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Headlines for March 22, 2023; Andrew Bacevich on China’s Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion; The U.S. Owes Iraq “Just Compensation”: Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath

Headlines for March 21, 2023; “Stop Dirty Banks”: Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion; U.N. Warns “Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking” as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique; Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon; War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Headlines for March 20, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Iraqi Writers Sinan Antoon & Feurat Alani Reflect on U.S. Invasion 20 Years Later

Headlines for March 17, 2023; Never Again: Human Rights Groups & Japanese Americans Warn Biden Against Jailing Migrant Families; Julian Assange’s Father & Brother Speak Out on His Jailing, Press Freedom & New Documentary “Ithaka”; Blood and Treasure: Documenting the Costs of Iraq War from Civilian Casualties to Trillions Spent

In an extended interview, we speak with Neta Crawford, co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, about her book, “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions.”

Headlines for March 16, 2023; Blinken Visits Niger, Home to U.S. Drone Base, as Biden Moves to Counter China & Russia in Africa; Will Peace Hold in Tigray? Blinken Visits Ethiopia Four Months After Truce Reached to End War; Death, Destruction & Resilience: Nadje Al-Ali on the 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Headlines for March 15, 2023; Jeremy Scahill on Growing Proxy War Between U.S. and Russia & Downing of U.S. Drone in Black Sea; The Nord Stream Bombing: Jeremy Scahill on Why U.S. Remains Most Likely Culprit in Pipeline Sabotage; “Catastrophic”: Trump-Appointed Judge in Texas May Restrict Abortion Pill Mifepristone Nationwide; Mexico’s Missing: 100,000+ Cases Unsolved as Leaked Military Docs Shed New Light on Ayotzinapa 43

Headlines for March 14, 2023; How Silicon Valley Bank & Signature Bank Lobbied to Weaken Regulations That Could Have Prevented Collapse; Autopsy Suggests “Cop City” Protester Sitting Cross-Legged, Hands Up, When Shot 14 Times by Police

Headlines for March 13, 2023; China’s Middle East Deal: Iran & Saudi Arabia Reestablish Relations as U.S. Watches from Sidelines; Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Biden’s Approval of Willow Oil Drilling Project in Arctic; East Palestine Toxic Train Crash Shows Plastics Industry Toll on Planet. Will U.S. Ban Vinyl Chloride?

Headlines for March 10, 2023; Historian Alfred McCoy: As Tensions Rise over Taiwan, U.S. & China “Edging Ever Closer” to War; Rep. Barbara Lee on Cutting the Military Budget, Abortion Rights & Why She’s Running for Senate; “Barbaric Restrictions”: 5 Women Sue Texas After Being Denied Abortions Despite Deadly Health Risks

Headlines for March 09, 2023; “Corrupt”: DOJ Report Slams Louisville Police for Abuse, Discrimination After Breonna Taylor Killing; “Plantation Politics”: How White Mississippi Lawmakers Want to Seize Power in Majority-Black Jackson; Opposition Grows to Atlanta “Cop City” as More Forest Defenders Charged with Domestic Terrorism