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Microsoft fired two workers who protested the company’s ties to Israel’s assault on Gaza at its 50th anniversary celebration last Friday. The workers protested after leaked documents revealed that Microsoft supplies the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology, as well as an Air Force unit known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists.” “We wanted everyone to know that Microsoft’s cloud and AI are the bombs and bullets of the 21st century,” says Vaniya Agrawal, No Azure for Apartheid organizer and a former Microsoft employee who was fired after disrupting ... continua

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As survivors in Gaza begin to return to their homes during the first ceasefire in over a year, we speak to Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Drop Site News about the future of those who have been displaced. As Palestinians are “returning to a devastated landscape … determined not to leave their land” in defiance of “plans of ethnic cleansing that have dated back to the 1950s for Israel,” President Trump told reporters that he wants to “clean out” Gaza, suggesting that Palestinian Arabs should be ethnically cleansed into Egypt and Jordan. Both countries have ... continua

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The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.

Raven, killer a pagamento, viene assoldato da Willard Gates per uccidere un certo Baker e sottrargli dei documenti. Dopo averlo sfruttato, Gates lo paga con banconote segnate in modo che la polizia possa catturarlo.
Mentre lo inseguono per arrestarlo, Raven riesce a scappare giurando di vendicarsi e incontra Ellen Graham, un'artista di night club che in realtà è la fidanzata di un poliziotto, Michael Crane, e un'agente del controspionaggio. La ragazza lavora per il governo che cerca di smascherare Alvin Brewster, mandante di Gates e presidente di un'importante ... continua

President Trump has given yet more power to Elon Musk, who is now leading the effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created in response to the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB helps enforce consumer financial laws for mortgages, credit cards and other financial products. We speak to a former CFPB staffer, Julie Margetta Morgan, who says the consumer watchdog has helped recover $21 billion lost to financial fraud and abuse in its decade-plus of existence. She says that Musk, the world’s richest man and a promoter of cryptocurrency, is ... continua

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President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks on the political left, saying, “We just have to beat the hell out of them.” Democracy Now! speaks with Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, who says that the right is using Kirk’s killing to smear the left.
“There’s a real rewriting of history going on. It’s what far-right regimes do after tragedies like this: They try and weaponize them to go after ... continua

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"A conversation between writer John Banville and Valerie Miles"
As part of the “Writing the Prado/Escribir el Prado” project –the International Literary Residency sponsored by the Loewe Foundation at the Museo del Prado– this public event allows us to listen to the current resident writer in person. Following the stays of John Coetzee, Chloe Aridjis and Olga Tokarczuk, Irish writer John Banville is visiting us this autumn. He will discuss some of the intellectual commitments of his own work with Valerie Milles, editor of Granta in Spanish.
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We speak with foreign policy analyst Matt Duss about increasingly fraught relations between the United States and Ukraine, which have undergone a seismic shift under the second Trump administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday and is expected to sign an agreement giving the U.S. access to his country’s rare earth minerals, which are key components in mobile phones and other advanced technology. It’s unclear what, if anything, Ukraine will get in return, even as Trump pushes Kyiv to reach a ... continua

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday criticizing attacks by President Trump and his allies on federal judges. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” he said. Roberts’s statement came after Trump called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered the Trump administration to stop using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants. On Saturday, the administration ignored Boasberg’s order ... continua

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Este documental narra la historia de cinco personas gravemente afectadas por medicamentos recetados en los que confiaban para mejorar su vida. Es el relato de lo que ocurre cuando una medicina guiada por el beneficio económico se cruza con seres humanos en una situación de vulnerabilidad y sufrimiento.