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Headlines for September 26, 2024; NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted as Calls Grow for Him to Resign Amid Multiple Federal Corruption Probes; “Hell Is Breaking Loose in Lebanon”: Israel Rejects Ceasefire Proposal as U.N. Chief Calls for Peace; U.S. Gov’t Agencies Found Israel Was Blocking Gaza Aid. Blinken Ignored Them to Keep Weapons Flowing
Headlines for August 30, 2024; From Decriminalization to Border Crackdown, Harris Defends Hard-Line Shift in 1st Interview as Nominee; No Policy Change: In CNN Interview, Harris Refuses to Condition U.S. Military Support for Israel; “Opportunity Economy”: Kamala Harris Promotes Expanded Child Tax Credit, Regulating Price Gouging; No Ban on Fracking: Kamala Harris Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels in Shift from 2019; “Master Plan”: New Lever Podcast Series Traces How Oligarchs “Legalized Corruption” in U.S.
Headlines for August 20, 2024; Thousands March on DNC in Chicago to Demand End to War on Gaza; First-Ever DNC Panel on Palestinian Rights: We Need to “Restore the Soul of the Democratic Party”; Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him; “Donald Trump Is a Scab”: UAW President Shawn Fain Hails Kamala Harris & Attacks Corporate Greed; Chicago Is a Labor Town: Teachers Union President and In These Times Editor on Organizing for Change; Muslim, Immigrant & Jewish Delegates Unfurl “Stop Arming Israel” Banner During Biden DNC Speech
Headlines for August 19, 2024; “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout Week as DNC Begins in Chicago; Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers & Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC; Rev. Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party & Paved Way for Kamala Harris; Voices from the Streets of Chicago: DNC Protesters Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Economic Justice; Kamala Harris Is Reaching Out to Arab American Leaders, But Will There Be Any Change in Gaza Policy?; The Exonerated: Meet Two Chicago Men Wrongly Imprisoned for Decades, on Police Torture, Death Row & More; Phil Donahue, Legendary Talk Show Host Fired by MSNBC for Airing Antiwar Views, Dies at 88
Headlines for August 14, 2024; How Elon Musk Broke with the Democrats to Spend Millions on Donald Trump’s Reelection Campaign; How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli; Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to Faith Leaders in U.S.: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide
Headlines for August 05, 2024; Uprising in Bangladesh: Student Protests Force Prime Minister to Resign & Flee to India, 100s Killed; As Tension over Venezuelan Election Escalates, the Left Debates Who Won Contested Vote; Did Egypt Give Trump a $10 Million Bribe? The FBI Was Investigating, Then AG Barr Closed Case; “I’m So Sad for Our Country”: 9/11 Victim’s Sister Responds to Def. Sec. Austin Revoking Plea Deal
Headlines for July 24, 2024; “Terrible Mistake”: Leading Israelis Say Netanyahu’s Invite to Address Congress Rewards Bad Behavior; Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu’s Address to Congress, 400 Arrested; “Tragic Beyond Proportions”: Attorney Ben Crump on Sonya Massey’s Killing and Police Cover-Up; “Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied”: Video Shows Hotel Guards Kill D’Vontaye Mitchell, Yet No Arrests
Headlines for July 17, 2024; “Politics of Hate”: Writer Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies and Fearmongering at RNC; Trump Is Trying to “Gaslight the Black Community” About His Racist Record: Clarence Lusane; Jury Convicts NJ Senator Bob Menendez of Taking Bribes from Egypt & Qatar; Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran; J.D. Vance Praised 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones as Truth-Teller in Private 2021 Speech; Milwaukee Immigrant Rights Advocate Slams “Sickening” Rhetoric at RNC as Trump Vows Mass Deportations; DNC Makes Moves to Lock In Biden as Nominee Early, Despite Growing Discontent Among Democrats
“The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Birding While Black & the Central Park Incident
Headlines for June 27, 2024; Kenya Protests: Police Abduct Activists as Pres. Ruto Rejects Tax Bill Linked to Foreign Debt Crisis; The Gaza Project: Investigation Details Israel’s “Unprecedented” Targeting of Palestinian Journalists; Gaza Journalist Shrouq Aila on Continuing to Report After Journalist Husband Killed in Israeli Airstrike
Headlines for June 21, 2024; “The Night Won’t End”: New Film Investigates Civilian Killings in Gaza and U.S. Backing of Israeli Assault; “Green Border”: Agnieszka Holland’s New Film Shows “Impossible Choices” Facing Refugees in Europe
Headlines for June 20, 2024; Meet Nadia Milleron: Her Daughter Was Killed in 2019 Boeing Crash, Now She’s Running for Congress; Pentagon Ran a Secret Anti-Vax Campaign to Undermine China at the Height of the Pandemic: Reuters; First Illinois Latina Rep. Praises Biden’s New Immigration Executive Order But Slams Border Shutdown; “Congress Is Not for Sale”: Rep. Ramirez Slams AIPAC-Led Campaign Against Jamaal Bowman in NY Primary
Headlines for June 18, 2024; Ahead of Juneteenth, Maryland Pardons 175K Pot Convictions, Seeking to Remedy Harms of War on Drugs; Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Loses Univ. of Minnesota Job Offer for Saying Israel Is Committing Genocide
Headlines for June 14, 2024; Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate; Birding While Black: Christian Cooper on NYC Audubon Society’s New Name & Racist Central Park Incident; “Better Living Through Birding”: Christian Cooper on Being a Queer Black Man in the Natural World
Headlines for June 05, 2024; “My Journey of Loss”: Gaza Twin on Death of Mom, 14 Relatives & Continuing to Flee Israeli Bombs; “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”: Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard; Biden Limits Asylum & Shuts Down Border for Migrants Ahead of Debate with Trump
Headlines for June 04, 2024; A Setback for the “Cult of Modi”? Indian Opposition Faring Surprisingly Well in Early Election Count; El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump; “More Than a Symbolic Victory”: Mexican Women’s Movement Paved Way for Election of 1st Female President; “The Trauma Is Unimaginable”: Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo
Headlines for May 31, 2024; Guilty: Trump Becomes First Ex-President Felon in U.S. History; “Unprecedented in the History of American Republicanism”: Historian on Trump Verdict & GOP Extremism; Exclusive: USAID Contractor Resigns After Presentation on Maternal & Child Mortality in Gaza Canceled; “I Was Shocked”: Meet the State Dept. Official Who Quit After Report Denies Israel Blocking Gaza Aid
Headlines for May 30, 2024; “This Is a Crime”: Ken Roth on Israel’s Secret War Targeting the ICC to Derail War Crimes Charges; Univ. of Toronto Protesters Vow to Continue Gaza Encampment as Admin Demands Police Clear It; PFAS Cover-Up: How 3M Hid Risks of Forever Chemicals & “Gaslit” Scientist Who Tried to Sound Alarm
Headlines for May 29, 2024; “A Narrative of Trump Criminality”: Jury Begins Deliberations in Hush Money Case; “The North Needs to Learn from the South”: Mexico Poised to Elect First Woman President; “America’s Monster”: How a U.S. Ally Kidnapped, Killed & Tortured Hundreds in Afghanistan
Headlines for May 20, 2024; Trita Parsi on Future of Iran After President & Foreign Minister Die in Helicopter Crash; Int’l Criminal Court Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant & Hamas Leaders for War Crimes; British High Court Grants WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange the Right to Appeal U.S. Extradition; Meet Two Morehouse Professors Who Protested Biden over Gaza and Congo During Commencement Speech
Headlines for May 17, 2024; “Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism
Headlines for May 15, 2024; Defense Attorney Ron Kuby on Trump Criminal Trial & Representing Climate & Pro-Palestinian Protesters; “Stop This War Right Now”: U.S. Doctor Who Saved Sen. Duckworth’s Life in Iraq, Now Trapped in Gaza; “A Racist, Criminal Project”: Palestinian Historian on 1948 Nakba, Israel’s War on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; Drop the Charges: Demands for CUNY to Divest from Israel Met by Violent Police Repression & Felony Charges
Headlines for May 13, 2024; “The Plan Is Genocide”: Palestine’s U.K. Ambassador Decries Israel’s Attack on Gaza & U.S. Complicity; The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home; NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life
Headlines for May 10, 2024; 12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues; “We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met; Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ; Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine; “Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors”: Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72
Headlines for May 08, 2024; Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment; 60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7; Mistrial: Abu Ghraib Survivors Detail Torture in Case Against U.S. Military Contractor
