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DOJ Whistleblower Confirms "Antisemitism" Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations
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- DOJ Whistleblower Confirms "Antisemitism" Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations
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- 9:24
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- 1 month ago
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Haley Van Erem, a former career attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, has filed a complaint claiming the Trump administration task force charged with investigating antisemitism pushed universities into massive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of anti-Jewish discrimination on campus. Van Erem said in her complaint that the government's probes into schools like Harvard, Brown and Columbia were "an unlawful process designed to achieve predetermined political goals."
"Columbia affiliates, from the Board of Trustees down, have actually collaborated with the federal government in these sham investigations," says Marianna Hirsch, professor emerita at Columbia University. "These were not probes into antisemitism accusations, but they were efforts to dismantle higher education brick by brick." Columbia and Brown settled with the administration for $200 million and $5...
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- Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers
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- 13:36
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- 1 month ago
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Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who lives in Ohio, traveled to the occupied West Bank on Monday to help relatives defend their family home in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus. Israeli settlers have surrounded the home, which Ridi owns, for more than a week. Settlers have besieged several Palestinian houses in the village, trapping people inside and cutting off water and electricity in some cases.
"I'm not getting no protection here. I still fear for my life. I still fear for my family's life here," says Ridi, who joins _Democracy Now!_ from the occupied West Bank. Ridi has raised an American flag on his home and reached out to the U.S. Embassy for help. "The IDF is not even making it better here. They're not allowing us to leave the house. They're not allowing anyone to come to my house freely," says Ridi, explaining that getting food to the house takes "hours, if not days."
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- As International Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of Hind Rajab in Gaza
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- 20:15
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- 1 month ago
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Israel's military on Wednesday admitted that its soldiers opened fire in January 2024 on a car trying to flee Gaza City following Israel's evacuation orders. The car was carrying 5-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab and six of her relatives. They were all killed, as were Palestine Red Crescent Society medics dispatched to rescue them. The Israeli military said it would also investigate the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics whose bodies and crushed emergency vehicles were recovered from a mass grave in Rafah in March 2025. It made no mention of thousands of other incidents where Palestinian civilians were killed by Israeli forces.
"This seems to be nothing more than political theater," says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, the Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. He was a correspondent on the Al Jazeera Fault Lines documentary The Night Won't End that investigated the killings of civilians in...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 21, 2026
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- 11:26
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- 1 month ago
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- Who is Natalie Harp? Controversial Trump aide raises alarm
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- 0:59
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- 1 month ago
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- "Natalie Harp is everywhere." Reporter Maggie Haberman says the Trump aide has alarmed those around the president, including the Secret Service.
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- The hidden human labor costs of AI
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- 1:58
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- 1 month ago
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- James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. He is a co-author of "Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.," which is based on more than a decade of fieldwork following Global South workers whose labor forms the foundation of the "knowledge" displayed by AI tools and assistants.
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- "Love Machines": James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI
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- 12:05
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- 1 month ago
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James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how people form emotional attachments with large language models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., co-written by fellow researchers Mark Graham and Callum Cant and based on more than a decade of fieldwork, follows Global South workers whose knowledge and labor are the basis of AI tools and assistants.
“A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a useful tool for us. But most of the human hours that go into making artificial intelligence possible are not done in labs in Google or OpenAI. The majority of the work is actually very piecemeal 'data annotation' ...
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- AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It's an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI's Connor Leahy
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- 13:35
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- 2 months ago
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Sixty-nine-year-old Wynd Kaufmyn, a retired teacher from Berkeley, California, is believed to be the first person imprisoned for protesting the development of artificial intelligence, after she and other members of the group StopAI were arrested during a sit-in protest at the headquarters of OpenAI. Democracy Now! reached Kaufmyn at the San Francisco County Jail, where she is now serving a two-week sentence for charges including "interfering with a business." Kaufmyn says she participated in the protest because "This technology is fueling a dystopian level of surveillance. It's fueling a fascist state. It's going to take all of our jobs. It's already taken many of them. It's causing suicides, homicides and mass shootings. This needs to stop."
Another group, named ControlAI, has made it a mission to brief lawmakers on "adversarial" threats from unchecked emergent technologies. We speak to ControlAI's ...
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- 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life
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- 17:33
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- 2 months ago
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Restrictions on women's rights have expanded in Afghanistan since U.S. forces withdrew from the country five years ago, ceding control to the Taliban in the process. Afghan women are banned from attending schools and gyms, books written by women are removed from libraries, doctors and nurses are unable to practice, and child marriage rates have increased. Wives have been rendered legally subordinate to their husbands, and women are required to stay silent in public. "Women and girls of Afghanistan are suffering the most darkest situation in the world," says Negina Yari, an Afghan women's rights activist living in exile in Germany, who discusses the impacts of what some advocacy groups are characterizing as "gender apartheid," as well as the effects of regional diplomatic normalization on the Taliban's political influence.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 20, 2026
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- 12:55
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- 2 months ago
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- Activists occupy 200-year-old tree to stop border wall
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- 1:43
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- 2 months ago
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- A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction.
