By Bob Hennelly

The US and Israeli war of choice continues to rage with devastating consequences with well over 2,500 deaths throughout the region, overwhelmingly mostly civilians including hundreds of children. Three weeks in and the UN Secretary Antonio Guterres was quoted as suggesting that both sides in the US-Israel war on Iran have likely already committed war crimes.

By Bob Hennelly

Last week, the same day the City Council started the ball rolling on giving itself a raise, workers packed the steps of City Hall demanding a $30 minimum wage. It was just last month, faced with the need to get hundreds of able bodied New Yorkers to shovel snow, Mayor Mamdani boosted per diem shoveler's from $19 to $30 an hour.

By Bob Hennelly

Over the weekend, President Trump, who ran on a platform of 'no more wars' declared one on Iran with the launch of a massive air attack on that country of over 90 million in coordination with Prime Minister Netanyhu and the Israeli military.

By Bob Hennelly

The Road to Raleigh 

Last week, Pacifica Radio went to North Carolina to cover Bishop William Barber's march from Wilson to Raleigh, North Carolina's state capital. The 50 miles trek was to draw national attention to the Republican state legislature's push to gerrymander out of existence the 1st CD, an historically Black Congressional district where just 48 percent of the residents are white and a majority are Black or something else. 

By Bob Hennelly

Massive newsroom staff cuts by oligarch Jeff Bezos to his Washington Post as he seeks favor with the Trump junta, sets off more hand wringing about who killed journalism. Meanwhile, in broad daylight, at the instruction of President Trump, the GOP is trying to steal North Carolina's CD I, an historic Black district.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of WBAI’s “What’s Going On?” we look at the aftermath of New York City’s historic deep freeze which so far has claimed the lives of at least 18 people.

By Bob Hennelly

With the battle lines being drawn between municipal governments and the federal government over immigration, we take a closer look at rural America on this episode of We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan. It's been such a key component to the success of Trump's MAGA movement and given the GOP such an edge in the U.S. Senate, where rural states get the same pair of Senators as the most populous states.

By Bob Hennelly

The murder by the US Border Patrol in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Veterans Administration ICU nurse on Saturday continues to spark international outrage. Pretti, a member of the American Federation of Government Employees, was coming to the aid of a woman being pushed to the ground by the Border Patrol. Pretti was a licensed gun owner and had a permit to carry his gun which multiple videos show remained holstered until he was tackled and swarmed by federal agents who took his gun and shot Pretti multiple times.

By Bob Hennelly

As we broadcast the latest episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan” Aljazeera is reporting that the Gaza Health Ministry has only about half of the medicine it needs to take care of the beleaguered population still suffering from lack of the basics including shelter. The BBC also reports that United Nations-supported experts are warning that while Gaza's food supplies are improving, conditions remain "highly fragile."

By Bob Hennelly

The day after a bipartisan coalition of House members passed legislation to overturn President Trump's executive order stripping collective bargaining rights from one million federal civil servants, the Trump administration ripped up its current contract with 47,000 Transportation Safety officers.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “What’s Going On?” we hear Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants CWA, and Jimmy Williams Jr., general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades tell a packed midtown labor forum last Friday that it is time for the union movement to build on the momentum from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s seismic win.

By Bob Hennelly

For the second week, hundreds of nurses, elected officials and community members turned out to rally in front of Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and at Mt. Sinai in Upper Manhattan to protest the private hospitals opting to spend vast sums on CEO pay and AI while at the same time cutting nurse staffing.

By Bob Hennelly

Kai Fritz, elected captain for the first Starbucks store to unionize in Brooklyn, explains why Starbucks Workers United union will be holding a strike rally TODAY at 4 p.m. at the company's 325 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn location to demand a fair contract. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan, our reporter roundtable regulars, D.C.-based investigative reporter Dave Levinthal and Laura Jedeed, discuss Donald Trump's Versailles style of governing and his Caribbean hot war on suspicious small boats.

By Bob Hennelly

For over nine hours, WBAI’s team of dozens of reporters and producers—including Work-Bites’ Steve Wishnia—brought you the soundtrack of the growing resistance to authoritarian rule from across our nation.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of what’s going on, New York City Council Member Tiffany Caban (D-Queens) makes her case for her Delivery Protection Act—  legislation that she says will prevent the exploitation by Amazon of workers who are the final link to home deliveries. Currently, the global behemoth maintains these workers don't work for it but for so-called Delivery Service Partners that act as subcontractors shielding Amazon from its responsibilities to keep safe the workers it relies on. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan, we look at the federal government shutdown as it enters its first full week.

By Bob Hennelly

In Gaza, the Guardian is reporting that the Israeli military is pressing on with its siege of Gaza City even as Donald Trump floats what he claims is a breakthrough deal toward a ceasefire. Over the last 13 days, Israeli forces have intensified their strike of Gaza City systematically demolishing one residential apartment building after another to force Palestinians civilians to leave their homes.  

By Bob Hennelly

The BBC reports that British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned Israel  not to annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for the United Kingdom's recognition of Palestinian  statehood. The warning comes as Britain joined several other nations including France to call for a Palestinian state.