This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined for the hour by Alexander Aviña, an expert on Mexican history and US imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.
Alex shares his perspective on how the second Trump administration has actually changed immigration policy and enforcement, the Democrats’ legacy of border militarization, the high-profile detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and others, Dr. Phil’s deportation ride-along, the Marxist case for “open borders”, and the effectiveness of recent popular mobilizations against ICE.
Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina and stay abreast of his latest analysis at foreignexchanges.news.
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars present a news roundup from Lebanon and Palestine. They preview Roqayah’s on-the-ground coverage of the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon, before discussing the current state of the ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF's latest escalation in the West Bank, and Israel’s plans to occupy southern Syria indefinitely.
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars preview Roqayah’s new weekly column, “Last Week in Lebanon,” available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon. In her first post, Roqayah documents the Lebanese Army’s crackdown on pro-Resistance demonstrations after the new Lebanese government prevented an Iranian plane from carrying mourners to the funeral of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by journalist Rania Khalek, host of Dispatches and cohost of The Freedom Side at BreakThrough News, to discuss recent developments in Lebanon including the election of a new president and prime minister, Israel’s violations of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, the future of the Axis of Resistance, and the triumphant return of South Lebanese people to their villages in defiance of the IDF.
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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined for the hour from Ramallah by writer, translator and returning guest Rawan Masri, cofounder of the online archive and resource hub decolonizepalestine.com. Rawan shares her analysis of the ceasefire in Gaza before turning to the West Bank to break down Israel’s unprecedented escalation, what annexation would actually look like, and the curious revival of armed Palestinian resistance.
Follow Rawan on Twitter @RivertoSea48 and check out the wealth of curated information available at your fingertips when you visit decolonizepalestine.com.
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