MOATS with George Galloway – Details, episodes & analysis

🚨BREAKING NEWS | Live Coverage of Venezuela Developments AND Is Iran Next? 

🌍 2026 begins with shockwaves — and George Galloway is LIVE to confront them. In the first edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows of the new year, George examines a dramatic opening to 2026 as Donald Trump tightens the net around Venezuela, Iran is firmly in Washington’s sights, and even Greenland is whispered about once again.

🔥 GRAND THEFT VENEZUELA — as Trump moves against Nicolás Maduro, talk of seizures, sanctions, and a humiliating “perp walk” dominate headlines. Is Venezuela being stripped in plain sight, and what does this escalation mean for Latin America and the wider world?

LIVE FROM TEHRAN — Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins George direct from Iran. One of the most authoritative voices on Iran–US relations, Prof. Marandi breaks down whether Washington is preparing for confrontation, how Tehran is reading Trump’s moves, and what an attack on Iran would mean for the Middle East and beyond.

📰 Chris Hedges — Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author, and host of The Chris Hedges Report — returns to MOATS to analyse the deeper forces shaping the start of 2026. From imperial overreach and economic decline to propaganda, repression, and the price paid by ordinary people, Hedges delivers a stark warning about where this new year is heading.

George covers: – Trump vs Maduro and the battle for Venezuela’s future. – Iran in the crosshairs: rhetoric, reality, and the risk of war. – Greenland — joke, threat, or imperial signal? – The collapse of international law and the return of raw power politics. – Chris Hedges on empire, media failure, and moral reckoning. – Gayatri Galloway’s Social Media News Update tracking the global reaction. – Your calls LIVE as viewers respond to the first crisis of 2026.

📊 MOATS Poll: Will Trump order a US attack on Iran? Vote live in the chat — the strongest opinions will be read on air.

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🎇 As the clock ticks towards midnight, George Galloway presents a special New Year’s Eve edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows. With 2026 just hours away, MOATS looks back at the second half of 2025 — a year of war, repression, resistance, and historic turning points that reshaped the world.

In this extended New Year’s Eve special, George revisits the most powerful interviews, investigations, and warnings from the latter half of the year — moments that defined global politics, exposed injustice, and, in many cases, proved prophetic.

This programme features unforgettable conversations with journalists, analysts, whistle-blowers and witnesses who lived the story as it unfolded:

– Richard Medhurst, the British journalist cleared of terror charges after months on bail under the Terrorism Act — a chilling warning about press freedom in the UK. – Dr Annelle Rodrigues Sheline, former US State Department fellow, on why she resigned over Gaza and what that revealed about Washington’s moral collapse. – Colonel Douglas Macgregor, on Ukraine, NATO, Trump’s failed peace efforts, and the moments the world came closest to nuclear war. – Thiago Ávila, the Brazilian activist aboard the Gaza flotilla, speaking via satellite from the Madleen as aid convoys were blocked. – Sarah Wilkinson, detained by UK counter-terror police after returning from Gaza, on repression, courage and solidarity. – Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, on Trump vs Zelensky, Ukraine’s endgame, and the future of war in Europe.

This New Year’s Eve edition is a record of a year when laws were rewritten, journalists were criminalised, wars escalated, and ordinary people paid the price — but also a testament to those who spoke out when silence was safer.

🕯️ As we say goodbye to 2025, MOATS asks: what did we learn — and what must change in 2026?

With closing reflections from George and Gayatri Galloway, this special programme marks the end of one of the most consequential years in modern history.

🕛 New Year’s Eve Special — LIVE and on demand

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George Galloway returns for another packed edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows, as the world edges closer to midnight on multiple fronts. 

🔥 Trump turning up the pressure on Venezuela As Washington sharpens its tone, what does this mean for Maduro, the region, and the global balance?

⚠️ Ukraine’s quiet talks in the US Behind the scenes, Kyiv is engaged in desperate diplomacy — but is anyone still listening? 🇮🇱 Netanyahu’s bid for a pardon With Israel in political freefall, George examines the Prime Minister’s latest manoeuvre for survival.

🟥 Guests

RANIA KHALEK Journalist & Host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News 📎 @RaniaKhalek

ANDREI MARTYANOV Military analyst & author 📎 Veteran voice on global conflict and strategy

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There's not a Chicken McNugget on Trump's desk so far but he's worked the ceasefire. Hamas is stronger than ever. TikTok reprieve. And exit Blinken and smirking Mr Miller

Everyone knows the Ukraine war is over. But billions of dollars have been flushed into the most corrupt dictatorship on earth, says Chay Bowes.

