‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW, DEC. 17, 2015–MEDEA BENJAMIN TALKS ABOUT TRUMP, CORPORATE, MILITARY AND SAUDI POWER ON ‘THE F-WORD’


On our final segment of The F-Word this year, Esther Iverem looks back at 2015 and look forward to 2016 with activist Medea Benjamin. And why is the race for the U.S. presidency a scary circus with scary clowns? Jamila Bey offers lumps of coal for GOP contenders for the presidency. Guest: Medea Benjamin. Other voices: attorney Billy Murphy, Palestinian activist Rajaa Natour, Pakistani activist Erum Haider, journalist Zaid Jilani, Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton. Headlines on the mistrial in the first police officer charged in Freddie Gray’s death and other Black Lives Matter news, San Bernadino attacks, support of Palestinian women and a vigil in Dupont Circle marking the one-year anniversary of the attack at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan that killed 144 people, mainly children.