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Featured Stories: --Israeli Security Tech on US-Mexican Border Threatens Nation's Civil Liberties --Bahamian Environmental Advocate Calls for Global Climate Action --Tohono O'odham Invaded By Border Patrol & Israeli Surveillance Tech --Brexit, Boris, and British Parliament Come to a Head After 3 Years

Featured Stories: --Why Are Hong Kong Protesters Asking Trump for Help? --How Elites Crush Black Dissent --Colombia's President Wants War, FARC Dissidents Comply

Kim Kelly talks about writing about labor for glossy magazines, reporting on direct action, how unions should respond to the climate crisis, and why Labor Day is a scam

Featured Stories: --Big Pharma to Pay for Opioid Crisis, But What Happens to the Money --Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt? --Venezuela's Press Is More Free Than You'd Think --Trump Administration Proposes Methane Regulations Rollback

John Nichols returns to about the future of newspapers in light of the latest merger between the two largest chains in the country, Gannett and GateHouse. Also, Washington Post reporter and former meat-eater, Courtland Milloy, tells us how much his health improved when he turned to a plant-based diet.

Featured Stories: --Orwellian Surveillance of Tohono O'odham Nation - A Test Case for Entire US Border --Rainforest on Fire: Brazilians Mobilize Against President's Amazon Policies --Trump's Concentration Camps for Children --How to Confront the Global Rise of the Right

Featured Stories: --Corporate Media Bias Against Sanders Is Structural, Not a Conspiracy --David Koch Is Dead, But His Legacy of Climate Denial Lives On --Trump Is Politicizing the Power of Immigration Judges

Featured Stories: --Newark's Water Crisis is One of Thousands That Are Worse Than Flint's --Solar Energy Is Renewable, But Is It Environmentally Just? --The Land Politics of Solar Energy --Rohingya Muslim Refugees Refuse to Return to Myanmar

Ralph welcomes Matthew Myers, co-founder of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to talk about the dangers of “Juuling.” Then, using an excerpt of Ralph from the documentary, “An Unreasonable Man, “ Steve, David and Alan Minsky, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America, discuss the “Anybody But Trump” mantra in the context of recent history.

Matthew Fox, a former Catholic priest and theologian talks about the ways conservatives and progressives claim the Catholic religion, and how the secular left ignores religion at its own peril

With his criticism of excessive capitalism and of climate change, Pope Francis has become the target of the far-right, and especially of the secretive Opus Dei sect within the Catholic Church, explains former priest Matthew Fox

Featured Stories: --Police Use Your Money to Buy Silence of Brutality Victims --The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate --Trump Tweets About Disloyal Jews, Then Tweets He's "King of Israel"

Featured Stories: --The 1619 Project: A Nation Born in Contradiction, a Democracy Defined by Black Struggle --Rep Ayanna Pressley on Israel's Ban: "Bigoted, Short-Sighted and Cruel" --Why Corporate Media Doesn't Talk Honestly About Racism --Workers in Heat Waves Face Dangerous Exposure in the US Southwest

Featured Stories: --Bernie Sanders Takes Aim at the Pathology of the For-Profit Criminal Justice System --How Trump and Netanyahu Undermine Freedom of Speech --The Toxic 100 Worst Polluters of the World --DHS Was Tracking White Supremacist Terrorists, but Nobody Wanted to Listen

Featured Stories: --Activist on the Front Lines Discusses the Historic Protests in Hong Kong --How The Mainstream Media Fuels America's Income Inequality Machine --North Korea Suspends Talks With South Korea Because of U.S. Sanctions --Israeli Illegal Arms Trade in South Sudan Was Disguised as Agriculture --Russia's Anti-Gov't Protests Draw Large Crowds, but Putin Remains Secure

Featured Stories: --Epstein May Be Just One Part of an Intricate Network of Sex and Power --Immigrants Welcome to the US as Long as They Are White and Wealthy --Hong Kong Protest Withdraws From Airport, but Situation Remains far From Normal --Brazil's Student Movement Mobilizes to Oppose Bolsonaro's Education Privatization --Bolivia's President Evo Morales Seeks An Unprecedented Fourth Term

In an offbeat and more light-hearted episode, Ralph, Steve, and David talk to criminal defense lawyer, Mike Chase, author of “How To Be A Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook For the Aspiring Offender.” Plus, Ralph answers more of your questions.

Featured Stories: --Epstein's Death Should Generate Investigations, Not Conspiracy Theories --Bayer/Monsanto Silencing Journalists, Activists, and Scientists --United States and Turkey Agree to a Syrian "Safe Zone," Betraying the Kurds --Protests In Honduras Intensify as President Is Implicated in Drug Trafficking

Featured Stories: --What Can We Learn From the History of Struggle Against White Supremacism? --Student Debt Reform, or Student Debt Forgiveness? What The Candidates' Plans Mean --ICE Raids on Undocumented Immigrants Create Fear and Enable Exploitation

Legendary former Senator, Mike Gravel, joins us to talk about his ideas for direct democracy, explains the concept of “Republican Socialism,” and tells us about his role in the Pentagon Papers."

Featured Stories: --More Sanctions Against Venezuela Means More Suffering --4Chan's and 8Chan's Internet-Brewed Racism Informs Trump's Rhetoric --Death by Police is Now the 6th Leading Cause of Death Among Young Men --New Israeli Military Strategies for Annexation and Undermining Palestinian Identity

Featured Stories: --Trump's China Trade War Increases Risk of Recession --Will Germany Become the Military Power it Once Was? --Climate Change Is a Key Issue for a Growing Number of Young Republicans

Featured Stories: --White Nationalist Terror Attack in El Paso Was Not an Isolated Incident --Right-Wing Extremist Scott Presler Organizes "Trash Clean Up" in West Baltimore --Linda Sarsour Explains How "Fire Pantaleo!" Spontaneously Erupted at the Dem Debate --Democrats Are Not Speaking to the Needs of Immigrants and Communities of Color --Canadians have a Right to Know if their Wine Was Made on...

Featured Stories: --Russia's President Putin Cracks Down, Despite Maintaining Broad Popular Support --Trump's New Tariffs on China Help Pay for his Corporate Tax Cut --US Withdrawal from INF Treaty Creates Greater Nuclear Instability --Can a Majoritarian Movement Be Built to Stop Trump's Racist Momentum

Military expert Professor Michael Klare talks military budget, the dangers inherent in our contentious relationship with Iran, and the shift in U.S. military planning away from stateless actors to China, Russia, and Iran.