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- Bipartisan backlash to border wall in Big Bend National Park
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- 1:20
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- 2 months ago
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- The Trump administration's construction of a border wall in Big Bend National Park in Texas has faced bipartisan backlash.
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- Palestinian American travels to the West Bank to help defend his family home from Israeli settlers
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- 1:17
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- 2 months ago
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- Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American, flew to the occupied West Bank Monday to help his relatives defend their home in the village of Qusra from Israeli settlers who have surrounded it for more than a week. Settlers have surrounded several Palestinian houses in the village and blocked the people inside from leaving.
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- Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
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- 9:25
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- 2 months ago
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A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction.
“People are successfully forcing the government to stop, to slow down, or at least change course on border wall construction,” says journalist John Washington, a staff writer for the queer news outlet Lookout and author of multiple books about immigration. “They’ve been very clear that this is both an environmental and a political fight.”
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- "Profoundly Corrupt": Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month
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- 8:11
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- 2 months ago
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We speak with Brendan Ballou, CEO of the Public Integrity Project, which is part of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his plan to monetize access to his social media platform Truth Social, where he routinely makes market-moving announcements. Truth API went live on August 1 and already has subscribers. Truth Social is charging up to $100,000 per month for early access to the president's posts, giving investors an edge on major news events.
"It's profoundly corrupt," says Ballou. "The government can't discriminate who it gives information to based on who they are, what they believe, what they're willing to pay the president."
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- Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas
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- 9:00
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- 2 months ago
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The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Big Bend National Park in Texas following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback. The construction is part of a larger plan for the Big Bend region to build hundreds of miles of walls, vehicle barriers and other border infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security waived requirements that federal contractors comply with a broad slate of environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, to proceed with construction in the national park.
"I think the administration made such a massive miscalculation when they sicced their bulldozers on this great American national park," says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Laiken says the movement to pro...
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- Trump's "Authoritarian Takeover" of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Jessica González
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- 16:47
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- 2 months ago
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We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, and Disney's lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over what it calls the Trump administration's "retaliatory campaign" against the ABC television network.
González says President Donald Trump's "authoritarian takeover attempt of our media system" must be opposed.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 19, 2026
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- 12:26
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- 2 months ago
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- Who makes decisions in the White House?
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- 1:48
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- 2 months ago
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- “This is a government run by … about a half dozen people,” says author and New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman. She is the co-author of the new book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”
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- Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel
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- 14:58
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- 2 months ago
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President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of Gaza to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the besieged territory.
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- “Regime Change” Author Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran
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- 29:12
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- 2 months ago
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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look at how the administration has handled many of the biggest crises of Trump’s second term.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 18, 2026
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- 11:41
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- 2 months ago
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- How Peter Thiel “created” JD Vance
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- 1:05
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- 2 months ago
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- Gil Durán’s new book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy,” digs into the links between tech billionaires and the Trump administration, including the relationship between Vice President JD Vance and billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel.
A former venture capitalist Vance’s “outsider” campaign for Senate was bankrolled by Thiel, whose influence has extended to another PayPal co-founder, the former Special Advisor to President Trump, Elon Musk, as well as to Trump’s sons and son-in-law Jared Kushner through a growing network of investments aimed at enlarging the Trump family’s wealth.
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- Immigrants protest in Ceuta
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- 1:05
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- 2 months ago
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- Hundreds of immigrants in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta gathered for a protest Sunday demanding they be granted asylum. They're among the thousands who remain in Ceuta after most of the 70,000 people who crossed into the enclave in recent weeks seeking protections quickly left.
Dozens died, mostly from drowning, in their attempt to reach the Spanish territory amid an intensifying crackdown along the border with Morocco.
Many of those who stayed in Ceuta are now forced to sleep on the beach or in the city's outskirts.
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- Rajiv Menon
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- 0:55
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- 2 months ago
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- Rajiv Menon, a prominent human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom, has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte “Lottie” Head, one of four Palestine Action activists sentenced as terrorists over their involvement in a 2024 protest and raid on an Israeli weapons factory.
The charges against Menon are similarly unprecedented. He is accused of encouraging a jury to acquit Head according to their conscience. Menon denies this accusation and says he was simply informing the jury of a prior case that is famous in British legal history.
Menon says that, along with the government’s ban on Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, the case against him is having a “chilling effect” on protests in the U.K.
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- Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K.
