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With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.
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Will AI rule the world? | UpFront
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May 23, 2026 |
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Francesca Albanese on Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians | UpFront
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May 16, 2026 |
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“A shame on the conscience of humanity” Spanish FM on Gaza and Lebanon | UpFront
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May 16, 2026 |
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Ex-Israeli Prime Minister challenged on Israeli war on Lebanon | UpFront
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May 10, 2026 |
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Can the Vatican and the US repair relations? | UpFront
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May 10, 2026 |
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Is Israel expanding into Gaza despite ceasefire? | UpFront
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May 03, 2026 |
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The rise of political violence under Trump
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May 02, 2026 |
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Varoufakis on Palantir, AI warfare, and the rise of tech lordism | UpFront
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Iran War debate: Will the blockade bring Tehran to its knees? | UpFront
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Mazzucato on the Iran war's economic shock: Who pays the price? | UpFront
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Speaking to the enemy: what to expect from US-Iran negotiations | UpFront
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Death by hanging: Israel law sparks global alarm | UpFront
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Does Israel want to make Lebanon and Iran the next Gaza? | UpFront
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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War on Iran: 'It's going to have multi-generational impacts'
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Richard Wolff on Iran war and its implications on the global economy | UpFront
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Jeremy Corbyn: Is Britain being pulled into a US war?| UpFront
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Robert Malley on war in Iran: “Donald Trump is nervous” | UpFront
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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War on Iran: US evangelicals, Israeli Zionists cite holy war | UpFront
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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John Mearsheimer: “We’re not going to win this war with Iran” | UpFront
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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War against Iran: How far will it go? | UpFront
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Gaza author and analyst Jehad Abusalim on Trump’s 'Board of Peace'
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Chris Hedges on Trump, Epstein and the decline of American democracy | UpFront
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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‘Untethered, uncontrolled, uncontained’ Peter Kornbluh on Trump’s Latin America policy | UpFront
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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‘Reality has overtaken satire’: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Trump’s second term | UpFront
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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MeToo Founder on Epstein and sexual violence: “survivors are easy to sacrifice” | UpFront
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Trump’s Venezuela Regime Change Campaign: ‘A Naked exercise of American imperialism | UpFront
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Mahmood Mamdani on exile, belonging, and watching Zohran make US political history | UpFront
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Inside the Biden administration’s cover-up of the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh | UpFront
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Zohran Mamdani: Democrats’ future? Briahna Joy Gray on the party's identity crisis | UpFront
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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'Haiti is still under occupation': Scholar Jemima Pierre blasts US and UN | UpFront
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Chris Smalls: Linking workers rights and Palestinian liberation
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The Hague Group: countries form new coaltion to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide | UpFront
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Norman Finkelstein: Trump plan has no connection to reality in Gaza | UpFront
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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“Most Israelis want to see Gaza ethnically cleansed” Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov | UpFront
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Mahmoud Khalil: “My story is only one drop in the sea of Palestinian sorrow and struggle” | UpFront
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Attack on Qatar: “Israel is trying to assassinate the concept of diplomacy itself” | UpFront
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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“Washington has the delusion it still runs the show”: Jeffrey Sachs on a multipolar world | UpFront
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Can AI be held accountable? AI ethicist on tech giants and the AI boom
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The growing influence of Christian Nationalism and Christian Zionism in the United States | UpFront
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May 30, 2025 |
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The American coup: From Jim Crow to digital authoritarians
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May 23, 2025 |
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Omar El Akkad: Gaza genocide and the failure of US liberalism
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May 16, 2025 |
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One hundred days into Trump 2.0, is the opposition failing? | UpFront
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May 02, 2025 |
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Could Canada really become the US's 51st state? | UpFront
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Trump-Bukele alliance: No due process, human rights at risk, and a constitutional crisis? | UpFront
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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China “will not enter another century of humiliation”: Vijay Prashad | UpFront
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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'Psychological terrorism': The war against reproductive rights in the US | UpFront
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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What’s behind escalating US air attacks in Yemen? | UpFront
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Gaza is a post-apocalyptic killing zone: UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini | UpFront
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new book, Trump and 'mass murder' in Gaza | UpFront
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Trump tariffs could lead to a new world order: Economist Ha-Joon Chang | UpFront
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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What’s at stake in the DR Congo conflict with M23 rebels and Rwanda? | UpFront
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics | UpFront
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Israeli ex-deputy FM confronted over Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza | UpFront
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Can Ukraine and Russia realistically reach peace? | UpFront
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Mahmoud Khalil arrest: A step towards the end of free speech in the US? | UpFront
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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US working on project of Israeli impunity double time: Former UN official Craig Mokhiber | UpFront
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Culture War Politics Could Pave the Way for Pan-American Trumpism: Greg Grandin | UpFront
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Nina Khrushcheva: 'It's Putin and Trump against the world' | UpFront
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser | UpFront
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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“Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd | UpFront
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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TEST - Israel’s AI-powered 'mass assassination factory' | UpFront
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Israel’s AI-powered 'mass assassination factory' | UpFront
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: Why are culture and society targets? | UpFront
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza: Does Islamophobia play a part in US foreign policy? | UpFront
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: Is the US administration divorced from reality? | UpFront
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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What's next for Argentina under far-right President Javier Milei? | UpFront
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Former Israeli army general on civilian deaths in Gaza | UpFront
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: Does the West have the power to stop Israel? | UpFront
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza War: Can Hamas be defeated? | UpFront
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Former ICC chief prosecutor: Israel’s siege of Gaza is a 'genocide' | UpFront
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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A second Nakba? What history tells us about Palestine and Israel | UpFront
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza: 'We all have 13,000 deaths on our conscience' | UpFront
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Why has India’s Narendra Modi strengthened ties with Israel? | UpFront
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: Is Israel weaponising anti-Semitism? | UpFront
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Gaza: 'We Europeans have created this' | UpFront
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: Escalating violence in the West Bank | UpFront
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza war: What are the limits to the principle of self-defence? | UpFront
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Michael Moore on Gaza: “We need to stop the slaughter” | UpFront
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The double standards of free speech on Palestine | UpFront
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Angela Davis: 'Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world' | UpFront
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Israel-Gaza: When will the world say 'Enough'? | UpFront
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Are Israel and Hamas guilty of war crimes? | Upfront
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Abaya ban in French public schools: Secularism or discrimination? | UpFront
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic cleansing or restoring sovereignty? | UpFront
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Thousands of Sudanese remain trapped in or near the capital amid fighting
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Mehdi Hasan on the power of persuasion in a polarised world | UpFront
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Who profits from the music genres created by Black artists? | UpFront
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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What is behind rising anti-Semitism around the world? | UpFront
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Why are migrant children working dangerous jobs in the US? | UpFront
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Yanis Varoufakis on why we should 'let the banks burn' | UpFront
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Paul Bremer on Iraq occupation mistakes and accountability | UpFront
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Twenty years on, John Bolton is still defending the US's Iraq War | UpFront
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Iraq war: 'The media ended up being lapdogs, not watchdogs' | UpFront
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on truth, disinformation and propaganda | UpFront
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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What is behind the US military’s recruitment crisis? | UpFront
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Why are so many journalists being killed in Mexico? | UpFront
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The cost of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s war with M23 | UpFront
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Afghanistan's women: Life under Taliban restrictions | UpFront
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Feb 10, 2023 |