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Bernie Sanders: The World Is "Moving in the Wrong Direction" on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech
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- Bernie Sanders: The World Is "Moving in the Wrong Direction" on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech
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- 9:50
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- 10 days ago
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On Monday, the South African delegation to the United Nations, in collaboration with Progressive International and the Hague Group, hosted an event in honor of the U.N. Charter at the historic Riverside Church in New York City, less than a day before the U.N. General Assembly convened for its 81st annual session. We play excerpts of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders's address at the event, in which he denounced the military-industrial complex fueling the U.S. war on Iran, Israel's genocide in Gaza and the UAE-backed RSF paramilitary in Sudan, called for the end of corporate oligarchy and wealth inequality in the United States and warned about the risks of the unchecked buildup of artificial intelligence.
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- "New Low in U.N. History": Trita Parsi on Trump's Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly
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- 15:26
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- 10 days ago
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The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate Iran. "This is probably a new low in U.N. history," says Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, joining us in our New York City studio ahead of the second day of the General Assembly. As Trump pushes for even more sanctions on Iran, "what you're most likely to see in that scenario is that the Iranians will counter-escalate" in what threatens to become an "endless war." Parsi also comments on the U.S. military's growing reliance on artificial intelligence for strategic and targeting decisions, Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Trump administration's flouting of international law.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 23, 2026
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- 11:30
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- 10 days ago
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- Paulo Freire documentary looks at Brazilian educator's legacy
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- 2:47
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- 11 days ago
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- The new documentary "Reading the World" explores the life and work of Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation.
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- Renewables are good enough to slow the climate crisis: Bill McKibben
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- 1:42
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- 11 days ago
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- Climate campaigner Bill McKibben says that while it’s too late to prevent the climate crisis from unfolding, solar and wind energy are now cheap enough “to blunt its worst excesses."
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- Is Cuba really a threat to the United States?
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- 1:16
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- 11 days ago
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- Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, says the United States is spinning a "fable" when it accuses the island nation of being a threat to the world's most powerful country.
"Between Cuba and the United States, there is one country that is the aggressor, and one country, which is Cuba, that is under aggression," he says.
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- The AI boom is fueled by dirty fossil fuels
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- 1:28
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- 11 days ago
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- The artificial intelligence boom is largely being powered by dirty fossil fuels, even as companies like Amazon claim they use 100% renewable energy.
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- "Reading the World": New Film Spotlights Paulo Freire's Radical Literacy Experiment in 1960s Brazil
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- 10:50
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- 11 days ago
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The new documentary "Reading the World" profiles Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. It draws on rare archival footage of 1960s Brazil and weaves together the memories of farmers, students and educators who took part in Freire's culture circles, his method of teaching adults to read in as little as 40 hours by drawing on their own lives, communities and experiences. At the time, Brazil's illiterate population was barred from voting, so education also opened the door to political participation. The experiment was abruptly halted in 1964 when Brazil's military overthrew President João Goulart in a U.S.-backed coup that led to Freire's imprisonment and exile.
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- Could Cuba Become a "Silent Gaza"? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to "Asphyxiate" Island
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- 14:26
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- 11 days ago
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As the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to "asphyxiate the people of Cuba into submission." On Friday, millions in Cuba lost power in what was at least the sixth major blackout since President Trump cut off fuel shipments to the island in January. The fuel blockade comes on top of the six-decade-long U.S. economic embargo and countless attempts to topple the communist government.
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- Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon's Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant
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- 19:56
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- 11 days ago
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As world leaders convene in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week, we speak to climate campaigner Bill McKibben and Kavita Sthanumurthy, a former software engineer at Amazon and a member of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 22, 2026
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- 11:08
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- 11 days ago
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- Is AI a bubble?
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- 2:21
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- 11 days ago
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- The tech industry is issuing dire warnings about the growing power of artificial intelligence. Is the danger really imminent, or is it all hype?
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- Thousands newly displaced in Yemen
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- 0:39
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- 12 days ago
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- The number of people displaced by fighting between Houthi militias and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces has soared to over 100,000 as conflict spirals throughout the Middle East.
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- "America, Who Hurt You?"
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- 1:42
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- 12 days ago
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- “There's a history of inequality that America has never really talked about or overcome," says playwright Sarah Jones. “And now we're erasing it and sweeping it under the rug in wild ways.”
