Headlines for February 02, 2024; Dearborn Mayor to Biden: “Lives of Palestinians Should Not Be Measured Simply in Poll Numbers”; “Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” from U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany

Headlines for February 01, 2024; “The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah; “Climate of Fear”: Inside UAE’s Use of U.S. Mercenaries to Carry Out Assassinations in Yemen; “Legacy”: Dr. Uché Blackstock on How Racism Shapes Healthcare in America

Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Uché Blackstock about her new book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.

Headlines for January 31, 2024; Biden’s Middle East Policy “Leading Us into a War Whose Aims We Have Not Defined”; “An Act of Assassination”: Mustafa Barghouti Slams Undercover Israeli Raid on Jenin Hospital; Israeli Cabinet Members Join Settler Event of Thousands Calling for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

Headlines for January 30, 2024; Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls “Horrific”; Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case?; “Monumental Decision”: Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement; “We’re Dying Here”: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley; Cost of Doing Business? Amnesty Int’l Documents Health, Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels in Texas

Headlines for January 29, 2024; Drone Strike Kills 3 U.S. Troops in Jordan; Risk Grows of Regional War over Israeli Assault on Gaza; Palestinians Charge Genocide in U.S. Court; Biden, Blinken Sued for Backing Israel’s War on Gaza; Chicago ER Doctor Just Back from Gaza Says Patients, Medical Staff Face Catastrophic Conditions; Despite Looming Gaza Famine, U.S. Halts UNRWA Funding After Israel Claims 12 U.N. Staff Aided 10/7 Attack

Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Thaer Ahmad, an emergency room physician who spent three weeks volunteering at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Headlines for January 26, 2024; International Court of Justice Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide in Gaza But Fails to Order Ceasefire

Headlines for January 25, 2024; Report from Gaza: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri on “The Struggle to Survive, Stay Sane”; Palestinian Economist Raja Khalidi on Israel’s “Economic Warfare” on Gaza and the West Bank; Professors Slam Columbia’s Response to Chemical Skunk Attack on Students at Pro-Palestine Protest

Extended discussion with Mahmood Mamdani, professor of government at Columbia University who specializes in the study of colonialism. He’s the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. He was previously a professor and director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Headlines for January 24, 2024; ”MAGA vs. MAGA Polite”: Trump Beats Haley in New Hampshire, Haley Vows to Fight On; “Trump Is the Nominee. Fascism Is on the Ballot.” Author Jeff Sharlet on New Hampshire & Beyond; Should Trump Be Barred from the Ballot? A Debate over the Insurrection Clause

Headlines for January 23, 2024; From Freezing Cold to Housing Insecurity, Migrants Face Crisis in NYC, Chicago & Beyond; “Many of My Shows Have Been Canceled”: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei on Israel, Gaza & Censorship; Marianne Williamson on Running for President, Challenging Biden & Calling for a Gaza Ceasefire

Headlines for January 22, 2024; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Decries Israel’s “Inhumane” Assault as Gaza Death Toll Tops 25,000; “Israelism” on Tour: New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation; “American Fascism”: Historian Rick Perlstein on Trump’s Grip on the GOP & Chances of a Second Jan. 6

Headlines for January 19, 2024; Uvalde Failure: DOJ Report Finds 377 Officers Waited 77 Mins as 19 Kids, 2 Teachers Killed by 1 AR-15; Texas Sen. Gutierrez Slams Gov. Abbott Immigration Crackdown After Mom & 2 Children Drown in Rio Grande; Meet Tal Mitnick, 18, the First Israeli Jailed for Refusing Military Service in “Revenge War” on Gaza; Horrific Traumatic Injuries of Children: British Dr. Witnesses Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Hospitals

Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled

Headlines for January 17, 2024; Israel’s War on Journalists: More Reporters Killed in Gaza in 3 Months Than Any Country Over Entire Year; How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists & Blocked Rescue of Cameraman Samer Abudaqa Until He Died; “They Don’t Show Gaza”: Gideon Levy on How Israel’s Press Is Failing to Cover the War’s True Toll; What Happened on October 7? Gideon Levy on Haaretz’s Call to Investigate Kibbutz Killings & More; “The Logic of Escalation”: From Red Sea to Iran & Beyond, Will Israel’s Gaza Assault Spark Wider War?

