“The battle is not over... It’s not just about me. It’s about everyone who is implicated in this attempt to strangle and bury what remains of international justice,” says the UN rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, who speaks to #AJEUpFront after a US federal judge blocked sanctions against her ruling they violated her freedom of speech.
Former negotiators Seyed Mousavian and Alan Eyre discuss what it will take to secure a successful deal in Pakistan between the #US and #Iran.
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“[Nuclear] ambiguity is a fundamental basis for our national security,” ex-Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon tells @AJEUpfront on the possibility of nuclear escalation in the Iran war.
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“All of these wars are showing us nothing in warfare stays within the boundaries of a nation state,” says Professor Narges Bajoghli about the health and climate impacts of war on @AJEUpfront .
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“Who’s hurt the hardest by this?” @AJEUpFront ’s host Redi Thlabi asks economist Richard Wolff how the US President Trump’s request for billions to finance the war on Iran will affect the vast majority of Americans.
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As the US-Israel war on Iran escalates, religious rhetoric from US leaders is resurfacing, from “biblical duty” to “divine destiny". This isn’t new. But it is returning with force.
So why now, and what does it reveal about how this war is being framed?
“We’re not going to win this war, we’re not going to cause regime change — and if anything, we’re going to push Iran closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon.”
As the US becomes more entangled in conflict with Iran, questions grow over what drove Washington here — and how much influence Israel had.
This week on UpFront, Redi Tlhabi speaks with Professor John Mearsheimer.
“Can you really bomb a political future into existence here?” Redi Thlabi challenges former US National Security Adviser John Bolton on his support for regime change in Iran.
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"I don’t think the United States can be accused of targeting a girls' school,” former US National Security Adviser John Bolton challenged on #AJEUpFront by Redi Tlhabi over civilian deaths in the war on Iran.
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“The notion that we could just accept that the land can be emptied and bulldozed like that, without consequences… this is, for me, a dangerous precedent,” says Jehad Abusalim on #AJEUpFront, reacting to Gaza redevelopment plans unveiled at World Economic Forum.
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“What happened with the ceasefire is that we switched from this large-scale, spectacular bombardment of the Gaza Strip into what Israel wants to be a low-stakes genocide,” says Jehad Abusalim on #AJEUpFront with Marc Lamont Hill, arguing that daily violence in Gaza continues even as global attention fades.
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“We don’t have an alternative party. We don’t have a unified or an organised left,” journalist Chris Hedges says on #AJEUpFront, contrasting today’s politics in the US with movements that once mounted mass opposition strikes and national pushback.
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