The U.S. has tightened its fuel blockade on Cuba, but the island refuses to surrender. Manolo de los Santos, executive director of the People's Forum and researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, just returned from Havana and brings an on-the-ground report on how Cubans are surviving — and resisting — Trump's escalating attacks. From surgeons operating by cell phone light to farmers organizing collective food distribution, Manolo details the "creative resistance" keeping Cuba alive. De los Santos exposes who is really behind U.S. policy — a small minority of Cuban-American hardliners, not the American people —and how Washington’s escalating threats are driven by a “desperate response” to the Cuban people’s resolve, insisting the goal is to force submission through economic strangulation. #breakthroughnews

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The US-Israeli war on Iran has caused the largest oil supply shock in history, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Ben Norton explains how the attacks by Trump and Netanyahu, and the ensuing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, have unleashed an energy crisis that could destabilize the global economy. Topics 0:00 Intro 0:23 Schrödinger's ceasefire 1:24 Energy crisis 3:11 Strait of Hormuz 5:14 Petrodollar 6:45 Blockade 7:35 Impact on Asia 10:46 Europe 11:29 Food crisis 13:38 China 16:20 Renewable energy 18:24 Trump's claims 19:41 Stagflation fears 21:34 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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Support our work: http://novara.media/support Ahead of May 7th's local elections, Aaron Bastani travelled to Wales to find out how Labour lost its last historic industrial heartland and how Reform, Plaid Cymru and the Greens are looking to gain from this collapse. 00:00 Intro 02:20 Wales: The Big Picture 11:30 Merthyr Tydfil 29:45 Closing Thoughts Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/ Music: "Big Drumming" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Lebanon-based journalist Hussein Assaf of VPol exposes the Israel-Lebanon "ceasefire" as war containment, not peace. He discusses Israel's assassination of reporter Amal Khalil — the ninth journalist killed by Israel in Lebanon this year — along with U.S.-backed daily violations, how Lebanon’s government is trying to strip away the country’s only real resistance to Israeli aggression, and why the latest talks are a "charade." "The U.S. and Israel are just buying time," Assaf warns, as the region edges toward wider war. #breakthroughnews

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Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/ The 21st century runs on batteries: from phones and laptops, to electric vehicles, drones and clean energy. Embedded in these technologies are batteries containing rare earth minerals, drawn from a brutal supply chain that begins in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The race to electrify the global energy system is underway, but awareness about this supply chain is woefully inadequate among the users of these technologies - many of whom profess to have green politics. On Downstream this week, Aaron Bastani spoke with Nicholas Niarchos, author of The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth. How has the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo unfolded over the past two centuries? How has China come to control so much of the rare earth supply chain? Is foreign states' activity in the DRC development, or a new form of colonialism? And is this supply chain now set to replace fossil fuels in the 21st century, as the dirtiest supply chain on earth?

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Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first American city to run out of water. Working people face drought restrictions, but oil and gas companies guzzle water — and pay less than everyone else. Six huge corporate water users consume 3x as much as everyone in town. Producer  Dan Lieberman Editor Kenneth Kerr Videographers  Daoud Qamar Mitchell Urbanovsky Video Production Manager Isabel Atalaya Video Production Coordinator Jodi Clemens