Headlines for January 16, 2024; “The People Won”: Guatemala Inaugurates Anti-Corruption President Bernardo Arévalo Despite Sabotage; 100+ Days into Israel’s War on Gaza, Doctors Demand Ceasefire to Address “Apocalyptic” Health Crisis; Despite Trump’s Triumph in Iowa, Many GOP Voters Say Legal Troubles Could Make Him Unfit for Reelection

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

Headlines for January 12, 2024; “A Breach of Yemeni Sovereignty”: Biden Becomes Fourth U.S. President to Bomb Yemen; “Gaslighting and Cherry-Picking”: How Israel Is Defending Itself at World Court on Charges of Genocide; “They Want to Silence Us”: Knesset Member Ofer Cassif Faces Expulsion for Backing South Africa Genocide Case

Headlines for January 11, 2024; “Nowhere Is Safe in Gaza”: South Africa Lays Out Genocide Case vs. Israel at World Court in The Hague; Palestinian Genocide Scholar & South African Lawyer on “Extreme Urgency” of World Court Case; Gaza War Fuels Climate Crisis: “Massive” Carbon Emissions from Israeli Bombing

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The FAA is grounding many Boeing 737 Max 9s. Legendary consumer advocate Ralph Nader describes “Boeing’s criminal design of the Boeing 737 MAX” and how his grandniece was killed alongin a 2019 airplane crash over Ethiopia.

Part 2 of our conversation with Ralph Nader, legendary consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time former presidential candidate. He talks about his new book, The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right, and the death of his longtime colleague Dr. Sidney Wolfe, who spent decades fighting the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical industry and is credited with helping to force 28 dangerous medications off the market.

Headlines for January 05, 2024; “My Heart Is Still in Gaza”: Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide; “The IDF Should Not Exist”: Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer; Ralph Nader on Gaza Ceasefire & Why Suppression of Palestine Advocacy Is the Real Problem on Campus

Headlines for January 04, 2024; Deadly Bombing in Iran Kills Dozens as Tensions Rise Across the Middle East; Can Russia Be Defeated? Nina Khrushcheva on Why “the West Must Face Reality in Ukraine”; AMC Theater Tosses Bishop William Barber for Bringing Disability Chair to See “The Color Purple”

Headlines for January 03, 2024; From Plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on How a GOP Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine Gay; “This Is the Republican Party”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad Says Nikki Haley’s Slavery Flub Was No Accident; Assassination of Hamas Official in Lebanon Raises Risk of Israel’s War on Gaza Expanding Across Region; “Voluntary Migration” or Ethnic Cleansing? Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s Push to Expel Residents of Gaza

Headlines for January 02, 2024; South Africa Files Case Against Israel at International Court of Justice over “Genocidal” War on Gaza; AIPAC vs. AOC & The Squad: Pro-Israel Lobby Group to Spend $100M to Target Progressive Lawmakers

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Headlines for December 29, 2023; U.S. Complicit in “On-Air Genocide”: Palestinian Amb. Husam Zomlot Slams 12-Week Gaza Assault; “Utterly Illegal”: U.N. Special Rapporteur Slams Netanyahu’s “Voluntary Migration” Plan for Gazans; Maine Joins Colorado Barring Trump from Ballot for Violating Constitution’s Insurrection Clause

Headlines for December 28, 2023; Meet Aida Touma-Sliman, Palestinian Knesset Member Suspended for Criticizing War on Gaza; “Absolutely Unimaginable”: Children in Gaza Face Amputations Without Anesthesia, Death & Disease; As Biden Pushes Trump-Like Border Policies, Blinken Meets with AMLO, Who Has Criticized U.S. Sanctions

Headlines for December 27, 2023; “Axis of Resistance”: Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis Challenge U.S. & Israeli Power Amid Middle East Tension; Who Funds Canary Mission? James Bamford on Group That Doxxes Students & Profs for Palestine Activism; As Phone Line Breaks Up, Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri Describes “Dire” Conditions in Gaza; Palestine Exception: U.S. Colleges Suppress Free Speech, Academic Freedom for Students & Professors

Part 2 of our conversation with longtime trade unionist Bill Fletcher and labor historian Jeff Schuhrke about union calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the 2024 election and more.

