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IDF's Biggest Single Donor Has Captures US Media
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- IDF's Biggest Single Donor Has Captures US Media
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- "What has happened in the US in terms of media trends is unbelievably alarming. Larry Ellison is, depending on the stock market, either the richest or second-richest person on the planet, after Elon Musk. Larry Ellison's only political activity other than making money, which he’s very good at, is serving and financing Israel. He's the largest single donor ever in history to the 'Friends of the IDF.'
Aaron Bastani in conversation with Glenn Greenwald.
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- Palestine Action Hunger Strikers In Critical State
- Runtime
- 15:26
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Two hunger-striking remand prisoners linked to Palestine Action have now entered a critical state after having refused food for well over two months…
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- Donald Trump Tells Iranian Protesters “Help Is On Its Way” | #novaralive
- Runtime
- 1:07:40
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump has again signalled US intervention in Iran, and an Iranian security official has estimated the death toll from ongoing protests to be 2000.
With Aaron Bastani, Kieran Andrieu & Séamus Malekafzali.
00:00 Intro
01:25 Thousands of Iranian protesters feared dead, as Trump imposes MORE tariffs
50:54 Concerns grow for the health of Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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- Iran’s Cost-of-Living Revolt Cuts Across Class and Has No Single Demand
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The uprising in Iran cuts across class lines, with a diverse range of people making various demands, author Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi says on Novara Live.
While it’s clear protesters are united by a wish for a more democratic government, he argues, observers should be wary of people “ventriloquising for the Iranian population” when it comes to the specifics.
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- Elon Musk Made X Unsafe for Women on Purpose
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- X could be banned in the UK after users discovered the platform's AI chatbot Grok was able to digitally undress people without their consent.
On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar told Michael Walker she didn't think the feature was an accident. In fact, she argues, considering Elon Musk's hatred for anybody he considers a "woke warrior”, it might even be part of a deliberate campaign to make the app unusable for them.
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- Right Wing Moral Panic DEBUNKED By Reality
- Runtime
- 11:42
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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- How Amazon Makes Literally Everything More Expensive
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Did you know that Amazon imposes "junk fees" on its website that drive up the price of goods across the board?
In November, technology critic Cory Doctorow talked Aaron Bastani through some of the many ways Amazon is squeezing customers - and sellers too.
Head to our YouTube channel to catch up on their full conversation from Downstream IRL.
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- The REAL Reason They Care About Iran
- Runtime
- 15:27
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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- Title
- Death Toll Continues To Rise In Iran Protests | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:04:48
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Protests in Iran reach day 16.
Plus: ‘Hypocrisy’ as everyone from Tommy Robinson to JK Rowling speaks out on Iranian protests, and Donald Trump vs the Federal Reserve's chief.
00:00 Intro
01:00 Iran Protests Continue
25:23 Donald Trump VS The Fed
37:17 The Right Draw Battle Lines Around Iran
52:35 Myths About London
With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar & Arash Azizi.
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- Title
- Big Tech Companies Are Like Rats Eating Our Faces
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Have you noticed that the internet is getting worse?
It’s not just you: time online is filled with less of what we search for, and a lot more advertising and AI slop. That's why, in November, technology critic and author Cory Doctorow spoke to Aaron Bastani for Downstream IRL about the forces driving what he calls ‘ensh*ttification.’
“Why do these companies abuse us, right now?" he said. "It's… because they can, because we don't stop them!”
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- How US Empire Actually Works | Aaron Bastani Meets Glenn Greenwald
- Runtime
- 1:20:09
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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It has been a bellicose start to 2026, with the US army kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatening to annex Greenland, putting many more nations, including Mexico and Colombia, on high alert.
On Downstream this week is investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who's best known for helping Edward Snowden's disclosures about the NSA's global surveillance program come to light, as well as investigations that led to Brazilian president Lula's release from prison.
He sat down in his Rio De Janeiro studio to speak to Aaron Bastani about the differences in Trump 2.0's foreign policy, how the last year has seen unprecedented corporate consolidation of media and whether the US empire is flexing a novel expansionist ambition or if the lashing out of the last week ...
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- The US Is Having An 'Imperial Tantrum'
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- "A lot of people inside the United States foreign policy apparatus are very worried that the reason so many countries now prefer China as the superpower with whom they deal, rather than the United States, is because the United States goes around the world, throwing its military might around the world, threatening everybody, constantly involved in wars. And China doesn't."
