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Is Trump Serious About Taking Greenland By Force?
- Title
- Is Trump Serious About Taking Greenland By Force?
- Runtime
- 16:44
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Why Misogyny Is Getting Worse
- Runtime
- 2:19
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 months ago
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- US Seizes Russian Oil Tanker in Atlantic | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 58:26
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 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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- Title
- 'Condemn Maduro or Shut Up': Mainstream Media's Tactic to Silence America's Critics
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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.
Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel.
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- The CHAOS Behind Trump’s Attack On Venezuela
- Runtime
- 14:54
- Date posted
- 8 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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- Title
- Labour Won’t Condemn Illegal Attack On Venezuela | #novaralive
- Runtime
- 1:08:45
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 months ago
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- Title
- Starmer and Farage Are Just Puppets
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 months ago
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- Title
- Maduro Says He’s “Still President” After Trump Coup | #NovaraLIVE
- Runtime
- 1:03:54
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 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
- 8 months ago
- Description
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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
- 8 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.
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- The 'Rules Based Order' Is OVER
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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.
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- Chat GPT Is a Trillion Dollar Porn Bot
- Runtime
- 2:49
- Date posted
- 8 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".
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- Whiteness Is Never Used To Explain Crime
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 8 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.
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- Is the BBC Bias on Gaza?
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 8 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
- 8 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.
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- Ash Sarkar on the Warpath: Best Moments From 2025
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "I think Charles Dickens once said that the law is an ass."
Just two and a half minutes of Novara Media's very own Ash Sarkar doing her thing in 2025.
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- What A Left Party SHOULD Be
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "I would support a party on the left if it acknowledges the reality of the class war, if it accepts that capitalism is an inherently exploitative way of running society and if it recognises the reality and actually the integrity, the primacy of imperialism in global relations. If you just accept that those three things are real, I can work with you."
Aaron Bastani speaking to Ash Sarkar on a special 2025, end-of-year Downstream.
Watch the full conversation on YouTube now.
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- Why War With Russia Might Be Closer Than You Think...
- Runtime
- 20:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Europe is ramping up for war.
Entire economies – including the UK’s – are being restructured in favour of defence and to preserve the US’s commitment to the NATO alliance…
The reason we’re given – the possibility of war with Russia…
That raises the question: what would a war between Europe and Russia look like?
And would you survive it?
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- Title
- Aren't Many Israeli Journalists Also Militants?
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- When the mainstream media talks about the alleged militant pasts of the Palestinian journalists assassinated by the IDF, they are ignoring the fact that many Israeli journalists served in the military.
When Owen Jones and Ash Sarkar spoke for Downstream in August.
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- Asylum Seekers Are Literally Not Allowed to Work
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "Let them live their life!"
When Novara Media’s Harriet Williamson travelled across Lincolnshire in July to find out why her home county has become a Reform heartland, she met this woman in Skegness.
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- There Will Be A Reckoning Over Gaza
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "I think people's reputations and careers will be destroyed and I think people are gonna go to prison."
In August, Owen Jones spoke to Ash Sarkar on Downstream about the reckoning coming for the cheerleaders of genocide. You can still watch back the whole episode on our YouTube channel.
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- 2025: What ACTUALLY Happened? w/ Ash Sarkar & Aaron Bastani
- Runtime
- 1:13:55
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani joined each other on 17th December for a special end-of-year Downstream, wrapping up the year in politics.
00:00 Intro
01:15 Russia, Ukraine & Nuclear Proliferation
11:02 The Middle East
21:27 Immigration
37:43 Labour & The British Economy
44:38 US & China
51:22 Your Party, The Greens & Zack Polanski
1:07:00 Reform
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- Title
- Bastani's Predictions for 2026
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In an end-of-year Downstream special recounting and analysing the tumult of 2025, Aaron Bastani speaks to Ash Sarkar about his predictions for 2026.
Watch the full episode today at 3pm GMT.
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- If You Want to Stop Migrants Coming, Stop Bombing Them
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- In July, Novara Media's Harriet Williamson travelled across Lincolnshire to find out why her home county has become a Reform heartland – and whether its people are being overlooked by media and Westminster elites.
She spoke to Unite Trade Union Convenor, Martin Foster, at the steelworks in Scunthorpe. You can watch back the full documentary from the trip on our YouTube channel.