Jones has been described as "a one-woman global village" for her remarkable one-person, multi-character shows. The Tony- and Obie Award-winning writer and performer is best known for her Broadway hit “Bridge and Tunnel.” She is back in New York with her latest solo performance, “America, Who Hurt You?”, which is being presented by the National Black Theatre and the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
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- U.S. deportees beaten, imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditions they faced in the Central African country.
“They cocked their guns, took it off of safety, and pointed their guns at me,” said one of the men, Ahmed Soliman, in a video he recorded before being imprisoned. Soliman is an Egyptian asylum seeker who arrived in the United States when he was 4 years old.
"In November 2025 … the United States started this horrendous policy of sending immigrants not from Equatorial Guinea to Equatorial Guinea, a country that the U.S. knows very, very well that is a human rights violator," says human rights lawyer Tutu Alicante.
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- Trump's war on the press
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- 1:19
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- 12 days ago
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- CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated when they attempted to enter White House grounds over the weekend.
"The real victims of this war on the press are members of the public, which are entitled to know about what their government is doing," says Katie Fallow, a deputy litigation director at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, where she focuses on threats to freedom of speech and of the press.
Fallow says the White House press briefing room is a "public forum" and that "the courts have said repeatedly the government is not allowed to kick people out of that forum based on their viewpoint."
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- "America, Who Hurt You?": Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance
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- 13:46
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- 12 days ago
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Sarah Jones has been described as “a one-woman global village” for her remarkable one-person, multi-character shows. The Tony- and Obie Award-winning writer and performer is best known for her Broadway hit Bridge and Tunnel. She is back in New York with her latest solo performance, America, Who Hurt You?, which is being presented by the National Black Theatre and the Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
America, Who Hurt You? “starts with our history of genocide as a country, our history of enslaving African people, our history of indentured servitude,” says Jones. “This show … is about restoring the history that has intentionally been erased.”
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- “Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: US Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
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- 10:44
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- 12 days ago
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Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditions they faced in the Central African country. Samson Birhane, who is from Eritrea, and Ahmed Soliman, a gay asylum seeker from Egypt, were both deported by the Trump administration despite U.S. immigration courts granting them protections.
On September 11, police forces arrived at Hotel Bamy in the city of Malabo, where more than two dozen people have been confined after their deportation from the United States to Equatorial Guinea, a country they have no ties to, as part of President Trump’s secretive “third-country” agreements. Birhane and Soliman say they were arrested and taken to prison for speaking out about the inhumane conditions endured by U.S. deportees at the hotel and threats by armed ...
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- “War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage
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- 15:01
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- 12 days ago
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News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated when they attempted to enter White House grounds over the weekend. Trump’s decision is “sending the message that if you write stories that are critical of the president, you’re going to lose your access,” says Katie Fallow, a deputy litigation director at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute, where she focuses on threats to freedom of speech and of the press. “The real victims of this war on the press are members of the public, which are entitled to know about what their government is doing.”
Fallow says the White House press briefing room is a “public forum” and that “the courts have said repeatedly the government is not allowed to kick people out of that forum based o...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 21, 2026
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- 16:38
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- 12 days ago
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- "We are fed by immigrants"
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- "We are fed by immigrants," says journalist Eric Schlosser, who has been writing about the U.S. food system for decades.
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- Rhiannon Giddens on music as resistance
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- 1:03
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- 15 days ago
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- “If we don't connect those dots between the struggles, we're never going to get anywhere,” says award-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That's what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler's landmark film “Sinners.” She won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2023 for her opera “Omar” about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s.
Giddens’s new album, “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers,” comes out on Friday.
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- Oxfam: A woman needs to lead the U.N.
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- 0:54
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- 15 days ago
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- Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International, says that with António Guterres soon stepping down, the United Nations’ next secretary-general must be a woman — something that’s never happened before. “What we are talking of is feminist politics,” says Behar.
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- "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers": Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump
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- 36:08
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- 15 days ago
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“If we don't connect those dots between the struggles, we're never going to get anywhere,” says Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. “That's what music is for. … We have to make music with people from different backgrounds because then we have that conversation.”
