BreakThrough News Live at Busboys and Poets
Date and Time
Nov 13, 2026 7:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Nov 13, 2026 7:00 pm
14th & V
While corporate media cheerleads for war after war, Breakthrough News has been reporting what they won't, and now they're in the crosshairs. The outlet's journalists have faced a campaign of government attacks for refusing to toe the line on US foreign policy and MAGA’s anti-democratic domestic agenda. A Republican-led house committee has subpoenaed BreakThrough News, demanding their internal communications and financial records, and has threatened to drag its reporters to Washington for depositions. It’s a McCarthyite witch-hunt in the era of NSPM-7, Trump’s order targeting the left as domestic terrorists. But BreakThrough won’t be silenced by this new Red Scare.
Join Rania Khalek, Zoe Alexandra and Ben Becker of BreakThrough News for a live discussion on exposing the crimes of U.S. imperialism, covering movements for justice, the surging appeal of socialism, cutting through the tsunami of corporate media warmongering, and fighting back against attacks on independent media.
The conversation will be moderated by BreakThrough News producer Emily Brease. This is the news the establishment doesn't want you to hear. Come hear it in person.
Speaker Bios
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist, co-host of BreakThrough News's flagship show, BT Live, and host of the award-winning Dispatches with Rania Khalek. Based in Beirut, she covers Middle East geopolitics and U.S. foreign policy and has spent over a decade reporting from the frontlines of conflict zones and marginalized communities.
Zoe Alexandra is News Director at BreakThrough News and co-host of the network's flagship show, BT Live. She previously co-founded and edited the international outlet Peoples Dispatch, and edited the book Why Venezuela? How the US Tries to Undermine Democracy and Sovereignty in Latin America.
Ben Becker is Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News. A New York City-based journalist and historian with a Ph.D. in History from CUNY, where he taught classes on the Civil Rights Movement and labor history, he has edited books including Shackled and Chained and Imperialism in the 21st Century
