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Award-winning Palestinian reporter Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, joins us to discuss his new piece for New York magazine about Israel’s surveillance practices. It describes how Palestinians throughout the genocide in Gaza have been watched, tracked and often killed by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details, including phone and text records, social relations, biometric data and more. This all-encompassing surveillance system is “reshaping how people speak, how they’re moving, how they’re even thinking,” says Mhawish. “It manufactured behavior for people, so they shrink their lives to reduce risk, they rehearse what version of themselves feels safest to present, and that creates an enormous psychological burden.” Mhawish also describes the terror of when his family’s house was bombed, killing two of his cousins and two neighbors in an attack he says was linked to Israeli surveillance of his reporting activities. “I was being watched and tracked,” he says.

The US had imposed sanctions on the vessel under claims it was involved in the Iranian oil trade.

The (Immoral) Politics of Authoritarianism and the Bible (Then and Now).

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dramatically reshapes U.S. immunization policy, we speak with Dr. Fiona Havers, a former top vaccine expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who resigned in June. Last week, Kennedy’s handpicked advisers on a federal vaccine panel voted against universal hepatitis B shots for newborns, reversing 35 years of CDC guidance that all newborns receive the vaccine within 24 hours of birth. The Trump administration also recently altered the CDC’s website to include false claims linking autism and vaccines, in keeping with Kennedy’s spreading of vaccine misinformation going back decades. CNN is reporting the FDA is also considering putting a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines. “This administration is causing a lot of confusion and is using, basically, the CDC to spread misinformation now about vaccines,” says Dr. Havers. She also discusses her decision to resign from the CDC and the chaos the Trump administration has caused at the agency, calling RFK Jr.’s changes a “hostile takeover” to advance “anti-science views.”

The head of the International Monetary Fund this week urged Chinese authorities to address the country's economic imbalances.

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U.S. Tightens Sanctions on Venezuela and Plans to Seize More Oil Tankers as Trump Threatens War, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Won’t Rule Out Regime Change in Venezuela, 12 Die in Gaza Strip Amid Winter Storm and Israeli Ceasefire Violations, Health Insurance Costs Are Set to Explode After Republicans Reject Extended Tax Credits, Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads Rapidly in Unvaccinated Communities, Rep. Haley Stevens Seeks Impeachment of Health Secretary: ”RFK Jr. Has Turned His Back on Science”, Indiana Republicans Revolt Against Trump’s Demand to Gerrymander Congressional Map, Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family After Judge Orders His Release from ICE Jail, ICE Agents in Minneapolis Racially Profile and Violently Arrest Somali American U.S. Citizen, “You Lied on the Record”: House Democrats Grill Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Justice Department Fails for Second Time to Win Grand Jury Indictment of New York AG Letitia James, House Republicans Cross Aisle to Advance Bill Restoring Federal Workers’ Union Rights, Disney Agrees to Allow OpenAI’s Sora App to Make Videos Using Copyrighted Characters, Trump Signs Executive Order Blocking States from Regulating AI

Canberra enacted the world’s first social media age limit this week, blocking all under-16s’ accounts.

Few examples illustrate the political polarization of our society more clearly than the clash between feminists and incels. Many feminists view incels as misogynistic men angry about declining male privilege rather than as genuinely vulnerable, while incels depict feminists as manipulative “femoids” who control culture, politics, and social institutions while simultaneously claiming victimhood. On the […]