Headlines for December 26, 2023; “Christ in the Rubble”: Watch Palestinian Pastor Deliver Powerful Christmas Sermon from Bethlehem; Christmas in Palestine: Bethlehem Reverend Slams West for Praising Prince of Peace & Beating Drums of War; Labor Demands a Ceasefire: UAW, Electrical & Postal Workers Call for Israel’s Assault on Gaza to End

Democracy Now! Monday, December 25, 2023

The famed Italian Marxist and political activist Antonio Negri has died at the age of 90. Negri inspired generations of leftist scholars and activists with his writings about the human desire for liberation and the self-organizational capacity of ordinary people to make change. Negri co-authored along with Michael Hardt the seminal book Empire. Democracy Now! interviewed Antonio Negri in Venice, Italy, in 2015.

Headlines for December 22, 2023; Christmas Canceled in Bethlehem as Churches Mourn 20,000+ Palestinians Killed in Gaza; Gazan Attorney Who Has Lost 60 Relatives in Israeli Attacks Says U.S. Is “Complicit in Genocide”; Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s First Indigenous Peoples Minister, on Climate Crisis & Protecting the Amazon

Headlines for December 21, 2023; “The Hostages Weren’t Our Top Priority”: Israel’s “Bombing Frenzy” Endangered Hostages Held in Gaza; “The U.S. and Israel Stand Alone”: World Demands Ceasefire as Gaza Death Toll Tops 20,000; Colorado Disqualifies Trump from Ballot, Triggering Battle over Constitution’s Insurrection Clause; “Fascism Out Loud”: Trump’s Escalating Racist Rhetoric & the Far Right’s Plan for a Slow Civil War

In Part 2 of our interview with Philip Farah, co-founder of the Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, we continue our look at Israeli attacks on churches in Gaza.

Headlines for December 20, 2023; “This Is a Colonial War”: Historian Rashid Khalidi on Israel, Gaza & the Future of Palestine; Pope Condemns Israeli Killings of Palestinian Christians; Relative of 84-Year-Old Victim Mourns Her Death; “Under Attack”: TX Law Targets Immigrants as Trump Cites Hitler, GOP Pushes Biden for Border Crackdown

Headlines for December 19, 2023; “Beyond Our Imagination”: Journalist Describes Total Destruction, with Fellow Gazans Buried Alive; Palestinian American Woman Tries to Save Family in Gaza After Her Mom Dies Awaiting Evacuation; ​​Israel’s War on Children: Fadi Abu Shammalah on Horrific Ordeal Facing Kids in Gaza, Including His Own; Starvation as a Weapon of War: Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel for Denying Gaza Access to Food

Headlines for December 18, 2023; ​​Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on IDF Killing AJ Journalist, the 3 Hostages & U.S. Support for Israel; “Tragically Historic”: The Guardian’s Nina Lakhani on the Failure of Yet Another U.N. Climate Summit

When Democracy Now! was covering the COP28 U.N. climate summit in Dubai, we spoke to Sônia Guajajara, the head of the largest Indigenous delegation in the history of the climate talks.

Watch Part 2 of our interview with The Guardian’s senior climate reporter Nina Lakhani, who covered COP28.

Headlines for December 15, 2023; “Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for Comparing Gaza to Warsaw Ghetto; Israel Raids Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp; Director Speaks Out After Being Jailed & Beaten

We continue our conversation with Ahmed Tobasi, the Artistic Director at The Freedom Theater in Jenin and Peter Schumann, the 89-year-old co-founder of the legendary Bread and Puppet Theater based in Vermont. Tobasi was jailed this week after Israel rounded up hundreds of Palestinian men during a massive raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank. Two of his colleagues remain in detention.

The second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. brought together survivors of nuclear testing, and we speak with two of them, who are also 2023 laureates of the Nuclear-Free Future Awards.