Headlines for May 08, 2024; Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment; 60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7; Mistrial: Abu Ghraib Survivors Detail Torture in Case Against U.S. Military Contractor
Headlines for May 06, 2024; “Criminal Act”: Israel Bans Al Jazeera, Largest Int’l News Org. in Gaza, Ahead of Rafah Invasion; “They Are Starving,” Says Doctor Back from Gaza; World Food Programme Warns North in “Full-Blown Famine”; Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies as Police Crack Down on Encampments
Headlines for May 03, 2024; “This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure”: Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza; “Dead on Arrival”: Doctors Back from Gaza Describe Horrific Hospital Scenes, Decimated Health System
Headlines for May 02, 2024; “People Could Have Died”: Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment; Former Brandeis President on Gaza Protests: Schools Must Protect Free Expression on Campus; Amnesty Int’l: Biden Must Halt Weapon Sales to Israel After U.S. Arms Used to Kill Civilians in Gaza; “Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine
Headlines for May 01, 2024; Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments; Juan González, Veteran of '68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders' Silence on Gaza Slaughter; USC Grad Student Union Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against University over Arrests; Reed Brody: U.S. Hypocrisy Laid Bare as Biden Admin Claims ICC Can’t Prosecute Israel for War Crimes
Headlines for April 30, 2024; “We Don’t Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians”: Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest; In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover; Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent; Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike
Headlines for April 26, 2024; Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment; “People Are Going to Die”: Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.; “The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System
Headlines for September 13, 2023; “A Calamity of Epic Proportions”: Death Toll from Libyan Floods Tops 6,000 in Latest Climate Disaster; “Complicit”: Columbia U. Shielded Predator OB-GYN Robert Hadden for Decades as He Assaulted Hundreds
Headlines for September 12, 2023; The World Is Undergoing “Significant Realignments”: Economist Jayati Ghosh on G20, India, China & More; Is Modi Changing India’s Name to Bharat? Jayati Ghosh on What’s Behind the Move; 50 Years After Coup in Chile: Peter Kornbluh on How U.S. Continues to Hide Role of Nixon & Kissinger; “Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World
Headlines for August 23, 2023; “They Fired on Us Like Rain”: Saudis Accused of Killing Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees at Border; “It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
Headlines for August 22, 2023; “Notorious”: Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year; Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors; Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order; In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands
Headlines for August 16, 2023; Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid; Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts; “Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate
Headlines for August 15, 2023; Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference; Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy; Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts
Headlines for August 14, 2023; “War Zone”: Native Hawaiian Scholar Says Colonialism Set Stage for Destruction as Death Toll Soars; “This Is the Climate Crisis”: Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires & Why Disasters Are Becoming Deadlier; After Shocking Assassination, Ecuadorian VP Candidate Decries “Clear Links” Between Gov’t & Cartels
Headlines for August 11, 2023; “We’re Not Going to Die This Way”: Father Describes Jumping into Ocean with 5 Kids to Escape Maui Fire; “We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree; As Fires Destroy Native Hawaiian Archive in Maui, Mutual Aid Efforts Are Launched to Help Lahaina; “Unprecedented”: Fire Expert Says Climate & Native Vegetation Changes Fueled Explosive Maui Wildfires
Headlines for August 07, 2023; Freedom vs. Compelled Birth: Dorothy Roberts on Abortion Fights in Texas, Ohio & Across the U.S.; “It’s a Way of Reparations”: Why Henrietta Lacks Settlement Matters for Bioethics & Racial Justice; Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest in Detroit Shows “Racism Gets Embedded” in Facial Recognition Technology; #SayHerName: Kimberlé Crenshaw on Black Women Killed by Police & DeSantis’s New Pro-Slavery Curriculum
Headlines for August 04, 2023; Trump & the KKK Act: Carol Anderson on Reconstruction-Era Voting Rights Law Cited in Trump Indictment; Blowback in Africa: U.S.-Trained Officer Overthrows Pro-U.S. Leader in Niger, Site of U.S. Drone Base
Headlines for August 03, 2023; “Never Again”: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Sentenced to Die. Jews Against the Death Penalty Respond; Center for Countering Digital Hate Vows to Keep Monitoring Hate Speech on X Despite Elon Musk Lawsuit; FBI & Colorado Springs Police Sued for Targeting & Spying on Racial Justice Protesters
Headlines for August 02, 2023; “Presidents Are Not Kings”: Unpacking Historic Indictment of Donald Trump for Plot to Overturn Election; Conflict in Ukraine: Putin & Zelensky Dig In for Long War Amid Nuclear Risks, Global Food Disruption
Headlines for August 01, 2023; Did Western Military Presence Help Foster Coup in Niger, Where U.S. Has Drone Base & 1,000+ Troops?; Remembering Juan Ramos, Puerto Rican Activist & Leader of Philadelphia Young Lords; “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church Abuse
Headlines for July 31, 2023; ”FBI-Orchestrated Conspiracy”: Judge Orders Release of 3 of Newburgh 4 Tied to Fake NY Bomb Plot; What Did Columbia Know? Survivors of Convicted Sex Abuser OB-GYN Robert Hadden Demand Full Accountability
Headlines for July 26, 2023; Activists Demand U.S. End Korean War After 70 Years as Biden Admin Ramps Up “Nuclear Blackmail”; New Witness to Malcolm X Assassination Says He Heard Police Ask If Killer Was “With Us”; Ben Crump: Florida’s New Curriculum, Claiming “Benefits” of Slavery, Will Cause “Psychological Trauma”
Headlines for July 24, 2023; DOJ Threatens to Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Installing Barrels Wrapped in Razor Wire in Rio Grande; The Intercept Reveals Border Patrol Is Caging Migrants Outdoors in Deadly Arizona Heat; “Chaos & Violence”: NYC to Pay $13M to Those Attacked by Police in 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests; Is Hollywood Still Afraid of the Truth About the Atomic Bomb?: Greg Mitchell on “Oppenheimer”
Headlines for July 20, 2023; “While We Watched”: New Film Spotlights Journalist Ravish Kumar’s Fight for Truth in Modi’s India; Meet the Wisconsin Teacher Fired for Protesting Ban on Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton Song “Rainbowland”
Headlines for July 19, 2023; William Arkin: CIA Is Playing “Outsize Role” in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forces; The Whitewashing of Neo-Nazis: Lev Golinkin & Ben Makuch on How Far Right Is Exploiting Ukraine War
Headlines for July 18, 2023; Palestinian Attorney Noura Erakat: The U.S. Is Normalizing Apartheid by Hosting Israel’s President; Israeli Forces Blindfold & Handcuff Palestinian Reporter Who Filmed Settler Attack in Masafer Yatta; Historian John Womack: Unions Need to Exploit “Choke Points” in Economy to Grow Working-Class Power
Headlines for July 17, 2023; “The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet; Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Headlines for July 14, 2023; “We Demand Respect”: Actors Join Writers on Strike, Grinding Film & TV Production to a Halt; What Is the Point of NATO? Historian Grey Anderson on How U.S. Has Used Alliance to Strengthen Power; U.N. Warns Pandemic, Climate & Ukraine War Have Dramatically Increased World Hunger
Headlines for July 13, 2023; Stephen Wertheim: The West Cannot Ignore Role NATO Expansion Played in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine; “Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
Headlines for July 11, 2023; “A Historic Mistake”: Swedish Peace Activist Decries Move to Join NATO & Abandon Neutrality; “Mission Creep”: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Ukraine’s Push to Join NATO & U.S. Plan to Send Cluster Bombs; Human Rights Activists Warn Climate-Induced Heat Waves Are Killing Asylum Seekers at the Border; Texas Governor Outlaws Life-Saving Water Breaks for Workers as Climate Crisis Fuels Heat Waves; Meet the TV Meteorologist Who Quit After Facing Death Threats for Explaining Climate Crisis on Air
Headlines for July 10, 2023; “Madness of Militarism”: Biden OKs Cluster Bombs for Ukraine Despite Risk of Civilian Casualties; Tennessee’s War on Trans People: Court OKs Ban on Gender-Affirming Care as AG Demands Medical Records; Meet Sarah McBride. If Elected, She’d Be the First Openly Trans Member of Congress.
