Episodes

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 p...

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 — coal...

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 ...

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 th...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 Introd...

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...

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.

In part three, filmmaker and journalist Paul Jay turns to the film that brought this conversation full circle: How to Stop a Nuclear War. Jay traces the bomb\'s origins to a lie — the U.S. and Britain knew by 1944 there was no German nuclear program, yet built one anyway to secure postwar hegemony. He argues the Cold War was never really about defense; it was a protection racket that justified permanent militarization, purged the American left, and convinced generations that annihilation was the...

In part two, filmmaker and journalist Paul Jay argues that American politics runs on kayfabe — pro wrestling’s term for the fiction that the staged drama is real. The battles themselves are real enough: the fights in Congress over legislation, the billions spent to win elections. But what’s said publicly — the messaging, the narrative, the story sold to voters — is mostly fiction. The power of finance, the military industrial complex, and the billionaire class as a whole are rarely talked about ...

In part one, filmmaker and journalist Paul Jay joins host Shalaj Lawania for a personal reflection. Jay argues that Canadian and American identity sit on a foundational lie: stolen land, slavery, and corporate rule masked as liberal democracy. He says most mainstream journalism focuses on the actors, but rarely on who owns the stage. He traces his “red diaper” upbringing, the Cold War myths he didn’t internalize, and the way mainstream and algorithmic media turn politics into a billionaire-run ...

This summer, theAnalysis.news is revisiting some of our best episodes. Today’s pick, The Significance of the “Shit Show” Debate, originally published on September 30, 2020. Paul Jay is joined by Prof. Leo Panitch, Jacobin writer Meagan Day, and historian Gerald Horne to break down the presidential debate and the deeper reasons behind the dysfunction in U.S. politics. They also discuss how a people’s movement might respond if Trump attempts a coup after losing the election.  Leo Panitch passe...

Rank-and-file delegates amended the UAW Constitution at the union\'s 39th Constitutional Convention, requiring the union to divest from Israel Bonds after a grassroots campaign led by auto workers, academic workers, and graduate employees.

In the second part of Barry Stevens\' conversation with international law expert Michael Byers, the focus shifts to the \"tragedy of the commons\" unfolding above our heads. As thousands of satellites are launched by companies such as Elon Musk\'s SpaceX and millions of pieces of debris accumulate in orbit, the risk grows of a collisional cascade—known as the Kessler Syndrome—that could render parts of near-Earth space unusable for generations. Byers says that the rapid commercialization of spac...

Article 1 of the Outer Space Treaty, signed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, declares that space \"shall be the province of all [hu]mankind.\" That remarkable consensus, with its benefits to science and communication, has held for more than half a century— until now. In this conversation, host Barry Stevens talks with Michael Byers— Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC and co-author of Who Owns Outer Space? — about how, behind breathless media coverage of r...

From the Cold War bomber gap to the Iraq WMD fraud to Golden Dome, America’s permanent war economy has spent 80 years converting real geopolitical conflicts into manufactured existential threats — and turning fear into profit. The Iran war follows the same playbook: no confirmed nuclear weapon, no IAEA finding of a bomb program, no U.S. intelligence assessment authorizing one — but billions in new contracts, spiking defense stocks, and a president whose portfolio was moving through Palantir, Nv...

What if the arms race isn\'t a problem to solve — it\'s the business model? Paul Jay, founder of theAnalysis.news and director of the upcoming documentary How to Stop a Nuclear War, breaks down the machinery behind Golden Dome, lunar data centers, AI militarization, and the trillion-dollar boondoggle playbook that\'s been running since the Cold War. Plus: why \"corruption\" misses the point, the Pentagon as America\'s largest socialist institution, and what a bipartisan Senate committee conclude...

James Early argues the indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro is less about prosecuting a decades-old case and more about creating a political and legal framework for intensified U.S. pressure against Cuba. He says the move fits within a long history of American efforts to destabilize the Cuban government through sanctions, economic isolation, and covert pressure dating back to the Eisenhower administration.