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1) White House Ban of Three Media Outlets, Only the Latest Trump Attack on the Constitution's First Amendment

Victor Pickard, the C. Edwin Baker professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses Donald Trump's decision to ban journalists from CNN, MS-NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds, revoking their press credentials and triggering a major constitutional showdown over press freedom. He'll focus on this recent issue in the context of the many other instances of Trump regime attacks on journalists, media outlets and the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.

2) Yemen's Houthi's Playing an increasingly Pivotal Role in the U.S. War on Iran

Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher with CODEPINK, and the author of "Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq." He'll discuss his recent column co-written with Medea Benjamin, "The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen," and issues related to the current situation in Yemen, Trump's war on Iran, and conflict's impact on the flow of Middle East oil.

3) Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater Mercenary Army, is now Operating in Haiti & linked to Civilian Deaths

Kim Ives, a journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, talks about the issues he's covering in Haiti, news of ongoing violence, the role of Erik Prince, founder of the private military contractor Blackwater, the UN adjacent Gang Suppression Force, and the Trump regime's decision to revoke TPS status for some 350k Haitians in the U.S., with the threat of mass deportation.

4) Trump's March to Consolidate U.S. Fascist State Can Only be Stopped by Mass Civil Society Uprising

Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian and author of "This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America." He'll discuss his column, "It’s Only Wednesday, For Fascist’s Sakes!" a compendium of Donald Trump's crimes against democracy from less than one recent week.