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Four Palestine Action activists could be sentenced as terrorists under legislation being used for the first time. We speak to the author of a new report who’s fighting back. Plus: Zelenski attempts to call out Putin for a face to face meeting on neutral ground. Finally, the Question Time Makerfield special has a notable absence. With Steven Methven & Aaron Bastani. 00:00 Intro 02:44 Palestine Action 33:53 Dear Putin 46:30 Burnham vs. Kenyon ‘Britain’s Political Prisoners’ Report: https://ccccjustice.org/publications/ Novara Media football shirts: https://shop.novaramedia.com/collections/football-shirts Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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It has been a year since Aaron Bastani first met with AI investigative journalist Karen Hao, to discuss her book Empire of AI. A year is a long time, in the fastest growing sector on the planet. To bring us up to date, Aaron and Karen sat down again to discuss the major shifts in the empire – and their impacts on us all. Billions of people now use, AI as it has become more integrated into our lives, from chatbots, Google searches, predictive text, and beyond. At the same time, there has been a groundswell of fear and even anger about the arrival of the most disruptive technology of the 21st century: its impact on jobs, its use of resources, and the reckless behaviour of its billionaire founders. What have been the changes at the top of the major AI companies: OpenAI, Google, xAI and Anthropic? As Elon Musk approaches trillionaire status, how is he making this much money? What impact is the rollout of AI at such speed and scale having on the economy? What forms of resistance to this form of AI are emerging? And why are billionaires all choosing to build their bunkers in New Zealand? Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao is out in paperback from Penguin Books. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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World Cup tickets cost up to $11.5 million — you could get into the last WC for $11. This time FIFA could rake in $13 billion using dynamic pricing, resales, and lax U.S. rules. We found FIFA President Gianni Infantino funneling that money into keeping himself in power. Producers: Talib Visram, Sam Ellis Editor: Ben Johnson Motion Designers: Sam Ellis, Ivan Rulyov, Mustafa Jasim Videographers: Evan Carter, Luke Boelitz, Matthew Fisher Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong

