In this episode of Centre Stage, political philosopher and historian Roy Casagranda delivers a sharp analysis of the US. He explains why the US is increasingly relying on military and economic coercion, and why the global landscape today feels eerily like the “1930s 2.0”. 

We spoke to Sean Middlebrough, who has been in prison without trial since November 2024, accused of being connected with a break in at an Elbit weapons factory.

His trial isn't set until April 2026, meaning he faces nearly 18 months on remand in one of Britain's worst jails, HMP Wandsworth, separated from his young son.

He was raided by police in Liverpool during a dawn raid, and his family members were forced out of their home - even cuffing his 17 year old brother in his boxers.

He obtained temporary bail for a few days last week to attend his brother's wedding, allowing him to speak exclusively to Declassified. 

In the UK, the new Green Party leader Zack Polanski is emerging as a charismatic, bold, and unapologetic political force. His outspoken stance against the Gaza genocide and his proposal to impose steep taxes on the wealthy has made him a star in British politics — rattling both Labour and Conservative establishments, and rising in the polls. He talks to Mehdi Hasan and paid Zeteo subscribers in an exclusive live Q&A town hall on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, Gaza, immigration, what he thinks about being compared to Zohran Mamdani, and more.

On the rise of the UK establishment parroting the far-right’s racist and Islamophobic views, Polanski tells Mehdi: “It’s phenomenally dangerous, and Islamophobia is rife in our society. And I say this as a Jewish man, there’s only been five Jewish leaders of a British political party in the last hundred years, so I obviously take anti-Semitism really seriously.” However, he adds, the UK government and media’s “constant conflation” of British Jews with Israelis “does make me feel less safe as a Jewish person, because I look at what Netanyahu and Gallant do.” 

Join MintPress director Mnar Adley as she embarks on walking through the city of Hebron, where her family originates from. Known to Palestinians as the city of al-Khalil, Hebron is the largest and most populated Palestinian city in the West Bank. Dubbed by Israel as 'Hebron Smart City' -- this is where Israel tests its Draconian surveillance technology on the Palestinian population as part of what is called the Wolfpack surveillance system. 

Mnar Adley takes us along her journey as she crosses through the most heavily armed and surveilled checkpoints in the world where Israel has set up an automated apartheid system to track Palestinian movement.  Adley is joined by Palestinian activist Izzat Karake from Youth Against Settlements who chronicles the struggle against settler colonialism where armed Jewish settlers supported by Israeli soldiers are trying to take over the city to Judaize the quarter.