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With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.

  1. MeToo Founder on Epstein and sexual violence: “survivors are easy to sacrifice” | UpFront

    DEC 20

    MeToo Founder on Epstein and sexual violence: “survivors are easy to sacrifice” | UpFront

    In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called “#MeToo” swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world’s most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences? This week on UpFront Marc Lamont Hill speaks to founder of the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke. The Department of Justice has released files related to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein after mounting pressure led President Donald Trump to sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act last month. Trump, who himself has been accused dozens of times of sexual assault and misconduct, has already appeared in photos, emails and other documents in connection with Epstein, causing a rift in his base. Other business elites, academics, politicians and world leaders have also been named in connection to Epstein. While some have faced minor consequences, only Ghislaine Maxwell has been criminally convicted as part of Epstein’s sex trafficking of minors. Will newly released documents lead to new convictions and genuine accountability for survivors?

    25 min
  2. Trump’s Venezuela Regime Change Campaign: ‘A Naked exercise of American imperialism | UpFront

    DEC 14

    Trump’s Venezuela Regime Change Campaign: ‘A Naked exercise of American imperialism | UpFront

    Is the United States orchestrating regime change in Venezuela? Could this spark an all-out war? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Alan McPherson, an author and history professor at Temple University who specialises in US-Latin American relations. The US is continuing the largest military build-up in Latin America in decades and has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. US President Donald Trump has also threatened to attack Venezuela by land “very soon”, while the Pentagon continues to strike alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. At least 87 people have been killed in what human rights groups have called extrajudicial killings and murder. The Trump administration has made clear that it wants Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro out of power, and has thrown its support behind opposition figure and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado. She supports foreign intervention and wants to privatise Venezuelan oil, leaving many to question how much the ideologies of US politicians and the interests of oil companies are driving the push for regime change inside Venezuela. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on X : https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeranewslive

    25 min
  3. Mahmood Mamdani on exile, belonging, and watching Zohran make US political history | UpFront

    DEC 6

    Mahmood Mamdani on exile, belonging, and watching Zohran make US political history | UpFront

    How do the legacies of empire continue to shape politics today? In his new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, Mahmood Mamdani examines how colonial rule shaped Uganda’s political institutions and the leaders who emerged from them. Mamdani also reflects on political change closer to home: His son, Zohran Mamdani, is poised to become the first Muslim mayor of New York City - a victory he says reveals deep generational shifts in US politics. This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with renowned scholar Mahmood Mamdani about colonial legacies, multipolarity, and what these shifts mean for global politics today.

    25 min
  4. Inside the Biden administration’s cover-up of the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh | UpFront

    NOV 29

    Inside the Biden administration’s cover-up of the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh | UpFront

    Did the Biden administration help cover up the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Steve Gabavics, a colonel-turned-whistleblower who was sent by the United States Department of State to investigate Abu Akleh's killing in 2022. Gabavics found that Israel intentionally killed Abu Akleh, who was fired at 16 times while wearing a blue vest marked “press”, but the State Department labelled her killing "accidental" to avoid angering the Israeli government. Gabavics claimed that Abu Akleh is among several American citizens killed by the Israeli military for whom the US has taken no action to hold Israel accountable.

    25 min
  5. Zohran Mamdani: Democrats’ future? Briahna Joy Gray on the party's identity crisis | UpFront

    NOV 2

    Zohran Mamdani: Democrats’ future? Briahna Joy Gray on the party's identity crisis | UpFront

    As inequality deepens and dissent is punished, many are looking to new voices like Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist running for New York City mayor on a platform of rent freezes, free public transit, and taxing the rich. Can candidates like him revive the Democratic Party in the United States, or is real reform from within impossible? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with journalist and former Bernie Sanders Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray.

    25 min
  6. 'Haiti is still under occupation': Scholar Jemima Pierre blasts US and UN | UpFront

    OCT 25

    'Haiti is still under occupation': Scholar Jemima Pierre blasts US and UN | UpFront

    As foreign troops, private contractors and international powers tighten their grip on Haiti, the country is facing one of the worst crises in its modern history. But who is really to blame? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with scholar and activist Jemima Pierre, who argues that the crisis is not home-grown but the result of two decades of United States, United Nations and Western intervention that dismantled Haitian democracy and sovereignty.

    25 min
  7. Chris Smalls: Linking workers rights and Palestinian liberation

    OCT 18

    Chris Smalls: Linking workers rights and Palestinian liberation

    Does grassroots organising have the power to hold governments and corporations accountable for genocide? And where does the US labour movement stand today? This week on Upfront Marc Lamont Hill speaks to labour organiser and activist Chris Smalls, who cofounded Amazon’s first US labour union. Smalls has also been a vocal critic of the United States’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza and argues that labour unions in the country have a role to play to stop Israel: “If our dock workers did the same as our brothers and sisters overseas, we wouldn't see a genocide,” he says.

    25 min
  8. The Hague Group: countries form new coaltion to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide | UpFront

    OCT 9

    The Hague Group: countries form new coaltion to hold Israel accountable for Gaza genocide | UpFront

    The Hague Group is a new alliance of nations, primarily from the Global South, taking coordinated legal action to uphold international law and hold Israel accountable for its actions in Palestine. But will this effort bring real accountability? And as the US faces growing criticism for its role in Gaza and its dominance over global institutions, many countries, especially in Latin America, are calling for a fairer, multipolar world order. Could this mark a turning point, a moment when the Global South begins to reshape the balance of power? This week on an UpFront special, Marc Lamont Hill speaks with Guillaume Long, senior diplomatic adviser to the Hague Group and former Ecuadorian foreign minister.

    36 min
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With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.

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    Al Jazeera
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
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