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The AI bubble has caused the most concentrated and overvalued stock market in US history. The billionaire CEOs of Big Tech corporations fear it may pop soon, so they changed the rules on Wall Street so that, mere days after their IPOs, SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will be given "fast track" inclusion in major index funds, despite the fact that they are losing tons of money. These corporate oligarchs want to use average retail investors as exit liquidity, looting pensions, 401(k)s, and other retirement funds, all so Elon Musk can become the world's first trillionaire. Ben Norton explains the scandal. Topics 0:00 US stock market bubble 1:08 (CLIP) Ray Dalio on AI bubble 1:37 Comparisons to past bubbles 3:38 Market cap to GDP 4:50 Concentration of stock market 6:52 Magnificent 7 stocks 7:28 Monopolies eat the economy 8:37 Corporate profits break records 9:35 USA slashes corporate taxes 10:40 Plan to loot retirement funds 11:38 SpaceX is absurdly overvalued 12:32 SpaceX is losing money 13:51 SpaceX IPO is a trap 17:00 Elon Musk, first trillionaire 18:08 OpenAI's shady IPO scheme 19:32 Many IPOs at peaks of bubbles 21:51 Bogus Big Tech earnings reports 24:09 AI circular financing scheme 25:09 Animal spirits 25:49 Unregulated financial looting 26:54 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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“The UK is one of the major places that Israel sees a defeat during the genocide. Some of the biggest marches in the world have been in London. The population is really against a genocide, against Israel, and against Zionism, and they've lost control of the narrative in a way that they never have. They're panicking.” Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to discuss how the UK’s travel ban on Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker is part of a much broader crackdown on journalists, activists and pro-Palestine, anti-genocide voices. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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Support our work: http://novara.media/support Feeling confused? That’s the point. We are all subject to manipulation campaigns all the time: advertising, political campaigning, social media. You don’t know what’s true and you can’t stop watching slop. And the technology is getting better all the time – there are now systems that predict what your brain state will be when you see a particular video on the internet. We’re living in a jungle of manipulative media objects: sycophant chatbots, military disinformation, "flooding the zone with shit," and conspiracy theories that either capture people and drag them into derangement or, sometimes, turn out to be true. So where did these manipulative systems come from? Trevor Paglen is one of the most important artists of our era. He took Richard Hames on a journey that weaves between art, technology, cognitive science, the history of CIA experiments, magic, military psy-ops and UFOs to explain why the world feels so confusing – and why that might have been the point all along. Music by Iglooghost Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Reform continue to stoke the two-tier policing debate, inspired by the tragic death of Henry Novak. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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How enforceable is the NHS’s new ban on political symbols in the workplace? With Helena NoJusticeMTG and Dalia Gebrial. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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1 fatality & 63 injuries are recorded in an Iranian attack on America’s staunch ally Kuwait. Plus: Reform continue to stoke the two-tier policing debate, inspired by the tragic death of Henry Novak. How enforceable is the NHS’s new ban on political symbols in the workplace? And Finally, the Global Justice Report reckons it can save the world with socialism, sounds like good news to us. With @NoJusticeMTG and Dalia Gebrial. 00:00 Intro 03:26 Iran Bombs Kuwait Airport 17:24 Two-Tier Policing? 48:59 Political Symbols In The NHS 1:05:48 This Is How We Save The World Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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In the wake of Sunday’s Israel Day parade in New York City the state’s Democratic leaders are scrambling to save face after showing up to rub shoulders with “open fascist, open genocidal maniac” Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister. But Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra ask: What did they expect?! “Chuck Schumer? He's definitely not Middle Eastern as far as I can tell. But he thinks that this place belongs to him. Not because he wants to live in it, by the way. This is a multi-millionaire, very successful leading US senator. He is the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, whining that he needs a just-in-case settler fascist state in case he has to flee because of something that happened in the 40s.” Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired Army combat surgeon who treated patients in Gaza during the genocide, won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday and is now heavily favored to become the next member of Congress. That’s despite a surge of right-wing media attacks attempting to label Hamawy a terrorist for speaking out against Israel. “Just last cycle, in 2024 AIPAC spent about $100 million through its super PAC and affiliated PACs to support its candidates, and they did it with their chest,” explains Ryan Grim, co-creator of Drop Site News. “And they were willing to do it out in the open. This time they’re not. There’s no public push for you to be pro-genocide. The only reason you would do it is there’s money for you if you do it, and money against you if you don’t.” Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today!

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If Thornberry’s comments on Gaza weren’t enough to send your eyeballs rolling into the back of your head, it’s now Streeting’s turn to offer some ‘hot-takes’ to The Guardian. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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“The U.S. right now is paying the price for supporting this genocidal psychopathic regime and all its crimes and for funding it and sending it weapons and supporting it and covering its crimes. This should be a very clear alert to the U.S.” Jad Melki, professor of journalism and media at Lebanese American University in Beirut, shares the results of his new poll tracking political attitude in Lebanon, where support is falling among young people for “diplomacy” with Israel despite what’s being broadcast on Western-backed TV. “The young generation carries the highest level of enmity towards Israel, the highest level of support for armed resistance, the lowest level of support for a quote-unquote ‘peace agreement’ with Israel.” Meanwhile Iran reportedly threatened to walk away from talks with the U.S. if Israel followed through on threats to bomb Beirut’s southern suburbs — and from Trump’s response it seems to have worked. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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“Now we have Paramount, Warner Brothers, CBS rolling into that. We have Oracle taking a big share in TikTok. You have Amazon buying up the Washington Post. You have Elon Musk buying X. It's basically the merger of social media, entertainment, and news — all under the umbrella of just a few billionaires who are all friends with each other, have basically the same politics, and then wrapped up in the illusion of choice.” BreakThrough News Editor-in-Chief Ben Becker joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek for BT Live’s premiere episode, to discuss why BT joining forces with Peoples Dispatch is the next logical step in waging the battle of ideas against corporate media. Watch full episodes of BT Live, join breakthroughnews.org as a member today! #breakthroughnews

