Headlines for February 22, 2024; Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling; Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI , NYPD Conspiracy
We speak with civil rights attorney Ben Crump about a Houston woman shot five times by police after they mistook her for an intruder.
Headlines for February 21, 2024; “Political Prosecution”: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Faces Final U.K. Appeal to Avoid U.S. Extradition; “Moral Failure”: Democrats Rep. Khanna & Michigan State Rep. Aiyash Urge Biden to Change Gaza Policy; Colonialism, Occupation & Apartheid: African Countries See “Shared Experiences” with Palestinians
In Part 2 of our interview with Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, she discusses in more detail this year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
Headlines for February 20, 2024; “Borders on Pathological”: Trump Must Pay $450 Million for Lying to Lenders in Fraud Case; More Than 50 Countries Argue Before World Court Against Israeli Occupation of Palestine; “What I Saw Wasn’t War — It Was Annihilation,” Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital
In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Irfan Galaria, an American doctor just back from Gaza, he describes operating on patients while bombs were dropping around the hospital and says he saw many orphaned children.
Headlines for February 19, 2024; “Like Horror Movies”: Forced to Evacuate Nasser Hospital, Surgeon Describes Israeli Raid & Arrests; “3 Days of Hell”: Israel Raids Nasser Hospital, Arrests Staff in Latest Assault on Gaza Medical System; Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was Killed, Says Masha Gessen
Headlines for February 16, 2024; “Uniquely American Hell”: Kansas City Shooting Highlights Missouri’s Pro-Gun Laws in “Pro-Life” State; “I Died That Day in Parkland”: Shotline Uses AI-Generated Voices of Gun Victims to Call Congress; Australian Parliament Calls for U.S. to Drop Case Against WikiLeaks’ Assange Ahead of U.K. Court Hearing; “They Were So Close”: Israel Kills Medics Trying to Save Dying 6-Year-Old Hind Rajab
Headlines for February 15, 2024; Doctor Reports on Bombing of Nasser Hospital Just Before Israeli Troops Storm Complex; “I Always Imagine Myself Being Blown Up”: Journalist in Rafah on Dire Situation as Invasion Looms; Kenneth Roth: Only Joe Biden Has Power to Stop “Massive Bloodshed” of a Rafah Invasion; “Obscene”: Biden Pushes House to Approve Bill with $14B in Military Aid to Israel, Cuts UNRWA Funding
Headlines for February 14, 2024; “Dead-End Strategy”: GOP Impeaches Mayorkas as Democrats Push Hard-Line Border & Immigration Policy; “A War Against Palestinian Americans”: Jailed, Attacked, Killed in West Bank and U.S.
Headlines for February 13, 2024; Could Indonesia Return to Military Rule? Allan Nairn on the “Massacre General” Running for President; Bombs, Disease, Starvation: Canadian Doctor Describes the Desperate Situation Inside Gaza; Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Defamation Case Against Right-Wing Climate Deniers; The Climate Election: Mark Hertsgaard on Why 2024 Must Focus More on Climate Crisis
Headlines for February 12, 2024; “Our Children Deserve to Live”: Mother in Rafah Desperate to Escape as Israel Prepares Ground Invasion; “Worst-Case Scenario”: Noura Erakat on Israel’s Looming Invasion of Rafah; Race, Gender, Class: Bishop Barber, Economist Michael Zweig on Poor & Low-Wage Voters in 2024 Election; Bishop William Barber on the “Moral Case for a Ceasefire” in Gaza
Headlines for February 09, 2024; “We Cannot Trust Biden” on Gaza: Michigan House Dem Majority Leader Meets White House Officials; Liberals Feckless, Conservatives Reckless: Elie Mystal on SCOTUS Trump Ballot Ban Case; “Political Crisis Will Continue”: Close Contest in Pakistan Amid Election Crackdown
Headlines for February 08, 2024; Ex- UNRWA Official: Funding Cuts Make Donor Countries Complicit in Starvation of Gaza; Senegal’s “Unraveling”: President’s Delay of Election Is Latest in String of Anti-Democratic Actions; “Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from West Africa to Europe
Headlines for February 07, 2024; Former Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Only U.S. Pressure on Israel Can End Gaza Assault, Lead to Truce; Jeremy Scahill: Israel Has Waged a “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” to Justify Brutal Gaza Assault