Giddens has had a wide-spanning career, including her time with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an old-time Black string band, and her work as a musical consultant on Ryan Coogler's landmark film Sinners. She won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2023 for her opera Omar about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, comes out on Friday.
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- Occupy Wall Street, 15 years later
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Fifteen years ago this week, thousands of activists marched on the Financial District in New York City. They formed the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, launching a movement focused on economic inequality that spread across the nation and globe under the slogan, “We are the 99%.”
“Occupy Wall Street changed the public's common sense about class and class struggle and inequality in this country,” says Yotam Marom, who helped organize the Occupy protests in New York City. “It's hard to see how you get a Bernie Sanders 2016 run without the public shifting its relationship to that story.”
Marom’s new book is “For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness.”
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- "We Are the 99%": 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street's Impact Is Still Being Felt
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- 12:53
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- "Inequality Emergency": Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza
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- 12:47
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- 15 days ago
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As world leaders prepare to head to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week, Democracy Now! speaks with Amitabh Behar, executive director of Oxfam International. “We live in a very different world from 1945,” when the U.N. was formed, says Behar. “You cannot continue with the veto power.” And with António Guterres soon stepping down, Behar stresses that the United Nations’ next secretary-general must be a woman — “a fundamental shift we need to make.”
He also argues that while the world is “torn apart” by inequality, “there are real possibilities of change.” Behar cites the G20’s International Panel on Inequality and “movements across the world” aimed at “changing regimes,” including in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 18, 2026
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- 11:05
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Remembering the more than 20,000 children Israel has killed in Gaza
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- An interfaith coalition on Wednesday in New York City unveiled a 330-foot memorial shroud bearing the handwritten names of more than 20,000 children killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since 2023. Groups including Priests Against Genocide and Doctors Against Genocide presented the "Gaza Children's Shroud" at the Church Center for the United Nations across from U.N. headquarters.
“In Gaza alone, 1 million Palestinian children [are] still alive,” said Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. “They need food. They need humanitarian assistance. They need the evacuation of all of the Israeli army. They need freedom. They need dignity. Palestine has to be free.”
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- "Call It Evil": Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
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- 14:45
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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We speak with moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of the new book "Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era." Neiman argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world. The Trump administration's abusive policies have been aided by a general reluctance to call them out as evil, part of how people are "brainwashed … by the idea that morality is for losers, suckers, fools," she says.
"People worry that it's polarizing, that it's demonizing, and by that worry, we leave the strongest weapons we have in the language in the hands of people who are least responsible in using them," says Neiman.
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- Trump demands "mystery meat" imports
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Why did President Donald Trump demand the importation of 660 million pounds of cheap "mystery meat" into the United States?
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- "Fast Food Nation," Mystery Meat & Trump's Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser
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- 25:39
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- 16 days ago
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Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef. Imported beef and pork were once labeled with their country of origin, but Congress voted in 2015 to end that requirement, so customers at the grocery store will have no way to identify this "mystery meat," which is coming mostly from Brazil. President Trump's proclamation in August came just a day after he met in the White House with Joesley Batista, whose family controls the Brazilian company JBS, the largest beef producer in the world. JBS is notorious for food safety violations and admitted in 2017 to bribing thousands of Brazilian officials for favorable treatment.
"It smells like a pretty corrupt deal," says investigative journalist Eric Schlosser. He says Tru...
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- Calling out "evil"
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Moral philosopher Susan Neiman's new book is "Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era." She argues that evil — far from being an outdated religious concept — is a vital way to understand how injustice works in the world.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 17, 2026
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- 14:01
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Palestinian farmer describes Israeli settler encroachment
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Mohammad Sha’ban, a Palestinian farmer from Halhul in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank, says 11 gates and seven settler outposts have been installed around Halhul since 2025. “We cannot reach our lands. We cannot go outside Halhul. They open only one gate from 8 o’clock until 5 o’clock every day."
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- “Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown
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- 11:05
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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Four years ago today, the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising erupted in Iran after the death in custody of Zhina Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested by Iran’s “morality police.” Over the next three months, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets protesting against Iran's discriminatory compulsory veiling laws.
Amnesty International has released a new report concluding that the repressive measures used by Iranian authorities to crush the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 constitute crimes against humanity. Investigating the killings of 377 protesters and bystanders in 2022, Amnesty International's report calls for international criminal investigations into 87 Iranian officials.
