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Headlines for March 23, 2023; A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During Mental Health Crisis; “Disaster”: Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What’s Next

Part 2 of our interview with award-winning Iraqi journalist and author Ghaith Abdul-Ahad about the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Headlines for March 22, 2023; Andrew Bacevich on China’s Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion; The U.S. Owes Iraq “Just Compensation”: Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath

Headlines for March 21, 2023; “Stop Dirty Banks”: Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion; U.N. Warns “Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking” as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique; Remembering…

Headlines for March 20, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Iraqi Writers Sinan Antoon & Feurat Alani Reflect on U.S. Invasion 20 Years Later

In an extended interview, we speak with Neta Crawford, co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, about her book, “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions.”

Headlines for March 17, 2023; Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families; Julian Assange’s Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary “Ithaka”; Blood and Treasure:…

Headlines for March 16, 2023; Blinken Visits Niger, Home to U.S. Drone Base, as Biden Moves to Counter China & Russia in Africa; Will Peace Hold in Tigray? Blinken Visits Ethiopia Four Months After Truce Reached to End War; Death, Destruction & Resilience:…

Headlines for March 15, 2023; Jeremy Scahill on Growing Proxy War Between U.S. and Russia & Downing of U.S. Drone in Black Sea; The Nord Stream Bombing: Jeremy Scahill on Why U.S. Remains Most Likely Culprit in Pipeline Sabotage; “Catastrophic”:…

Headlines for March 14, 2023; How Silicon Valley Bank & Signature Bank Lobbied to Weaken Regulations That Could Have Prevented Collapse; Autopsy Suggests “Cop City” Protester Sitting Cross-Legged, Hands Up, When Shot 14 Times by Police

Headlines for March 13, 2023; China’s Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S. Watches from Sidelines; Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Biden’s Approval of Willow Oil Drilling Project in Arctic; East Palestine Toxic Train…

Headlines for March 10, 2023; Historian Alfred McCoy: As Tensions Rise over Taiwan, U.S. & China “Edging Ever Closer” to War; Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She’s Running for Senate; “Barbaric Restrictions”: 5…