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Haitian Ohioans are being shackled with ankle monitors after TPS protections ended on July 27 for around 350,000 people. This is ahead of reports on Monday of another person who died in detention at Delaney Hall. Kerbie Joseph, a community organizer with Caribbean Defense, joins BT Live to unpack the consequences of the Trump administration’s latest escalation against American communities, and how it’s impacting not only Haitians, but all workers and families in the US, as well as where the fight for immigrant justice goes from here.
Tehran says the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed as long as US military pressure on Iran continues, as even the New York Times concedes Trump’s six-month war is heading for “strategic defeat.” Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, joins the show to discuss Trump’s canceled threats of what he called the biggest attack since World War II, and to break down shifting regional dynamics as the US-Iran “doom loop” of threats, walk-backs, and oil chokepoint leverage grinds on.
All eyes are on Ceuta, Spain’s colonial territory in Northern Africa, after roughly 50,000 people crossed the border from Morocco in a single day — sparking a wave of international xenophobic backlash against immigrants. Wahid Ben Ali of the International Peoples Assembly joins to separate what actually happened from the racist conspiracy theories swirling around it — and why the EU’s response is raising eyebrows and tough questions from the left.
Burkina Faso just expanded its 2026 budget after President Ibrahim Traoré’s revolutionary government expanded nationalization of the country’s gold mines, bringing in more than $6 billion through official channels in the first half of 2026. Kwesi Pratt, Jr., general secretary of the Socialist Movement Ghana (SMG), joins the show to discuss the latest in the Alliance of Sahel States’ fight for economic sovereignty, and what Burkina’s resistance to foreign extraction means for West Africa.
Tuesday, August 4 | 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
With special guests:
- Kerbie Joseph, a community organizer with Caribbean Defense
- Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a geopolitical risk consultancy
- Wahid Ben Ali, International Peoples Assembly
- Kwesi Pratt, Jr., general secretary of the Socialist Movement Ghana (SMG)
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