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Headlines for September 15, 2026; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right

Headlines for September 14, 2026; ”NAZA” Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors’ Citizenship; “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks; Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack; Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast

Headlines for September 11, 2026; “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today; Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home

Headlines for September 10, 2026; 25 Years Later: Afghan New Yorker Masuda Sultan Remembers 9/11 & 19 Relatives Killed in U.S. Bombing; Report from Kabul: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty & Taliban Repression of Women; “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman; 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars

Headlines for September 09, 2026; Meet 9/11 Health Watch, NYC Group Behind Mayor Mamdani’s Release of 170K Pages on Ground Zero Toxins; “Let’s Just Round Them Up”: The Rise of Islamophobia in the Post-9/11 Domestic War on Terror

Headlines for September 08, 2026; “Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness & Death; Firefighter, EMT, Stuyvesant High School Student Describe 9/11 Exposure & Long Fight for Healthcare; “People I Flew with All the Time”: Flight Attendant Union Head Sara Nelson Remembers 9/11 Victims; 25 Years After 9/11: Cover-Up of Air Quality Risk Proved to Be “Death Sentence” for Thousands

Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More

Headlines for September 04, 2026; Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois; “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops; “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack

Headlines for September 03, 2026; Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92; “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election; “Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites; AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri

Headlines for September 02, 2026; U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More; “Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes; “Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy

Headlines for September 01, 2026; The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves; U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal; Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight

Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks; “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington; Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”

Headlines for August 28, 2026; “Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families; Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”; “Don’t Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update; “Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services; “The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive

Headlines for August 27, 2026; As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak; Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”; “Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies

Headlines for August 26, 2026; “They Threw Me to the Wolves”: Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back; Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman; “Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats

Headlines for August 25, 2026; U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners; Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch; Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence

Headlines for August 24, 2026; “Most Stupid Trade Fight in History”: U.S. & Canadian Workers Stand to Lose in Trump’s New Tariff War; Montreal Considers Cutting Ties to Israel as Outrage Grows in Canada over Israeli Impunity: Avi Lewis; “Unbought & Unbossed”: Angie Nixon on Winning Democratic Senate Race in Florida, DSA Membership & More; In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in Congress

Headlines for August 21, 2026; As Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab in Gaza; Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers; DOJ Whistleblower Confirms “Antisemitism” Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations

Headlines for August 20, 2026; 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life; AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy; “Love Machines”: James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI

Headlines for August 19, 2026; Trump’s “Authoritarian Takeover” of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press’s Jessica González; “Profoundly Corrupt”: Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month; Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas; Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona

Headlines for August 18, 2026; Who Is Natalie Harp? NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Aide & His Attacks on Women Reporters; “Regime Change” Author Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran; Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel: Mouin Rabbani

Headlines for August 17, 2026; “Operation Puppet Master”: Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings; Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K.; “The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy

Headlines for August 14, 2026; “Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis; “Mop Up Michigan”: Donavan McKinney on Democratic Socialism, Corporate Money & His Primary Upset; “American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients

Headlines for August 13, 2026; Trump’s Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk; “Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain”: Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran; “Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias

Headlines for August 12, 2026; Gaza Tribunal Co-Chairs MP Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon & Shahd Hammouri on U.K. Complicity in Genocide

Headlines for August 11, 2026; Bryan Stevenson on the “Enduring Evil of Slavery” and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History

Headlines for August 10, 2026; “Consistent Torture”: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row After Getting 3-Year Execution Reprieve; Edinburgh International Festival Director & Famed Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the Power of Art; Actor Wagner Moura on Brazil’s Dictatorship, Bolsonaro & “A Trial — after An Enemy of the People”

Headlines for August 07, 2026; “Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail; “Focus Is on Affordability”: Cindy Holscher, Kansas Dem Nominee for Gov, on Data Center Fight & More; “The Potluck”: Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists; Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Historic Michigan Win: “People Are Sick and Tired of This Politics of Hatred”

Headlines for August 06, 2026; “Fire Climate”: Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control; Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”; “Struggle for Dignity”: At Least 40 Killed in Mass Protests in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir

Headlines for August 05, 2026; Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary in Major Defeat for AIPAC, Establishment Democrats; Insurgent Candidate Victories Highlight Growing Movement Against Corporate & Elite Power: John Nichols; “This Is an ICE Murder, Too”: Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary

Headlines for August 04, 2026; “Department of Injustice”: Norm Eisen on Todd Blanche AG Nom, Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case; “If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi; Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Scholar on the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement

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Headlines for July 27, 2026; “Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America; “Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide; Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti

Headlines for July 24, 2026; “America First or Israel First?” Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuclear Deal, Iran & More; “Cockroach Democracy”: Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi’s Collapsing Support; Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights as Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESA; “Farmers of the Sea”: PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the “Frontlines of Climate Change”

Headlines for July 23, 2026; Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days; “Enough Is Enough”: Mohsen Mahdawi Says New Deportation Threat Seeks to Silence Palestine Activism; As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity

Headlines for July 22, 2026; “Empire of Abuse”: MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges; “Unlimited Money for Bombs”: Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War; Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike

Headlines for July 21, 2026; As the U.S. Commits War Crimes in Iran, Trump Admin Vows to Dismantle Int’l Criminal Court: Reed Brody; What Spain’s Victory Means: Jules Boykoff on the World Cup, FIFA, Trump, “Collectivity” & More; “A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit”: ACLU on Flock’s Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network

Headlines for July 20, 2026; U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed; “Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father; Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings; Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels

Headlines for July 17, 2026; Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78; Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman; Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing; “Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups; Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara

Helado Tropical is the new collaborative album by Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, and Fabi Reyna, who fronts the band Reyna Tropical.

Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis before moving to Gaza at 14, where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where she studied under Khaled Jubran at the Edward Said Music Conservatory. She now divides her time between New York and Egypt. Her latest project is “Naqus.”

Headlines for July 16, 2026; Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal; We Are Sending a Message to Netanyahu: Rep. Jayapal on 100+ Dems Voting to Cut Israeli Military Aid; Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation; A “Forever War” in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. “Diplomatic Malpractice”; Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act

Headlines for July 15, 2026; “Fighting Back”: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech; Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago; “Block the Merger”: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal

Headlines for July 14, 2026; “They Were Hunting for Latinos”: LULAC CEO on ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; “Our Community Is Hurting”: ICE Kills 25-Year-Old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine; “Vote Her Out”: After Maine ICE Shooting, Sen. Collins Under Fire for Deciding Vote on ICE Funding; “Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump’s Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms

Headlines for July 13, 2026; “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More; Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn’t Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill; “Disgraceful”: Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna; U.S. Plans “Illegal Embassy” in Jerusalem on Land Stolen from Palestinian Families: Rashid Khalidi

Headlines for July 10, 2026; “Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More; “Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC’s Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India; FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever

Headlines for July 09, 2026; “A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire; “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?; Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t

Headlines for July 08, 2026; As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine?; NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales; “Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War”: Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities

We continue our conversation with documentary filmmaker Julia Steers about her reporting on the conflict in Sudan.

Headlines for July 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War; Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says “Nobody Is Safe” in Gaza; Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi