>A mashup of two Cuban songs, "El Cubanito" and "Cuba, qué Linda es Cuba", with alternate lyrics written and performed by members of the Mexican group "Grupo Emiliano Zapata".

>Performer: Grupo Emiliano Zapata Year recorded: 1971 Composer: Miguelito Valdes (from "El Cubanito"), Eduardo Saborit (from "Cuba, qué Linda es Cuba") Lyricist: Pepe Mosca Source: Vinyl record "Somos Gente De La Prepa Popular"

>‘US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington's Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.’

"What's the reason that we have 350 military bases* all over the world?"

Academic Michael Parenti on the US Empire's terror campaigns from a 2001 lecture made soon after 9/11.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Chinese journalist and social media legend Chen Weihua on the streets of Brussels about his background and the growing tensions between the collective west and China, Russia and the multipolar world.

• Two terrorist attacks this month (June 2023) in Southeast Asia have been carried out by groups backed by the United States government and its allies for decades;

• This includes a singer murdered in Myanmar and a series of armed attacks carried out on police stations in Vietnam killing 9 including several civilians;

• British state media, the BBC, and US government-funded media platform Radio Free Asia have attempted to spin and even justify this terrorism as part of a much wider pattern promoting and defending terrorism as a means to counter China’s rise and punish nations working closely with China;

• The opposition in Myanmar has openly been backed by the US and UK for decades - fighting to reinstall Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy back into power;

• In Vietnam, the ethnic Montagnards had fought alongside US invaders in the Vietnam War, and since then have worked closely with the US through the National Endowment for Democracy toward separatism;

• Much of this context is omitted from Western state-media accounts of the terrorism;

• Both Myanmar and Vietnam’s current governments have close relations with China. Vietnam, while depicted in the Western media as “anti-China,” has worked with China to build infrastructure within its borders and access Chinese rail projects to bring their products all the way to Europe;

Check out what residents had to say to BreakThrough reporter Luis De Jesus when he asked "Have you seen any Chinese here?

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that he hopes China will play a role in promoting reconciliation between his country and Israel.

President Xi Jinping and visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas jointly announced the establishment of a strategic partnership between China and Palestine during their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is on a four-day state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. What issues are being discussed? How will the visit impact the relationship? And how might China help bring about peace between Israel and Palestine as a wave of reconciliation sweeps across the Middle East? Guests in this episode are Einar Tangen, independent current affairs commentator; Wang Jin, associate professor at Northwest University of China; and Noor Harazeen, CGTN correspondent in Palestine.

Brian Berletic discusses why the US is making a fatal mistake provoking China over Taiwan.

Foreign ministers from BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) met to discuss expanding the Global South-led bloc and creating a new global reserve currency to challenge the US dollar.