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Headlines for March 16, 2026; “A Sense of Despair”: Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After; Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank; “Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda

Headlines for March 13, 2026; Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon; Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support; Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII

Headlines for March 12, 2026; “War on the Iranian People”: Nationalism Grows in Iran in Defiance of Deadly U.S. and Israeli Strikes; Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed

Headlines for March 11, 2026; “No Stupid Rules of Engagement”: Ahead of Iran War, Hegseth Halted Efforts to Limit Civilian Deaths; Ex-Marine, Senate Candidate Speaks Out After Arrest, Arm Broken During Iran War Protest in Senate; “Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S.

Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz says the Iran war should be viewed as part of a larger fossil fuel agenda.

Headlines for March 10, 2026; Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates; “The Gulf Fears Whoever Wins This War”: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Could Destabilize Entire Region; “Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War”: U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Exposes World’s Dangerous Reliance on Oil

We are continuing our conversation with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International. On Sunday, tens of thousands of women around the world marked International Women’s Day by demonstrating against gender-based violence and calling for an end to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. And today marks the opening of a major United Nations summit: the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. This all comes a week after Iraqi human rights defender and feminist advocate Yanar Mohammed was assassinated in Baghdad. She was killed in an attack on her home.

Headlines for March 09, 2026; Iran Picks New Supreme Leader; Toxic Black Rain Falls After Israeli Strikes on Iranian Oil Depots; “Racist Regime”: Iranian Israeli Editor Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians; “Trump Has Been Anointed by Jesus” to Wage War on Iran: U.S. Commanders Accused of Promoting Holy War

Headlines for March 06, 2026; Another Land Grab? Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South; Lies, Corruption & Scandal: Trump Ousts Kristi Noem, Nominates Sen. Markwayne Mullin to Head DHS; “Donroe Doctrine” Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America

Headlines for March 05, 2026; “Why Are We Going to War?”: Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has “No Clear Plan” on Iran; Geeta Gandbhir on Her Double Oscar Noms for “The Perfect Neighbor” & “The Devil Is Busy”; “Armed Only with a Camera”: Oscar-Nominated Doc Honors Brent Renaud and Other “Fallen Journalists”

Mr Nobody Against Putin is an Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, a primary school teacher and videographer who becomes an international whistleblower. After being reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine, he starts documenting how ordinary Russians are indoctrinated with pro-war messages and recruited for the war.

Geeta Gandbhir has made history as the first woman to receive Academy Award nominations for both Best Documentary Feature (for The Perfect Neighbor) and Best Documentary Short (The Devil Is Busy) in the same year. The Perfect Neighbor looks at the case of a 35-year-old Black mother of four who was fatally shot in 2023 by her white neighbor. The Devil Is Busy chronicles a day on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights at a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, Georgia.

Part 2 of interview with economist Michael Hudson about the global impacts of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Hudson’s latest article is “The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It.”

Headlines for March 04, 2026; Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre, 175 Killed; “Iran Is Not Going to Surrender”: Johns Hopkins Prof. Says U.S. and Israel Underestimate Iran; “Utter Disaster for All Involved”: Is Trump’s War on Iran Repeating Bush’s “Forever War” in Iraq?; “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

The Secret Agent is one of the most celebrated international films of the year. It has been nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film stars Wagner Moura and is set in Brazil in 1977, during the final years of the military dictatorship. We speak with the film’s director and screenwriter, Kleber Mendonça Filho.

Headlines for March 03, 2026; “Horror and Anxiety”: Death Toll in Iran Tops 780 as Trump Says U.S. Can Fight “Forever”; By Attacking Iran, U.S. & Israel Seek Unchallenged Supremacy in Middle East: Rami Khouri; “Stop This Bloodshed”: Israeli Lawmaker Ofer Cassif Slams Netanyahu’s “Fascist Government” over Iran; A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade

Headlines for March 02, 2026; Iranian American Scholars Denounce U.S.-Israeli Attack, Warn Regime Change Efforts Will Backfire; Israel Wants Ability to Attack Anyone at Any Time: Israeli Analyst Ori Goldberg; Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody