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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 11, 2026
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 11, 2026
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- 14:12
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- 7 months ago
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- Ex-Bush admin official slams Trump's war on Iran
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- 1:42
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- 7 months ago
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- Retired U.S. Army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says the Trump administration is committing grave war crimes in its military assault on Iran. Wilkerson served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq war and has since become a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy.
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- How much is Israel suffering from Iranian strikes?
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- 1:32
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- 7 months ago
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- Retired U.S. Army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson suggests Western media outlets are downplaying the extent of the damage in Israel and how successful Iran has been in defending itself.
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- Iran war exposes "frailty" of oil-dependent world economy
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- 1:16
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- 7 months ago
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- The Iran war exposes the "frailty" of a world that's dependent on fossil fuels, says journalist Antonia Juhasz, who reports on energy and climate.
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- "Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War": War on Iran Exposes World's Dangerous Reliance on Oil
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- 7:10
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- 7 months ago
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Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel this week as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy. Iranian officials say no oil will be allowed to leave the Middle East until the bombardment stops, raising fears of disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil and gas flows. This comes as Israel has struck oil depots in Tehran, blanketing the capital in smoke and toxic rain.
"What we're seeing is just one of the clearest depictions yet of the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels. All sides in this war are using fossil fuels as a weapon of war," says independent investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz, who reports on energy and climate.
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- "The Gulf Fears Whoever Wins This War": U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Could Destabilize Entire Region
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- 17:34
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- 7 months ago
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We speak with Kareem Shaheen, Middle East editor at New Lines Magazine, about the regional response to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. He says the Gulf countries are in a no-win situation, stuck between a belligerent Israel that has no qualms about using violence to achieve its strategic aims and a desperate Iran lashing out against U.S. allies in the region as it tries to survive. He says that no matter which side prevails, Gulf states have realized how vulnerable they are despite U.S. security guarantees. "In either scenario, I don't think that the Gulf states will be happy with the outcome," he says.
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- Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates
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- 17:20
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- 7 months ago
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As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that the conflict could continue to expand throughout the region and beyond. Lawrence Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, says the U.S. and Israel are committing wanton "war crimes" in Iran. "We have bombed civilians relentlessly. We have bombed a school. We have bombed a hospital," says Wilkerson, who also suggests Western media outlets are downplaying the extent of the damage in Israel and how successful Iran has been in defending itself.
"This is a war with long legs. Trump has completely misinterpreted it," says Wilkerson. "The only one who's interpreted it correctly is Bibi Netanyahu, and I think he's ready to use a nuclear weapon, should it become as bad as it looks like it might right no...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 10, 2026
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- 13:51
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- 7 months ago
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- Whistleblowers Speak Out About Religious Extremism in Military Amid War on Iran
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- 5:53
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- 7 months ago
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- "Racist Regime": Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians
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- 11:16
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- 7 months ago
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We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks. While Jewish neighborhoods are "well protected" by bomb shelters, shelters are much rarer in Palestinian neighborhoods within the highly segregated country, explains Israeli journalist Orly Noy. "This is the meaning of a supremacist, racist regime," she says.
Noy, whose Iranian Jewish family immigrated to Israel during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, also points out that public focus on Iran has allowed the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to continue with minimal international outcry. This settler and soldier-led violence, coupled with Israel's ongoing restrictions and humanitarian aid, are "part of the continuing genocide, the infliction of measures a...
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- Iran Picks New Supreme Leader; Toxic Black Rain Falls After Israeli Strikes on Iranian Oil Depots
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- 25:18
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- 7 months ago
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Iran has selected Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as Iran's supreme leader. The elder Khamenei was assassinated in a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike on February 28. Iran selected the "hard-liner" Mojtaba Khamenei in defiance of President Trump, who has repeatedly claimed he can choose Iran's next leader. His selection also contradicts the Islamic Republic's previous resistance to hereditary succession. "The war changed everything," says Iranian American political analyst Hooman Majd, who adds that Iran's leadership sees the conflict as "existential" and is therefore carrying out retaliatory attacks throughout the region to "make it painful economically and in many other ways for the United States and for Israel to continue the war."
Meanwhile, preliminary investigations by _The New York Times_, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International indicate that the U.S. military carried out t...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 9, 2026
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- 14:00
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- 7 months ago
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- “Donroe Doctrine” Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America
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- 1:07
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- 7 months ago
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- President Trump is hosting right-wing leaders from across Latin America in Miami for a summit discussing his so-called Shield of the Americas initiative.
