Theodore Hamm, author of Meet Mayor Mamdani, joins CN Live! to assess Zohran Mamdani’s first five months in office as New York City’s socialist mayor. 8 pm EDT tonight, Wednesday.
WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Mamdani 5 Months Later’
Category: Protests
The Error in Banning the Nakba Day March
Police wrongly want to ban a Nakba Day pr0-Palestine rally but are allowing the right-wing’s anti-Islam rally the same say, writes Nailah Sharif, a retired London Metropolitan Police detective.
How UK Media Shields the Israel Lobby
Leading U.K. media don’t mention the Israel Lobby because they’re part of it, writes Mark Curtis. But its influence over U.K. politics is likely to be greater than any other state, except perhaps the U.S.
Patrick Lawrence: Epstein & the Age of Unreason
As the rock is lifted on the Epstein files, we find beneath it the rot of our foundational institutions and the beyond-belief nihilism of those who control them.
Craig Murray: Acquittals Demolish Lies About Palestine Action
Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.
WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 3
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.
Mamdani Backs Modi Critic Jailed Without End
The NYC mayor supports dissident leader Umar Khalid, jailed five years without bail in a deliberate attempt to turn the process into punishment, writes Betwa Sharma.
Caity Johnstone: Oppose Israel’s Abuses While You Can
The Israel lobby can cry about Jewish Australians feeling threatened by every pro-Palestine group and then ASIO will ban the group and cage anyone associating with it for up to 15 years.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Free Speech in the Dock’
Under the new law passed this week by the Australian Parliament, a pro-Palestinian group could potentially be banned and its members arrested for accusing Israel of genocide. A senator who opposed the bill joins CN Live!
Chris Hedges: The Last Election
Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He ruminates about defying the Constitution to serve a third term; he is determined to retain absolute control.