Headlines for July 07, 2023; Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records Hottest Temps Ever; “Double Agents”: Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work For Fossil Fuel Industry; Guatemalan Elite Tries to Overturn Democracy, But Anti-Corruption Candidate to Stay in Runoff Election; “Directly Complicit”: Shadi Hamid on How Obama Greenlighted 2013 Egypt Coup, Killing the Arab Spring
Headlines for July 06, 2023; Ukrainian Writer Andrey Kurkov Recalls Friend Victoria Amelina, Novelist Killed in Russian Airstrike; Elena Milashina Attack: Rights Groups Condemn Brutal Beating of Russian Journalist in Chechnya; Syria’s Missing: New U.N. Body Will Investigate Disappearance of 130,000 People in 12-Year Civil War; How Syria Profits from Trafficking Captagon, Highly Addictive Amphetamine Propping Up Assad Regime; Rep. Ro Khanna on Term-Limiting SCOTUS Justices, Sole “No” Vote on Pentagon Budget & Modi’s State Visit
Headlines for July 05, 2023; Under Fire: Report from Jenin Refugee Camp on Israel’s Largest West Bank Attack in 20 Years; “Inflection Point”: Uprising over French Teen’s Killing in Traffic Stop & Pattern of Racist Policing; “Time Is of the Essence”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt Relief Setback at Supreme Court, Biden’s Plan B; “Bad for Religion”: Gay Baptist Minister with Interfaith Alliance on SCOTUS Ruling on LGBTQ Rights
Headlines for June 30, 2023; Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in Colleges, Keeps It for Military Academies: Roundtable; Is Supreme Court’s “Gay Wedding” Case Built on a Lie? Man at Center of the Story Says He’s Straight; Supreme Court Case to End Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan Relies on “Unwilling Participant”; “What Arrogance Looks Like”: Supreme Court Justice Alito’s Ruling vs. EPA Allegedly Violates Ethics
Headlines for June 29, 2023; After Failed Mutiny in Russia, U.S. Sanctions Wagner Funders as Fighters Remain in Africa & Syria; Canadian Climate Activist: Big Oil Is Fueling Fires. We Must Stop Funding New Fossil Fuel Pipelines; “Climate Silence”: Corporate Media Still Failing to Link Wildfires & Extreme Weather to Climate Crisis; Meet One of the Teens Suing Montana over Climate Crisis. She Says Planet’s Future Is at Stake
Headlines for June 28, 2023; SCOTUS Rejects Radical GOP Vote-Rigging “Theory,” Could Still End Affirmative Action & Debt Relief; Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber; Hondurans Fight Private Cities Run by U.S. Companies as Gov’t Sued for Outlawing “Neocolonial Project”
Headlines for June 27, 2023; “Dead Men Walking”: James Risen on How the Wagner Revolt Threatens Both Putin & Prigozhin; James Risen on Why Trump’s Charges Are Different Than for Whistleblowers Targeted Under Espionage Act; “The Last Honest Man”: James Risen on How Frank Church Exposed CIA, FBI & NSA Assassinations, Abuse
Headlines for June 26, 2023; Mutiny in Russia: Nina Khrushcheva on How the Wagner Revolt Exposes Putin’s Weakness; View from Kyiv: What Does the Wagner Revolt Mean for Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria & Beyond?; Putin’s Creation: History of Russia’s Mercenary Wagner Group & Its Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin; One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Access Dangerously Limited as Support for Abortion Spikes Nationwide
Headlines for June 23, 2023; As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage; From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks, Israel Intensifies Effort to “Completely Take Over Palestine”; “The Palestine Laboratory”: Antony Loewenstein on How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
Headlines for June 22, 2023; Modi’s State Visit: Biden Embraces Indian Leader Despite Rights Crackdown; Biden Calls Xi Jinping a “Dictator”: China-U.S. Relations and a Growing Multipolar World; How AI Is Enabling Racism & Sexism: Algorithmic Justice League’s Joy Buolamwini on Meeting with Biden
Headlines for June 21, 2023; NY Dems Pass Medical Debt Relief as Progressives Push to Expand Healthcare to Undocumented Residents; Minnesota Miracle: Democrats Use Supermajority to Pass Abortion, Voting, Labor, Tenant Reforms & More; DOJ Report Exposes Minneapolis Police Civil Rights Violations Amid Call for Community Role in Reforms; Hunter Biden: President’s Son Takes Plea Deal on Tax & Gun Charges, But Legal Trouble May Not Be Over
Headlines for June 20, 2023; RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies; Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War; “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner; Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth
Headlines for June 16, 2023; Big Win for Tribal Sovereignty: Indian Child Welfare Act Upheld by Supreme Court in Surprise Ruling; Sen. Chris Van Hollen: State Dept. Must Release Report on Shireen Abu Akleh Death, Hold Killers Accountable; Was Mika Westwolf Killed By White Nationalist? Indigenous Woman’s Parents & Community Demand Justice; “Unacceptable”: Olympic Track Star Tori Bowie’s Death Highlights Black Maternal Health Crisis
Headlines for June 15, 2023; Sudan’s Healthcare on Brink Amid Fighting & Targeted Attacks on Medical Workers, Hospitals Worldwide; “The New Cold War: The United States, Russia and China”: Gilbert Achcar on Ukraine War & More; “A Carbon Bomb”: Kumi Naidoo on Fight to Stop Construction of EACOP, Proposed Pipeline in East Africa
Headlines for June 08, 2023; “Airpocalypse”: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & Pollution Link to Climate Crisis; “World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported”: Journalist Anjan Sundaram
Headlines for June 07, 2023; A National State of Emergency: Human Rights Campaign Sounds the Alarm over Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in U.S.; Cornel West on Running for President, Ending Ukraine War & Taking on “Corporate Duopoly” of Dems & GOP
A Martin Luther King Day special featuring excerpts of two historic MLK speeches: “Beyond Vietnam” and “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”
Reed Brody, the international human rights lawyer, talks about his new book: “To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ed Yong discusses his book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
Jurors convict Oath Keepers leaders of seditious conspiracy over their role in the January 6 Capitol attack; American Prospect editor David Dayen on a busy lame-duck session in Congress; New York Mayor Eric Adams alarms advocates with a plan to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental illness.
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Railroad Workers United organizer and labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on Biden’s push to block a rail strike; Academic workers in the University of California system on why they are part of the largest higher education strike in U.S. history; An update on LUMA Energy and Puerto Rico’s frequent blackouts.
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Abdullah Al-Arian on “Why the World Cup Belongs in the Middle East” and Jules Boykoff on why the World Cup in Qatar is a “Climate Catastrophe”; Reporter Victoria Law on the Manhattan district attorney’s move to drop murder charges against domestic violence survivor Tracy McCarter after a campaign against her criminalization.
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Protests erupt in China over the government’s strict zero-COVID policies; Pressure mounts to stop Missouri’s Tuesday execution of Kevin Johnson, whose conviction was tainted by racism; Sahrawi climate activist Mahfud Bechri on greenwashing at COP27, and Western Sahara International Film Festival executive director María Carrión on the Moroccan occupation.
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Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance; Dr. Gabor Maté on “The Myth of Normal,” Healing in a Toxic Culture & How Capitalism Fuels Addiction
The situation in Iran is “critical” as authorities tighten their crackdown on anti-government protests; Noam Chomsky on the life and legacy of radical peace and civil rights activist Staughton Lynd; Filipino activist Yeb Saño on what the “loss and damage” fund negotiated at COP27 means for the climate crisis.
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We speak with the family of imprisoned Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah on the state of his health following a six-month hunger strike and amid the growing movement to free him.
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Rich countries agree to establish a climate reparations fund at the close of COP27 but fail to commit to fossil fuel phaseout; The Colorado Springs LGBTQ community reels from Saturday’s deadly shooting; Human rights violations in Qatar, host country of the World Cup that kicked off Sunday.
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Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s aunt describes the activist’s condition after visiting him in prison; A Ukrainian climate activist and a Ukrainian climate scientist discuss how Russia’s war intensified calls for a transition to renewable energy; Russian environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak at COP27.
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As climate justice activists protest at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, calling on world leaders to do more to address the climate crisis and demanding wealthy nations pay climate reparations, we spend the hour with Indigenous land defenders from Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States and Canada.
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Broadcasting from COP27, we look at how “loss and damage” financing is now a key split at COP27; How military spending exacerbates the climate crisis; African climate activists mobilize against construction of EACOP, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.
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We continue our coverage from COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where activists are decrying a crackdown on dissent and inaction by world leaders to address the climate crisis.
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Democracy Now! is in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at COP27. We speak with climate justice activist Asad Rehman on what’s at stake at the U.N. climate conference; China scholars Michael Klare and Orville Schell on President Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping; Examining the effects of the climate crisis on Egypt and the wider region.
Democracy Now! is broadcasting live this week from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at the COP27 U.N. climate conference.
An interview with Congressmember-elect Delia Ramirez, the first Latina elected to Congress from Illinois and the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants; More cities and states moved toward ranked-choice voting in the midterm elections; Oxfam’s new report “Carbon Billionaires” links wealth inequality to the climate crisis and calls for a wealth tax.
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How New York election results could tip the balance of power in the House; Voters elect progressive prosecutors across the country, rejecting a tough-on-crime message; The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that could dismantle Native sovereignty.
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Democrats outperform expectations in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but control of Congress remains too close to call. We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols in Wisconsin, Black Voters Matter’s LaTosha Brown in Georgia, Aimee Allison with She the People. We also get updates on anti-abortion measures from Amy Littlefield and speak to Prof. Robert Reich about the role of inflation in the economy and next steps.
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Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif is in Sharm el-Sheikh amid COP27 to demand authorities release her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and may be close to death; Sunrise Movement’s Varshini Prakash on what’s at stake for the climate in Tuesday’s midterms; How Arizona Republicans disenfranchised Native American voters after they helped swing the state to the Democrats in 2020; The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on efforts to protect the vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
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Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid on which midterm races progressives could win; Voters weigh abortion access, cannabis legalization and other major issues in ballot initiatives across the United States; The impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition on communities of color and election disinformation.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is set to return as prime minister in Israel, this time with help from a far-right politician who supports ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; Asylum seekers arrive in New York from southern border states, where many say they faced pressure to relocate; The Department of Homeland Security’s expanding efforts to monitor and shape online speech.
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Egypt arrests hundreds ahead of COP27; We discuss new diplomatic efforts between Russia and Ukraine and look at the war’s impact on Africa; Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front reach a peace deal to end years of brutal conflict.