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Journalist Amal Khalil has been killed by an Israeli airstrike, with Lebanese officials saying her team was deliberately targeted. Plus: The Peter Mandelson scandal just won’t go away, IDF troops testify to widespread looting in Lebanon, and Russel Brand admits to having ‘exploitative’ sex with a 16-year-old when he was 30. 00:00 Intro 01:06 Israel Kills Another Journalist 17:34 IDF Looting Houses In Lebanon 29:14 Keir Starmer Crumbling 45:23 Russell Brand Makes Shocking Admission With NoJusticeMTG & Dalia Gebrial. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Support our work: http://novara.media/support It’s the question that will come to define our lives: is our society going to collapse? But the field of collapse research is fragmented, chaotic, and often just plain deranged. Who can you trust? Luke Kemp is the author of *Goliath’s Curse* and a Research Affiliate at the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. And he’s also a political radical. He told Richard Hames about how close we’ve got to the same tipping point that brought down every other empire in history, why states are criminal gangs in disguise, and why Rome was the ISIS of its day. Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make the modern world possible. Music by Iglooghost. Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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A leaked email from the Pentagon appears to show that the U.S President Donald Trump’s Washington administration is out for revenge… Plus: We speak to leader of the Welsh Greens Anthony Slaughter. And Sami Hamdi schools Valentina Gomez on Piers Morgan Uncensored. With NoJusticeMTG & Aaron Bastani. 00:00 Intro 01:09 Trump Threatens to EXPEL Spain From NATO Over Iran War 26:01 Interview with Welsh Greens leader Anthony Slaughter 47:57 Sami Hamdi vs Valentina Gomez

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In 1996, Brazilian military police opened fire on a peaceful march of landless workers – killing 21 people in what became known as the Eldorado do Carajás Massacre. Thirty years later, justice is still incomplete. Most of those responsible were never held accountable, and the deeper forces behind the violence – political elites, landowners, and corporate interests – remain largely untouched. But the movement they tried to destroy didn’t disappear, it grew. BreakThrough News traveled to the state of Pará in northern Brazil to follow members of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) as they marched for four days—retracing the same road where their comrades were killed. This march is more than a memorial. It’s part of a nationwide mobilization known as “Red April,” where thousands organize, occupy land, and demand agrarian reform as a solution to hunger and inequality. Along the way, we hear from survivors, youth organizers, and current members of the movement—who say the same conditions that led to the massacre still exist today: Extreme land inequality Violence against rural workers Expansion of agribusiness and mining into peasant land And a justice system that protects the powerful For the MST, memory is not just about the past—it’s a tool for organizing in the present. Musicbed: MB01PRSWG3PNHTA MB015FH8RWRW6JB

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Zarah Sultana MP joins Steven Methven to discuss cronyism at the very top of the Labour Party. Plus: U.S President Donald Trump extends the ceasefire in his own illegal war with Iran; and how Zarah Sultana shook up parliament twice in the space of one week. With Steven Methven & Zarah Sultana MP 00:00 Intro 01:07 Labour Cronyism is OUT OF CONTROL 25:28 Iran ceasefire 36:58 Is Zarah Sultana The UK’s Most Rebellious MP? Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Rivkah Brown reports from the London boroughs of Lewisham, Hackney & Haringey to find out what's behind the projected collapse in Labour support ahead of May's local elections - and why so many of those former Labour voters are looking towards a Green party invigorated by Zack Polanski's leadership, and the recent by-election win in Gorton & Denton. She spoke to Liam Shrivastava and Zoë Garbett, Green party candidates for Mayor in Lewisham and Hackney respectively, as well as Green councillors in Haringey, to discover the specific ways in which people living in these Labour strongholds feel betrayed by their representatives at a local and national level 00:00 Intro 00:49 Lewisham & Liam Shrivastava 05:43 Hackney & Zoë Garbett 09:52 Ridley Road Market 16:03 Haringey & Tottenham Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Zarah Sultana MP joins Steven Methven to discuss cronyism at the very top of the Labour Party… With Steven Methven & Zarah Sultana MP Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Chicago is gearing up for a May 1 International Workers’ Day shutdown, and the Chicago Teachers Union is leading the charge. CTU president Stacy Davis Gates joins Breakthrough’s Amanda Yee to explain why the union is calling for a national day of action under the banner of “no work, no school, no shopping” to protest Trump and ICE “terrorism.” Davis Gates discusses how Trump's cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and education — while funneling billions into ICE and wars abroad — are already hurting Chicago's students and families. She connects the fight for sanctuary schools, the legacy of enslaved Africans' general strikes, and why unions must go beyond "bread and butter" to defend democracy, reproductive rights, civil rights, and LGBTQ+ communities — and why collective action is the only answer. #breakthroughnews

