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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, March 15, 2026 10:00 am
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| Kevan Harris
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| War on Iran, Regime Change Fantasy, & the Anti-War Movement
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Two weeks into the US-Israeli assault on Iran, every prediction made by the architects of this war has proven wrong. The regime has not collapsed. Protests have not reignited. Iran's new Supreme Leader — more hardline than his assassinated father — has vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. And the war began while negotiations in Geneva were apparently close to a deal.
Kevan Harris joins us on Day 14 of Operation Epic Fury. We talk about Iran’s domestic political economy and why the regime fragility thesis was always wrong. Kevan insists there are zero historical cases of regime change by bombing working. Every US intelligence agency told the White House this before the war started. And yet 4 Democratic Party hawks support the Trump administration's war effort -- and Kevan says they must be held accountable because it's 2003 all over again. He describes Israel's war strategy as a widening gyre with no limit and no endpoint — one likely to produce another war on Iran within two years.
The political visions of a different Iran — "neither turbans nor crowns" — won't disappear under bombs. And he says building an anti-war movement is the left's most urgent task right now. "We might have a hot summer"
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Sunday, March 8, 2026 10:00 am
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1:00:04
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| Yassamine Mather
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| US-Israel war on Iran
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What are Iranians actually experiencing right now? We hear from Yassamine Mather, Iranian socialist, chair of Hands Off the People of Iran, and researcher at Oxford's Middle East Centre — who has been in direct contact with relatives, colleagues, and comrades inside Iran throughout the bombing.
Mather describes near-hourly strikes, hospitals hit, internet cut, and a propaganda war in which state TV claims nothing happened while satellite channels say nothing is left. She explains why Trump's promise to 'liberate' Iran has produced the opposite: people who were in January's anti-regime protests are now joining pro-government demonstrations — not for the regime, but out of rage at foreign attack. She assesses Khamenei's death, the removal of his brake on IRGC adventurism, Netanyahu's real objective (not the nuclear program but Iran as a country), and why this war makes 2003 look well planned. She also addresses the illusions some on the left hold about Russia or China as potential saviors — and why those illusions are not just wrong but dangerous.
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Sunday, February 22, 2026 10:00 am
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| Oleksandr Kyselov, Ksenia Kagarlitskaya
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| War, Exile, and Political Prisoners
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Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war continues — and repression increases inside Russia.
Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov, author of “The Peace That Cannot Come,” explains why the current “peace process” is a dangerous illusion. Russia’s goal, he argues, is not compromise but subjugation — and any ceasefire that doesn’t confront that reality only postpones the next war. We discuss the Witkoff-Dmitriev 28-point plan (critics call it the DimWit plan), exhaustion inside Ukraine, and why calls from the Western left for immediate, unconditional ceasefire--without a single protest outside a Russian embassy are, as Kyselov puts it, "beyond naive."
Ksenia Kagarlitskaya joins us from Montenegro. Her father, Marxist sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, has now spent two years in Penal Colony No. 4 for opposing Putin’s war. Ksenia speaks about political prisoners in Russia — now more than 4,000 — and the growing movement to support them through her organization, Freedom Zone. As she reminds us: political prisoners don't appear in any peace negotiations because Russia refuses to acknowledge they exist.
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Sunday, February 8, 2026 10:00 am
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| Luis Feliz Leon, Kieran Knutson
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| Minneapolis: from outrage to collective power
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Minneapolis is the epicenter of Trump’s escalating war on immigrants and Blue cities. The administration has deployed thousands of federal agents there to terrorize immigrant communities, publicly executing the protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti for standing up for their neighbors. Tens of millions of horrified viewers have watched bystander videos, frame by frame. Twin Cities residents have shown the world what popular resistance looks like, in sub-zero temperatures, organizing mutual aid, protecting targeted neighbors, and confronting Federal Agents at every turn.
Tens of thousands took to the streets in Minneapolis and around the country on January 23 and January 30 in “no work, no school, no shopping” actions. It wasn’t technically a general strike but it demonstrated how unions, clergy, and community could create the organizing infrastructure to transform outrage into collective power, building a movement and a new strike culture.
We explore how all this happened and what organizers believe comes next with labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon and President of Minneapolis CWA Local 7250 Kieran Frazier Knutson, who bring us stories from daily life under ICE occupation. Feliz Leon situates this Minneapolis moment in the history and theory of mass strikes. Knutson explains the role of mutual aid, the strategic targeting of corporations, and the push toward a worker assembly to shape the next steps. They show how ordinary people organized democratically to vanquish fear, turning moral shock into collective power.
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