by Marc Steiner | Feb 4, 2026 | Gaza, health care, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show
Hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed, medical supplies blocked, and doctors killed or detained—leaving children amputated without anesthesia, patients dying from infections, and families facing starvation and freezing conditions. Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, Dr. Nidal Jboor, and Dr. Maysa Hawwash, founders of Doctors Against Genocide, explain what’s happening inside Gaza and the West Bank, why silence from governments and medical institutions is enabling mass death, and how doctors are organizing globally to end genocide.
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Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Marc Steiner:
Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here in The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s great to have you all with us. And what’s not great or good nor acceptable is what’s happening in Gaza is what Israel is carrying out in the Gaza Strip and the utter devastation of the entire world. As of this broadcast, 72,000 people have been killed. Among them, over 20,000 children, over 171,000 have been wounded, maimed, or crippled. And countless numbers lie still under the rubble. It is devastation of unimaginable proportions. Let me add this, that in Israel itself, over three quarters of a million people have demonstrated in the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to demand the end of the war in Gaza. And today we bring you a conversation with three Palestinian doctors. We’ll talk with us about what’s happening in Gaza, what’s being done to stand up to it, how to end this war, and what’s happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Our guests are the founders of Doctors Against Genocide, commonly
by Marc Steiner | Jan 27, 2026 | Gaza, ICE, immigration, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, The Marc Steiner Show
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a victory this month in its ongoing attempt to deport Syrian-born Palestinian activist, husband, father, and former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil remains in the country for now and the legal battle is far from over, but the future of free speech in the US hangs in the balance. This week on The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Amy Greer, an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis and a member of Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team, about the status of Khalil’s case.Guest:
Amy Greer is an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis, and a member of Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team. Greer is a lawyer and archivist by training, and an advocate and storyteller by nature. As an attorney at Dratel & Lewis, she works on a variety of cases, including international extradition, RICO, terrorism, and drug trafficking. She previously served as an assistant public defender on a remote island in Alaska, defending people charged with misdemeanors, and as a research and writing attorney on capital habeas cases with clients who have been sentenced to death.
Additional links/info:
ACLU Press Release (1/15/26): “Appeals court in Mahmoud Khalil’s case decides federal court lacks jurisdiction until immigration court proceedings complete”
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘Call Amy!’: Lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil reveals how he won his freedom”
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Production: David Hebden
Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Amy Greer:
When the line starts moving and inching creeping forward, and we all stay silent because it’s like, that’s not our people, or that’s
by Marc Steiner | Jan 20, 2026 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show
The Trump administration has said that the “second phase” of the ceasefire in Gaza is now in effect, but the fire has yet to cease. “What’s happening now is that we are still being settled silently, we are still being killed slowly, away from the world’s cameras,” Eyad Amawi, a father living in Gaza and a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee, tells The Marc Steiner Show this week. “That’s the real meaning of the ceasefire.”Get new weekly episodes of The Marc Steiner Show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Credits:Studio Production: Cameron GranadinoAudio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Speaker 1:
Papa!
Speaker 2:
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Eyad Amawi:
As the father for four children, really every night my children asked me, my little daughter ask me, “Papa, we will survive until tomorrow morning, or no?” This is the big questions, but my answer depends on my belief here. “Don’t worry, we will still alive, but you must sleep.”
Marc Steiner:
I’m Marc Steiner. Today we’re joined by Eyad Amawi. He lives in Gaza, he’s a Palestinian, a father and a husband. He’s the coordinator for the Gaza Relief Committee, trying to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. It’s hard for many of us to fathom the depth of destruction taking place in Gaza. The land, homes, hospitals, schools have been laid to waste. Starvation is rampant. And as we begin this conversation, over 75,000 people have been killed, including more than 25,000 children. And Eyad, welcome. It’s good to have you with us.
Eyad Amawi:
First of all, thank you. I have been following you for some times.
by Marc Steiner | Jan 13, 2026 | Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show, Venezuela
Marc Steiner speaks with Geo Maher, abolitionist scholar and author of We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution, about the untenable goals behind President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, and what the US bid to reassert imperial dominance in the Western hemisphere reveals about its declining place on the global stage.