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Details of Henry Nowak’s fatal mistreatment by police are seized on by far-right agitators, culminating in violent unrest in Southampton. Plus: Peter Thiel’s latest attempts to construct a parallel justice system and what you can do to fight back. If Thornberry’s comments on Gaza weren’t enough to send your eyeballs rolling into the back of your head, it’s now Streeting’s turn to offer some ‘hot-takes’ to The Guardian. Finally, we take a look at Reform’s candidate for Makerfield attempting to answer for his past statements. 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:38 The Far Right Riots In Southampton 00:38:59 Journalism 00:50:25 Wes Streeting Speaks Out On Gaza – Two Years Too Late 01:01:27 Did Reform’s Makerfield Candidate Just Give the Worst Interview Ever? With Steven Methven & Barry Malone. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Cancer rates in Iowa are rising faster than anywhere else in the country. Politicians blame individual choices, but the real villain is the industrial farming covering the state. We went, tested the water, and found cancer causing levels of chemicals running through Iowa. Producer & Host: Katie Nixdorf Editor & Motion Graphics: Lewis Wilcox Videographers: Jack Davis, Jack Belisle Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong Supervising Producer: Meg Herschlein

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“After almost three years of genocide and turning the entire world against itself, now the Israeli regime is starving the world of energy because it refuses to allow the United States to sign an agreement with Iran.” Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to talk “big losers” in the US-Israeli war on Iran and what it would take for Tehran to agree to a lasting settlement, as Persian Gulf states continue to feel the burn of complicity with Washington and the global economy sinks deeper into crisis. “The Islamic Revolution 47 years ago was about sovereignty and independence and dignity and honor and support for the oppressed across the globe,” Marandi explained. “And so there's no chance that this state is going to accept the United States or the Europeans taking away their sovereign right.” #breakthroughnews

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Henry Nowak lay bleeding in Police custody after they callously cuffed him, ignoring his pleading dying breath. As the British political establishment lines up to apportion blame along predictable lines, we take you through the facts. Plus: While Trump & Netenyahu bring out the handbags, Israel pledges to take over even more territory in Gaza. Has Emily Thornberry finally had a Damascian moment over the genocide? Finally, Andy Burnham rules out a general election should he take control of the Labour Party in June. Intro 00:00 The Murder Of Henry Nowak 01:27 Call To Action 50:12 Israel Bites Feeding Hand 52:29 Thornberry Hypocrisy 1:02:41 Burnham Rules Out General Election 1:12:23 With Aaron Bastani & Paul Holden. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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The billionaires are consolidating their media. Now so are we. With corporate control over almost everything we read, watch, and listen to, independent voices are outgunned, censored, and divided. Six years ago, BT set out to change that. Now we’re taking the next big step, in the spirit of uniting and taking power back. We’re teaming up with @peoplesdispatch to bring you MORE original on-the-ground reporting, MORE breaking news, and MORE cutting in-depth analysis. ➡️ Join the NEW and EXPANDED BreakThrough News and get exclusives + updates straight to your inbox. 🔗 breakthroughnews.org/subscribe We don’t answer to Wall Street. We answer to you.

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Israel secretly operated covert military bases inside Iraq for more than a year to prepare for war with Iran, reportedly without Iraq’s knowledge or consent. Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra discuss the bombshell report, Israel’s assasination of the Iraqi shepherd who discovered the bases, and mounting evidence that the U.S. knew about the operation the entire time. “Israel is secretly operating military bases inside another sovereign country without that country’s public knowledge or consent,” Khalek explains. “If Iran, Russia, or China had done this, Washington would call it an act of war.” #breakthroughnews

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Four activists from People Against Genocide blockaded both gates of a factory in Staffordshire which makes weapons for Israel. Footage circulating on social media shows that at least two of the four were arrested earlier today after physically attaching themselves to vehicles and infrastructure outside the factory. UAV Engines is owned by Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, which makes 85% of Israel’s drone fleet. Its factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire, is a frequent target for anti-genocide actions.

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