Headlines for December 14, 2023; Israel Accused of War Crimes for “Apparently Deliberate” Killing of Reuters Journalist in Lebanon; Jeremy Scahill: Gaza “Scorched-Earth Campaign” Is a “Joint U.S.-Israeli Operation”; Palestinian Student Shot in VT & Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor Join Haverford Sit-In for Gaza

Headlines for December 13, 2023; Phase Down, Not Phase Out: COP28 Deal on Fossil Fuels Disappoints Activists & Vulnerable States; Exclusive: Palestinian Diplomat Who Went Viral for U.N. Speech Says Israel & U.S. Are Isolated on Gaza; Rep. Greg Casar: Biden Must Not Cave on GOP’s Hard-Line Immigration Demands in Ukraine Funding Request

Headlines for December 12, 2023; Diplomacy, Not War: Daughter of Released Hostage Urges Israel to Reach Deal to Free More Captives; Climate Activists Outraged as COP28 Draft Text Drops Call for Fossil Fuel Phaseout; Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position

Headlines for December 11, 2023; Peter Beinart & Omer Bartov on UPenn President Resignation, Gaza & the Weaponization of Antisemitism; State Dept. Whistleblower Blasts Blinken for Bypassing Congress to Send 14K Tank Munitions to Israel; U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Again as Biden Veers Far from Global Consensus, Death Toll Tops 18,000; “Please Stop This War Against Us”: Gaza Doctor Begs for World’s Help as Hunger & Disease Spread

Headlines for December 08, 2023; “We Want Freedom”: Refaat Alareer, Gaza Scholar & Activist Killed by Israeli Strike, in His Own Words; “If I Must Die”: IDF Strike Kills Gaza Scholar Refaat Alareer; Friend Pays Tribute & Reads His Poem; COP28 Activists Say Palestine Solidarity Protests Calling for Ceasefire Face Severe Restrictions; Exclusive: Indigenous Climate Activist Jacob Johns Speaks Out After MAGA Gunman Shoots Him in New Mexico; Why Is Brazil Joining OPEC+ Oil Cartel, If Lula Is Committed to Phasing Out Fossil Fuels?

Headlines for December 07, 2023; “Terrorized”: Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces; “Cabal of Oil Producers”: Climate Scientist Kevin Anderson Slams Corporate Capture of COP28; “Green Colonialism”: Nigerian Climate Activist Nnimmo Bassey Says Africa Is Being Sold Out at COP28

Headlines for December 06, 2023; “Catastrophic”: Gaza Aid Worker on “Horror” of Forced Relocations Amid Israel’s War on Southern Strip; COP28: Amy Goodman Attempts to Question UAE Oil CEO Serving as President of U.N. Climate Talks in Dubai; Big Oil’s Takeover of U.N. Climate Summit Decried by Activists Fighting for Fossil Fuel Phaseout; Carbon Colonialism: Oil-Rich UAE Buys Up Large Swaths of Africa for Carbon Credits to Keep Polluting; Why Are Russia & U.S. Promoting Nuclear Power at U.N. Climate Talks? Russian Environmentalist Speaks Out

Headlines for December 05, 2023; “There Simply Is No Safe Place in Gaza”: Aid Groups Demand Ceasefire as Israel Intensifies Its War; Climate Crossfire: From Gaza to Ukraine, How War & Military Spending Accelerate Climate Chaos; Planet for Sale? Record 2,500 Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Descend on COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai

Headlines for December 04, 2023; “No One Is Safe in Gaza”: Journalist Akram al-Satarri Reports from Khan Younis Amid Israeli Assault; “We Are All Palestinians”: COP28 Activists Demand Ceasefire in Gaza, Defying Protest Restrictions; COP28: Asad Rehman on Funding a “Just Transition” Off Fossil Fuels & Limits on Protest in UAE; Climate Summit Host UAE Blasted by HRW for Migrant Worker Abuse, Toxic Pollution & Mass Surveillance

Headlines for December 01, 2023; “Mass Assassination Factory”: Israel Using AI to Generate Targets in Gaza, Increasing Civilian Toll; Resumed Bombing of Gaza Will Be Crushing to Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont, Says Victim’s Mother; The Case Against Henry Kissinger: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Kissinger’s Legacy of “Slaughter”

Headlines for November 30, 2023; “Horror Show”: Doctors Without Borders Demands Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, Medical Aid for Wounded; “This Is Genocide”: Attorney Raji Sourani on Israeli War Crimes & Fleeing Gaza After Home Was Bombed; Historian Greg Grandin: Glowing Obituaries for Henry Kissinger Reveal “Moral Bankruptcy” of U.S. Elites

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Headlines for November 28, 2023; “Atmosphere of Hate”: AFSC Leader & Palestinian Vermonter on Shooting of 3 College Students; Jeremy Scahill: Israel’s “Lethal Lie” About Al-Shifa Hospital as Hamas Base Was Co-Signed by Biden; Remembering Pablo Yoruba Guzmán, Young Lords Co-Founder, Afro-Latino Leader, Legendary NYC Journalist

