The Rania Khalek Show

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“the International Monetary Fund said it now expected the Russian economy to grow 0.3 percent this year, a sharp improvement from its previous estimate of a 2.3 percent contraction.” Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Tanks for Ukraine and Palestine on fire in a multipolar world. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Washington is determined to prolong its proxy war in Ukraine indefinitely. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Let's discuss my recent interview with Hezbollah's second in command, watch it on the Breakthrough News YouTube channel Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

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Let's talk about the top stories of the year and what to expect in 2023 Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

If Europe keeps following Washington's orders, the garden might become a jungle. Russia is warning of unpredictable consequences if the US sends Ukraine Patriot missiles, while the US is set to expand training for Ukrainian forces in Germany, making Europe more of a target in an escalatory cycle that has the potential to lead to nuclear war. Not to mention the way this is wrecking the EU's economy. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Let's discuss the Twitter files and the missing coverage of how the antiwar and pro-Palestine left has been censored, suppressed and banned. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Israeli media is being relentlessly mocked in Doha, Iran faced down the U.S. team, some Brazilian players love Bolsonaro and off sides make no sense. Let's discuss this and more, featuring Al Akhbar's Jamal Ghosn. Bring your questions and comments. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

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Let's discuss the viral lie about Iran sentencing 15,000 protesters to death, why it matters, and the recent UN report on the impact of illegal US sanctions on Syrian civilians. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Midterms, the red wave that wasn't, the bombing of the Iraq-Syria border, Twitter chaos under Musk, where was the disinfo, impact of Syria sanctions, and anything else you feel like talking about. Bring your comments and questions! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Ben Norton is back to help us understand the material reality behind the US Cold War against Russia and China, which is a battle between economic systems: US financialized neoliberal capitalism on one side vs. state-led independent economic systems in adversary countries. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The Congressional Progressive Caucus withdrew a letter to Biden calling for diplomacy and negotiations with Russia over Ukraine after intense backlash from the cold warriors dragging us towards nuclear escalation. Washington seems to be run by a bunch of sociopathic hawks who have a death wish for the world. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Katie Halper's back to talk about getting canceled over criticizing Israeli apartheid. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Navid Zarrinnal, a Colombia University PHD & Iranian scholar at Stanford University, joins the show to talk about the protests in Iran that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini and the western reaction to them. This is a follow up conversation to a recent episode with Navid on Dispatches, which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/qqsqk_1I4jA Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Ben Norton is back to discuss the latest developments in the Ukraine proxy war with Russia, the growing threat of nuclear war, fascists winning power in Sweden and Italy, the left winning in Latin America and how this relates to our shifting global order. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Hermela Aregawi is an Ethiopian American journalist who's been covering the war in Ethiopia and pushing back against imperialism in the Horn of Africa. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

As Republicans cynically use migrants for political theater, Democrats have managed to find a way to turn something progressive (helping migrants) into something reactionary (blaming communism), while everyone ignores the role that destructive US foreign policy plays in causing people in sanctioned countries to flee their homes. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Monarchies are stupid and the British empire was in fact genocidal. Yet it appears huge portions of the mainstream are in denial. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

As the US led NATO proxy war in Russia continues, winter is coming with warnings of power cuts and the collapse of major industries growing louder across Europe. Why is Europe committing suicide for US empire? Tune for a convo with LAU professor Denijal Jegic. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

My normie sister joins the show to talk about the challenges of living inside an empire in decline. And we'll take your questions. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Six months into the war in Ukraine, Europe is still shooting itself in the feet while western countries pour an endless supply of weapons into the conflict to bleed Russia and censorship is ramped up to suppress any criticism of the policies leading us towards a dystopian nightmare. What does this mean for multipolarity? I'm joined by Ben Norton of Multipolarista to discuss. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Tune in for a discussion with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of Empire Files about censorship amid war fervor, surviving in alternative media, and how to push back. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The legendary Katie Halper joins Rania to discuss how to stay sane and not get wrapped up in Twitter drama. Plus, the MAGA right disingenuously hates on the FBI, an Iranian allegedly tried to come for John Bolton, and Ukraine pressured CBS to censor itself. What do Katie and rania think? Bring your questions! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Catching up on news while traveling and jet lagged Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Why is Nancy Pelosi risking a war with China over Taiwan? Is this what she thinks Americans want?? Not healthcare, not a living wage, not reproductive rights, but yet another war with a nuclear armed power? Dispatches episode on Taiwan: https://youtu.be/zLQUdJFqkSI Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Catch up with Rania about her latest Dispatches and bring your questions and comments! Daniel Bessner on the end of the American Century: https://youtu.be/YXx3r2IosVY Eugene Puryear on inflation: https://youtu.be/HxCBQR93S4k Felix beiderman on America's descent into madness: https://youtu.be/3EyLNa5saWo Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

We talked Biden's Mideast trip to form an anti-Iran Arab NATO and John Bolton saying the quiet part out loud. Plus a Q&A! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

There's a relentless campaign to smear leftists as Pro-Putin, Assadists, anti-Semites, part of a creeping red-brown alliance of fascists, all for opposing war, imperialism and apartheid. It's not easy dealing with this sort of name-calling, which is intended to exhaust and scare us into silence. Let's discuss! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Sweden and Finland are joining NATO thanks to a dirty deal with Turkey, which is back to being friends with Saudi Arabia. And Democratic leadership has responded to Republicans stripping away reproductive rights by reading poems and tweeting that they'll fight for us, while actually doing what they're best at: nothing. Join in the discussion, I'll be taking questions! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Rania discusses the Supreme Court canceling abortion rights, why it happened and what it means for the country. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The airport in Damascus shut down after an Israeli bombing raid in a war that most of the world has totally forgotten. Meanwhile economists are warning about a coming recession in the west as US and EU sanctions on Russia blowback on their own populations. Join Rania Khalek for a live Q&A about the news of the week that the mainstream media skewed or didn't cover at all. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Countries across the Global South are suffering from fuel shortages, food insecurity and rising inflation. The US and Europe insist Russia's war on Ukraine is to blame and anyone suggesting otherwise is parroting Kremlin propaganda, while Russia is pointing the finger at Western sanctions. Who's telling the truth? And what does the impact of draconian US sanctions, currently impacting at least a third of the world, look like in practice? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

When it comes to the politics of the third world, we always hear from American and European analysts. So we're switching it up. Catch the third episode of The Rania Khalek Show with special guest Lebanese-Venezuelan journalist Jamal Ghosn of Lebanon's leftist Al Akhbar newspaper to give you his expert analysis on the crumbling politics of US empire as well as updates on what's happening in the Middle East and Latin America. And we're taking your questions! Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

America's cold war madness didn't just provoke and then prolong the war in Ukraine, it's destabilizing the global economy, with inflation out of control and the global south suffering the worst of the resulting food insecurity & fuel shortages. And it's only going to get worse as Europe shackles itself to the dictates of the US warmongers flooding Ukraine with weapons that are certainly ending up in the hands of neo-Nazis and going so far as to ban Russian oil imports by sea without an alternative in place. How much of the world is the US going to drag down with it as it attempts to maintain empire status? What should be the left's position in the face of McCarthyist smear campaigns and an endless stream of propaganda? Join Rania Khalek for a Q&A on this and more. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Flooding Ukraine with weapons, warmongering over Taiwan, and U.S. mass shootings: what do these things have in common? Let's discuss. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com