Chay Bowes: Political Commentator

- Twitter: https://x.com/boweschay

Sam Husseini :American writer and Political activist

- Twitter: https://x.com/samhusseini

The day that Israel died. Everyone's a winner (excluding Sleepy Joe). But for Trump the ceasefire would not have happened. If Auschwitz had been live streamed it would be Gaza. And the war for Trump's ear. Hearing aids required.

The US move to ban TikTok has backfired as millions of young people switch to alternative Chinese social media, demonstrating that what they've been told about the country is a lie, Li Jing Jing gives the response from China.

Li JingJing: Journalist and Political Commentator.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jingjing_li

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkItOutWithLiJingjing

- Instagram: https://instagram.com/jj_ontheroad

- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Jingjing_Li

David Hundeyin: Investigative Journalist, Author & Filmmaker

- Twitter: https://x.com/davidhundeyin

- Website: https://www.davidhundeyin.com/

Hollywood becomes Gaza, but with functioning hospitals, if you can afford. A thing for dwarves. Labour's Zionist alleged paedophile nailed on camera by vigilantes. And pictured with King Charles

Should Biden’s $500m to Ukraine be spent on Los Angeles fires? Perhaps the people of Los Angeles should move to Kiev to experience the Biden abundance? Money to Zelensky and Netanyahu while he can't even put out home fires. Garland Nixon gives his take.

Max Blumenthal returns to Moats asking why President Zelensky is saying 'where is the money for Ukraine?' Will Donald Trump divert the cash to his own burning country?

Garland Nixon: Radio Talk Show Host and Political Analyst

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/garlandnixon

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gnixon

-Instagram: https://instagram.com/garland.nixon

-YouTube: https://youtube.com/@garlandn

-Rumble: @garlandnixon

-Rofkin: https://rokfin.com/garlandnixon

-TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@garlandnixon

Max Blumenthal: Editor at The Grayzone News, Author and Journalist

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mblumenthal

https://youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegrayzone

https://www.facebook.com/max.blumenthal

The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. Or social media tycoons. 'Musk is one of the most inept and dangerous' people alive, says Diego Ruzzarin, who is sitting in for George Galloway.

Erasing Palestine from the map. People in Gaza are suffering the worst conditions in the world. Four major cities razed and 90% of the population ethnically cleansed. As the west walks past the bodies on the other side of the street says Mustafa Barghouti.

Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative.

Pepe Escobar: Columnist at The Cradle, editor-at-large at Asia Times and an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia.

Musk, Starmer and the Labour Party grooming scandal. Musk’s $100m donation to Reform only if Farage is sacked. George’s day in court with Musk in Dublin.. and the little jackbooted Steven Yaxley-Lennon.

Americans didn’t vote for President Musk they voted for President Trump. Kim Iversen drops truth bombs on Musk’s involvement in Trump’s incoming administration and the recent terr*r attacks in the USA.

British Entrepreneur Peter McCormack gives his take on PM Kier Starmers first months in the job. Spoilers, its not going well!

Kim Iverson: Independent Political Analyst and Host of 'The Kim Iverson Show'

- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KimIversen

Peter McCormack: Entrepreneur and Political Commentator

Terror in New Orleans after a driver plows into crowds on Bourbon Street on new years eve. Ten years ago I asked then PM David Cameron if he'd read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ISIS and Al Qaeda monsters in control of Syria, the Arab world is falling apart, I no longer recognise it.

Professor Seyed Marandi and Chris hedges return to Moats first outing in 2025, surely it can't get worse than 2024, can it?

Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi: Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Prof.MohammadMarandi/

Chris Hedges: Journalist, Writer and Political Commentator

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislynnhedges

- YouTube: The Chris Hedges Report on

https://youtube.com/@therealnews

- The Chris Hedges Report site: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

Gobbelian lies. Starmer will resign before end of 2025. Rectum? It nearly killed him. And in Gaza the massacres continue. Had you noticed?

The outgoing US president is bent on causing as much damage and killing before the new one comes in, says Anya Parampil. And how anyone but Kamala could have done better against Trump.

Scott Ritter returns to Moats to discuss the ongoing developments from the battlefields of the world.

Anya Parampil: Journalist at The Grayzone and Author of Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire

- Twitter: https://x.com/anyaparampil

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anyamparampil

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnyaMariex

Scott Ritter: Former UN Weapons Inspector and Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, Author and Political Analyst.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/realscottritter

- Rumble: https://rumble.com/v27scfr-scott-ritter-extra-ep.-41-ask-the-inspector.html

@Scott Ritter Extra

- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ScottRitterAgain

- Website: ScottRitterExtra.com

- Telegram: https://t.me/ScottRitter