-Neocons are back pushing dubious intelligence as a pretext for US empire building. 20 years ago it was “Iraq WMDs”, this time it’s “lab leak.”

-TRNN’s Jaisal Noor joins us to talk about his series on worker-owned cooperatives that have weathered the pandemic. 

-Israel has stopped dropping bombs in Gaza, but the ethnic cleansing campaign continues. That’s why anti-apartheid are activists in the states are “blocking the boat.”

-MMN’s newest correspondent Luna Oi is in Vietnam with an inside look into how the country’s socialist government has been well-suited to fight covid

-And a failson makes a cameo for this week’s Rich Dick