Aaron Bastani in conversation with Glenn Greenwald in this week's US foreign policy-focused episode of Downstream.
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- Starmer Threatens To Ban X Over Abuse Images
- Runtime
- 15:44
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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- American Empire Won't Permit a Free Palestine
- Runtime
- 2:20
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The US “cannot stomach the possibility of a liberated Palestine, because a liberated Palestine removes their key proxy in the region.”
On Downstream in September, political economist Dr. Jason Hickel had a fascinating conversation with Aaron Bastani about capitalism, imperialism, and much more. You can catch up the full episode on Novara's YouTube Channel.
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- Donald Trump: “I Don’t Need International Law”
- Runtime
- 19:01
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Protests Break Out In Iran As Trump Considers Regime Change | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:07:44
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The US is threatening regime change in Iran amid anti-government protests. Ayatollah Khamenei has tried to dismiss these as the work of outsiders.
Plus: Donald Trump tells the New York Times that international law won’t restrain him, and Keir Starmer threatens to ban Elon Musk’s X over abuse images.
00:00 Intro
00:50 Anti-Government Protests In Iran
32:32 Trump And International Law
51:24 Will Starmer Ban X?
With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi.
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- Title
- The Genocide Continues: Israel Bombs Homeless Palestinians
- Runtime
- 0:18
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Israel's slaughter of defenceless Palestinians has continued unabated despite its claim to be observing a "ceasefire". At least 14 people, including five children, were killed in fresh massacres throughout Gaza on Thursday 8 January.
Israel has killed well over 70,000 people in Gaza since 2023, but that estimate is considered by many to be very conservative; it does not account for thousands believed to be buried under the rubble or for deaths from things like disease caused by the genocide.
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- ICE-Style State Violence Is Coming for Us All
- Runtime
- 1:57
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "This needs to be a wake-up call."
On Novara Live, Dalia Gebrial reacts to the fury around the murder of a US citizen by ICE agents – and warns that unless we fight hard for migrant rights, Nigel Farage will succeed in bringing the same kind of state violence to the UK.
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- Peter Mandelson Sides With Trump Over Venezuela & Greenland
- Runtime
- 18:39
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- ICE Agent Kills US Citizen, Protests Erupt In Minneapolis | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:09:38
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Protests have erupted in response to the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a masked ICE agent as Trump’s government scrambles to justify her killing.
Plus: The UK and France have agreed to deploy troops to Ukraine if a peace deal is reached with Russia, and Peter Mandelson has accused European leaders of a “histrionic” response to Trump’s threats of invading Greenland.
00:00 Intro
00:57 ICE Kill American Citizen
32:21 UK & France May Send Troops To Ukraine
45:19 Peter Mandelson On Trump's Greenland Threat
With @NoJusticeMTG & Dalia Gebrial.
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- Title
- Trump Is Using US Courts to Enforce Global Power
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The US has seized two Russian-flagged oil tankers sailing in Venezuelan waters, claiming they were linked to illicit exports.
On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar says international law is clear: ships in international waters cannot be unilaterally boarded unless there's an international crime being committed, like piracy. But, frankly, the US simply does not care.
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- Greenland: Trump Thinks Europe Owes Him an Island
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "I think it's monstrous. I think it's disgusting. But there is a coherence here."
On Novara Live, Ash Sarkar makes the case that in Trump's mind, he is owed Greenland for the US paying for defence in Europe.
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- US Mayor to ICE: 'Get the F*ck Out'
- Runtime
- 0:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “I do have a message for ICE... get the f*ck out of Minneapolis."
Jacob Frey, Minneapolis' mayor, addressed the US' Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directly at a press conference after ICE agents reportedly shot a woman in the face multiple times while acting as a "legal observer" during an immigration raid in Minnesota.
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was killed less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020.
- Title
- Is Trump Serious About Taking Greenland By Force?
- Runtime
- 16:44
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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- Title
- Why Misogyny Is Getting Worse
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “I was socialised through misogyny, like most boys. I still remember as an eight-year-old, nine-year-old, that our socialisation process as boys revolved around hating girls.”
Economist Yanis Varoufakis told Aaron Bastani in October that the women in his life made him a feminist and explained why misogyny is worsening as politics moves to the right.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on Novara’s YouTube channel.
