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On today’s show: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents

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On today’s show: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents
On today’s show: “Colonial Process”: How U.S.-Led Ceasefire Talks Are Latest Erasure of Roots of Arab-Israeli Conflict “How Many More?” Attorney Ben Crump on Latest in Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols, Roger Fortson Cases Trump Wanted Them Dead: Exonerated Central Park 5 Speak at DNC and Fight to Defeat Trump
On today’s 2-hour show: “Historic Moment”: Barbara Ransby on the Symbolism and Shortcomings of Kamala Harris’s Nomination Watch: Palestinian-American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow on Stage Thousands March Against U.S. Arming of Israel as Harris Accepts Presidential Nomination How Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer Paved the Way for Kamala Harris “Two Faces … Continued
On today’s 2-hour show: Uncommitted Delegates Launch Sit-In After DNC Rejects Request for a Palestinian Speaker at Convention Tim Walz Accepts VP Nomination; A Look at His Record on George Floyd Murder, IVF, Guns and Gaza “Stop Sending Bombs”: Rep. Ilhan Omar Visits Uncommitted Sit-In & Demands Israeli Arms Embargo Uncommitted Delegates Speak Out After … Continued
On today’s 2-hour show: As Gaza War Is Largely Ignored on DNC Stage, Doubts Grow over Blinken’s Claims on Ceasefire Talks. Trump and Harris Each Vow Border Crackdowns, as Immigrant Communities Demand Positive Change. At DNC, Michelle and Barack Obama Champion Kamala Harris While Skewering Trump’s “Same Old Con” The Fight over Abortion Rights Is a “Tipping Point … Continued
On today’s 2-hour show: Thousands March on Democratic National Convention 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 … Continued
On today’s 2-hour show: “It’s the Democratic Party’s War”: Gaza Protests Planned Throughout the Week, as the Democratic National Convention Begins in Chicago Vietnam Then, Gaza Now: Bill Ayers and Juan González on 1968 and 2024 Antiwar Protests at Chicago DNC Reverend Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson Helped Reshape Democratic Party and Paved the Way for … Continued
On today’s show: Watch Undercover Video: Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out “Radical Agenda” for Next Trump Term “Decolonize Global Health”: WHO Declares Mpox Public Health Emergency as Africa Awaits Vaccines Has the Mystery of the Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing Been Solved? Ukrainian Suspect Flees Arrest
On today’s show: “Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel, as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000 Colombia Faces “One of the Largest Humanitarian Crises on Earth,” as Armed Groups Grow Stronger “End the Impunity”: Rohingya Muslims Under Attack by Both Burmese Army and Rebel Group
On today’s show: 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. Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news … Continued