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Greenland Lust
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Greenland Lust

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Donald Trump wants Greenland, and won’t take no for an answer. Will Canada be next? The GPM speaks with Dalhousie University professor Robert Huish. And, speaking out against US-Israeli genocide in Palestine. Watch your back. Zionist campaign against a McMaster University professor thwarted.

  • 24 Jan
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Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost

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Sustainable development and a stable climate – these are human rights. The GPM speaks with Bonny Ibhawoh, Chair of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. And, the Chagossian people have a right to return to their ancestral homeland, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Big problem: the UK and US have turned it into a huge military base — launch pad for US wars around the planet. The GPM speaks with author David Vine about the plight and human rights struggle of the Chagossian people.

  • 17 Jan
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The Bending Cross
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The Bending Cross

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Food insecurity in Canada … It’s widespread. And, Eugene Debs: trailblazing American union leader and socialist radical; inspiration for NYC’s new Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and for Democratic Socialists up, down and across North America.

  • 8 Jan
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Island of Hope in a Sea of Oppression
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Island of Hope in a Sea of Oppression

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In brutalized Palestine — an oasis of liberation and hope. The GPM speaks with Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder/director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability. And, fainter hope – that Western leaders will bring depraved Israeli crimes to a halt. Look to Europe, not Israel’s conjoined twin, Israel-USA. Europe is where the Zionist mess began. So says Israeli historian Ilan Pappe.

  • 27 Jul
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War on American Greatness
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War on American Greatness

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In defense of uniformity, inequity and exclusion, Donald Trump and his White-America-First regime are waging war on what makes America great — diversity, equity and inclusiveness. ‘DEI’ programs and initiatives across the US government, public and private sectors are being rooted out. We speak about Trump’s first 180 days in the White House with American scholar and writer, Dorothy Roberts.

  • 19 Jul
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Criminal Kingpins
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Criminal Kingpins

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Criminal arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; more charges and warrants in the pipeline. A conversation about the ICC with British barrister Toby Cadman. And, a conversation with Francesca Albanese, about US-Israeli crimes, impunity, and justice

  • 13 Jul
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Naming Crimes
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Naming Crimes

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Israel-USA’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its 21st month. The most influential Western states wring their hands and mouth empty words about peace, while continuing to sell weapons to Israel. And they refuse to name Israel’s crimes. British legal scholar Penny Green talks about this, and about an innovative Israel combat aim: creating a population of disabled people.

  • 12 Jun
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Sex Is Complex
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Sex Is Complex

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Transgender rights versus  women’s rights, and last week’s landmark British Supreme Court ruling on what the words “woman” and “sex” mean. The GPM speaks with Canadian human rights lawyer Robert Wintemute, author of a soon-to-be-released book entitled “Transgender Rights vs. Women’s Rights: From Conflicts to Coexistence.”

  • 19 Apr
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Stamping It Out
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Stamping It Out

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Gender-based Israeli violence, extermination and genocide in Gaza. A new report from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A conversation about Israel’s war on Gaza with Middle East affairs commentator Mouin Rabbani. And, human rights abuse and corporate takeover in the United States. A conversation with one of the authors of another UN report.

  • 15 Mar
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Activist Arrested, Gets To Talk About It
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Activist Arrested, Gets To Talk About It

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Montreal-based author and guerilla-style political provocateur Yves Engler talks about his recent arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Montreal’s Bordeaux Prison (something police originally tried to block him from doing), and what he’d rather talk about than his five days and four nights of forcible confinement. And, another Canadian’s account of the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, brutally assassinated by apartheid Israel. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris

  • 2 Mar
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Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech
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Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech

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The Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech. Exiled Students Take Columbia University to Court. The GPM speaks with Catherine Curran-Groome about her court case — Catherine Curran-Groome, Brandon Murphy and Aidan Parisi vs. Columbia University, at the New York State Supreme Court.

  • 17 Feb
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Obscure Committee
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Obscure Committee

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On the margins of the 23rd session of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Court, in The Hague, a stairway conversation about international law, and its fate, with South African Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Vusi Madonsela / The obscure UN committee charged with eliminating “all forms of racial discrimination” labours for five years on scrupulously detailed apartheid charges by Palestine against Israel, and comes up with … no comment — or “individuated” apartheid finding, as Irish legal scholar and CERD committee commentator David Keane tells the GPM.

  • 4 Jan
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Justice & the Taxman
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Justice & the Taxman

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Canadian rights groups call on the Canada Revenue Agency to suspend the charitable status of Canadian organizations funding Israel’s unlawful occupation and colonization of Palestinian territories, and to carry out audits and criminal investigations of their activities.

  • 10 Nov
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Jewish Anti-Zionism
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Jewish Anti-Zionism

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Israel wants to eradicate the Palestinian people, and the UN agency that supports them. The GPM speaks with Chris Gunness about Israel’s persecution of UNRWA — the UN Relief & Works Agency. And, a Canadian Jewish group declares itself anti-Zionist. The GPM speaks with Sid Shniad, founding member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada.

  • 21 Sep
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Base Nation
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Base Nation

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Israel’s 57-year military occupation of Palestine is unlawful, the World Court rules, and must come to end. Will Israel abide by the ruling? Will countries like Canada enforce it? Washington certainly won’t. The GPM speaks about Canada’s response with Ottawa commentator Peter Larson. And, perpetual occupation of other people’s lands is an activity the US supports, defends and engages in, all around the world. The GPM speaks with United States of War author David Vine.

  • 4 Aug
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Mobile Petri Dishes
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Mobile Petri Dishes

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Mobile phones — smart, incredibly useful. Life support systems. They’re also mobile Petri dishes! The GPM speaks with a microbiologist who knows. And the roots of the US anti-abortion movement; misogyny, racism, hatred toward immigrants. A conversation with American academic Lauren MacIvor Thompson.

  • 28 Jul
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Killing the Future
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Killing the Future

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Killing the future in Gaza. Reducing it to rubble. Forcibly transferring its people into filthy tent camps, or onto the street. Starving them. Hunger and disease go hand in hand. The GPM speaks with Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and authority on human-engineered food crises, and with Margaret Harris, global spokesperson for the World Health Organization.

  • 7 Jul
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