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- Another Land Grab? Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Israel is escalating attacks on Lebanon after ordering the entire population of southern Lebanon to flee.
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- Trump Ousts Kristi Noem, Nominates Sen. Markwayne Mullin to Head DHS
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- 1:06
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- 7 months ago
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- President Trump has announced "hardliner" Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma as the new homeland security secretary.
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- "Donroe Doctrine" Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America
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- 9:23
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- 7 months ago
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President Trump is hosting right-wing leaders from across Latin America in Miami for a summit discussing his so-called Shield of the Americas initiative. This comes as the U.S. deploys special forces to Ecuador and as Trump hints about regime change in Cuba. "This summit is … an opportunity for Trump to play out a moment of imperial fantasy in front of fans in South Florida," says Jake Johnston, director of international research at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago will attend, says the White House.
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- Trump Ousts Kristi Noem, Nominates Sen. Markwayne Mullin to Head DHS
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- 13:08
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- 7 months ago
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Kristi Noem has been ousted from her position as homeland security secretary after intensifying calls for her resignation. Noem's tenure has been marked by allegations of corruption, deadly immigration raids and legal challenges. ProPublica reporter Justin Elliott has reported extensively on Noem's tenure, including a $200 million ad campaign that may have been the inciting incident for her firing. "This did not go through the normal competitive process," says Elliott. Instead, the ad "went to a Delaware LLC that was formed only a few days before."
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- Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South
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- 19:48
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- 7 months ago
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It is the seventh day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and Israel is escalating attacks on Lebanon after ordering the entire population of southern Lebanon to flee. This comes as Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to turn areas of Lebanon into another Gaza in a video shared on social media Thursday.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 6, 2026
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- 12:49
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- 7 months ago
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- How Israel's war on Gaza paved the way for U.S. attack on Iran
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Hala Rharrit, who resigned from the State Department in protest during the Biden administration, says she and many others warned the Gaza genocide would eventually spark a regional war with Iran unless the U.S. reined in Israel.
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- "Armed Only with a Camera": Oscar-Nominated Doc Honors Brent Renaud and Other "Fallen Journalists"
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- 9:13
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- 7 months ago
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We speak with filmmaker Craig Renaud, the director of "Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud," an HBO documentary about his brother, photojournalist Brent Renaud, who was killed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine in 2022. March 13 marks the fourth anniversary of Brent's death, and the film is both a tribute to him and "a bigger story about all the journalists who were being killed," says Craig. "As we enter another war … I hope Brent's work and the work of all the fallen journalists helps people pause for a minute and think about the impact that these wars will have."
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- Geeta Gandbhir on Her Double Oscar Noms for "The Perfect Neighbor" & "The Devil Is Busy"
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- 12:24
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- 7 months ago
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Geeta Gandbhir has made history as the first woman to receive Oscar nominations for both Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short in the same year. Her feature-length film, "The Perfect Neighbor," looks at the case of Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old Black mother of four who was fatally shot in 2023 by her white neighbor. Her documentary short, "The Devil Is Busy," chronicles a day on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights at a women's healthcare clinic in Atlanta. Gandbhir spoke with Democracy Now! ahead of this year's Academy Awards to discuss her two films and how art and politics intersect.
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- "Why Are We Going to War?": Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has "No Clear Plan" on Iran
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- 20:26
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- 7 months ago
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As the U.S. and Israel continue their bombardment of Iran and the conflict spreads throughout the region, we speak with two former U.S. government officials with experience in Middle East policy. Hala Rharrit is a career diplomat who resigned from the State Department in 2024 to protest the Biden administration's Gaza policy, and Jasmine El-Gamal served as a Middle East adviser at the Pentagon during the Obama administration.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 5, 2026
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- 13:30
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- 7 months ago
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- Kleber Mendonça Filho on his Oscar-nominated film & Brazil’s military dictatorship
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- 1:17
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- 7 months ago
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- Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in the 1970s, during the country’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship.
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- “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho on Oscar-Nominated Drama Set During Brazil’s Dictatorship
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- 13:57
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- 7 months ago
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The Secret Agent is one of the most celebrated international films of the year. It has been nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film stars Wagner Moura and is set in Brazil in 1977, during the final years of the military dictatorship. We speak with the film’s director and screenwriter, Kleber Mendonça Filho.