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- Self-Identifying When It Comes to Class Is Bullshit
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “Self-identifying when it comes to class is bullsh*t, right? Because people tell themselves nice little convenient stories about their parents’ past.”
Dr Eliza Filby is a historian and author of the bestselling book Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad.
In conversation with Ash Sarkar back in August, Dr Filby drew on her own life story growing up in south London with parents who went from communists to Thatcherites in the 1980s. She debunked the common myths we tell ourselves about class and meritocracy, and in doing so, shined a light on the root cause of so much inequality: inherited wealth.
Catch up on the full episode on our YouTube channel.
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- The Truth About "Prince" Andrew's Life In Exile
- Runtime
- 12:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- What Karl Marx Really Thought About Religion
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “He said that religion is an expression of our longings for dignity, permanence, and being truly valued as human beings — all things that capitalism strips away from us.”
For Christmas Day, Ash Sarkar breaks down the truth of Karl Marx’s view on religion.
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- 3 Big Fat Lies Fuelling Hate Against Migrants
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Pundits and politicians want you to believe that asylum seekers are a) pampered and b) criminal monsters. None of this is true.
@SimonChilds13 debunks some of the outright bullshit fuelling anti-migrant hate in Britain right now.
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- Solidarity With Palestine is Part of Irish Culture
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "The thing is, with Ireland and Palestine, we didn’t just pick Palestine. It’s very, very deep, on both sides."
Blindboy in conversation with Ash Sarkar back in July. Catch up on the full conversation on our YouTube channel.
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- Terrorism Was Invented By The British Empire
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The “war on terror” began over a century ago in colonial India and Ireland, where resistance was criminalised and entire populations were surveilled, detained, and brutalised.
Those same tactics were later imported to the UK, rebranded, and used against Black and Muslim communities. In July, Rivkah Brown explained how counter-terrorism has always been a colonial project, and still is.
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- Professional Wrestling Can Help Us Understand Trump
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- What does Donald Trump have in common with professional wrestling?
In July, Blindboy explained to Ash Sarkar on Downstream that kayfabe - an overblown storytelling style from-wrestling that deliberately blurs the lines of what’s fake and what’s real - is used by the Trump administration to deflect from legitimate accusations of fascism.
Watch back the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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- ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left' | Aaron Bastani meets Norman Finkelstein
- Runtime
- 1:37:32
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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Norman Finkelstein is one of the West’s leading anti-Zionist scholars. The son of holocaust survivors, he has spent his life studying and critiquing Israel’s assault on Palestine, decades before it became socially acceptable to do so in the West.
Yet despite having dedicated his career to it, by the day before Hamas’ attack in October 2023, Norman had all but given up on the cause of Palestinian liberation. His most recent book on the subject had sold 370 copies. When news of the attack arrived, Norman knew people would want to hear from him. He wrestled with what to say, eventually coming to the view that Hamas’ actions could be viewed through the lens of the Slave Rebellions in the early 1800s: heinous acts of violence borne out of desperate circumstances. Acts that he could...
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- Britain First... Except for Israel?
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- “I want a national unifying politics that puts Britain first…not any other foreign policy.”
“Not Israel?"
In July, Aaron Bastani shredded Matt Goodwin's argument to pieces on GB News. It doesn't get old.
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- The Toll of Surviving The Holocaust
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "They would have a big vat of soup. The soup contained 99% water with a few vegetables. In order to get the vegetable, you had to shove. You had to shove. Otherwise you die. So that's what it meant; the best did not survive. If you were too delicate, you couldn't survive."
Norman Finkelstein speaking to Aaron Bastani about the lasting psychological impact that life in a Nazi death camp had on his mother.
Watch the full, new episode of Downstream today at 3pm on YouTube.
- Title
- AI Is Fuelling Climate Chance and Raotting Our Brains
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "This is brainrot with a carbon footprint".
Back in June, Dunya Kamal explained how AI is quietly draining power, water, and our ability to think. It's more relevant now than ever.
- Title
- Deepfake Yanis Varoufakis Videos Are Flooding YouTube
- Runtime
- 13:09
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- AI Data Centres Are An Ecological Disaster
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Did you know that coal plants are having their lives extended in order to power AI data centres?
Remembering Karen Hao in conversation with Aaron Bastani for Downstream in June 2025.
- Title
- Bernie Sanders Goes Nuclear Against AI
- Runtime
- 15:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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