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Longtime classics and antiwar themes, wrapping up with "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte Marie, 1964) and "I Ain't Marching Any More" (Phil Ochs, 1965). Our host is a Vietnam War Veteran now devoting his life to ending war, violence, and injustices.

With Trump's New War Cabinet in Place, Danger of U.S. Conflict with Iran Rises; Poor Peoples' Campaign Actions Call Attention to Systemic Racism; After Senate Victory, Net Neutrality Defenders Prepare for Fight in House; This week’s summary of under-reported news.

The Trump thugs intend to kill not only abortions but ALL reproductive health services, period. And in the annals of corporate insanity: the Denver Post is taken over by a hedge fund that calls itself a specialist in making money off “distress.”

We are going to talk about a suicide cult run by the American government. Activist Jay Coghlan explains the arcane world of “plutonium pits” – the core trigger for weapons of mass incineration. The Trump Administration promises to make lots more of them in South Carolina and New Mexico, even though America literally has tons of them stored away unused in Texas warehouses.

Our documentarians talk about their recordation of the daily struggles of the people of Gaza, as they endure winters where, robbed of their shelter, babies freeze and in summers, overheat. While Blumenthal and Cohen give voice to the pain of a people under constant siege, they also give voice to the Gazans' acts of creative resistance and their reaffirmation of life by artistic expression with the brush and through literary works to youths break-dancing and rapping their resilience, their potential and resolve to break the occupation.

We commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) that began 70 years ago and continues unabated today. Dr Abdul Fattah Abusrour (director of the Al Rowwad Theater) recounts his own lengthy experience at the receiving end of The Nakba. Abed (as he is known) was in Cambridge in 2014 at an Al Rowwad fundraiser. His story is a stunning reminder that Israel has been permitted to run roughshod over the lives of Palestinians.

Torture is illegal, right? And Gina Haspel is an unapologetic torturer. Well, that doesn't seem to bother our elected leaders, even some democrats, today. In fact, they have now made her head of the CIA! Davidson explores Haspel's sham claim of compliance with the so-called Army Field Manual. In fact it permits torture as long as it's called something else.