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Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“There have been widespread massacres along the coast of Alawites,” reports Professor Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. “This is a religious minority in Syria. They're also the community that backed Bashar al-Assad's regime

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Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a stunning and unprecedented statement to the world: he called the Ukraine war a proxy war.Rubio’s statement makes him the highest ranking official to admit what has been happening in Ukraine since the start of this war. Adam Schiff said it: ̶

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Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:Useful Idiots’ resident economist Yanis Varoufakis returns to the show this week to analyze Trump and Musk’s chainsaw cuts to Medicaid, USAID, and other government programs, answering the important question: is it actually bad for a government to run a deficit?But before getting into the

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Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:“Every single day, we are losing territories. Every single day, we are losing people. Every single day, our children in Ukraine are suffering from these rocket attacks, drone attacks. And nobody knows what happened next.”Dr. Marta Havryshko is a Ukrainian historian and professor at Clark

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Subscribe for the full episode at the bottom of the page. Watch a free preview here:This week, the world saw the president of the United States sit quietly at his desk while the richest person in the world stood over him to take questions from reporters. It comes only days after another subservient look from “tough guy” Trump when he pushed in his boss’s chair lik

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