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Headlines for December 13, 2024; Report from Damascus: Relief Mixed with Sadness. Syrians Search for Loved Ones in Prisons & Morgues; Fasting for Her Son’s Freedom, Mother of Jailed British Egyptian Activist Demands U.K. Pressure Egypt; Uhuru 3: Meet Black Liberation Leader Omali Yeshitela, 83. He Faces 5 Years in Prison on Dec. 16

Headlines for December 12, 2024; After Fall of Assad, “Struggle from Below” Needed to Build a Free & Democratic Syria; Another Winter of War: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Visiting Ukraine & Latest on Sudan, Gaza and Syria; The #MeToo Cabinet: Law Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer on Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Trump & Nominees

Headlines for December 11, 2024; Rep. Delia Ramirez: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are “Un-American, Unconstitutional & Undemocratic”; “Indefensible”: U.S. Continues Deporting Haitians Amid Political Instability, Massacres; “We Didn’t Get No Justice”: Jordan Neely’s Uncle Slams Daniel Penny’s Acquittal in NYC Subway Killing; Herman Whitfield’s Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead

Part 2 of our interview on how many responded to the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, by offering condolences while also expressing outrage over the state of healthcare in the United States with more than 100 million people now facing medical debt.

Headlines for December 10, 2024; “Politics Is Finally Possible”: After Surprise Fall of Assad in Protracted Civil War, What’s Next?; “Unleashed”: Report Details How Israeli Soldiers Brutalize West Bank Palestinians in Hebron; Deny, Defend, Depose: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Slaying Highlights Widespread Rage at Healthcare Industry

Headlines for December 09, 2024; “Assad Is Gone”: Writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Syria, His 16 Years in Prison & Wife’s Disappearance; Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is Grim”: Scholar Bassam Haddad; “Remarkable Moment”: After Fleeing Syria, “For Sama” Director Waad Al-Kateab Celebrates End of Assad

Headlines for December 06, 2024; Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support; “All That Remains”: As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan; Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM Ousted by Lawmakers

Headlines for December 05, 2024; Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case; “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone

Extended interview with Israeli journalist and activist Haggai Matar, a former conscientious objector who now serves as executive director of +972 Magazine.

Headlines for December 04, 2024; Mass Protests Force South Korean President to Revoke Shocking Martial Law Declaration After 6 Hours; A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”

Headlines for December 03, 2024; Biden in Angola: U.S. Competes with China for Influence in Africa Amid Fight for Key Resources; After Hunter Biden Pardon, Campaigners Ask President to “Extend Same Compassion” to Cannabis Prisoners; “Acts of Massacre and Ethnic Cleansing”: Haggai Matar on Gaza War, ICC Arrest Warrants & More; Live Report: Activists Occupy Canadian Parliament Building to Protest Gaza War & Arming of Israel

Extended interview with Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb on the latest news from Syria and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Lebanese-born billionaire Massad Boulos to serve as his new adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany.

Headlines for December 02, 2024; Mehdi Hasan: Biden’s Pardon for His Son Hunter Makes Him a Hypocrite, But GOP Outrage Is Ridiculous; “Instrument of Vengeance”: Mehdi Hasan on How Trump & Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI Against Critics; “Targeted & Assassinated”: Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone; A New Front in Syria’s Civil War? Rebels Led by Former al-Qaeda Affiliate Take Over Aleppo

“Forest of Noise”: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on New Book, Relatives Killed in Gaza & More; Indigenous Leader Nemonte Nenquimo on Fight to Defend Ecuador’s Ban on Future Amazon Oil Extraction

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance; “The Message”: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine; Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth