On the Ground w Esther Iverem

John Pilger’s documentary, ‘Palestine is Still the Issue,’ is an unflinching analysis of state terrorism perpetrated by Israel. It is as relevant today as it was when he completed it more than 20 years ago. Then as now, good reporters in Palestine only need show actual facts on the ground to deliver a devastating account of the brutal 76-year occupation, and Palestinian resistanc...

As more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed or seriously injured in Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza, we present for this hour journalist and author Chris Hedges speaking on “The Death of Israel: How a Settler Colonial State Destroyed Itself.” Hedges argues that if the Gaza slaughter continues, supported by the United States, the UK and Europe, it signals a dangerous new wo...

In its highly anticipated preliminary ruling, the International Court of Justice stops short of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza but will allow South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel to go forward. We discuss the latest with author and historian Gerald Horne. At the Bigger Than Roe Women’s March 2024, Black Lives Matter activists in DC speak out on the link between state violence a...

At the historic National March on Washington for Gaza, Palestinian Americans spoke out about the murder of family members, and about the terror and destruction of their homeland by Israel. And in our first episode of The F-Word for 2024, historian Gerald Horne discusses synergy between the settler colonial regimes of Israel and the United States. Plus headlines on the latest in Palestine, vigil on...

At the International Court of Justice at the Hague, South Africa presents a damning case against Israel for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. And descendants of those buried at a desecrated African American cemetery in Maryland get their day before that states Supreme Court. Plus headlines on U.S./UK attack on Houthis, Rashida Tlaib enters South Africa case against Israelbin Congre...

The Biden administration may say it doesn’t want genocide in Gaza to explode into a regional war, but actions speak louder than words. And four years later, the family of a Maryland man shot to death in police custody, is still seeking justice. Plus headlines on Harvard resignation, an MVP victory, landlocked Ethiopia secures a port, John Pilger RIP, National March on Washington for Palestin...

This is part two of our look back at 2023, which, as we stated in part one, was a year of resistance. Key to that resistance was telling the true history of exploitation of the Global South by U.S. and European imperialist powers. 2023 marked 75 years since the 1948 Nakba genocide in Palestine, 50 years since the bloody U.S.-backed coup of Salvador Allende in Chile, and 200 years of the deadly U.S...

SUPPORT US! This is part one of our look back at 2023. From Palestine to a myriad of protests; from the climate crisis, to police terror, to the African Sahel: this year was a time of continuing and tremendous crisis for the world’s global majority. And it was a time of resistance and for challenging U.S. empire like never before.  When international human rights activist Issa Amro visited W...

The murder of renowned Gaza-based writer and teacher Refaat Alareer galvanizes artists, activists and children to continue resistance to Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. We speak to author and teacher Zein El-Amine. And at a March to Defund the War Machine near the Pentagon, protesters target the Biden Administration and offices of military contractor Boeing. Plus news from...

Several countries are rightly accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes for its siege, bombing and murder of Palestinians. But they are going to the International Criminal Court and that’s the WRONG COURT. We speak to journalist Sam Husseini. And as Venezuela moves to reclaim land it says was stolen by the British empire, mediators in Brazil don’t want to give the U.S. empire an excus...

Since October 7th, Israel has taken more Palestinians hostage than it has released in ongoing prisoner swaps. And those being released from Israel’s dungeons tell harrowing tales of extreme violence and murder. Plus, we continue to explore mounting evidence that Israeli forces killed many of their own citizens on October 7, 2023, We speak to Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal. And Headlines on H...

With more than 14,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza, a so-called humanitarian pause in fighting, as well as an exchange of prisoners of war, is set to begin. Meanwhile, as Free Palestine demonstrations continue globally, more evidence is surfacing that Israeli forces likely killed many of their own citizens on October 7, 2023, as recent reports document that they fired indiscriminately wit...

With more than 12,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks and Gaza’s largest hospital raided by the IDF, the international call for a ceasefire grows louder. Also, in this month’s episode of the F-word on fascism, more lawsuits charge Israeli and American leaders with genocide, and activists in the U.S. face repression of civil rights, and attacks by police. With Gerald Horne, Ali A...