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The majority-conservative Supreme Court appears poised to strike down affirmative action in college admissions; Israel votes in its fifth national elections in four years amid increasing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; New York pays millions for wrongfully convicting two men for the assassination of Malcolm X.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeats far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff elections in a remarkable political comeback, but Bolsonaro has yet to concede; Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California on the war in Ukraine, U.S.-Saudi relations, midterm elections and more.
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Carol Anderson on Democrats losing ground in the closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races in Georgia; Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman on how Republicans used extreme gerrymandering to take over the Wisconsin legislature and what this means for 2024; Voting rights activist Desmond Meade on how Republicans in Florida are trying to intimidate formerly incarcerated people from voting.
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Progressive House lawmakers send, then retract, a letter urging diplomacy with Russia; Peace talks begin in South Africa to end the Ethiopian conflict; Children’s hospitals across the United States see a rise in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
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Pennsylvania Senate candidates Mehmet Oz and Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman face off in their first and only debate; Penn State students protest a speaking event with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes; Black voters are organizing unprecedented turnout ahead of midterms.
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China’s President Xi Jinping begins a historic third term after eliminating term limits; With midterms two weeks away, legendary consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader campaigns for Democrats for the first time ever, and political organizer Mark Green says the Democratic party needs to be more aggressive in its message against the GOP.
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As the war in Ukraine enters its ninth month, we look at the Biden administration’s unprecedented military spending on Ukraine and how U.S. arms sales fuel war and weaken national security; Prompted by the NAACP, the EPA files a civil rights investigation into the Jackson water crisis; The ACLU asks the Supreme Court to overturn an Arkansas anti-BDS law that penalizes companies that support boycotts of Israel.
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in office; Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s sister and Naomi Klein call on Egypt to release its political prisoners ahead of COP27; Kimberlé Crenshaw and Barbara Arnwine embark on a nonpartisan Arc of Voter Justice bus tour to encourage Black voter turnout in November midterms.
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As protests in Iran enter their second month, with more than a thousand protesters arrested, we speak with Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
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An update on the political and economic crisis in Haiti; Biden expands the Trump-era Title 42 program to turn away Venezuelan asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border; Congressmember Cori Bush on her new memoir, “The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America.”
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How police in Missouri ignored warnings about a killer targeting Black women until a woman escaped from captivity; As hate crimes against Asian Americans are linked to anti-China rhetoric by politicians, we speak with Gina Kim, executive producer of the new PBS film, “Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March”; As nuclear powers ratchet up tensions, activists call on U.S. lawmakers to “Defuse Nuclear War.”
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We look at “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” a new documentary by filmmaker Yoruba Richen based on the award-winning biography by historian Jeanne Theoharis.
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Excerpts from Thursday’s public hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
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Iranian American scholar Reza Aslan and Amnesty International’s Raha Bahreini on the escalating protests in Iran; an exiled Russian activist and Ukrainian activist discuss the war.
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Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies on their forthcoming book, “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict”; How top U.S. health insurance companies defraud the privatized Medicare Advantage program; A stunning leak uncovers collusion between the Mexican military and the country’s cartels.
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Black and Indigenous activists call for the resignation of L.A. City Council leadership after a leaked tape of their racist comments; Animal rights activist Wayne Hsiung on being acquitted after being put on trial for rescuing sick piglets from one of the world’s largest meat farms; Longtime social movement scholar Frances Fox Piven on the state of U.S. democracy and the power of social movements.
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Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad on U.S. global empire; Legendary Indigenous singer and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie on the significance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day; Remembering the late Indigenous activist and actress Sacheen Littlefeather.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes on Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s election; A new theater devoted to documentary film, housed at the former Democracy Now! firehouse studio, opens in New York; Craig Renaud on the legacy of his brother, Brent Renaud, who was killed in March reporting on the Ukraine war; Filmmaker Reid Davenport on his directorial debut, “I Didn’t See You There.”
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes on Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s election; A new theater devoted to documentary film, housed at the former Democracy Now! firehouse studio, opens in New York; Craig Renaud on the legacy of his brother, Brent Renaud, who was killed in March reporting on the Ukraine war; Filmmaker Reid Davenport on his directorial debut, “I Didn’t See You There.”
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As Hurricane Ian slams Florida, we get an update from Tampa, look at links between the climate crisis and hurricanes and rising sea levels, and hear from a prisoner rights advocate about incarcerated people in the storm’s path; As Russia moves to formally annex four Ukrainian areas after referendums widely denounced as sham votes, we speak to a prominent Ukrainian journalist investigating potential war crimes committed by Russia in areas that were recently recaptured during Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
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As Hurricane Ian slams Florida, we get an update from Tampa, look at links between the climate crisis and hurricanes and rising sea levels, and hear from a prisoner rights advocate about incarcerated people in the storm’s path; As Russia moves to formally annex four Ukrainian areas after referendums widely denounced as sham votes, we speak to a prominent Ukrainian journalist investigating potential war crimes committed by Russia in areas that were recently recaptured during Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
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Update from Tampa as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida as a possible Category 5 storm; Democratic Senator Joe Manchin stops a vote on his own energy permitting proposal that would have fast-tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline; NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus; Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick on her new book, “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.”
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Update from Tampa as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida as a possible Category 5 storm; Democratic Senator Joe Manchin stops a vote on his own energy permitting proposal that would have fast-tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline; NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus; Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick on her new book, “Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America.”
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Dozens of people in Iran are killed in a series of escalating protests demanding justice for Mahsa Amini; Jared Kushner’s property management company reaches a $3.25 million settlement in a Baltimore housing scandal that was first investigated by ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis; Philadelphia housing activists are fighting to keep a major housing complex affordable; Movement leader William Barber gives an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Dozens of people in Iran are killed in a series of escalating protests demanding justice for Mahsa Amini; Jared Kushner’s property management company reaches a $3.25 million settlement in a Baltimore housing scandal that was first investigated by ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis; Philadelphia housing activists are fighting to keep a major housing complex affordable; Movement leader William Barber gives an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.
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As Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini declares victory, we look at “the return of fascism in Italy” and its spread in Europe with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”; Ahead of the next House committee hearing on the January 6 Capitol insurrection, we look at one of the key groups that helped plan and carry out the attack, with reporter Andy Campbell, author of the new book, “We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of American Extremism.”
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As Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini declares victory, we look at “the return of fascism in Italy” and its spread in Europe with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”; Ahead of the next House committee hearing on the January 6 Capitol insurrection, we look at one of the key groups that helped plan and carry out the attack, with reporter Andy Campbell, author of the new book, “We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of American Extremism.”
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Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.
Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin’s plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the 1990 police killing of Black teenager Phillip Pannell in Teaneck, New Jersey, for the Black Lives Matter movement today.
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Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin’s plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the 1990 police killing of Black teenager Phillip Pannell in Teaneck, New Jersey, for the Black Lives Matter movement today.
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Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.
Donald Trump has two major legal setbacks related to his business and his handling of classified documents; Iranian protests grow over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody; The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío.
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Donald Trump has two major legal setbacks related to his business and his handling of classified documents; Iranian protests grow over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody; The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío.
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The head of Oxfam America calls for leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to address the global hunger emergency; Adnan Syed’s first lawyer on how the “Serial” subject gained his freedom; Dissident heiress Abigail Disney on her new documentary, “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” about U.S. inequality and how her family’s business exploits workers.
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The head of Oxfam America calls for leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to address the global hunger emergency; Adnan Syed’s first lawyer on how the “Serial” subject gained his freedom; Dissident heiress Abigail Disney on her new documentary, “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” about U.S. inequality and how her family’s business exploits workers.
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Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not “over,” as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the “Reverse Freedom Rides” of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black families to Cape Cod and other Northern areas.
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Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not “over,” as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the “Reverse Freedom Rides” of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black families to Cape Cod and other Northern areas.
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We go to Puerto Rico for an update on damage from Hurricane Fiona; How the climate crisis has worsened the magnitude of tropical storms; What Black Britons think of mourning the queen.
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We go to Puerto Rico for an update on damage from Hurricane Fiona; How the climate crisis has worsened the magnitude of tropical storms; What Black Britons think of mourning the queen.
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Renowned Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal,” and the impact of trauma on people’s health.
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Renowned Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, “The Myth of Normal,” and the impact of trauma on people’s health.
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For a Labor Day special, we look back at the life and legacy of the late historian Howard Zinn, who would have turned 100 in August.
President Biden denounces former President Donald Trump and MAGA supporters in a primetime speech. We speak with Prof. Nancy MacLean, author of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”; As thousands of unhoused Californians face a heat wave and more face a mass eviction with the end of pandemic-era programs, Los Angeles considers requiring hotels to place people facing homelessness in vacant rooms.
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Nina Khrushcheva and Katrina vanden Heuvel on the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Greenland’s melting ice sheet will trigger one foot of global sea level rise by the end of the century; Protests grow inside Google over a $1.2 billion “Project Nimbus” to provide advanced AI tools to the Israeli government and military.
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We get an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, from Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and a longtime activist; Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, on violent protests in Baghdad after Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation; Robin D. G. Kelley on the new 20th anniversary edition of his book, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.”