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- 16:39
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- 2 months ago
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A prominent human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom has been charged with criminal contempt for his closing speech in the trial of his client, Charlotte "Lottie" Head, one of four Palestine Action activists who were sentenced as terrorists over their involvement in a 2024 protest and raid on an Israeli weapons factory. Their sentencing marked the first time a British judge issued terrorism sentencing enhancements on people who were not actually convicted of terrorism. An additional 21 currently jailed Palestine Action protesters could face similar sentences, which carry multiyear prison terms.
The charges against Rajiv Menon are similarly unprecedented in British legal history. He is accused of encouraging a jury to acquit Head according to their conscience. Menon denies this accusation and says he was simply informing the jury of a prior legal case. He adds that, along with the U.K. government's b...
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- "The Nerd Reich": Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
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- 34:05
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- 2 months ago
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A new book by longtime Bay Area journalist Gil Durán investigates “tech fascism” and its mounting influence on U.S. politics. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy follows the rise of Vice President JD Vance, the former venture capitalist whose “outsider” campaign for Senate was bankrolled by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, Peter Thiel. Durán traces the ideological lineage of the current Trump administration back from Vance to Thiel and the far-right-wing monarchist Curtis Yarvin, whose “right-libertarian” political theory has long made the rounds among Silicon Valley elite. “These guys were never libertarians,” says Durán. “Now that they are the government, we see their true face: They’re fascists, and they’re authoritarians.”
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- "Operation Puppet Master": Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings
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- 12:43
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- 2 months ago
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Newly released federal documents have revealed the existence of an expansive surveillance program launched by the federal government against activists, labor unions, community groups, and even a bicycle repair collective, in Minnesota last winter. “Operation Puppet Master” was launched in response to statewide protests against the ICE killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. The program has come to light in the course of a federal case against 15 Minnesotans who have been accused of “conspiracy” to impede ICE’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. Isaac Sant, one of the defendants in the case, says the charges levied against him are “politically motivated” and “intended to quell dissent.”
As part of its spying operation, DHS sent undercover agents to meetings in churches, parks, libraries, schools and union halls and secretly obtained the financial records of left-leaning nati...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 17, 2026
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- 11:42
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- 2 months ago
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- Howard Zinn on teaching the real history of the United States
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- 1:06
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- 2 months ago
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- From the Archives: Historian Howard Zinn was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! before his death in 2010. Best known for his book "A People's History of the United States," Zinn championed the power of regular people and opposed sanitized stories about the country's past.
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- U.K. sentences pro-Palestine protesters as terrorists
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- 1:56
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- 2 months ago
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- Since July of last year, British police have arrested over 3,000 people for expressing support for the group Palestine Action. Last year, the British government declared the group to be a terrorist organization, making support for the group punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law and human rights, was one of the three co-chairs of last year’s Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
He breaks down the first set of trials and sentencings of several Palestine Action activists who were accused of property destruction.
The activists were not allowed to speak about their motivations in court, and were later sentenced under the U.K.’s counterterrorism laws, which carry heavier prison sentences. The terrorism charges were not part of the jury trial, but levied separately by a judge.
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- The South lost the Civil War, but its "narrative" won: civil rights activist
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- 2:08
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- 2 months ago
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- While the North won the U.S. Civil War on the battlefield, the defeated South "won the narrative war," says civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative.
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- Jeremy Corbyn: “Protest works”
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- 1:13
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- 2 months ago
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- “This is a human-made murder of Palestinian children. It is an act of genocide. Protest, please. Do all you can.”
Watch our latest interview with British politician Jeremy Corbyn on our page.
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- Justin Pearson: "People don't want toxic data centers"
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- 1:13
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- 2 months ago
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- Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state's 9th Congressional District. His campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers, particularly Elon Musk's Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which are in the Memphis area.
"People don't want toxic data centers polluting the air that they breathe," Pearson says.
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- Israeli siege of Palestinian homes in West Bank
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Israeli military is stopping peace activists from bringing aid to besieged Palestinians in the West Bank. Settlers have cut off water, power and supplies to the village of Qusra for nearly a week.
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- Gaza documentary "American Doctor" goes inside hospitals during genocide
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- 1:21
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- 2 months ago
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- Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is one of the subjects of the new documentary "American Doctor," which goes inside Gaza hospitals to show how medical workers have struggled to provide care for the sick and wounded during the Israeli genocide.
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- Meet The Palestinian Circus: Troupe Mixes Circus Arts & Traditional Palestinian Culture
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- 4:23
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- 2 months ago
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Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Special thanks to producer Hana Elias.
Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
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- Donavan McKinney on democratic socialism
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- 1:31
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- 2 months ago
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- Donavan McKinney is a democratic socialist who defeated two-term Congressmember Shri Thanedar in the Democratic House primary to represent parts of Detroit and Wayne County in Michigan's 13th District.