Headlines for February 06, 2024; Dissent Grows Inside Biden Administration over Gaza Policy as Blinken Holds Talks in Middle East; “Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War
Headlines for February 05, 2024; U.S. & Israel vs. Axis of Resistance: Biden Strikes New Targets in Middle East as Gaza War Continues; “Incandescent” with Rage: Matt Duss on Voter Anger over Biden Support for Netanyahu & Gaza Assault; After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Palestinian American Doctor Refuses to Meet with Blinken; Israel’s Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War Brings Gaza to the Brink of Famine
Headlines for February 02, 2024; Dearborn Mayor to Biden: “Lives of Palestinians Should Not Be Measured Simply in Poll Numbers”; “Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” from U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany
Headlines for February 01, 2024; “The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah; “Climate of Fear”: Inside UAE’s Use of U.S. Mercenaries to Carry Out Assassinations in Yemen; “Legacy”: Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America
Headlines for January 31, 2024; Biden’s Middle East Policy “Leading Us into a War Whose Aims We Have Not Defined”; “An Act of Assassination”: Mustafa Barghouti Slams Undercover Israeli Raid on Jenin Hospital; Israeli Cabinet Members Join Settler Event of Thousands Calling for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza
Headlines for January 30, 2024; Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls “Horrific”; Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case?; “Monumental Decision”: Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement; “We’re Dying Here”: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley; Cost of Doing Busi...
Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel’s War on Gaza; Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions; Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack
Headlines for January 26, 2024; International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza But Fails to Order Ceasefire
Headlines for January 25, 2024; Report from Gaza: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri on “The Struggle to Survive, Stay Sane”; Palestinian Economist Raja Khalidi on Israel’s “Economic Warfare” on Gaza and the West Bank; Professors Slam Columbia’s Response to Chemical Skunk Attack on Students at Pro-Palestine Protest
Headlines for January 24, 2024; ” MAGA vs. MAGA Polite”: Trump Beats Haley in New Hampshire, Haley Vows to Fight On; “Trump Is the Nominee. Fascism Is on the Ballot.” Author Jeff Sharlet on New Hampshire & Beyond; Should Trump Be Barred from the Ballot? A Debate over the Insurrection Clause
Headlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC , Chicago & Beyond; “Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled”: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire
Headlines for January 22, 2024; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Decries Israel’s “Inhumane” Assault as Gaza Death Toll Tops 25,000; “Israelism” on Tour: New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation; “American Fascism”: Historian Rick Perlstein on Trump’s Grip on the GOP & Chances of a Second Jan. 6
Headlines for January 19, 2024; Uvalde Failure: DOJ Report Finds 377 Officers Waited 77 Mins as 19 Kids, 2 Teachers Killed by 1 AR-15; Texas Sen. Gutierrez Slams Gov. Abbott Immigration Crackdown After Mom & 2 Children Drown in Rio Grande; Meet Tal Mitnick, 18, the First Israeli Jailed for Refusing Military Service in “Revenge War” on Gaza; Horrific Traumatic Injuries of Children: British Dr. Witnesses Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Hospitals
Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled
Headlines for January 17, 2024; Israel’s War on Journalists: More Reporters Killed in Gaza in 3 Months Than Any Country Over Entire Year; How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists & Blocked Rescue of Cameraman Samer Abudaqa Until He Died; “They Don’t Show Gaza”: Gideon Levy on How Israel’s Press Is Failing to Cover the War’s True Toll; What Happened on October 7? Gideon Levy on Haaretz’s Call to Investigate Kibbutz Killings & More; “The Logi...