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Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs on the West’s “false narrative” about Russia and China; Afghan refugees struggle to gain “humanitarian parole” one year since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan; A conversation with Florida House Democratic nominee, 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who is set to make history as the first Afro-Cuban and Generation Z member elected to U.S. Congress.
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Pakistan declares a national emergency as massive floods continue to devastate the country; The Justice Department releases a redacted version of the affidavit used by the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate; Hundreds of farmworkers pressure California Governor Gavin Newsom to pass a bill that would make it easier for them to vote in union elections.
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Six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war is at a bloody stalemate; Marking one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; The assault on reproductive rights continues as more states enact bans on abortion and punishment for doctors who perform them.
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President Biden approves limited student loan forgiveness; Oklahoma’s governor orders the execution of James Coddington despite a recommendation of clemency from the state parole board; How a secretive billionaire made the largest known political donation to a right-wing group.
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We remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn on what would have been his 100th birthday.
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Authorities charge the former Mexican attorney general over the disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014; Tariq Ali of the New Left Review responds to terror charges brought against Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and unprecedented flooding in the country; New York holds primaries in newly drawn congressional districts.
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A landmark ruling orders Walmart, CVS and Walgreens to pay $650 million in damages for their role in the opioid crisis; Florida arrests 20 people — mostly formerly incarcerated — for alleged voter fraud ahead of Tuesday’s primary election; a federal judge halts Florida’s Stop WOKE Act; Alphabet workers demand Google protect the privacy of people seeking abortions.
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Kenya faces a political crisis amid a contested presidential election; We speak with two of the seven Palestinian civil society groups raided Thursday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank; A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing data broker LexisNexis for selling personal data to U.S. immigration authorities.
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We spend the hour focusing on Brazil, where former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva kicked off his campaign this week challenging Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, with reporter Michael Fox, host of the “Brazil on Fire” podcast; Indigenous lawyer Eliésio Marubo, who led the search in the Amazon for murdered British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous researcher Bruno Pereira; and the director and activists featured in the new documentary, “The Territory.”
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As 95% of Afghans lack enough to eat, the U.S. refuses to release $7 billion of frozen Afghan assets; Medea Benjamin on Cuba’s need for humanitarian aid after a massive fire, and the draconian sentencing of Saudi activist Salma al-Shehab; climate measures in the Inflation Reduction Act; The Nation’s John Nichols on Trump’s Republican foe Liz Cheney losing her primary race.
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Alex Vitale on the reasons to defund the FBI that have nothing to do with Trump; U.S. lawyers and journalists sue the CIA for spying on their London visits to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy; Calls grow for the compassionate release of 72-year-old political prisoner and Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur, who is close to death.
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A search warrant reveals the FBI is investigating President Donald Trump for potential violation of the Espionage Act and other laws; Afghan journalist Zahra Nader on the first anniversary of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan; We feature a rare speech by renowned Indian British novelist Salman Rushdie, who survived an assassination attempt Friday.
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Matthieu Aikins writes about “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” for The New York Times; An imprisoned Saudi man was tortured and jailed for running a satirical Twitter account; Longtime Filipino activist Walden Bello gives an interview after being jailed for “cyber libel.”
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Trita Parsi on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal; Hundreds of migrants arrive by bus in New York, sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with no warning as mutual aid and legal services scramble to respond; Activists call on President Biden to address soaring rent inflation; Los Angeles faces protests over expanding its ban on encampments of unhoused people.
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Police arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice activists cheer the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
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FBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook.
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Dozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane Scheppele, on CPAC and U.S. conservatives’ embrace of right-wing authoritarianism.
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The DOJ brings criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death; The life and legacy of Albert Woodfox, a Black Panther activist who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history.
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The nuclear crisis grows at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant and abroad; Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan; We look at the vote to expand health benefits to veterans affected by toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan and how local residents have been impacted, as well; Kansas voters defeat an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.
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The U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul; Update from Kansas, where voters will decide a constitutional amendment that could end abortion access in the state; LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher on monkeypox and his new book, “The Viral Underclass.”
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We spend the hour with Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and their son Zayd, who chronicles the family’s activism in his new award-winning 10-part podcast series, “Mother Country Radicals.”
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Congressmember Andy Levin on facing AIPAC’s big-money campaign in Tuesday’s primary race; As key Senate Democrats reach a deal on climate funding, we speak with one of their advisers and with a congressional staffer arrested this week urging lawmakers to address the climate crisis; Two threats facing incarcerated people this summer: intensifying heat waves and monkeypox.
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As top U.S. and Russian diplomats talk for the first time since February, we look at the latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine; The Taliban crackdown on women and girls since taking power.
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Tensions between the U.S. and China mount ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan; Economists Jayati Ghosh and Richard Wolff on the risks of a global debt crisis and how to handle rising inflation.
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Indigenous activists respond to Pope Francis’s apology tour in Canada for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s policy of residential schools that forcefully assimilated Indigenous children; The Puerto Rico Status Act would give residents a say in the future status of the territory; Burma’s military government executes four democracy activists.
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The World Health Organization declares monkeypox a global health emergency; Congressmember Ro Khanna on the ongoing baby formula shortage; “Aftershock” is a new documentary that examines the crisis of maternal mortality among Black people in the United States, which could get worse as states struggle to cope with abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Highlights from the January 6th committee’s eighth and final hearing until the fall.
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As heat waves scorch much of the globe, we spend the hour looking at the intensifying climate crisis with leading activists in the United States, Africa and Europe. We look at how Biden could use his emergency powers, and speak with Vanessa Nakate, climate justice activist in Kampala, Uganda, and British author and environmental activist George Monbiot.
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Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin on the latest in the House investigation of the Capitol insurrection, which holds its eighth public hearing Thursday; Progressive Caucus Chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, on surviving a racist death threat, and the Democrats’ push for an assault weapons ban and a federal right to abortion.
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Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez on a new report revealing “multiple systemic failures” in the response of nearly 400 police officers to the shooting in Uvalde; Jewish Currents editor Peter Beinart on how pro-Israel PACs are deploying millions to defeat liberal congressional candidates; Pioneering scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw launches a critical race theory “summer school.”
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Human rights advocates question President Biden’s Middle East trip, including his meetings with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; Bill McKibben on the heat have scorching much of the globe; How “unimaginable abortion stories” will become more common following the end of Roe v. Wade.
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The Atlantic’s science writer Ed Yong joins us to discuss his fascinating new book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
Astrophysicist Katie Mack on the revolutionary new images of the cosmos released this week from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz of JustSpace Alliance on the push to rename the JWST because of his role in perpetuating homophobia at the State Dept. and NASA in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Rashid Khalid and Sarah Leah Whitson on President Biden’s Middle East tour; Ed Yong on the COVID-19 “reinfection wave.”
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Highlights from the seventh public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, which focused on former President Trump’s links to domestic extremist groups and how he used Twitter to summon some of his most violent supporters to Washington, D.C., on January 6.
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An update from Sri Lanka on the unfolding political and economic crisis; Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on pressure for independent media to follow a single approved narrative on the Ukraine war; Reproductive rights leaders in the Deep South on their work post-Roe, including the CEO of the Mississippi clinic at the center of the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe.
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Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen discuss their latest documentary, “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” about the former Arizona congressmember’s fight for gun safety after she survived an assassination attempt in 2011.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while campaigning for his party; WNBA star Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug possession charges in Russia as pressure grows for the U.S. to secure her release; As President Biden prepares to visit Israel and other countries in the Middle East, the State Department is accused of whitewashing the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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Boris Johnson resigns as leader of the U.K. Conservative Party, clearing the way for a new prime minister; The latest on Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and global fuel shortages leading to protests worldwide; Aziz Rana and Darryl Li on building a leftist foreign policy.
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The death toll for the July Fourth shooting in Highland Park climbs to seven; The rise of white supremacist extremism with groups like Patriot Front and NSC-131 in New England; The Supreme Court agrees to hear the North Carolina case Moore v. Harper in the fall, a case that will decide if Republican gerrymandering violates the state constitution.
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Gun violence disrupts a July Fourth parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park; We speak with an activist helping to lead protests over the police shooting of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio; The latest on the mass shooting in Uvalde and abortion rights in Texas.
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We air a special holiday show for U.S. Independence Day featuring the words and voices of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, actor James Earl Jones and poet Amanda Gorman. Plus we speak to Michele Goodwin and Kitty Kolbert on the overturning of Roe.
Highlights from the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, at the sixth public hearing of the January 6 committee.
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46 migrants are found dead in the back of a truck in Texas as the Biden administration continues to enforce harsh border policies; The head of a Texas abortion fund discusses struggling to help patients amid lawsuits and harassment; Digital privacy for abortion seekers and providers in an age of ubiquitous surveillance and abortion bans.
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The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a New York state law on concealed firearms, vastly expanding gun rights across the country; Highlights from the fifth day of public hearings by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
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A 5.9-magnitude earthquake kills at least 1,000 in Afghanistan; Experts warn of a pending global food shortage; Critics denounce the World Trade Organization for keeping intellectual property barriers they say will limit global access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests & treatments.
