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Aaron Bushnell was an active duty service member who gave his life to send a message. That message was "Free Palestine!" This is a message that should not be forgotten despite the efforts to minimize his actions and obfuscate his final words. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Candidates Jailed. Party Banned. Supporters Harassed. This did not stop Pakistanis from going to the polls in droves to show their displeasure of the US-backed Military Dictatorship. Show Links --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Republicans are threatening civil war over states rights to abuse migrants. This comes following huge concessions from democrats over border policy to gut asylum protections and increase border militarization. Both parties are playing politics as Republicans tank the most right-wing border legislation in decades and Democrats abandon any interest in human or immigrant rights. Show Links --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The International Court of Justice has ruled that the claim of Genocide is "Plausible." After the ruling, the US cut off funding to the most important humanitarian aid group in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is ramping up their slaughter of civilians after being told to take steps to do otherwise. Also, Nancy Pelosi thinks ceasefire protesters are Russian Plants. All that and more on this week's episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Shane & Nehemiah break down the past few weeks of slaughter in Gaza Show Links --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Shane & Nehemiah discuss the autoworkers strike. Show Links --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The police sent the message: “mind your own business or we're going to step on you,” the co-owner said. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The “major questions doctrine,” cited to invalidate student loan forgiveness, empowers the conservative Supreme Court to veto any executive action with broad social impact. Its goal is to undermine the government's ability function and aid average people. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Critics of the proposal warn that foreign intervention may strengthen and legitimize the currently unelected government. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The Trump-appointed postmaster general behaves as if the public isn't entitled to transparency at a public institution. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

This week, the UAW presented proposals to automakers in contract negotiations covering some 150,000 workers. Autoworkers want big raises, an end to tiers, and the right to strike over plant closures — and conditions appear favorable for them to win. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The Biden administration is entertaining the idea of pursuing a US-Saudi mutual defense pact. How does the prospect of risking lives for the Saudi monarchy sound? Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Special prosecutor Jack Smith charged the disgraced ex-president with multiple counts of conspiracy leading up to the January 6 insurrection. Republicans can't keep making excuses for him anymore. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

When a new peer-reviewed study announces that a crucial Atlantic Ocean circulation system, a cornerstone of the global climate, may collapse as quickly as two years from now, you'd think news outlets might want to put that on the front page. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

If Barack Obama and David Axelrod are really concerned about the climate crisis, they can fess up to their culpability — and demand change from Joe Biden. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Brig. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, who trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, helped oust Niger's democratically elected president. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The US government is launching investigations of US academics with ties to Chinese research institutes. It's a dangerous escalation of anti-China surveillance, which threatens civil liberties while doing little to help those it is supposed to protect. Source Article Show Links --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

House Republicans are helping their fossil fuel donors with legislative fine print that would block climate action. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Media coverage mainly focused on the politics of calling Israel a “racist state” rather than on the question of whether Israel was racist. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Pundits are insisting Americans only feel bad about the economy because they're ignorant or delusional. But maybe it has something to do with the very real economic hardships Americans are still suffering three years after the worst of the pandemic economy. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

If apocalyptic air enveloping major news headquarters hundreds of miles away from record-setting fires doesn't prompt these necessary conversations, what will? Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Overly-confident math models based on unrealistic assumptions are used to avoid crisis-consistent climate policies and to protect global elite privilege, while abandoning our duties to the planet's most vulnerable. ⁠Show Links⁠ ⁠Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Overly-confident math models based on unrealistic assumptions are used to avoid crisis-consistent climate policies and to protect global elite privilege, while abandoning our duties to the planet's most vulnerable. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

This is the first time a publisher has been charged under the Espionage Act for disclosing government secrets. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Negotiations have stalled after the company and the union failed to reach an agreement. Show Links Source Article More Perfect Union --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Joe Biden's Department of Justice has doubled down on an inquisitorial strategy of counterinsurgency in the name of counterterrorism. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The Island of Taiwan has been turned into a “powder keg” by the infusion of U.S. weaponry, pushing the Taiwanese people into the “abyss of disaster.” Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The notion that public investment crowds out private spending has taken a beating lately. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Congress should bar the Biden administration from transferring internationally banned weapons to the Ukrainian government. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Our bipartisan elite is always willing to forgive war crimes by its made men. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

People are facing rising electricity rates in many areas, rising inflation and higher temperatures that require cooling. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The U.S. has been a major force of violent repression globally that stamps out people's hopes for freedom and justice. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

By making an exception for military academies — and legacy admissions — the court once again sided with the ruling class. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

If a Colorado web designer can refuse to serve a same-sex couple, why can't a business owner discriminate against Blacks, Muslims, and Jews? Also, The result is that student debt cancellation for 43 million borrowers has been wiped away. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The $886 billion hike in military spending may prove just a floor, not a ceiling, on what will be allocated next year. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The only way you can argue that President Donald Trump bucked the hawkish Washington consensus is if you ignore Trump's entire foreign policy record. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Delaware Democrats could pass GOP legislation letting businesses cast ballots in a municipal election. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

As president, Donald Trump made no secret of his admiration for repressive rulers around the world. Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to change that. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

India is seen as a strategic counterweight to China, and that has overridden any U.S. concerns about repression against ethnic minorities and the press. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

U.S. media has largely ignored a shipwreck with hundreds of migrant deaths but has focused intently on a missing submersible full of rich people. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1. Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has supposedly been halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has found ways to keep the plan alive. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The right is trying to make truth-telling about U.S. history illegal because it fears the end of white supremacy. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

In the wake of the Trump indictments, conservatives are concerned that the justice system is being used to target political enemies. They're right about that — but as the repression of Cop City protesters shows, they're wrong about who the real targets are. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Conservative have been complaining all week that Trump's prosecution shows a double standard in the justice system, but the double standard is actually the opposite of what they claim. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

The FBI is allowing members of the House Oversight Committee to review allegations made against the president and his son. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Thanks to the protest of climate activists, a recent Semafor event featuring Joe Manchin became a viral illustration of all that's wrong with the corporate-sponsored media model. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

As wildfire smoke hit the East Coast, Fox News claimed it was “perfectly healthy” to breathe. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

"The criminal evidence unsealed in the indictment shows in painstaking detail that he acted as if he is above the law, while willfully and recklessly endangering our national security," said MoveOn Political Action's executive director. "Now is the time for Donald Trump to be held accountable." Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Rufo's Documentary Foundation received an influx of untraceable money in 2021, as his national profile grew. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support

Smoke from Canadian wildfires fueled by the climate crisis continued to smother eastern regions of the United States on Wednesday, with 13 states issuing air quality alerts affecting millions of people. Show Links Source Article --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/newsdive/support