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- “Utter Disaster for All Involved”: Is Trump’s War on Iran Repeating Bush’s “Forever War” in Iraq?
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- 11:41
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- 7 months ago
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is now in its fifth day. Following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israel has made it clear that it intends to target any official successors. Observers also warn that Israel could soon deploy its "Dahiya doctrine," a military strategy it first developed in Lebanon that involves carpet-bombing densely populated residential areas. Despite U.S. hopes for a short engagement, however, Iran appears to be settling in for a "war of attrition" against "the biggest military superpower in world history, and the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East," says scholar Narges Bajoghli. "This could turn into a regional war of a scale that will make the past 25 years of forever wars in the Middle East seem like a walk in the park."
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- "Iran Is Not Going to Surrender": Johns Hopkins Prof. Says U.S. and Israel Underestimate Iran
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- 10:15
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- 7 months ago
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is now in its fifth day. Following the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Israel has made it clear that it intends to target any official successors. Observers also warn that Israel could soon deploy its “Dahiya doctrine,” a military strategy it first developed in Lebanon that involves carpet-bombing densely populated residential areas. Despite U.S. hopes for a short engagement, however, Iran appears to be settling in for a “war of attrition” against “the biggest military superpower in world history, and the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East,” says scholar Narges Bajoghli. “This could turn into a regional war of a scale that will make the past 25 years of forever wars in the Middle East seem like a walk in the park.”
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- Who Bombed Girls' School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre of 175 People
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- 9:19
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- 7 months ago
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After a strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, killed at least 175 people, nearly all young schoolchildren, online reports spread disinformation about the attack, including claims that the Iranian government itself had bombed the school. Journalist Nilo Tabrizy describes how outside reporters have been able to verify the attack despite Iran's internet blackout and says attempts are still being made to confirm whether the strike is attributable to the U.S. or to Israel.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 4, 2026
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- 11:39
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- 7 months ago
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- Israeli lawmaker slams U.S.-Israeli war on Iran
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- As U.S. and Israeli officials claim that their military actions are against the regime, Cassif says their real goal is pursuing “imperialist interest” at the “expense of the peoples, including the people of Iran and the people of Israel.”
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- Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- “The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb.”
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- A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World's Oil Trade
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- 22:56
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- 7 months ago
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We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. "The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb," but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson. The Trump administration may have been after the ability to "turn off the power" to countries that don't follow U.S. foreign policy, he says.
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- U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues centuries of Western imperialism in Middle East
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- 1:07
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- 7 months ago
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- Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri speaks about the historical context of Western colonialism in the Middle East amid the war against Iran.
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- "Stop This Bloodshed": Israeli Lawmaker Ofer Cassif Slams Netanyahu's "Fascist Government" over Iran
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- 11:56
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- 7 months ago
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Ofer Cassif, a member of leftist Hadash-Ta'al coalition in the Israeli Knesset, speaks with Democracy Now! from Israel about the war on Iran. As U.S. and Israeli officials claim that their military actions are against the regime, Cassif says their real goal is pursuing "imperialist interest" at the "expense of the peoples, including the people of Iran and the people of Israel." Though the war has led to deadly strikes in Israel, the majority of the public supports the government and aggression against Iran, he notes.
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- By Attacking Iran, U.S. & Israel Seek Unchallenged Supremacy in Middle East
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- 12:32
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- 7 months ago
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Rami Khouri, Palestinian American journalist and distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, speaks with Democracy Now! about the historical context of Western colonialism in the Middle East amid the war against Iran. Khouri says the U.S.-Israeli attack is the latest act "causing people across the world to look at the idea of … Western liberal democratic tradition as a hoax."
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- "Horror and Anxiety": Death Toll in Iran Tops 780 as Trump Says U.S. Can Fight "Forever
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- 11:38
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- 7 months ago
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The U.S. is sending more troops and fighter jets to the Middle East as the regional war expands four days after the U.S. and Israel assassinated Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and struck sites across Iran. At least 787 people have died so far in Iran, according to local authorities. Iranian American journalist Negar Mortazavi says the feeling on the ground is of "horror and anxiety" and that U.S. officials don't seem to understand that "starting a war with Iran is going to potentially be even more difficult and challenging than the war in Iraq, which already was a big failure on the U.S. side."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 3, 2026
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- 14:16
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- 7 months ago
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- Title
- Why Trump's war on Iran is illegal
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- 1:02
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- 7 months ago
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- "The U.N. Charter is not ambiguous," says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. "President Trump has presumptively committed … the international crime of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and just as Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine."
