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Iran Latest: Propaganda in Overdrive as Trump’s War Spirals Out of Control | The Listening Post 25 min
25 min · As the war on Iran enters its third week, the upper hand that the United States and Israel hold militarily is being countered asymmetrically by Iran which has been targeting various...
“A War in Search of a Strategy” - Trump-Netanyahu's War With Iran | The Listening Post 25 min
25 min · One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradictory. From regime change and nuclear threat...
How Fear Became Part of the AI Hype Machine | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · A series of warnings from artificial intelligence (AI) industry insiders shows how the debate around AI drives extreme news cycles, swinging between hype and alarm.
The Epstein Files Cover-up: Botched or Calculated? | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · The latest tranche of the Epstein files contains more than three million documents - the largest release of its kind. In what appears to be a clumsy attempt at a cover-up by the US...
Chris Hedges on Trump, Epstein and the Decline of American Democracy | UpFront 25 min
25 min · One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions - from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media - has raised alarm about the...
How Trump Sold the Attack on Venezuela | The Listening Post 25 min
25 min · After months of Washington - with the help of much of the US mainstream media - manufacturing consent for a military intervention in Venezuela, last week American forces abducted the...
Why Tech Billionaires Are Quietly Bankrolling Europe’s Far-right 22 min
22 min · The far right is gaining power in Europe, fuelled by conspiracies about migrant invasions and a shrinking white population.
Zohran Mamdani vs the Machine | Fault Lines 25 min
25 min · Zohran Mamdani was an unlikely frontrunner in New York’s mayoral election. His promise to make life more affordable for working-class New Yorkers, combined with his outspoken criticism...
How the Military-industrial Complex Captured US Democracy 24 min
24 min · When it comes to selling weapons, the United States is in a league of its own: more than 40 percent of all arms sold worldwide come from US companies.
How Palantir Is Transforming Modern Warfare | The Listening Post 10 min
10 min · Silicon Valley CEOs are increasingly making the case that their technologies can transform the way that wars are fought. And of all the companies involved in this military-tech boom, one...
How Elites Destroyed the Democratic Party In the US and Fuelled Populism 24 min
24 min · As the popularity of the United States Democratic Party reaches historic lows, author Joan Williams argues that the party’s elitism is still pushing people away.
Greta Thunberg on Gaza: Why we joined the Freedom Flotilla | Al Jazeera 29 min
29 min · Greta Thunberg and Yasemin Acar speak to Talk to Al Jazeera from the Madleen, a ship sailing toward Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla. Carrying aid, the activists risk interception as...
Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States | Chris Hedges 37 min
37 min · As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years...
The Lessons for the Media and the Democrats After Trump's Win | The Listening Post 27 min
27 min · Donald Trump’s shock victory in the United States election this week revealed fundamental flaws with the Democratic Party establishment, the news outlets in its corner and how they...
Would US Democracy Survive a Second Trump Presidency? Mehdi Hasan & Adolfo Franco | Head to Head 48 min
48 min · With the 2024 US presidential elections just weeks away, former US President Donald Trump is intensifying his campaign, pushing more aggressive rhetoric than ever before. Given his...
Is Israel Still Attractive for Jews Around the World? 29 min
29 min · It's a year since Israel started its military offensive on Gaza. Now it is turning on Lebanon, saying it is attacking Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists he will achieve...
One Year of Israel’s War on Gaza: Al Jazeera Special Coverage 44 min
44 min · One year of genocide in Gaza: 365 days of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. This has been a war of many firsts, breaking...
Inside Western Media’s Reporting on Gaza | The Listening Post 31 min
31 min · When political leaders speak of genocide, they repeat a timeworn mantra: "Never again." Over the past year, for the Palestinians of Gaza, "again" has become reality - mass casualties...
How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the US Election Debate | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · As the US election looms, Elon Musk’s erratic and sometimes dangerous posts have made him one of the biggest purveyors of disinformation on his platform. How is the world’s richest man...
Why is the US offering Africa seats on the UN Security Council? | The Bottom Line 25 min
25 min · The US push to create seats for Africa on the UN Security Council – without veto power – is “an insult to 1.4 billion Africans,” argues the former African Union ambassador to the US...
The US Liberal Media Machine Rallies around Kamala | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · Washington has never seen a week quite like it. On Sunday, President Joe Biden took himself out of the presidential race. By Tuesday, his vice president, Kamala Harris, had picked up the...
Militaries are Fueling the Climate Crisis | All Hail The Planet 30 min
30 min · The impact of war is so much more than just the emissions from tanks, ships and warplanes - modern warfare has a devastating effect on people and the planet. So, what is the scale of...
Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Surge at US Campuses after Columbia University Arrests 8 min
8 min · Growing outrage over Israel's war on Gaza has sparked protests at major universities in the US.
The Images from Gaza are Getting Worse | The Listening Post 26 min
26 min · Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation...
Palestinian Rights Groups File Genocide Lawsuit against Biden and Two of His Cabinet Members 3 min
3 min · President Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members are being sued for complicity in genocide, in Gaza. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several groups including American citizens with...
