Let’s start with the assumption that you want to be free. That’s a good assumption, because if you didn’t want to be free, you wouldn’t be reading my drivel; you’d be watching cute kitten videos on YouTube. So, you want to be free. You want to live in a world where you have authority over...
Thousands of people, including Holocaust survivors, have taken part in the annual “March of the Living” through former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. The march follows a 3km (1.86 miles) route to the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust and call for an end to...
US President Donald Trump’s trade wars have continued to escalate, with promises to rollout reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday. Trump has referred to 2 April as “Liberation Day”, saying the tariffs he will announce will free the country from depending on foreign goods. The BBC’s North America Business Correspondent Erin Delmore explains what we know and...
Watch: What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent. But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track. Trump has already...
We’re joined by the four-time Grammy-winning musician Macklemore, a vocal proponent of Palestinian rights and critic of U.S. foreign policy. He serves as executive producer for the new documentary The Encampments, which follows last year’s student occupations of college campuses to protest U.S. backing of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. He tells Democracy Now! why...