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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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The Hague Group: countries form new coaltion to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide | UpFront
The Hague Group is a new alliance of nations, primarily from the Global South, taking coordinated legal action to uphold international law and hold Is...
Norman Finkelstein: Trump plan has no connection to reality in Gaza | UpFront
President Trump has released a Gaza “peace” plan that would put Gaza under a Trump-chaired “Board of Peace”. While some in the international community...
“Most Israelis want to see Gaza ethnically cleansed” Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov | UpFront
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in a new report. With...
Mahmoud Khalil: “My story is only one drop in the sea of Palestinian sorrow and struggle” | UpFront
After fleeing Syria’s civil war, Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained in the United States for more than 100 days afte...
Attack on Qatar: “Israel is trying to assassinate the concept of diplomacy itself” | UpFront
This week, Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on Qatar’s capital, Doha, claiming it was targeting senior Hamas leaders. Qatar, a key mediator...
“Washington has the delusion it still runs the show”: Jeffrey Sachs on a multipolar world | UpFront
Is the status of the United States as a global hegemon shifting? Under President Donald Trump, US foreign policy has adopted an America First approach...
Can AI be held accountable? AI ethicist on tech giants and the AI boom
Tech companies and countries across the globe are racing to develop more advanced Artificial Intelligence. As this technology becomes more entrenched...
The growing influence of Christian Nationalism and Christian Zionism in the United States | UpFront
Christian nationalism has gained significant ground under US President Donald Trump. This rise has led to growing concern about the movement’s influen...
The American coup: From Jim Crow to digital authoritarians
US President Trump’s relentless attacks on institutions, the rule of law and the press have left many fearing for the future of American democracy. So...
Omar El Akkad: Gaza genocide and the failure of US liberalism
How will history judge the West’s complicity in the Gaza genocide? With Israel’s assault nearing its second year, the divide between those condemning...
One hundred days into Trump 2.0, is the opposition failing? | UpFront
Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have been marked by an onslaught of executive action that has overhauled the federal government, the economy...
Could Canada really become the US's 51st state? | UpFront
Canada’s relationship with the United States is back in the spotlight after US President Donald Trump suggested that Canada could be annexed as the 51...
Trump-Bukele alliance: No due process, human rights at risk, and a constitutional crisis? | UpFront
The mass deportation of migrants under US President Donald Trump has raised widespread concerns over human rights abuses and the erosion of due proces...
China “will not enter another century of humiliation”: Vijay Prashad | UpFront
Amid escalating global instability and a fractured Western alliance, nations in the Global South are reassessing their geopolitical alignments and eco...
'Psychological terrorism': The war against reproductive rights in the US | UpFront
As Donald Trump begins his second term as president, headlines focus on immigration, trade and free speech. But advocates warn of another front, a qui...
What’s behind escalating US air attacks in Yemen? | UpFront
The Trump administration has escalated US air attacks in Yemen against the Houthis. According to Yemen’s Health Ministry, these near-daily raids have...
Gaza is a post-apocalyptic killing zone: UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini | UpFront
It’s been almost a month since Israel broke the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, launching daily strikes across Gaza that have killed more than 1,100 P...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new book, Trump and 'mass murder' in Gaza | UpFront
Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is back with her first novel in more than a decade, Dream Count, about the lives and dreams of four wome...
Trump tariffs could lead to a new world order: Economist Ha-Joon Chang | UpFront
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump unveiled his new global tariff plan, imposing a 10% tariff on all imports, and targeting dozens more countries...
What’s at stake in the DR Congo conflict with M23 rebels and Rwanda? | UpFront
For several decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has grappled with political instability, armed conflict and humanitarian crises. In re...
Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics | UpFront
Critics argue that Elon Musk’s rise to power in the United States is emblematic of the expanding power of Big Tech and could pose a threat to democrac...
Israeli ex-deputy FM confronted over Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza | UpFront
Israel has shattered the ceasefire with Hamas this week through extensive air raids that killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 200 children...
Can Ukraine and Russia realistically reach peace? | UpFront
For the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to a...
Mahmoud Khalil arrest: A step towards the end of free speech in the US? | UpFront
Pro-Palestine activist and Columbia University graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested this week by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for help...
US working on project of Israeli impunity double time: Former UN official Craig Mokhiber | UpFront
Despite a ceasefire signed in January, Israel has imposed a blockade on humanitarian aid and cut off electricity to Gaza this month in an attempt to e...
The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront
United States President Donald Trump is pushing to slash public spending and implement tariffs on countries including China, Canada and Mexico, strain...
Culture War Politics Could Pave the Way for Pan-American Trumpism: Greg Grandin | UpFront
As part of his election pledge, President Donald Trump said he would launch the “largest deportation program in American history”. This move strained...
Nina Khrushcheva: 'It's Putin and Trump against the world' | UpFront
Three years into the Ukraine-Russia war, tens of thousands of people have died, and Russia occupies one-fifth of Ukrainian land. For the first time si...
Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser | UpFront
The world is facing multiple crises simultaneously: Climate change, the rise of authoritarian movements, and the exploitation of labour from the Globa...
“Dehumanisation of Palestinians is so normalised,” Poet Mohammed El Kurd | UpFront
“Death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they’re reporting the weather” wrote Palestinian poet and author Mohammed El-Kurd amid Isr...
Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump...
TEST - Israel’s AI-powered 'mass assassination factory' | UpFront
“A mass assassination factory” was the headline of the investigation by +972 magazine and Local Call that unveiled the use of an artificial intelligen...
Israel’s AI-powered 'mass assassination factory' | UpFront
“A mass assassination factory” was the headline of the investigation by +972 magazine and Local Call that unveiled the use of an artificial intelligen...
Israel-Gaza war: Why are culture and society targets? | UpFront
Since the beginning of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, numerous scientists, artists and journalists have been killed.
Cultural and histor...
Israel-Gaza: Does Islamophobia play a part in US foreign policy? | UpFront
As the war in Gaza rages on, the death toll keeps increasing and residents face starvation. Despite the heavy civilian toll, the United States keeps v...
Israel-Gaza war: Is the US administration divorced from reality? | UpFront
More than two months into Israel’s deadly bombing campaign on Gaza, the death toll now stands at more than 18,000 amidst an ever-increasing humanitari...
What's next for Argentina under far-right President Javier Milei? | UpFront
Argentines will have a new president taking office this Sunday. The far-right, self-described “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei secured a resounding v...
Former Israeli army general on civilian deaths in Gaza | UpFront
The war on Gaza enters its third month with over 17,000 Palestinians killed.
The recent assault comes as Israel expanded its offensive to...
Israel-Gaza war: Does the West have the power to stop Israel? | UpFront
While Western countries initially expressed their unconditional support for Israel after the October 7 attacks, eventually some began voicing their co...
Israel-Gaza War: Can Hamas be defeated? | UpFront
Following the October 7 Hamas attack that left 1,200 dead, Israel repeatedly promised to eradicate the group, launching a devastating counteroffensive...