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- Will Venezuelan Society Collapse?
- Runtime
- 26:04
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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- Title
- US Seizes Russian Oil Tanker in Atlantic | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 58:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Russian oil tanker seized by the US
Plus: Trump says he’ll use force to take Greenland, and what does the future look like for Venezuela?
00:00 Intro
01:39 US Seizure Of Russian Tanker
15:24 Trump Threatens to Take Greenland By Force
31:58 Will Venezuelan Society Collapse?
With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar & Gabriel Hetland
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- Title
- Venezuela's Exiled Capitalist Elite Desperate to Rule Again
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Venezuela's exiled ruling class is waiting in the wings to help the US plunder the country's resources.
On Novara Live, Kieran Andrieu said it was "incredibly depressing" to see people selling out their own countries to a foreign colonial state for personal profit and power.
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- Jeremy Corbyn Schools The Mainstream Media On Venezuela
- Runtime
- 22:53
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The UK government continues to condemn Donald Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela, but Jeremy Corbyn is making the case for international law.
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- 'Condemn Maduro or Shut Up': Mainstream Media's Tactic to Silence America's Critics
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "That guy was such a brainless lapdog."
Sky News' Darren McCaffrey wouldn’t let Jeremy Corbyn have a real conversation about US aggression in Venezuela unless he condemned kidnapped leader Nicolás Maduro.
On Novara Live, Kieran Andrieu and Steven Methven wonder why the presenter never asks his guests to condemn other world leaders such as, say, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Catch up with the full show live every weeknight on our YouTube channel.
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- Britain's Role In Multiple Genocides
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- 'There's almost certainly genocide going on in Sudan. I just came back from there. Who is the pen holder for Sudan? Britain as the former colonial power. Who is a pen holder in Myanmar? Britain. Who is the pen holder in Yemen? Britain'
Peter Oborne speaking to Aaron Bastani on this week's episode of Downstream.
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- The CHAOS Behind Trump’s Attack On Venezuela
- Runtime
- 14:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The US government’s illegal attack on Venezuela and threats against Greenland reveal the chaos at the heart of Donald Trump’s administration.
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- Labour Won’t Condemn Illegal Attack On Venezuela | #novaralive
- Runtime
- 1:08:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The world reacts to Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela, with the UK government refusing to call it a breach of international law.
Plus: Jeremy Corbyn gives the mainstream media a lesson in diplomacy, and a new poll has Labour dropping below the Tories.
00:00 Intro
01:23 Labour's inability to condemn the illegal attack on Venezuela
21:53 Jeremy Corbyn gives Sky News a lesson on international law
46:20 Stephen Miller and the chaos in Trump's administration
01:01:08 Labour drop below Tories
With Steven Methven and Kieran Andrieu
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- Cowardly Labour MP Refuses to Condemn Trump on Greenland
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- When Labour MP Mike Tapp spoke to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, she said it was "extraordinary" that he couldn't condemn Trump for threatening to annex Greenland.
On Novara Live, Aaron Bastani called Tapp a "fake tough guy" that represents everything broken about Britain. a man who is "weak against the strong and very strong against the weak".
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- Trump’s Message to the World: ‘We’re in Charge’
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "Any leader can be kidnapped, killed, any country bombed, for any reason whatsoever."
Donald Trump has already threatened Colombia, Iran, Mexico and Greenland since the US took control of Venezuela this weekend. On Novara Live, journalist Juan David Rojas says his "vibes-signalling" was the exact kind of "spectacular action" that his base wants to see.
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- The Insider Who Made Big Bucks On Polymarket Betting On Maduro’s Kidnap
- Runtime
- 4:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Title
- Starmer and Farage Are Just Puppets
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “The centre-left is completely chasing the narrative of the right because it doesn’t have its own critical reading of society.”
This is how the right seized the narrative and what the left needs to do about it — from Lea Ypi in conversation with Aaron Bastani on Downstream in September.
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- Trump Warns Europe They’ll Be Next
- Runtime
- 14:04
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Maduro Says He’s “Still President” After Trump Coup | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:03:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Following his kidnapping, Nicolás Maduro pleads not-guilty.
Plus: Trump warns Europe they’ll be next, and the insider who made big bucks betting on Maduro’s kidnap.