Headlines for November 27, 2023; Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Highlights Plight of Palestinian Prisoners, Many of Them Children; “There Is an Alternative”: Meet the Israeli & Palestinian “Combatants for Peace” Urging Nonviolence

“The Mandates of Conscience”: Michelle Alexander on Israel, Gaza, MLK & Speaking Out in a Time of War; Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rashid Khalidi on Israeli Occupation, Apartheid & the 100-Year War on Palestine

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance; “Text-Book Case of Genocide”: Top U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber Resigns, Denounces Israeli Assault on Gaza; State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza

In Massachusetts, the Cambridge City Council has rejected a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Democracy Now!’s Hany Massoud filed this report from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Headlines for November 22, 2023; Israel & Hamas Agree to 4-Day Truce & Hostage Release as Netanyahu Threatens War on Gaza Will Go On; Meet the Israeli History Teacher Arrested & Jailed for Facebook Posts Opposing Killing of Palestinians; Gaza in Ruins: Satellite Imagery Researchers Say Israel has Destroyed or Damaged 56,000 Buildings

Headlines for November 21, 2023; A Grim Milestone: Journalist Death Toll Tops 53 as Israel Kills More Reporters in Gaza and Lebanon; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha Freed After Being Abducted in Gaza & Beaten by Israeli Forces in Jail; Becca Balint, First Jewish Congressmember to Back Ceasefire, Expresses Support for Rashida Tlaib; Argentina’s Trump? Far-Right Javier Milei Wins Presidency with Echoes of Past Dictatorship

Headlines for November 20, 2023; Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees; Israel’s Raid on Al-Shifa Questioned as IDF Fails to Present Hard Evidence Linking Hamas to Hospital; Palestinian Activist Remembers Vivian Silver, Israeli Canadian Peace Activist Killed in Hamas Attack

Headlines for November 17, 2023; Capitol Police Violently Break Up Jewish-Organized DNC Protest Calling for Gaza Ceasefire; Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the Targeting of Journalists & Israel’s “Colonial Fantasy” to Depopulate Gaza; Cop City Protest Tear-Gassed as Activists Face “Unprecedented” RICO & Domestic Terrorism Charges

Headlines for November 16, 2023; “Failure to Prevent Genocide”: Biden Sued as U.S. Provides Arms & Support for Israel’s Gaza Assault; Israel Has Enjoyed Decades of Legal Impunity. Could the War on Gaza Finally Change That?; Niece of Israeli PM Netanyahu Backs Ceasefire in Gaza, Says Military Solutions Will Not Bring Peace

Headlines for November 15, 2023; Worse Than Hell: Dr. Mads Gilbert Decries Israeli Military Raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza; Peter Beinart: Israel Will Only Be Secure & Safe If Palestinians Are Given Freedom; Rabbis for Ceasefire: Jewish Leaders Organize to Halt Israel’s Bombardment of Gaza; March for Israel Speaker Pastor Hagee Once Said God “Sent Hitler to Help Jews Reach the Promised Land”

Headlines for November 14, 2023; We Are Not Numbers: Palestinian Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq Mourns 21 Family Members Killed by Israel; NY Times Writers Jazmine Hughes & Jamie Keiles Resign After Signing Letter Against Israeli War on Gaza; Antony Loewenstein: Israel Is Testing New Weapons on Gaza as Arms Dealers Profit from Gaza War

Headlines for November 13, 2023; Gaza Hospitals Fail Under Israeli Bombardment; Doctors Without Borders Describes Horrific Conditions; “Beacon of Light”: Fellow Doctors Recall Dr. Hammam Alloh, Gaza Doctor Killed by Israeli Airstrike; “We’re Being Exterminated”: Hear One of Dr. Hammam Alloh’s Last Interviews from Gaza Before His Death

Headlines for November 10, 2023; “Clear Intention of Ethnic Cleansing”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov Warns of Genocide in Gaza; “From the River to the Sea”: Omer Bartov on Contested Slogan & Why Two-State Solution Is Not Viable; Palestinian Groups Ask ICC to Arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for War Crimes & Genocide in Gaza