On this show: the largest demonstration in U.S. history in support of the Palestinian people brought 300,000 people to Freedom Plaza. They demanded an end to Israel’s genocidal bombing and siege of Gaza, an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and an end to apartheid in and occupation of Palestine. Speakers and attendees said that the U.S. is complicit in Israel’s war crimes as more than 10,000...

As Israel intensifies its genocidal campaign on the people of Gaza, tens of thousands are converging in Washington, DC for an historic National March on Washington to Free Palestine. And during the same week that the Biden Administration compares the burgeoning Pro-Palestinian protest movement to Nazis, it supports continued attacks on Palestinian civilians, fanning the flames of a possible wider...

As Israel commits a horrific genocide in Gaza, more and more U.S. lawmakers want to make it illegal to tell the truth about the murders, or about 75 years of occupation and displacement.  And as we refuse to turn away from Gaza, continued attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank further illustrates Israels plan to remove all Palestinians from Palestine.  With Miko Peled and Gera...

Despite the complicity of elites, elected officials and corporate news organizations, tens of thousands in the US and millions around the the world refuse to turn away from the genocidal attack on Palestine by Israel. And again it falls to independent journalist to write the factual first draft of history”even as warmongers take this world to the brink of catastrophe. Plus headlines. BONUS &...

The governments of the United States and Europe support–with words and weapons–genocide against Gaza. But people all over the earth say, We Stand with Palestine. And two new books by the historian, Gerald Horne, offer an overview of his vast body of historical research, and why the last 500 years of slavery, colonialism and racism have everything to do with today. Listen past signoff m...

U.S. presidential candidate Cornel West speaks in DC about the urgency of pursuing peace in Ukraine and about the urgency of opposing U.S imperialism. Also, one day after two molotov cocktails were thrown onto the grounds of the Cuban embassy here, Cuba supporters gathered there to denounce the attack and demand that the U.S. remove Cuba off its list of so-called sponsors of terrorism.  Voices: Pr...

A standing ovation in the Canadian Parliament for an aging Ukrainian Nazi lays bare the truth about the migration of scores of Nazis into Canada and the United States after World War II. And at the United Nation’s General Assembly, leaders from the African Sahel and other regions of the global south spoke out about forcing the neocolonial boot off their necks. Plus headlines on Sen. Menendez...

Members of the Australian Parliament speak in DC to call for release of imprisoned publisher Julian Assange… Portion of speech by Colombian President Gustavo Petro at UN… Gerald Horne: world meetings are further sign that the U.S. unipolar moment is over but Blinken still doubles down on two-front cold war…Poland’s president calls Ukraine’s head of state a ‘drow...

For this episode of the F-word on fascism, organizers remember the role of the AFL-CIO in ushering in Chile’s fascist Pinochet regime, which murdered, disappeared and tortured thousands of people, including union organizers.  And Gerald Horne connects the dots between the U.S.-backed coup in Chile 50 years and the chickens coming home to roost today in the U.S. Headlines: The United Aut...

It remains to be seen if Niger and Gabon are throwing off French neocolonialism, only to be captured by U.S. imperialism. But in the meantime, they want their countries natural resources to benefit Africans. We speak to historian, political analyst and author Gerald Horne. And, 50 years after the U.S.-backed coup in Chile, organizers remember the role of the AFL-CIO in ushering in a fascist state...

For this hour, our third and final show honoring the life of Randall Robinson” international human rights activist and leader in the movement to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa. Voices: Rep. Maxine Waters, Rev. Jean Robinson-Casey and Jewell Robinson. Plus headlines. Randall Robinson was a human rights activist and founder of the organization TransAfrica. Be...

For this show, and our next show, we will continue to honor the life of Randall Robinson, international human rights activist and leader in the movement to bring down the brutal, racist system of apartheid in South Africa. This is the second of three parts, with more speakers, including Rep. Barbara Lee of California, speaking at the Washington, DC memorial held for Robinson in June of this year....