Alligator Alcatraz
In 2025, the Trump administration opened “Alligator Alcatraz” — a sprawling immigrant detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades. Plagued by reports of widespread abuse, the facility’s future remains in doubt amid multiple legal challenges.
BT went to South Florida to speak with residents, environmental activists, and immigrant families who say the entire project is corrupt, the conditions are brutal, and it could change the Everglades forever.
3 Things the Pope’s Indigenous Apology Tour of Canada Completely Ignores
The Pope is visiting Canada this week and apologized for more than 100 years of abuse, neglect, and intentional cultural repression by the Church against First Nations. One in 50 children enrolled in residential schools died. Mi’Azhikwan, expert in Canadian law, and Layla Staats, Mohawk from Six Nations, a filmmaker and activist, react to the […]
Kansas Lawmaker: Vote NO on Abortion Ban Referendum, First in Post-Roe Era
On August 2nd, Kansas will be the first state to vote on an abortion ballot measure since the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in the Dobbs decision. This measure would amend the Kansas Bill of Rights to state that there’s no state constitutional right to abortion. Kansas Representative Rui Xu, an advocate […]
Practice Makes Perfect? U.S. Trains with 25 Countries to Invade Residential Areas of ‘Enemies’
The world’s largest sea-based war games (meaning the simulation of war) are held off the coast of Hawaii, called RIMPAC. Journalist Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files, Media Roots Radio, and the new Callin show Dosed, attended the games this year to report on what destruction the United States and its allies are simulating. […]
Strings Attached: Western Banks and Sri Lanka’s Political Crisis
Sri Lanka has seen mass protests for weeks that drove President Rajapaksa from power. But now the protests have been dispersed and his close ally — a six-time Prime Minister and acting President — has been appointed to replace him. Niyanthini Kadirgamar, PhD student at University of Amherst and member of Sri Lanka’s Feminist Collective […]
Minority Rule: The US Is Not a Democracy, with Professor Aziz Rana
How is it that judges arbitrarily chosen by presidents who didn’t even win the popular vote are appointed for life and can overturn our most cherished rights? What’s with the veneration of the US constitution, which was written by slave owners? Is America really a democracy? To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek was joined […]
U.S./NATO Wants Whole World to Choose Sides, But Outside of Europe Most Refuse
NATO has agreed to have Finland and Sweden join its ranks, further escalating tensions with Russia, and increasing the likelihood of a global war. Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News Ben Becker analyzes the enlargement of NATO, the expansion of combat ready troops to 300,000 and what it means for Ukraine and the world.
U.S. Builds ‘Arab NATO’ That Will Defend Israel As It Murders Journalists, with Ali Abunimah
Biden will soon travel to the Middle East, where he will meet the Saudi monarchy and build the Pentagon’s “Arab NATO.” Just this week the US declared that the IDF is only “likely responsible” for the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Her murder, they say, was a “result of the tragic circumstances” produced […]