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- "American Doctor": New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals
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- 39:26
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- 2 months ago
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We spoke to the director and two doctors featured in the new documentary "American Doctor," which depicts besieged hospitals of Gaza continuing to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian territory. According to Palestinian officials, Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023.
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- "Stop Toxic Data Centers": Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis
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- 13:00
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- 2 months ago
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We speak with Tennessee lawmaker Justin J. Pearson, who just won the Democratic primary to represent part of Memphis in the state's 9th Congressional District. Pearson's campaign focused in part on opposing large artificial intelligence data centers, particularly Elon Musk's Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, which are in the Memphis area.
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- "Mop Up Michigan": Donavan McKinney on Democratic Socialism, Corporate Money & His Primary Upset
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- 11:30
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- 2 months ago
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One of the biggest upsets from Democratic primary elections this month was Donavan McKinney's defeat of two-term Congressmember Shri Thanedar in the House primary to represent parts of Detroit and Wayne County in Michigan's 13th District. McKinney, a democratic socialist state lawmaker, won on a platform to get corporate money out of politics, support Medicare for All and end military aid to Israel, among other issues. Like many other insurgent Democrats running for office, he has also proposed strict limits on artificial intelligence data centers. He took no corporate PAC money, and his campaign was supported by the Justice Democrats, Working Families Party, Democratic Socialists of America and major labor unions.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 14, 2026
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- 14:01
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- 2 months ago
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- What goes wrong when the military uses AI?
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- 1:44
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- 2 months ago
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- AI scientist Heidy Khlaaf warns military use of artificial intelligence can result in civilian casualties. “If you have something that speeds up operations, but their baseline accuracy and reliability is 30 to 60%, that's not really different from indiscriminate targeting,” says Khlaaf.
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- The exploitation of AI workers in the Global South
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute partners with AI data labelers in the Global South to expose how they are overworked and underpaid. “It's really important to make sure that the voices of the people who are negatively impacted are elevated and they're the ones telling their stories,” says Timnit Gebru, the founder of the DAIR Institute.
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- "Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
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- 17:56
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, a group of academics, activists and engineers who produce research rooted in the belief that technology should benefit everyone. She also co-founded Black in AI, a nonprofit that works to increase the inclusion and visibility of Black people in the field of AI. Gebru previously served as co-lead of the ethical AI research team at Google but was fired in 2020 for writing a paper that warned about the financial and environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism. The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, "represents hegemonic views," says Gebru. "We even know articles like Wikipedia are heavily biased. It's overwh...
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- "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain": Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran
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- 14:17
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- 2 months ago
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Militaries across the world are in an "AI arms race," says Heidy Khlaaf, a chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, which just released a joint report with Airwars titled "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain."
"What it is is a series of different types of AI algorithms that are chained together, each with their own pitfalls, each with their own flaws," she says. "And these systems build off of each other and feed into one another to, unfortunately, end up resulting in civilian casualties."
This can lead to faulty targeting because "humans are prone to just accepting recommendations of AI algorithms without corroborating that evidence," adds Khlaaf.
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- Trump's Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk
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- 10:17
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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The Washington Post reported Monday that due to an alleged Iranian threat to assassinate President Trump, he secretly swapped planes before departing the July NATO summit in Turkey — leaving senior administration officials, staff and members of the press corps on board.
"The Israelis passed a tip, a concern, that the plane and potentially the president was under threat," says Dan Lamothe, one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the story. But it turns out the "CIA had low confidence" in the Israeli tip, according to a more recent Post story Lamothe co-authored on Thursday. "I think that kind of leaves the Secret Service in a tough spot of assessing: What do you do in this zero-fail mission to keep the president safe?"
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — August 13, 2026
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- 13:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- U.K.'s complicity in Israel's genocide
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- 1:20
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- 2 months ago
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- Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham recently apologized for the Labour Party’s initial stance on Gaza.
Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri says the tepid apology, nearly three years into Israel’s assault on Gaza, is not enough. Hammouri is one of the co-authors of “The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide,” which revisits an independent, non-governmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, held nearly one year ago today.
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- Gaza Tribunal Co-Chairs Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon & Shahd Hammouri on U.K. Complicity in Genocide
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- 39:40
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- 2 months ago
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From London, we revisit the Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom’s complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The tribunal, held nearly one year ago, was chaired by our three guests: former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Israeli professor of human rights law Neve Gordon and Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri. Their new book is titled The Gaza Tribunal: Britain’s Complicity in Genocide. We discuss the recent apology from Prime Minister Andy Burnham over the Labour Party’s early support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, the United Kingdom’s crackdown on the Palestine Action protest group under counterterrorism laws, and whether British policymakers will face any accountability for participating in “one of the biggest crimes in humanity.”
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