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Highlights from the fourth public hearing of the House committee investigating January 6, which focused on how then-President Trump and his campaign team pressured and harassed state and local officials in a thwarted plan to overturn the 2020 election.
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As voters make history in Colombia, we speak to people on the ground about the significance of the presidential election and reair interviews with Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, who will be the country’s first leftist president and the first Black vice president.
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The U.K. approves Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges; Highlights from the third public January 6 hearing in Congress; The Poor People’s Moral March this Saturday will bring thousands to the Capitol as the U.S. faces its worst inflation in decades with skyrocketing food, gas and energy prices.
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The Biden administration announces a new $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine; Hate crimes and legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community rise across the U.S.; An organizer who skipped a White House Pride Month celebration says the administration must stop the detention and deportation of LGBTQ immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Historian and “Watergate: A New History” author Garrett Graff on the break-in 50 years ago this week and lessons from the Watergate hearings for the House January 6 committee; Veteran labor journalist Steven Greenhouse on Biden’s address to the AFL-CIO convention and the latest on unionizing drives at Amazon and Starbucks and throughout the economy; Biden plans to visit Saudi Arabia despite his pledge to treat the kingdom like a “pariah.”
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Highlights from the second public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol.
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We spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who has just published a revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.”
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We recap the first public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
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The United Nations demands an independent investigation into charges of rape and sexual assault committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine; The House committee investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the deadly January 6 insurrection holds its first public hearing Thursday evening.
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Voters in San Francisco recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin after a well-funded opposition campaign by the real estate industry and others; Latin American leaders boycott the Summit of the Americas after Biden excludes Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; An Amazonian Indigenous leader is blocked from the summit; British journalist and Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples are missing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest after documenting illegal fishing and mining in the area.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly survives a vote of no confidence; Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez says police are covering up what happened in Uvalde, and reporters say police and biker gangs are blocking them from covering funerals of the mass shooting victims; Investigative reporter Keri Blakinger on her new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” about her journey from addiction and prison to recovery and the newsroom.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel says we need a real debate on the Ukraine war; The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection will hold its first public hearing this Thursday; Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch on how shooters wielding semiautomatic rifles massacred at least three in the city Saturday; A landmark California task force report calls for reparations to descendants of enslaved people.
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President Biden calls on Congress to enact new gun control measures; San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on fighting the recall election to unseat him and end his progressive policies on social justice reform; The Biden administration wipes the debts of former students at Corinthian Colleges, but has not yet moved on wider student debt forgiveness.
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Anatol Lieven on how the U.S. can avoid Cold War mistakes in a standoff with Russia; How the U.S. is exporting its gun violence through massive arms sales to other countries; The climate emergency and war in Ukraine lead to a devastating hunger crisis.
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Investigative journalist Frank Smyth on the NRA and the power of the gun lobby; Adel Al Manthari was hit by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, and supporters are raising money for lifesaving surgery in lieu of help from the Pentagon; a new campaign targets racist Supreme Court rulings used to justify discrimination against people in Puerto Rico and U.S.-occupied territories.
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The Texas senator for Uvalde on calls for stricter gun control after the massacre at Robb Elementary School; A Pulse nightclub survivor says police took three hours to break in after the 2016 attack left 49 dead, and are ill-equipped to stop mass shooters; Leftist Gustavo Petro wins in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with a right-wing business leader compared to Trump.
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A special broadcast featuring Michele Goodwin, author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood”; Rep. Lucy McBath; and ACLU attorney and trans activist Chase Strangio.
Author and journalist Mark Follman on how behavioral threat assessment can prevent mass shootings; Longtime Minneapolis activist and Councilmember Robin Wonsley Worlobah on stalled police abolition two years after the murder of George Floyd; an update on evacuation efforts in the Donbas region as Russian shelling continues
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The massacre at Robb Elementary School increases pressure for gun control; How Australia passed sweeping new gun control measures after a mass shooting; DHS says it will try to pause immigration enforcement in Uvalde after the Robb Elementary School massacre; Journalist Patrick Cockburn on continued fighting in Ukraine.
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An 18-year-old gunman kills 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We speak with Nicole Golden of Texas Gun Sense, The Trace reporter Mike Spies, and Parkland H.S. victim father and activist Manuel Oliver.
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Haitian American historian Westenley Alcenat and Prof. Gerald Horne respond to The New York Times series “The Ransom,” which details how Haiti became one of the poorest countries in the world while bankers in France and the United States made a fortune; President Biden is in Tokyo to meet with leaders from the “Quad” in efforts to counter China’s power and makes confusing comments on U.S. policy on Taiwan.
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In a “Green Wave,” Australian voters elect the Labor Party’s Anthony Albanese and end a decade of conservative rule; “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” is a new book on Floyd’s life and legacy published two years after his death at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked a global uprising against racism.
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An update from the grieving Buffalo community after last weekend’s white supremacist massacre; reproductive rights groups face a major setback as Oklahoma imposes one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.
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Indigenous writer and historian Nick Estes on a new report by the Interior Department that says at least 500 Indigenous children died at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government; Calls grow for President Biden to grant clemency to imprisoned Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier; Journalists in Mexico are being killed with impunity in record numbers; European peace activists oppose Finland’s plans to end decades of neutrality and join NATO.
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Palestinians mourn and protest the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov on the Russian invasion; A conversation with 2021 Nobel Literature Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah.
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Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank; Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa on the return of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines; Workers at Starbucks and Amazon who say they were fired for organizing are fighting to get their jobs back.
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Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after weeks of mass protests over the country’s economic crisis; The podcast “Suave” wins a Pulitzer Prize; Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book “Bad Mexicans” tells the untold story of the Mexican Revolution and its relation to U.S. imperialism.
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U.S. lawmakers are openly calling the fighting in Ukraine a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia; Alabama becomes the first state to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to trans youth; The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin wins a historic number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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The World Health Organization says the true death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is nearly 15 million people, with nearly 5 million deaths in India alone; Reproductive rights scholar Michele Goodwin on how a ban on abortion in rape and incest cases hurts the survivors.
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How the Russian war in Ukraine is exacerbating world hunger, especially for African countries reliant on wheat imports and where food insecurity is already dire; The European Union vows to ban Russian oil imports by the end of the year; Historian Timothy Snyder on why Russia’s war in Ukraine is a colonial war.
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We speak with an abortion doctor and a reproductive rights activist facing deportation about how to protect access to abortion; The role of dark money in placing anti-abortion justices on the high court; What can we learn from the Ohio primaries for House and Senate races where a Trump-backed candidate won and a progressive Democrat lost amid a wave of outside attacks.
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A leaked majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion; CodePink’s Medea Benjamin and the Quincy Institute’s George Beebe on the war in Ukraine and the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the United States.
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A record-breaking heat wave hits India and Pakistan as summer arrives early due in part to the climate crisis; One in five reptile species risk extinction; Update on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and its impact on support for crises in other parts of the world.
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-29 Friday* Headlines for April 29, 2022 * Ukraine Accuses Russia of Firing Missiles Over 3 Nuclear Power Plants, Raising Fear of a New Disaster * "We Created the Pandemicene": Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic * "The Wobblies": Iconic Film on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Is Rereleased for May Day
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-28 Thursday* Headlines for April 28, 2022 * Harvard's Legacy of Slavery: New Report Documents How It Profited, Then Tried to Erase Ties * Free Brittney Griner: Calls Grow for Biden to Win WNBA Star's Release from Russia After Prisoner Swap * As Pentagon Chief Talks of "Weakening" Russia, Is U.S. Treating the Ukraine Conflict as a Proxy War?
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-27 Wednesday* Headlines for April 27, 2022 * Juan González: In Surprise Move, Gorsuch Challenges U.S. Colonialism in SCOTUS Ruling on Puerto Rico * Can Biden Undo Trump's "Remain in Mexico" Policy That Forced Asylum Seekers into Dangerous Conditions? * "Putin Is Bluffing": Historian Alfred McCoy on How to End Ukraine War with Solutions Beyond Sanctions
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-26 Tuesday* Headlines for April 26, 2022 * Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on Immigration, U.S. Blockade & Why Cuba Hasn't Denounced Russia * Elon Musk, the World's Richest Man, Has Been an "Abusive" Bully on Twitter for Years. Now He Owns It * Free After 993 Days: Environmental Lawyer Steven Donziger on Leaving House Arrest & His Fight with Chevron
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-25 Monday* Headlines for April 25, 2022 * Macron Defeats Le Pen in French Election Amid "Tremendous Amount of Dissatisfaction" Among Voters * Florida Lawmaker Says Gerrymandered State Maps Are Part of Racist Strategy, "Not Just a Culture War" * Florida to Michigan to Missouri: Hear Speeches of Gay Legislators & Allies Fighting Anti-LGBTQ Bills
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-22 Friday* Headlines for April 22, 2022 * As Ukraine War Disrupts Steel Imports, Will U.S. Pivot to Green Future & Break Free from Dirty Steel? * "Powerlands": Young Diné Filmmaker on Indigenous Resistance to Resource Colonization Worldwide
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Russia now says its main goal in attacking Ukraine is to seize control of the eastern part of the country known as Donbas, with increased attacks on cities there. Thousands of civilians are reportedly trapped. In many areas, the civilians are being supported by Ukrainian volunteers. In an extended conversation, we get an update on the Donbas from Brian Milakovsky, who lived in the Donbas town of Severodonetsk before he evacuated to Croatia in January and is now fundraising for people trying to flee Russian attacks.