Additional links/info:
Geo Maher Facebook page and Instagram
Geo Maher, Duke University Press, “We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution”
Geo Maher, Verso Books, “Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela”
Mike Fox, Under the Shadow / The Real News Network, “The Americas will never be the same”
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Production: Cameron Granadino
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Marc Steiner: Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here on The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s great to have you all with us. As we begin this conversation, Trump is meeting with all executives from 17 companies. Secretary of State Rubio, Energy Secretary Wright, and Interior Secretary Bergen are looking at a hundred billion dollar investment as US and private corporations are about to seize the oil and the wealth of Venezuela. And as we air, we all know that the Venezuela president, Nicholas Madoro and First 80 Flores have been kidnapped and imprisoned by the United States. So to parse us out today, we’re talking with Geo Maher, who’s an abolitionist, educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He’s taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar, Drexel, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezueela School of Planning in Karacas. He spent a lot of time in Venezuela, he’s taught there and in Mexico.
He’s the author of five books,
by Marc Steiner | Dec 9, 2025 | Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Podcast, Politics and Movements: International, Politics and Movements: US, The Marc Steiner Show
Out of the rubble of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens inside Israel has emerged to forcefully reject a future of endless war and occupation. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Alon-Lee Green, national co-director of Standing Together, explains how their movement is confronting state repression, settler violence, and rising fascism while working to build a new Jewish-Palestinian majority in Israel.
Guest:
Alon-Lee Green is the national co-director of Standing Together, a progressive Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that aims “to build a new majority within Israeli society that supports peace, equality, and social and environmental justice.” Green has organized numerous campaigns against the recent wars between Israel and Palestine, and for a just peace and equality and social justice in Israel.
Additional links/info:
Standing Together website, Facebook page, and Instagram
Christiane Amanpour, CNN, “‘The pain is a mutual pain,’ say Israeli Jewish and Arab activists”
Credits:
Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: David Hebden
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Marc Steiner:
Welcome to the Marc Steiner Show here on The Real News. I’m Marc Steiner. It’s great to have you all with us as we begin this conversation with one of the founders and leaders of Stand Together, an organization of Israelis and Palestinians in Israel calling for an end to the war in Gaza, an end to the occupation and to the end of oppression Palestinians. On this very moment, over 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children have been killed in Gaza. 90% of Gaan have been displaced. It’s a war of annihilation. Standing together was founded by Alan the
by Marc Steiner | Dec 3, 2025 | Chicago, Fascism, ICE, Podcast, Politics and Movements: US, Prisons and Policing, The Marc Steiner Show
ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agencies have turned immigrant neighborhoods in Chicago, IL, and Charlotte, NC, into open-air hunting grounds, snatching people off streets, out of parking lots, and in front of their children. But in each city, federal forces have also faced strong grassroots resistance. In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with organizers from Charlotte and Chicago, Miguel Alvelo Rivera and Andrew Willis Garcés, about the on-the-ground reality of President Trump’s immigration raids and the ways communities are organizing and mobilizing against them.Guest:
Miguel Alvelo Rivera is a migrant from Puerto Rico who came to the United States in 2007. He is the executive director of Latino Union of Chicago and has been a life-long educator, advocate, and believer in the power of people to change the world for the better. Co-founder of the community organizing, advocacy, and human rights group, Chicago Boricua Resistance, he’s been active in community, environmental, and labor movements since he was a teenager in Puerto Rico. He’s also worked as an Uber driver and delivery person, as a bartender, and as an educator in theater of the oppressed, adult education, and youth programming.
Andrew Willis Garcés is based in Greensboro, NC. He is a lifelong Southerner shaped and inspired by the Southern grassroots organizing tradition and also by the communities of resistance from his maternal homeland of Colombia. He founded Siembra NC under the Trump Administration, and has worked with several dozen unions and grassroots community organizations over the last two decades as an organizer, strategist, communications consultant and trainer. He’s been with Training for Change since 2009. You can read some
