Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen is a former Washington DC correspondent for Behind The Headlines. He has produced widely distributed video reports and print dispatches from across Israel-Palestine. He tweets at @DanCohen3000.

Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike

Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen examines the ongoing national strike in Colombia and how President Duque is relying on a neo-fascist ideology to subdue it.

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By Dan Cohen
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 CALI, COLOMBIA (Transcript) -- Colombia is on strike. And the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it. It kicked on when the far-right president President Ivan Duque announced a wildly unpopular tax reform imposing crushing austerity measures on middle class and poor Colombians. Duque’s proposal aimed to pay off debt

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Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests”

Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions.

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By Dan Cohen
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WASHINGTON -- Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund in Beijing and a native of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Gao discusses growing up as a Mongolian ethnic minority in XUAR, and how the propaganda war against China hurts Uyghur interests, but will ultimately

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NED-Funded Uyghur Separatist Network and CAIR Director Rally Around Cold War Propaganda

At a March 30 demonstration at the Chinese Embassy, the U.S.-funded Uyghur Separatist Network was joined by prominent Muslim figures. “Behind The Headlines” correspondent Dan Cohen spoke to participants and examined their claims.

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By Dan Cohen
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WASHINGTON — On March 30, demonstrators gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, calling on the U.S. Congress to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention and Human Rights Protection Acts. This legislation would ban the import of products alleged to be made from forced labor in China. It also authorizes President Biden to sanction

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Video: US Escalates New Cold War as Diplomatic Gloves Come Off, with Carl Zha

US aggression against China and Russia sets the tone of the Biden administration’s Cold War doctrine.

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By Dan Cohen
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The new Cold War has escalated over the past week as U.S. attempts to dominate both China and Russia backfired in embarrassing fashion for the Biden administration. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen is joined by “Silk and Steel” podcast host Carl Zha to discuss the diplomatic fiasco, how U.S. intelligence and media cornered Biden into denouncing

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US Intel Thinks You’re Stupid: ODNI Report Blames Russia, Ignores Colombian Election Interference

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a new report alleging wide-ranging Russian interference in the 2020 election, contradicting November statements that there was no election interference while outright ignoring documented interference from top US ally Colombia.

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By Dan Cohen
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WASHINGTON -- Russiagate is back! That’s right. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) says Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei meddled in the 2020 U.S. election. But not only they: Lebanese Hezbollah, Cuba and Venezuela did it too. I know what you’re thinking: Where is the evidence? Well, the ODNI

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Is China Committing Genocide? Behind the US Government’s Propaganda Campaign

The U.S. and its allies have declared China is guilty of genocide against Uighur Muslims. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen examines the claim and the extremist figures behind the propaganda blitz.

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By Dan Cohen
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XINJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA -- Up is down. War is peace. And the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands have accused China of genocide. “This is forced labor, this is forced sterilization, this is forced abortions, ...the kind of thing we haven’t seen in an awfully long time in this world,” declared then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. To be fair, the

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The Empire’s Hidden Hand: How The US Established, Sustains and Benefits From Morocco’s Occupation of Western Sahara

Over the decades, the Moroccan settler population expanded while the United States and European Union have illegally exploited the Western Sahara’s resources, mining phosphates, fishing in its waters, and in recent years, drilling for oil and gas.

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By Dan Cohen
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 WESTERN SAHARA -- On November 13, 2020, commanders from the United States and Morrocan militaries met to plan annual joint exercises. The following day, 1,000 Moroccan soldiers and 200 vehicles stormed into the Guerguerat border crossing – a key highway in the occupied Western Sahara that connects Morocco to Mauritania, built in violation of

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