Press Play With Madeleine Brand

The U.S. destroyed another boat in the South Caribbean, which the Trump administration alleges was engaged in drug trafficking. This is the fifth such strike since September, and Venezuela’s president has labeled this aggression. Are the strikes legal, and are both countries headed for war?Flock Safety operates more than 80,000 license plate readers across the U.S. In Texas, a sheriff’s deputy used them to find a woman who had self-administered an abortion. Filmmaker Raoul Peck is known for his unconventional biopics of people like James Baldwin and Patrice Lumumba. His latest documentary is about the writer George Orwell. “I was always suspect of the use of words, and Orwell as well,” Peck tells KCRW. “And he studied it, and he demonstrated how damaging it is. … For him, when language is being destroyed, you're basically destroying democracy. But … what I did not expect is that he would be so close to my own experience. I didn't expect that this film would hav