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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WATCH | SA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, DR. NALEDI PANDOR DELIVERS A SPEECH AT AL-QUDS MOSQUE IN CAPE TOWN

Mon 05 February 2024: SOURCE: Hilaal TV ______________________________________________________________  FOLLOW INDEPENDENT PRESS: WhatsApp CHANNEL  https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAtNxX8fewmiFmN7N22 TWITTER (CLICK HERE)  https://twitter.com/IpIndependent  FACEBOOK (CLICK HERE) https://web.facebook.com/ipindependent Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

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WATCH | AI AND DEMOCRACY

Sat 20 January 2024: Artificial intelligence (AI) will be one of the defining technologies of our time. As developers and tech companies pile into AI, the limits of what computers can do are expanding dizzyingly fast. The line between fact and fiction, real and AI-generated, is now almost impossible to determine. However, with this comes […]

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CAN IRAN AND PAKISTAN CONTAIN CROSS-BORDER TENSIONS?

Thu 18 January 2024: Pakistan launches strikes inside Iran, saying they were retaliation for attacks by Tehran on targets in Pakistan. Iran and Pakistan have launched attacks across their border into each other’s territory. Both said they are targeting armed groups and cited “national security” for their actions. Armed groups in the Balochistan region have been […]

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