Minneapolis Police Fire on Residents on their Front Porch
“Light ‘em up!” Minneapolis Police and National Guard stopped to fire on residents peacefully filming them from their own front porch. » For more world news and the latest coronavirus news, subscribe to BreakThrough we are live every Wednesday at 8PM ET / 5PM PT with the latest stories from the front lines of the […]
Police Repression of Minneapolis Protesters
Police attempted to clamp down on massive protests in Minneapolis following the police murder of George Floyd. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the crowd of over 20,000 protestors, but the people refused to back down and stayed in the streets all night. Another protest is expected tonight. #GeorgeFloyd #MinneapolisPoliceKilledHim #JusticeforGeorgeFloyd #Minneapolis #BlackLivesMatter […]
What’s Behind the New Cold War on China?
The news on China can be dizzying, with blaring headlines about COVID-19 responses, sanctions, tariffs, war games, and secession movements. Now the U.S. press is howling with outrage at the news of China’s annual legislative meeting. But what was really decided there, and why is the Trump administration ramping up hostilities in the middle of […]
Don’t Let the Media Assassinate George Floyd’s Character
George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Anytime Black people are killed by racist police, the media searches for any history of the smallest wrongdoing to assassinate their character and shift blame from the killer to the victim. It’s a tactic as old as lynching itself. Mike Brown, Sandra Bland, and many other victims of police brutality had […]
One Pair of Gloves Won’t Cut It: Sanitation Workers Strike
A group of sanitation workers have been striking in New Orleans for three weeks to demand a livable wage of $15 an hour, PPE, and a union. The city government praises frontline workers in word but pays them poverty wages and replaces them with prison slave labor. Joining the show is Daytrien Wilken a representative […]
Stay Home and Starve, or Go Work and Die?
6:45 The elite have ripped the paper-thin mask off of the sick system, and now workers must choose between economic and physical survival. The reopening is upon us, ready or not. 18:55 Bolivia’s racist coup government has politically weaponized the virus against the Indigenous and the working-class. Its targeted negligence borders on genocide against the […]
Vijay Prashad: CoronaShock and the ‘hallucinatory’ polices of the West
Check out the full interview with author and historian Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On the issue of China’s response to COVID-19, Prashad explains how the mainstream Western press is functioning as “stenographers for the State Department.” He expands on his concept of “Coronashock” which is exposing the underlying values […]