Cornel West: "There Is a Neo-Fascist In the White House" 26 min
26 min · In November, 2019, it emerged White House senior adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature and racist propaganda to conservative news website Breitbart in the run-up...
The War in Yemen is Now World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis 3 min
3 min · The world's largest humanitarian crisis is not in Syria. It's in Yemen. So says the United Nations, highlighting the grave consequences of a conflict that has left 18.8 million people...
Zimbabweans Are Turning Trash Into Art 2 min
2 min · In a country dealing with cash shortages, power outages and high unemployment, artists have been striving to reveal a beauty in the environment around them.
Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News 2 min
2 min · Palestinian academic Edward Said’s (1935-2003) book ‘Orientalism’ showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ - while at once leaving them voiceless.
Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message 2 min
2 min · In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media...
How to Read the Signs in the News 3 min
3 min · Roland Barthes The work of French philosopher Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is difficult, slippery, whimsical - it calls on us to read the world around us as a series of texts. He would...
Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News 3 min
3 min · Known as the ‘Godfather of Multiculturalism’, Stuart Hall (1932-2014) gave us tools to understand how representation is always imbued with ideology - and how to resist.
Israel's Parliamentary Plot Against UK Politicians 3 min
3 min · Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence of an Israeli diplomat's involvement in smear campaigns to discredit a British minister and other politicians. Al Jazeera's investigative unit went...
My Cuba - An Intimate Look at the Pleasures and Struggles of 6 Different People's Cuba 150 min
150 min · Cuba - diverse, vibrant and complex - is undergoing immense change. But what does it mean to be Cuban in this time of change? Six people. Six films. From the comedy and ballet worlds of...
Why the World Fears Refugees 3 min
3 min · Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, says many Europeans' fear of refugees boils down to the idea of the "precariat" - people whose lives are marked by...
How The Media Shape Politics - From Dilma in Brazil, to Zuma in South Africa and Trump in the US 25 min
25 min · A few years ago, Brazil enjoyed VIP treatment in news narratives: it was the rising star on the global stage, the B in BRICS, and the world's new economic powerhouse. Fast-forward to...
The Syrian Refugee Giving Back to Germany 4 min
4 min · Alex Assali fled Assad in Syria and ISIL in Libya. Now he runs a charity kitchen in Berlin.
Weakened, Cold and Starving to Death in Syrian Town 2 min
2 min · Syrian families in the besieged town of Madaya say they are starving to death. Al Jazeera's Jamal El Shayyal's reports.
Earthrise - Take the Power Back 25 min
25 min · How ordinary people are mobilising to disrupt the fossil fuel industry and redirecting investment.
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa - Nigerian Environmental Justice Campaigner 3 min
3 min · It is the 20th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against oil pollution in the oil rich Niger Delta by Royal Dutch Shell.
Stories From the Intifada 90 min
90 min · Twenty years after Israel captured the Palestinian territories in the 1967 Six-Day War, massive protests erupted across the occupied territories.
Desmond Tutu: Not Going Quietly 47 min
47 min · Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the famous Nobel laureate, and one of the world's most respected church leaders, was a central figure in ensuring an end to white minority rule in South...
Goodbye Indonesia: The Struggle for Independence in West Papua 25 min
25 min · In the face of state repression and international indifference West Papuan activists have been locked in a life or death struggle for independence. People & Power (Al Jazeera) finds out...
Riz Khan - The Role of Media in the USA 22 min
22 min · Has the mainstream media in the US replaced serious coverage with "junk news" and tabloidism?
Economic Hit Men: How The Developed World Robs the Third 17 min
17 min · Riz Khan talks to John Perkins about his book on global corruption. Perkin's book, entitled "Confessions of an Economic Hit man," was on the New York Times best seller list when it was...
Taliban Issues New Code Of Conduct For Fighters 3 min
3 min · The Taliban in Afghanistan has issued a book laying down a code of conduct for its fighters. Al Jazeera has obtained a copy of the book, which further indicates that Mullah Omar, the...
How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy 12 min
12 min · The Riz Khan show looks at how electronic voting could be manipulated to flip the outcome of the 2008 US presidential election. A great 12 minute synopsis of the issue, up to the minute...
Obama's fiercest opponent in Ohio? Misinformation and Prejudice 2 min
2 min · As the US presidential campaign enters its final weeks, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hitting the swing states. But misconceptions and rumors abound and many voters...
Big Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers 15 min
15 min · The big business of farming in the US is booming but undocumented migrants make up more than half of the farming workforce. They are ripe for exploitation and face low salaries...
The Rise of Hate Groups in America 13 min
13 min · Inside USA - Avi Lewis travels to Arkansas and Alabama to look at the rise of race hate groups in America. Watch part 2 through the accompanying website link.
A Greener China Bans free plastic bags 2 min
2 min · China is banning shops and supermarkets from handing out free plastic bags, and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old. The ban, which was posted on a government website on...
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