Minneapolis Man Acquitted for Firing Back at Cops: It Was Self-Defense
A recording has been produced of Minneapolis police officers laughing about the suppression of peaceful protests and saying they were planning to “hunt” protestors. Although this took place last year in the mass uprising after the brutal murder of George Floyd, the audio is from body camera footage in the trial of Jaleel Stallings, who […]
South Africa: Women Commune Leaders Arrested Amid Wider Repression of Shack Dwellers
Photographer: Rajesh Jantilal The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. The Shack Dwellers Movement, known as Abahlali baseMjondolo (ABM) organizes tens of thousands of poor South Africans to fight for the right to decent […]
As China Becomes More Competitive, the U.S. Arrests its Businesspeople
China is no longer the cheap manufacturer of goods that the U.S. can boss around — and the U.S. is retaliating by having other countries arrest Chinese nationals like Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who was recently released after nearly three years of detainment. Carlos Martinez, co-Founder of the No Cold War Campaign, discusses the global […]
Leaked documents: NYPD officers secretly joined far-right militia
Amid the fallout from the January 6th storming of the Capitol by the far-right, there has been renewed scrutiny of the ties between the ultra-right and various police forces in the country. A leak of records from the far-right group the Oath Keepers, examined by WNYC and the Gothamist, shed further light on this, identified […]
Silencing the Press: Inside the CIA’s Plans to Abduct Assange
Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo wanted to kidnap Julian Assange, in a new confirmation of the targeted CIA assault on Wikileaks by Yahoo! News released earlier this week. Longtime whistleblower reporter Kevin Gosztola breaks down the manipulation campaign the CIA put together to target any press who were telling the truth about the U.S. surveillance […]
Manchin’s $2 trillion cut: children give up food, billionaires give up nothing
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is demanding a massive $2 trillion cut to the proposed $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. One main area for cutbacks he has been […]
Sudan on a Knife’s Edge, as Protests Cut Flow of Oil
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. It barely caused a ripple in mainstream news but over the weekend the oil business in Sudan ground to a halt as huge protests in the eastern […]
Farmers’ Protests Again Shut Down Large Parts of India: A Life-or-Death Struggle
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. On Monday, Indian farmers and their supporters engaged in a “bharat bandh” — akin to a general strike — with a range of protests, sit-ins and road […]