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- Does anyone in Israel oppose war against Iran?
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Political analyst Ori Goldberg says Israel has become "exceedingly greedy" as it launches yet another war in the region. "What Israel is fighting for is the right to be able to go off on such attacks whenever it wants, wherever it wants, for as long as it wants."
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- Why did the U.S. launch an unprovoked war on Iran?
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- "Why exactly are we attacking Iran without any kind of provocation?" asks Iranian American scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi. "This is a war that is not in the interests of the United States, and it only fulfills and realizes the desires of a regime in Israel that is promoting forever wars in the region."
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- Trump's War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
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- 4:34
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- 7 months ago
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The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations Security Council, making President Donald Trump's attack illegal under both domestic and international law, says veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.
"The U.N. Charter is not ambiguous," says Brody. "President Trump has presumptively committed … the international crime of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and just as Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine."
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- Israel Wants Ability to Attack Anyone at Any Time: Israeli Analyst Ori Goldberg
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- 9:01
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- 7 months ago
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As we continue our coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, we speak with Israeli analyst Ori Goldberg in Tel Aviv. He says "there is a broad embrace of this attack" among Israelis, bringing together the country's liberal, right-wing, religious and settler groups.
"They all seem to agree, broadly and deeply, that this war is inevitable," says Goldberg, who adds that nobody has articulated a clear strategic vision for the war. "Israel, over the past two-and-a-half years, has become exceedingly greedy. It doesn't want to commit itself to anything. What Israel is fighting for is the right to be able to go off on such attacks whenever it wants, wherever it wants, for as long as it wants."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 2, 2026
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- Iranian American Scholars Denounce U.S.-Israeli Attack, Warn Regime Change Efforts Will Backfire
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As the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters its third day, dragging much of the Middle East into armed conflict, we speak with two Iranian American scholars about the situation.
"It's quite a devastating attack on the infrastructure of the country, both in terms of the state infrastructure and civilian infrastructure," says Golnar Nikpour, associate professor of modern Iranian history at Dartmouth College. She notes that far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.
"These attacks are causing much suffering for Iranian people, and it's destroying the space in which Iranians were struggling for social justice and civil liberties," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a fierce critic of the government who was once imprisoned on death row in Iran but ...
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- Special Report: U.S. & Israel Launch Unprovoked Attack on Iran, Risking Broader Regional War
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The U.S. and Israel have launched an unprovoked attack on Iran striking sites across the country, including the compound of Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Both Israel and the U.S. say Khamenei was killed. Iranian state media also reports one Israeli strike hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, killing at least 85 people including scores of children. Iran has responded by launching attacks across the Middle East targeting Israel and U.S. military installations in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
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- Why Cori Bush is running for Congress — again
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- Cori Bush is running for Congress again.
Bush, an outspoken critic of Israel and an advocate for housing affordability and defunding the police, previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri.
She was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign run by pro-Israel groups who backed her successor, former St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell.
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- Another Columbia University student was arrested and detained by ICE. Is Columbia to blame?
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- Columbia University’s active response to the detention of international student Ellie Aghayeva, marked a departure from previous high-profile immigration arrests of its students.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a former Columbia University student who last year was also detained by DHS, says Aghayeva’s arrest in campus housing is a direct result of the university administration’s abdication of its responsibility to protect its students.
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- Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024
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Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 following a multimillion-dollar attack campaign run by pro-Israel groups. Bush, a community activist who participated in the 2014 Ferguson uprising over the police killing of Michael Brown, was an outspoken critic of Israel in Congress and introduced a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2023. “I'm running again because the person in the seat is not meeting the moment, and he's someone that was basically placed there … because they didn't want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, speaking out for human rights and civil rights,” says Bush.
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- "Abandoned By Border Patrol": Blind Refugee in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers
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The funeral for 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Rohingya refugee from Burma who was found dead after he was abandoned by Border Patrol agents miles away from his home, was held yesterday in Buffalo, New York. Local reporter J. Dale Shoemaker, who first reported on Shah Alam’s disappearance for the Buffalo news organization _Investigative Post_, explains what we know about the case.
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