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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Meet Tarek Loubani, the Canadian Doctor Shot by Israeli Forces Monday While Treating Gaza’s Wounded; 50 Years Ago Today: Catonsville 9 Burned Draft Papers with Homemade Napalm to Protest Vietnam War; Planned U.S.-North Korea Peace Talks in Jeopardy as Trump Adviser Bolton Pushes for Regime Change..
Norman Finkelstein: Outrage over Israeli Massacre Shows Power of Nonviolent Palestinian Resistance; Norman Finkelstein: Palestinians Have the Right to Break Free of the “Unlivable” Cage That Is Gaza; Key Democrats Back Gina Haspel’s Confirmation as CIA Director, Despite Her Record on Torture; A Wake-Up Call for Dems? 4 Women Running on Socialist Platforms Unseat Male … Continued
Palestinians Mark 70th Anniversary of Nakba After Israel Kills 61 & Wounds 2,700 Protesters in Gaza; Gazan Writer: Protesters Are Seeking Freedom from World’s Largest Concentration Camp; “The Disaster of My Life”: Nakba Survivor on the Day Israelis Bombed & Invaded His Village in 1948; While U.S. Refuses to Blame Israel, Int’l Court Could Launch … Continued
Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Kill 30+ Palestinians Protesting Nonviolently as U.S. Opens Jerusalem Embassy; “It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience; Rev. Barber Slams Anti-Muslim, Anti-Semitic Pastors Trump Chose to Open U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem; Yanis Varoufakis on Lost U.S. Credibility in Middle East, from Iran Deal to Israel Embassy … Continued
Trump Withdrew from Iran Nuclear Deal. Now Israel May Be Trying to Provoke War; Black Mama’s Bail Out Is Freeing Black Women from Jail for Mother’s Day & Taking Aim at Cash Bail; Laleh Khalili: Palestinian “Gandhis” Are Marching Every Day for Freedom from Israeli Apartheid.
Jeremy Scahill: Obama Paved Way for Haspel to Head CIA by Failing to Hold Torturers Accountable; Coming of Age in the Syrian War: Memoir by Journalist Marwan Hisham & Illustrator Molly Crabapple.
Trump Pulls United States Out of Iran Nuclear Deal, Dramatically Escalating Threat of War with Iran; Trita Parsi: I Was Targeted by Black Cube in Dirty Ops Effort Attacking Supporters of Iran Deal; Medea Benjamin: The Peace Movement Must Mobilize to Support Diplomacy in Iran & North Korea; Primary Day: Blankenship Out in WV; Consumer … Continued
Cecile Richards on Attacks on Women’s Health, from Iowa Abortion Ban to Rising Violence at Clinics; “Make Trouble”: Cecile Richards on Her Life Story, Reproductive Rights & Women-Led Activism; Journalists Rise Up Against Wall Street Hedge Fund Decimating Newsrooms Across the Country.
CIA Nominee Gina Haspel May Testify for First Time in Public About Her Role in Torture at Black Site; Nearly 90,000 Hondurans May Be Deported to Danger and Poverty as Trump Ends Their Protected Status; Meet the 2018 Teacher of the Year Honored By Trump Who the White House Doesn’t Want You to Hear; Writer … Continued
The Displaced: Refugee Writers Ariel Dorfman & Viet Thanh Nguyen on Migration, US Wars & Resistance.
