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With the UAW backing Abdul El-Sayed, former union leader Frank Hammer joins Sharmini Peries to examine how Citizens United transformed campaign financing—and whether organized labour can challenge the billionaires and reclaim working-class political power.

What connects the unanswered questions about 9/11, the January 6 coup attempt, and the concentration of wealth and power in America? Paul Jay of theAnalysis.news joins Patrick Lovell to discuss his interviews with former Senate Intelligence Committee chair Bob Graham and NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, the warnings surrounding January 6, and why major news organizations and congressional investigations leave critical questions unexplored. Jay distinguishes between documented events, accounts provided by his interview subjects, and his own conclusions. He argues that understanding these crises requires looking beyond individual wrongdoing to the economic structures that protect powerful interests. The conversation concludes with nuclear weapons, climate change, and artificial intelligence—and the urgent need for democratic control, public ownership, and immediate measures to reduce the threats to human survival. Recorded September 29, 2026. More reporting and interviews: https://theAnalysis.news #PaulJay #September11 #January6 #Democracy

Lloyd Axworthy helped build the International Criminal Court from the ground up. Now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vows to dismantle the court \"brick by brick\" and is sanctioning its judges and officials. In this conversation with Barry and Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders, Axworthy calls it exactly what it looks like: an effort to make the world safe for war criminals. He questions why Canada has gone silent on a court it helped create. They debate what it would actually take — coalitions of willing states, not Washington — to keep international justice alive.

Gerald Horne and Jonathan Katz join Paul Jay to unpack why \"socialism\" is dominating the midterms, the deep history of America\'s Red Scare, and why the GOP\'s fear tactics may finally be losing steam.

Documentary filmmaker Paul Jay (theAnalysis.news) joins Patrick Lovell for the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — not to recount the day, but to explain what it was used to justify. Within a year, the ABM Treaty was gone, the North Korea framework agreement was abrogated, and the spending demands the neocons had drawn up before Bush took office were unlocked. The neocons got their new Pearl Harbor.

Fresh off the war with Iran, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson tells theAnalysis.news that the U.S. military has burned through critical munitions, lost its mine-warfare capability in the Strait of Hormuz, and is led by flag officers he says are compromised by Israeli influence. Wilkerson and Paul Jay also unpack the new Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan "entente" — which, despite media framing, he says is aimed squarely at Israel, not Iran — and the danger of Saudi Arabia acquiring nuclear weapons technology on the heels of a war justified by Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.

Fresh off the war with Iran, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson tells theAnalysis.news that the U.S. military has burned through critical munitions, lost its mine-warfare capability in the Strait of Hormuz, and is led by flag officers he says are compromised by Israeli influence. Wilkerson and Paul Jay also unpack the new Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan \"entente\" — which, despite media framing, he says is aimed squarely at Israel, not Iran — and the danger of Saudi Arabia acquiring nuclear weapons technology on the heels of a war justified by Iran\'s alleged nuclear ambitions.

Nuclear guardrails are gone, and no one in power seems to care. In Part One of a conversation with Barry Stevens and Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders, Lloyd Axworthy — the former Canadian Foreign Minister who led the campaign to ban landmines — traces how the memory of nuclear danger has faded even as more countries foolishly flirt with joining the club. Deterrence, once treated as gospel, has been quietly disproven on real battlefields, yet nobody in power seems to have noticed. Axworthy warns of a world sliding back toward the bomb just as it forgets why it feared one. This interview was conducted in collaboration with How To Rule The World https://www.youtube.com/@WorldFederalism and Project Save the World https://tosavetheworld.ca/ — it also appears on those channels.

We will be republishing some of our most-watched episodes over the next few weeks. We hope you find that they are still more than relevant. Paul Jay says while the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal, brutal, and unnecessary for Russian national security, it takes place within the context of U.S. aims to suppress the growth of potential regional powers like Iran and Russia. Russia was not incorporated into Western Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union because it could have challenged U.S. dominance in the region.

We will be republishing some of our most-watched episodes over the next few weeks. We hope you find that they are still more than relevant. Paul Jay says while the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal, brutal, and unnecessary for Russian national security, it takes place within the context of U.S. aims to suppress the growth of potential regional powers like Iran and Russia. Russia was not incorporated into Western Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union because it could have challenged U.S. dominance in the region.

We will be republishing some of our most-watched episodes over the next few weeks. We hope you find that they are still more than relevant. “It’s beyond lunacy,” say Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.

John Bellamy Foster reflects on the enduring relevance of Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” in this fourth segment of our series on ecology and materialism. Marx’s foundations of ecological materialism are blended with the work of natural scientists and the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Socialism, as a transformational project whose intellectual birthplace is materialism, had to be forcefully defended by Albert Einstein, the preeminent scientist of the 20th century. Bellamy Foster, discussing his Introduction to Einstein’s essay, explains the importance of Einstein’s contribution in the postwar context and into the present.

In this third segment of a series on ecology and materialism, John Bellamy Foster concludes that across different societies, starting from ancient China, the Hellenistic world, and India, there is a parallelism of class struggles. They involve notions of self-consciousness through production in relation with nature, human freedom, solidarity, and substantive equality. Common to them is a praxis that combines Epicurus\'s philosophy of enough and reciprocity with Marx\'s emphasis on production and transformation. Lynn Fries interviews John Bellamy Foster on GPEnewsdocs.

In Part 2, John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis. His research shows that socialist transformation involves the transformation of human relations with nature, and that the modern ecological movement grew out of Marx’s analysis of the dialectics of society and nature. And there again, the Epicurean strand carries right through. Lynn Fries interviews John Bellamy Foster on GPEnewsdocs.

In this first segment of a series on ecology and materialism, John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx, who was not a natural scientist, learned from chemists, physicists, biologists, and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. Marx then garnered a unique theoretical approach that identifies the causes of the societal and ecological crises we face today. Lynn Fries interviews John Bellamy Foster on GPEnewsdocs.