WATCH | OCTOBER 7

Wed 20 March 2024: Hamas’s incursion into Israel on October 7 transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has carried out a forensic analysis of the events of that day – examining seven hours of footage from CCTV, dashcams, personal phones and headcams of dead Hamas fighters, and drawing up […]

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WHY EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS INFLUENCE US FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Wed 20 March 2024: Episode 1 of Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on U.S. democracy and foreign policy. Preparing for ‘end times’, a grassroots pastor gathers an army of veterans in the heartland of the U.S., and megachurch ministers provide spiritual advice to politicians in the nation’s […]

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HOW INDIA CAME TO EMBRACE THE POLITICS OF HINDUTVA

Sun 17 March 2024: As Modi religiously prepares for India’s elections, Sreenivasan Jain examines the tussle between Hindutva and secularism. The politics of Hindu nationalism have played a central role in the dramatic rise of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the elections have neared, the Modi regime has turbocharged its Hindu-first agenda […]

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WATCH: THE UNRAVELLING OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S ‘HAMAS RAPE’ STORY

Sat 02 March 2024: In December 2023, The New York Times published an explosive article – now widely discredited – that detailed Hamas’s agenda to weaponise rape and sexual violence on October 7. This episode of Listening Post reveals the controversies surrounding the article along with the broader issue of Western media outlets’ pro-Israeli and […]

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MEDIA HEROES AND TRAITORS – ASSANGE VS NAVALNY

Tue 26 February 2024: The media coverage of two dissidents reveals how Western media select those they champion and vilify. With Alexey Navalny’s death and Julian Assange’s extradition appeal happening within a week of each other, we look at the selective treatment of the two dissenters in the Western media. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA ______________________________________________________________  FOLLOW […]

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WATCH | ECHOES OF BAGRAM: MOAZZAM BEGG RETURNS TO AFGHANISTAN

Thu 15 February 2024: Human rights advocate Moazzam Begg returns to Afghanistan to battle demons and champion justice in the shadow of war. Haunted by nightmares of torture and abuse, British human rights campaigner Moazzam Begg decides to return to Afghanistan to confront the horrors of his past. Moazzam was detained at the notorious Bagram […]

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