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In 1996, Brazilian military police opened fire on a peaceful march of landless workers – killing 21 people in what became known as the Eldorado do Carajás Massacre. Thirty years later, justice is still incomplete. Most of those responsible were never held accountable, and the deeper forces behind the violence – political elites, landowners, and corporate interests – remain largely untouched. But the movement they tried to destroy didn’t disappear, it grew. BreakThrough News traveled to the state of Pará in northern Brazil to follow members of the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) as they marched for four days—retracing the same road where their comrades were killed. This march is more than a memorial. It’s part of a nationwide mobilization known as “Red April,” where thousands organize, occupy land, and demand agrarian reform as a solution to hunger and inequality. Along the way, we hear from survivors, youth organizers, and current members of the movement—who say the same conditions that led to the massacre still exist today:

• Extreme land inequality
• Violence against rural workers
• Expansion of agribusiness and mining into peasant land
• And a justice system that protects the powerful For the MST, memory is not just about the past—it’s a tool for organizing in the present. Musicbed: MB01PRSWG3PNHTA MB015FH8RWRW6JB

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Does Britain even have a military strategy? With Aaron Bastani & James Schneider Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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There are growing signs that the United States may be on the verge of another major financial crisis, one that could start in the private credit market, which is already seeing significant turmoil, before spreading to other sectors. Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton interviewed economist Michael Hudson to discuss the serious problems on Wall Street. Hudson warned that the US economy is built on a Ponzi scheme that depends on continuing to pour money into a bloated, bubbly financial system based on unsustainable speculation, not industrial production. Check out our related short video about the private credit crisis on Wall Street: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1cx9Zk6WZk Topics 0:00 Introduction 1:37 Highlights of Michael Hudson 3:29 Interview starts 4:18 2008 financial crisis 5:04 Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) 7:31 Private equity 9:17 Lack of investment 10:34 Wealth inequality 12:08 Debt defaults 14:10 Depression fears 16:12 US govt supports Wall Street 19:07 Ponzi schemes 23:51 US economic problems 27:35 Iran war impact 30:16 Financialization of economy 33:46 Outro || Geopolitical Economy Report || Please consider supporting us at https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/Support Subscribe to our newsletter: https://geopoliticaleconomy.report/ Join our community on Patreon: https://patreon.com/GeopoliticalEconomy

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Palantir releases a bizarre – and pretty terrifying – 22 point manifesto. With Steven Methven & Harriet Williamson Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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“There’s a guy called Dave Wells in Bournemouth with 3,000 properties... I think we should seize them.” On Novara Live, Aaron Bastani says to reconfigure the UK’s political economy, politicians need to start with tackling rent. He points to an example of a landlord called Dave Wells, who reportedly owned 3,000 properties before he died in 2025.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been monstered by MPs in parliament today Peter Mandelson failing his security vetting… Plus: Palantir releases a bizarre – and pretty terrifying – 22 point manifesto; and Christians force a rare apology out of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu… With Steven Methven & Harriet Williamson 00:00 Intro 00:01:05 Starmer Savaged By MPs Over Mandelson Vetting Scandal 00:24:22 Iran ceasefire deal in peril 00:38:19 Israeli Soldiers Tries to Behead Christ Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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Sacked foreign office head Olly Robbins has given some head-turning evidence to the foreign affairs select committee over Peter Mandelson’s ambassadorial appointment. Plus: Questions arise over Trump's erratic behaviour ahead of the Iran ceasefire deadline, and Does Britain even have a military strategy? With Aaron Bastani & James Schneider 00:00 Intro 44:46 Iran updates / Bombing - continues - Trump demands nuclear codes?? 51:19 Increasing Militarism Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/

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