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Rania Khalek Dispatches Rania Khalek

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    • 4.9 • 133 Ratings

Catch Rania Khalek's Dispatches for insight, analysis, investigations, interviews and on the ground reports on global issues from a left perspective.

    Axis of Genocide: US Doublespeak Can’t Hide Israel’s Blatant War Crimes

    Axis of Genocide: US Doublespeak Can’t Hide Israel’s Blatant War Crimes

    Rania Khalek was joined by Assal Rad, who holds a PhD in Modern Middle East History and is the author of “State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran.”


    This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

    • 53 min
    Europeans Have No Right to Tell Palestinians How to Escape Their Prison w/ Yanis Varoufakis

    Europeans Have No Right to Tell Palestinians How to Escape Their Prison w/ Yanis Varoufakis

    Rania Khalek was joined by Yanis Varoufakis, economist, political leader, former Finance Minister of Greece and the author of many books including his latest “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism,” to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 

    • 40 min
    Exposing the Ruling Class’s Cartoonish History of Socialism, Stalin and WW2

    Exposing the Ruling Class’s Cartoonish History of Socialism, Stalin and WW2

    Pro-capitalist ideologues in politics, media and academia have been hard at work slandering the left in an effort to subvert any true understanding of socialist history. They do this by constructing narratives around socialism, communism and leaders of socialist states to lead people to dismiss the idea that there can ever be an alternative to capitalism. 


    To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by Henry Hakamaki and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, co-translators and editors of Domenico Losurdo’s “Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend.” 


    Henry Hakamaki is an educator, activist and co-host of the Guerrilla History Podcast. Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, is a professor in the Geography Department and Environmental Studies at SUNY-New Paltz.


    This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

    • 49 min
    Hyperimperialism: US/NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad

    Hyperimperialism: US/NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad

    What is this new era of “Hyperimperialism” for the US/NATO Empire? Where do Gaza, Ukraine, and the Cold War on China fit in? How is the decline of Global North hegemony shifting the geopolitical landscape? Are there new possibilities for emergent organizations of the Global South? How do we maintain hope as we watch an exterminationist campaign unfold in Gaza? 


    To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined by author, historian and journalist Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which recently published a dossier on “Hyperimperialism.”


    Read the Tricontinental report: 
    Hyper-Imperialism: A Dangerous Decadent New Stage
    https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-4-hyper-imperialism/ 

    This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

    • 44 min
    Demolishing Israel’s Colonial Feminism In Gaza, w/ Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi

    Demolishing Israel’s Colonial Feminism In Gaza, w/ Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi

    To discuss colonial feminism in the context of Gaza, Rania Khalek was joined by Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, the founding Director and Senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program at San Francisco State University and head of the oral history project Teaching Palestine. 


    This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

    • 48 min
    Israel’s Pathological Lies & How Gaza Changed the World, w/ Ali Abunimah

    Israel’s Pathological Lies & How Gaza Changed the World, w/ Ali Abunimah

    Rania Khalek hosts a special live episode of Dispatches w/ Ali Abunimah, executive director of the Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine. 

    • 1 hr 30 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
133 Ratings

133 Ratings

Tomyamg00m ,

If reality is important to you, this is your show.

BT is a rock solid source of actual news and full scope context. if your field your brain has been turned to mush by watching so called commercial "mainstream" news, this is where you start your brain restoration.

caligula blushes ,

Rania…after the Russian blood money

Poor Rania, her Russian funding dried up after Russia invaded Ukraine. I cry a little for you.

StopMovingAndListen ,

Nix Daniel Bessmer

Excellent interview as always, but Daniel Bessemer is promoting division between Americans. The Rage Against the War rally proves that we can come together for common good issues. He profits from division is the only way I can understand his limited vision. Please cross him off the list.

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