Democracy Now! 2022-04-21 Thursday* Headlines for April 21, 2022 * Ukrainian Historian Says Putin's Invasion Is an Imperialist War Akin to U.S. Attack on Iraq * Matrix of War: Russian Elites Unlikely to Split from Putin Despite War Losses & Western Sanctions * As Russia Intensifies Attack on Ukraine's Donbas, Volunteers Try to Help Civilians in Leveled Cities
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-20 Wednesday* Headlines for April 20, 2022 * Security Deteriorates in Afghanistan as Two Bombs Kill Students in Kabul at Hazara Shiite Boys' School * U.S. Welcomes Ukrainians at Border, Uses Title 42 as "Political Tool" to Block Other Asylum Seekers * Melissa Lucio Faces Texas Execution Despite Innocence Claims & Bipartisan Calls to Save Her Life
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-19 Tuesday* Headlines for April 19, 2022 * As "Battle of the Donbas" Begins, Russia Launches 1,200+ Strikes Across Ukraine; 7 Killed in Lviv * Free Alaa Abd El-Fattah: Meet Sanaa Seif, Just Out of Prison, Calling on Egypt to Release Her Brother
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-18 Monday* Headlines for April 18, 2022 * "Colonial Violence Is the Norm": Israel Raids Al-Aqsa Mosque, Injuring 160+, Arresting Hundreds * Abortion Bans Pass in GOP-Led Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma & Tennessee as SCOTUS Set to Overturn Roe * Cameroonians Win Temporary Protected Status After Outcry Over "Double Standard" for Ukrainians
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-15 Friday* Headlines for April 15, 2022 * Russia Warns U.S. About Arms Sales to Ukraine as Weapon Makers Reap "Bonanza" from War * Vijay Prashad on the War in Ukraine & the West's "Open, Rank Hypocrisy" in Condemning War Crimes * "Trigger Points": Author Mark Follman on How the U.S. Can Prevent More Mass Shootings
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-14 Thursday* Headlines for April 14, 2022 * Subway Shooting Highlights NYC and Nation's Failure to Address Growing Mental Health Crisis * Swedish Peace Activist: Sweden and Finland Joining NATO Would Make the World Less Safe * Russia Inflicts "Maximum Pain" as War Drags On, 11 Million Ukrainians Displaced
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-13 Wednesday* Headlines for April 13, 2022 * NY Gov. Candidate Jumaane Williams on Mass Shooting: More Police Won't Solve Gun Violence * Prices Soar as Corporate Profiteers & Speculators Drive Inflation; It Hurts the Developing World Most * 200 Starbucks & Counting: Barista Jaz Brisack Says Union Busting Can't Stop Worker Solidarity
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-12 Tuesday* Headlines for April 12, 2022 * Lev Golinkin on Russia's New Offensive & War Crimes in the Donbas by Both Sides over Past 8 Years * Saudis Give $2 Billion to Jared Kushner; Turkey Suspends Trial of Saudis Accused of Killing Khashoggi * Yemen Peace Deal "Positive Development" as Port Reopens, But Houthis Excluded from Talks * "Pandemic, Inc.": J. David McSwane on Chasing Capitalists & Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-11 Monday* Headlines for April 11, 2022 * Pakistan Chooses New Prime Minister After Ousting Imran Khan, Who Alleges U.S.-Backed Coup * Tariq Ali on Russia's War in Ukraine & Europe's Double Standard on Accepting Refugees * Will the Far Right Win in France? President Emmanuel Macron to Face Marine Le Pen in Runoff * After Outcry, Texas Prosecutor Drops Murder Charges Against Woman Arrested for "Self-Induced Abortion"
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-08 Friday* Headlines for April 08, 2022 * Justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes "Herstory" as First Black Woman Confirmed to Supreme Court * Law Professor Michele Goodwin Condemns Wave of "Unprecedented & Unfathomable" Anti-Abortion Laws * End the Double Standard: U.S. Accuses Russia of War Crimes While Continuing to Oppose the ICC * Trita Parsi: War Could Be on Horizon If Iran Nuclear Deal Is Not Restored Soon
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Democracy Now! 2022-04-01 Friday* Headlines for April 01, 2022 * The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Law: Emmett Till's Cousin and Ida B. Wells's Great-Granddaughter Respond * "Disappeared": Chris Hedges Responds to YouTube Deleting His 6-Year Archive of RT America Shows * Chris Hedges on Jailed WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange's Wedding: He's "Crumbling" in London Prison
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-31 Thursday* Headlines for March 31, 2022 * Russia Plots Major Donbas Offensive in Eastern Ukraine as Putin Calls for 134,500 New Conscripts * Calls Grow for Medicare for All; Uninsured & Communities of Color Hurt Most by End of COVID-19 Funds
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-30 Wednesday* Headlines for March 30, 2022 * Is a Peace Deal Near? Ukraine Won't Join NATO in Return for Russian Withdrawal, Security Guarantees * U.S. Prepares to Arrest Surge of Migrants at Southern Border as It Welcomes 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees * How Europe's Anti-Migrant Policies Gave Rise to "Absolutely Horrific" Refugee Prisons in Libya
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In Part 2 of our interview with Sally Hayden, author of the new book, “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route,” she discusses the conditions in Libyan refugee prisons and the role of the European Union and the United Nations in the humanitarian crisis. Hayden also describes how the Ukraine war has led to fuel and food shortages in many African countries. Hayden is the Africa correspondent for The Irish Times.
Democracy Now! 2022-03-29 Tuesday* Headlines for March 29, 2022 * Ginni & Clarence Thomas vs. Democracy: He Sided with Trump in Court While She Backed Coup Attempt * "Plot to Overturn the Election": Frontline/ProPublica Report Shows How Trump's Lies Became GOP Dogma * Is Russia Punishing Kharkiv for Resisting? "Brutal Assault" Reduces Homes & Schools to Rubble
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-28 Monday* Headlines for March 28, 2022 * "Reckless & Damaging": Could Biden's Suggestion of Regime Change in Moscow Endanger Peace Talks? * Rep. Ro Khanna Says Biden's Proposed Billionaire Tax Is a "First Step" in Addressing U.S. Inequality * Nonwhite Refugees Fleeing Ukraine War Held in Detention Centers in Poland, Estonia, Austria * Jamaica Moves to Become a Republic as Calls Grow for Slavery Reparations Following U.K. Royal Visit
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-25 Friday* Headlines for March 25, 2022 * Yanis Varoufakis: The West Is "Playing with Fire" If It Pushes Regime Change in Nuclear-Armed Russia * Start of a New Cold War? U.S. Hawks "Want to Jack up the Military Budget and Use Ukraine as an Excuse” * Meet Francia Márquez, the Afro-Colombian Land Defender Running to Be Colombia's First Black VP
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-24 Thursday* Headlines for March 24, 2022 * Madeleine Albright Dies at 84; Once Defended U.S. Sanctions Despite Deaths of 500K+ Iraqi Children * Don't Turn Ukraine into Another Afghanistan: Anatol Lieven Urges Peace Talks, Not a Prolonged War * "You Are My Harbinger of Hope": Sen. Cory Booker Defends Ketanji Brown Jackson Amid GOP Attacks * Conservatives on Supreme Court Prepare to "Gut Roe v. Wade" as State Abortion Bans Multiply
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-23 Wednesday* Headlines for March 23, 2022 * Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Was Standing Up for the Constitution by Representing Guantánamo Prisoners * GOP Senators Grill Ketanji Brown Jackson over Critical Race Theory, Child Sexual Abuse Cases * Zelensky May Have to Make "Painful Compromises" to End the War, Says Ukrainian Scholar Volodymyr Ishchenko
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-22 Tuesday* Headlines for March 22, 2022 * Ketanji Brown Jackson Vows to Uphold Equal Justice Under Law at Historic SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing * "Absolute Hellscape": Human Rights Watch Decries Russian Bombing & Siege of Mariupol * Ukrainian Pacifist in Kyiv: All Sides Have Fueled the War. Only Comprehensive Peace Talks Can End It
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-21 Monday* Headlines for March 21, 2022 * "Russia & China, Together at Last": Historian Al McCoy Predicts Ukraine War to Birth New World Order * "U.S. Hypocrisy on Ukraine": Biden Admin Remains Silent on Morocco's Occupation of Western Sahara * Exclusive: Sahrawi Activist Sultana Khaya Speaks from Moroccan-Imposed House Arrest in Western Sahara
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-18 Friday* Headlines for March 18, 2022 * Raj Patel: Global South Faces Brunt of Soaring Food Prices Amid War in Ukraine, World's "Breadbasket" * "Who Does the West Consider Worthy of Saving?" Asks Matthieu Aikins, After Journey with Afghan Refugees
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President Biden pledges an additional $800 million in military aid for Ukraine; Syrian journalist and activist Waad Al-Kateab on the parallels between Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Syria; Arms expert Stephen Goose on the use of cluster bombs by Russia and the United States.