“Crimes against humanity are system crimes. This means that they require resources, organization, structures, and state policy,” says Raha Bahreini, a human rights la...
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- "Elimination Project": B'Tselem on Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank
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- 20:16
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe
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- 10:10
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation after ProPublica revealed on Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin bankrolled part of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding in May. ProPublica reports that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on wedding expenses, including the rental of a private island. Just weeks before the wedding, Putin awarded Kremlev the Order of Friendship.
Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina Anderson, confirmed ProPublica’s findings in a social media post, specifying that Kremlev only paid for an afterparty.
“The most important thing to understand about Kremlev is the level of his connection with the Russian government. Right before the wedding … he was reportedly traveling in China as part of Putin's delegation,” says Joshua Kaplan, the ProPublica reporter who was part of the team that broke the story. “He's spent a lot o...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 16, 2026
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- 13:37
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Will Trump turn Gaza into a "privatized paradise"?
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- "There is no paradise that is coming out of the apocalypse in Gaza, but that is the story that the Trump administration is telling. It's a privatized paradise that they're proposing to build."
Naomi Klein, the co-author of the new book "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World," explains how the "Board of Peace" to govern Gaza and possibly usurp the United Nations is a paradigmatic case of the wealth inequality championed by the Trump family.
"They see the United States as a place that they can extract from," says Klein, whether that's money, resources or legal immunity.
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- "End Times Fascism"
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- The new book "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World," co-authored by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein, examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis.
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- “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
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- 41:08
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” even as they contribute to growing inequality, political instability and the climate crisis. The rise of modern-day fascism is “not simply a rerun,” explains Klein. “We don't believe that history repeats on a loop. We believe that we're in something more like a sequel, where the logics of fascism, which are the logics of dehumanization, of othering, of racial supremacy and hierarchy, are now being applied in a time of global existential crisis.” In response, says Taylor, the growing movement seeking to resist this fatalistic vision “fundamentally needs to be grounded in a desire to stay here on Earth, to commit to this place.”
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 15, 2026
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- 13:21
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- What did Saudi Arabia know about 9/11? New evidence renews scrutiny of Omar al-Bayoumi
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- Key evidence linking Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 attacks "went missing" for about two decades, ProPublica reporter Tim Golden says.
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- 9/11 widow Terry Strada calls out Saudi Arabia for role in 2001 attacks
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- A 9/11 widow is demanding the U.S. government stop shielding Saudi Arabia from accountability.
Terry Strada heads the group 9/11 Families United, which is suing the kingdom for its alleged role in the 2001 attacks. She publicly criticized former presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden during the 25th anniversary commemoration in New York last week, and called on the Trump administration to pressure the Saudi government to come clean.
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- Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast
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- 5:37
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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Yemen is at risk of spiraling back into all-out war as Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia exchange new strikes amid a fight over control of the key Bab el-Mandeb strait through which much of Saudi oil passes on its way to world markets. The Houthis, the Iran-allied force also known as Ansarallah, has seized Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline from the Saudi-backed Yemeni government. The United Nations says the latest escalation has displaced 86,000 people in Yemen as the U.S. war on Iran continues to wrack the Middle East and raise oil prices around the world.
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- Title
- New Evidence Sheds Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack
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- 20:23
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- 19 days ago
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Did Saudi Arabia play a role in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks of 2001? That question was raised immediately after the attack, when 15 of the 19 hijackers were revealed to be Saudi citizens, and it has only grown louder in the 25 years since as more evidence emerged of the attackers’ connections to Saudi figures inside the United States.
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- “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks
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- 13:20
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- 19 days ago
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A quarter-century after the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States, a group of victims’ families is continuing a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to hold the kingdom accountable for any role it played in the planning and execution of the plot. While the Saudi government has always denied advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, 15 of the 19 plane hijackers were Saudi citizens, including some with connections to Saudi officials and intelligence assets in the United States.
Terry Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, raised the issue during an official commemoration on Friday in New York while paying tribute to her husband Tom, who was killed in the World Trade Center. With Vice President JD Vance and all four living ex-presidents in the audience, Strada asked: “How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in yo...
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- "Naza” Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors’ Citizenship
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- 4:02
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- 19 days ago
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — September 14, 2026
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