Horne. And, in our first segment of this year for our series, “Unheard Voices,” more from leaders of the Next 250 movement, Linda Sarsour and Tameka Mallory. Plus, headlines on […]

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A new UN report documents how Israel is targeting children in its genocide against the Palestinian people, killing, maiming, torturing and sexually assaulting them. And residents in rapidly gentrifying DC win a decades-long battle to keep public land in their neighborhood in the hands of the public. Plus headlines on Iran, Cuba, the World Cup […]

The defeat of the U.S. and Israel in their unprovoked attack on Iran offers a time to consider the first imperialist adventure of the U.S. beyond its borders. We speak to Gerald Horne about his new book on the U.S.-backed coup of the monarchy in Hawaii. And DC walks in the footsteps of New York […]

In Congress, 59 years of silence is ended about Israel’s deadly attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, which killed 34 servicemembers and wounded another 174. We hear from Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky. And there is a victory for both free speech and the Free Palestine student movement that blossomed at Columbia University. Plus headlines on […]

The Celebration of Life for Black freedom fighter Assata Shakur, held at Riverside Church in New York City, was also a clarion call for the African diaspora to defend Cuba and the Cuban Revolution, which granted Shakur political asylum in 1979. We hear from her longtime attorney Lennox Hinds. The celebration was an opportunity to humanize […]

A celebration of life for Assata Shakur, happening May 30, 2026 at Riverside Church in New York City, offers a space to consider legacies of struggle and paths for freedom and survival. We speak to longtime human rights activist Rosemari Mealy. And you may not get down with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren but she does […]

While corporate news organizations are focused, in their limited way, on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, they are ignoring new dangers in the U.S.-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. We speak to our media critic Jon Jeter and discuss the excellent program on the subject produced by “Reason 2 Resist.” And a coalition of […]

This in the “On the Ground” special for Nakba Day: “The Ongoing Nakba: Greater Israel and the Open Secret of its Nuclear Weapons.” We speak to independent journalists Sam Husseini and John Steinbach. Steinbach is also co-founder of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area. The show is made possible only by […]

As the United States continues to shift its plan of attack on Iran, shots are fired and all-out war could begin again. And a coalition of Christians rally on Capitol Hill for Palestine and Palestinians, determined to seize back the narrative about their faith from those condoning genocide. Plus headlines on May Day, the DC […]