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Headlines for April 16, 2024; Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down Palestinian Conference; “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism”: Yanis Varoufakis on New Book & Why Assange Should Be Freed; Under Cover of War in Gaza, Assault on West Bank Intensifies: Palestinian Journalist Dalia Hatuqa; “I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza

Headlines for April 15, 2024; Is Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from Tehran, Tel Aviv & D.C.; Trump in the Dock: First Criminal Trial of a Former U.S. President Begins Today in NYC

Headlines for April 12, 2024; “Council of War”: Walden Bello on Biden’s Trilateral Summit with Philippines & Japan to Contain China; “A Stalemate and Attritional Grind”: Journalist Luke Mogelson on 2 Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine; Israeli Scholar Neve Gordon on Israeli Mass Surveillance in Gaza & the Use of AI to Kill Palestinians

Headlines for April 11, 2024; “We’re Responsible for This”: American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in Genocide; As Arizona Reinstates 1864 Abortion Ban, Doctors & Organizers Fight Back to Preserve Access

Headlines for April 10, 2024; Arizona Supreme Court Revives 1864 Abortion Ban Passed Before Women Could Even Vote; Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is to Make Gaza Unfit for Human Habitation: Middle East Analyst Mouin Rabbani; Breaking the Silence: Israeli Army Veterans Tour U.S. & Canada to Speak Out Against Occupation

Headlines for April 09, 2024; “A Sea of Misery”: Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen, Says NGO Head/Ex-CNN Journalist Arwa Damon; “Empty Words”: Kenneth Roth on Biden’s Criticism of Israel While U.S. Keeps Weapons Flowing; 30 Years Later, Rwanda Genocide Shows Consequences of U.S. Refusal to Prevent Mass Killing

Headlines for April 08, 2024; “Killing People Around the Clock”: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti & Muhammad Shehada on 6 Months of War on Gaza; Imprisoned Palestinian Writer Walid Daqqa Dies of Cancer After 38 Years in Israeli Jails; From the Solar Eclipse to Global Heating, Dr. Peter Kalmus on the Importance of Science

Headlines for April 05, 2024; Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes; “No Other Land”: Israeli Director Slams Claims of Antisemitism for Apartheid Comment at Berlinale

Headlines for April 04, 2024; Palestinian American Dr. Walks Out of Biden Meeting, Hands Him Letter from 8-Year-Old Orphan in Gaza; Road to Famine: Israeli Law Prof. Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza; From Prison to the Presidency in 3 Weeks: In Senegal, Pan-Africanist Opposition Figures Take Office

Headlines for April 03, 2024; Haitians Resist Foreign Intervention as U.S. Pushes for Unelected “Transition Council” to Rule Island; “A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine; Israel Moves to Ban Al Jazeera in Latest Attack on Journalists Who Expose Horrors of War & Occupation; Ex-Israeli Negotiator Slams U.S. Arming of Israel Following Aid Convoy Attack & Iran Consulate Bombing

Headlines for April 02, 2024; Israel Kills 6 Int’l Aid Workers & Gazan Driver in Attack on Chef Andrés’s World Central Kitchen Convoy; State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel; Active-Duty U.S. Airman, Inspired by Aaron Bushnell, on Hunger Strike Outside White House over Gaza; Israel “Risking a Two-Front War, Maybe a Three-Front War,” After Latest Strike Against Iran in Syria

Headlines for April 01, 2024; “Genocidal Machine”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza’s Hospitals; “Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching”: Bethlehem Reverend on Israel’s War on Palestinian Christians; Israeli Protesters Accuse Netanyahu of Delaying Hostage Deal for His Own Political Survival

Headlines for March 29, 2024; Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse; Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War; “Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children; ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing

Headlines for March 28, 2024; “The Worst of What Humanity Is Capable Of”: Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on What She Saw in Gaza; I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy; As Gaza Faces Famine, Israel Cuts Ties with UNRWA and U.S. Halts Funding for Critical Aid Agency

Headlines for March 27, 2024; Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes; Meet Eva Burch, Arizona State Senator Fighting Abortion Bans by Sharing Her Plan to Have an Abortion; Baltimore Key Bridge Collapses, Killing Six Immigrant Workers Who Had No Access to Emergency Warnings; “We Don’t Need More Detention Centers, More Border Patrol”: Fernando García on SB4 & New Spending Law

Headlines for March 26, 2024; Assange Extradition Delayed: British MP Jeremy Corbyn on U.K. Court Seeking More Assurances from U.S.; Jeremy Corbyn Applauds U.N. Ceasefire Resolution, Says World Must Prevent “Another Nakba”; Ex-U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber: Israel Must Be Held Accountable for Violating Ceasefire Resolution; David Cay Johnston: Donald Trump “Finally Being Held to Account” After Half-Century of Criminality

Headlines for March 25, 2024; ISIS-K Claims Credit After 137 Killed in Moscow Concert Attack; Russia Tries to Blame Ukraine; As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2; World Ignores Sudan Hunger Crisis; 230,000 Children and Mothers Could Die in Coming Months

Headlines for March 22, 2024; U.S. Said It Was Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire, But Its U.N. Resolution Didn’t Say That: Phyllis Bennis; “Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition, Preventable Infections; Six White Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Get Lengthy Prison Sentences for Torturing Black Men

Headlines for March 21, 2024; British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire; “Humanitarian Violence” in Gaza: Architect Eyal Weizman on Mapping Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”

Headlines for March 20, 2024; Sen. Van Hollen: Biden Must Halt Offensive Arms to Israel If Restrictions on Gaza Aid Are Not Lifted; Biden’s Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Ignores State’s Role in West Bank Violence: Shane Bauer