00:00 Intro
00:52 Maduro appears In New York Court
36:37 Greenland In Trump's Crosshairs Again
58:47 Alleged Insider Wins Bet On Maduro’s Kidnap
With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani, and Juan David Rojas.
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- Title
- Global Protests Erupt Against US Attack on Venezuela
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Activists burned US flags and chanted anti-imperialist slogans as protests erupted across America and around the world following Saturday's illegal attack against Venezuela.
- Title
- Israeli Military Secrets the BBC Don’t Want You to Know - Part 2
- Runtime
- 2:24
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "How much more PR does the BBC want to do for Israel and its military?"
In the second video of the mini-series first published in October, Harriet Williamson breaks down the Hannibal Directive, another shocking IDF doctrine that the BBC has consistently omitted from its reporting on Israel’s genocidal military actions in Gaza.
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- We Don’t Understand the Fall of Communism
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “These were democratising movements that were trying to find the third way.”
On Downstream in September, Lea Ypi explained why common beliefs about the fall of communism are dangerously misleading.
Ypi is a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics and author of the new book Indignity. Head to our YouTube channel to watch the full conversation.
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- Media Insider EXPOSES Israel’s Capture Of British Politics | Aaron Bastani Meets Peter Oborne
- Runtime
- 1:12:13
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/
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After 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' on October 7th, a specific narrative quickly emerged and pervaded the entire Western mainstream media. Namely, that unprecedented horrors were committed against the state of Israel and that whatever way it responded was justified. Any deviation from this narrative was quickly shut down.
In the intervening years, the British state has aided Israel in its response, a response that organisations including Amnesty & B'tselem have called a genocide in Gaza.
Peter Oborne is a journalist and author whose new book, 'Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza', provides a forensic account and set of references defying anyone denying Britain's fuelling of genocide in Gaza.
You can buy Peter’s book here: https://orbooks.com/cata...
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- They Took Me to the Prison Where my Brother Was Tortured
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- When the IDF kidnapped everyone sailing to Gaza on the aid flotilla in October, many found themselves blindfolded and taken to Ketziot prison, a "god forsaken place" in the Negev desert.
That included Novara Media's Kieran Andrieu. When he returned home, he recounted the moment he first realised that he had been imprisoned in the very same place his Palestinian half-brother was once detained and tortured.
- Title
- The 'Rules Based Order' Is OVER
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- 'British leaders have made a decision to support the United States or at least not demur from the United States in a war on the global institutions which were set up after 1945, in order to prevent a recurrence of the horror of World War Two"
Peter Oborne speaking to Aaron Bastani in a new episode of Downstream premiering at 3pm GMT today.
- Title
- Careful, You’ll Make Me Sound Like a Hypnotist
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Last year, Green Party membership surged from 70,000 to now be closer to 200,000.
And in November, leader Zack Polanski sat down with Ash Sarkar on Downstream to talk about the threat of Reform, party democracy, and why you should join them too.
Rewatch the full episode on Novara’s YouTube channel.
- Title
- Chat GPT Is a Trillion Dollar Porn Bot
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "It's always been about money."
On Novara Live in October, Michael Walker and Barry Malone broke down the "dystopian scheme" at the heart of OpenAI's impending move towards "erotica for verified adults".
- Title
- Whiteness Is Never Used To Explain Crime
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- "Where there are white grooming gangs, or white gangs on online paedophiles sharing images of child sexual abuse, there is never ever a question of culture, race, ethnicity, religion'
Ash Sarkar speaks to Aaron Bastani about the hypocrisy of the right-wing political and media class when it comes to racialising certain types of crime.
- Title
- Is the BBC Bias on Gaza?
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Is the BBC actually biased on Gaza? The short answer is yes.
Following a report accusing the BBC of systematic bias against Palestinians, a spokesperson said: “We welcome scrutiny and reflect on all feedback... We will continue to give careful thought to how we report the devastating human cost to civilians in Gaza.”
Harriet Williamson reporting for Novara Media in July 2025.
- Title
- Capitalism Limits What We Can Achieve
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- “Two billion people around the world live in food insecurity. Something as basic as food security cannot be supplied by capitalism for everybody.”
On Downstream in August last year, political economist Jason Hickel spoke with Aaron Bastani. Watch the full episode back on Novara's YouTube Channel.