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-16 Wednesday* Headlines for March 16, 2022 * Ukrainians Unite to Hold Back Russian Forces in Kyiv, Mykolaiv & Odessa as 3 Million Refugees Flee * A Tale of Two Wars: Biden Decries Russian Atrocities in Ukraine While Backing Saudi/UAE War in Yemen * A NATO No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Would Be "Direct Involvement in the War Against Russia," Experts Warn
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-15 Tuesday* Headlines for March 15, 2022 * Report from Kyiv: Facing Military Setbacks, Russia Is Increasingly Targeting Ukrainian Civilians * What's Next for Putin? New Yorker's Joshua Yaffa on Ukraine's Resistance & Russian Antiwar Protests * "Shocking Act of Bloodletting": Saudi Arabia Executes 81 as West Asks Kingdom to Increase Oil Output
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In Part 2 of our interview with Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, or DAWN, she describes the organization’s civil lawsuit against Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey in 2018 and was also DAWN’s founder. She also discusses the world’s worst humanitarian crisis that is unfolding in Yemen, seven years into the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war and blockade. “This is a good moment to draw out the comparisons, the strong, strong parallels between what’s happening in Yemen and what’s happening in Ukraine,” says Whitson. In the first part of our interview, Whitson discusses the kingdom’s largest mass execution in its modern history, when it put 81 men to death within a span of just 24 hours on Saturday.
Democracy Now! 2022-03-14 Monday* Headlines for March 14, 2022 * Brent Renaud, First U.S. Reporter Killed in Ukraine, Praised for His Humanity & Exposing Horrors of War * In Belarus, Russia's Partner in Ukraine Invasion, There Is "No Possibility" of Dissent on War
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-11 Friday* Headlines for March 11, 2022 * Defund Putin’s War Machine: Ukrainian Environmentalist Calls For Global Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding * Ukrainian Resident of Besieged Mykolaiv Describes Lack of Food, Water As Russian Troops Attack City * Andrew Bacevich: Ukraine is Paying the Price for the U.S. "Recklessly" Pushing NATO Expansion
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-10 Thursday* Headlines for March 10, 2022 * Report from Ukraine: Russian Forces Carry Out "Vindictive and Deliberate" Attacks on Civilians * Calls Grow for Ceasefire in Ukraine as Millions of "Extremely Vulnerable" Refugees Flee to Europe * "I'm Ready to Be Arrested": Activist in Moscow Says Mass Russian Protests Can Stop Putin's War * Attack on Maternity Ward is a War Crime: David Miliband on Russia's Bombing of Mariupol
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-09 Wednesday* Headlines for March 09, 2022 * Russian Invasion Shows Risks of Addiction to Fossil Fuels; Will Biden Fund Shift to Renewables? * Tariq Ali on Ukraine, NATO Expansion & How Putin's Invasion Galvanized a Russian Peace Movement * Chase Strangio on the GOP's Push in Florida, Texas, Idaho to "Eradicate Trans Youth & Trans Lives"
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-08 Tuesday* Headlines for March 08, 2022 * On International Women's Day, Ukrainian LGBTQI Activist Describes Russian Siege as Millions Flee * The Silencing of Dissent: Russia's Memorial Human Rights Center Faces Closure Amid Putin's Crackdown * Ilhan Omar on Ending War, Global Refugees, Russia Sanctions & Why More Saudi Oil Is Not the Answer
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-07 Monday* Headlines for March 07, 2022 * What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like? Anatol Lieven on Ways to End Putin's War * "He Promises & He Lies": Ukrainians Say Putin's Word Can't Be Trusted as Ceasefire Breaks Down * Russian Crackdown on Dissent Intensifies as Over 13,000 Arrested for Opposing Ukraine Invasion
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-04 Friday* Headlines for March 04, 2022 * Russia's Unprecedented Shelling of Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Raises Fears of Another Chernobyl * Russian Environmentalist Speaks Out on Putin's Attack on Antiwar Protesters & Independent Media * Ukrainian American Journalist: Putin's Unjust War Is Emboldening Ukraine's Far-Right Movement
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Democracy Now! 2022-03-03 Thursday* Headlines for March 03, 2022 * Report from Kyiv: Solidarity, Perseverance & "Full Mobilization" Against Russian Invasion * Sanders Adviser Matt Duss on Ending Ukraine Crisis & How U.S. Shock Therapy in Russia Enabled Putin * Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spark Nuclear Catastrophe; Calls for Global Disarmament Grow
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Democracy Now! 2022-02-07 Monday* Headlines for February 07, 2022 * Is a Peaceful Resolution Still Possible? Masha Gessen & Anatol Lieven on Ukraine, Putin & NATO * At Beijing Olympics, China & IOC Accused of "Sportswashing" Amid Uyghur Abuses, Peng Shuai Censorship * Is the NFL Run Like a Plantation? Ex-Player Donté Stallworth Responds to Bombshell Racism Lawsuit
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Democracy Now! 2022-02-04 Friday* Headlines for February 04, 2022 * "Love & the Constitution": Rep. Jamie Raskin on Son's Death, Trump's Coup Plot & Protecting the Vote * GOP Grill Fed Nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin over Climate Views; Her Husband Rep. Jamie Raskin Responds * Ex-Chicago Cop Jason Van Dyke Freed Early over Murdering Laquan McDonald; Activists Seek Fed Charges
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Democracy Now! 2022-02-03 Thursday* Headlines for February 03, 2022 * Amnesty International Defends Report on Israeli Apartheid, Rejecting Criticism from U.S. & Israel * Russian Historian: We Need Both the U.S. & Russia to Deescalate Crisis over Ukraine * "We Need Peace": War in Ukraine Would Be Humanitarian Catastrophe for Millions in the Region * Jan Egeland on Afghanistan Facing Famine, a Massacre in DR Congo & Civilian Casualties in Syria
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Democracy Now! 2022-02-02 Wednesday* Headlines for February 02, 2022 * The Silencing of Black & Queer Voices: George M. Johnson on 15-State Ban of "All Boys Aren't Blue" * Erasing History: Holocaust Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman on "Maus" & Wave of Book Bans Sweeping U.S.
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Democracy Now! 2022-02-01 Tuesday* Headlines for February 01, 2022 * Ukrainians Doubt a Russian Invasion Is Imminent as U.S. Peace Groups Urge Biden to Halt Escalation * Germany Refuses to Send Arms to Ukraine Despite Pressure from U.S. & NATO * "It's Not About Security": Belgian Peace Activist Says NATO Has Outlived Its Purpose
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-31 Monday* Headlines for January 31, 2022 * Leonard Peltier Has COVID; His Lawyer — an Ex-Federal Judge — Calls for Native Leader to Be Freed * Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors on Abolition & Imagining a Society Based on Care
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-28 Friday* Headlines for January 28, 2022 * U.S.-Backed Drug War Fuels Murders of Journalists in Mexico, Most Dangerous Country for Media Workers * Home Demolition in Sheikh Jarrah Seen as Part of Broader Israeli Effort to Dispossess Palestinians * "Downfall: The Case Against Boeing": Director Rory Kennedy & Michael Stumo, Father of Crash Victim
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-27 Thursday* Headlines for January 27, 2022 * Stephen Breyer to Retire, Giving Biden Chance to Nominate First Black Woman Supreme Court Justice * Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuba Aims to Share Homegrown Vaccine with Global South * "The Lords of Easy Money": How the Federal Reserve Enriched Wall Street & Broke the U.S. Economy
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-26 Wednesday* Headlines for January 26, 2022 * Africa CDC Director: Vaccine Inequity Prolongs the Pandemic. Global Cooperation Can Stop New Variants. * "Gangsters of Capitalism": Jonathan Katz on the Parallels Between Jan. 6 and 1934 Anti-FDR Coup Plot * "Takeover": Young Lords' Juan González on Hospital Protest Doc. Shortlisted for Academy Award
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-25 Tuesday* Headlines for January 25, 2022 * U.S. Puts 8,500 Troops on High Alert as Tension Rises Between NATO & Russia over Ukraine * Nuclear Disarmament Urged by Catholic Archbishop in New Mexico, Birthplace of Nuclear Weapons * Thich Nhat Hanh After 9/11: Ignorance, Discrimination, Fear & Violence Are Real Enemies of Humanity
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Democracy Now! 2022-01-24 Monday* Headlines for January 24, 2022 * Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Hailed by MLK as "Apostle of Peace & Nonviolence," Dies at 95 * "The Whole Country Is Covered with Ash": Tongan Journalist Describes Devastation from Volcano * "The Janes": Meet the Women Who Formed a Collective to Provide Safe Abortions Before Roe v. Wade * Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal Extradition; Stella Moris Blasts "Politically Motivated Prosecution"
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