Headlines for November 09, 2023; “We Have Come to an End”: Palestine Red Crescent Says Gaza’s Hospitals Are Out of Solutions; “Unspeakable”: Dr. Fady Joudah Grieves 50+ Family Members Killed in Gaza & Slams U.S. Media Coverage; “Knuckle-Dragging Hawkishness”: Matt Duss on GOP Presidential Primary Debate, Israel, Gaza & More

Watch Part 2 of our interview with 87-year-old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, who has been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Headlines for November 08, 2023; The Choice Is Choice: Abortion Rights Supporters Win Big in Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia; “I Will Not Be Silenced”: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Calls for Gaza Ceasefire as House Votes to Censure Her; “Stop This Madness”: Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram, 87, Condemns Israeli Assault & Calls for Peace

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Lauren Aratani, reporter for the Guardian US who is covering former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case.

Headlines for November 07, 2023; Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: Israel Is Threatening to Bomb Gaza’s Only Pediatric Cancer Unit; “No Ceasefire, No Votes”: Arab American Support for Biden Plummets over Gaza Ahead of 2024 Election; Trump Lashes Out at Judge, Attorney General in Fraud Trial That Could End His Real Estate Empire

Headlines for November 06, 2023; “Paradigm-Changing Moment”: Public Opinion Shifts on Palestine. Will Gaza War Hurt Biden Reelection?; Voices from Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History: Stop the Siege on Gaza Now!; Why Did Israel Kill My Son? Palestinian Poet Speaks from Hospital Bed After Airstrike Destroys Home; Jewish Voice for Peace Health Adviser Dr. Alice Rothchild on Gaza Catastrophe as Health System Fails

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Alice Rothchild, a retired OB-GYN who has long worked in Palestine and is on the steering committee of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council.

Headlines for November 03, 2023; Another Nakba? Israeli Intel Ministry Proposes Expelling Every Palestinian in Gaza to Egypt; State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza; Boston Interfaith Rally Urges Senators Warren & Markey to Support Gaza Ceasefire

Healthcare activist Ady Barkan has died at the age of 39 of ALS. Watch our 2021 interview with him about how he dedicated his life to the fight for single-payer healthcare.

Headlines for November 02, 2023; “This Is Your Money”: Palestinian Father Pleads with Americans to Stop Funding Israeli Assault on Gaza; Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks Out Against Israel’s “Segregationist Apartheid Regime” After West Bank Visit

Headlines for November 01, 2023; “Horrific”: Resident of Jabaliya Refugee Camp Speaks Out After Israeli Airstrikes Kill Over 50; “Text-Book Case of Genocide”: Top U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber Resigns, Denounces Israeli Assault on Gaza

Headlines for October 31, 2023; Gaza Doctor Says Hospitals Have to Choose Who Lives and Who Dies Amid Worsening Humanitarian Crisis; Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé on Gaza War, Hostages & the Context Behind Current Violence; How They Did It: Labor Journalist Jane Slaughter on UAW’s “Life-Changing” Deal with Big 3 Automakers

Headlines for October 30, 2023; “Not in Our Name”: 400 Arrested at Jewish-Led Sit-in at NYC’s Grand Central Demanding Gaza Ceasefire; Rep. Delia Ramirez Backs Gaza Ceasefire Resolution in Congress: We Need Diplomacy, Not More Bombings; Middle East Expert Lara Friedman: If Netanyahu Cared About Hostages, Why Did He Launch Ground Invasion?; “This Has to Stop”: Doctors Denounce Israel’s Targeting of Gaza Hospitals

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over four decades and is now trying to enter the besieged territory from Egypt.

Headlines for October 27, 2023; “Gaza Is Being Strangled”: UNRWA Calls for Immediate Ceasefire as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens; Gaza Poet Who Inspired Nonviolent Protests Is Injured in Israeli Airstrike; 5 Relatives Killed; “The Day After Tomorrow”: Israeli Hostage Negotiator on Freeing Captives & Building Lasting Peace; The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: Censorship, Harassment Intensifies on Campus Amid Gaza War

Headlines for October 26, 2023; “No Safe Place in Gaza”: Al Jazeera Reporter on Israeli Strike That Killed Gaza Bureau Chief’s Family; Palestinian Diplomat Hanan Ashrawi: The U.S. Is Israel’s “Partner in Crime” in Deadly Assault on Gaza; Palestinian Lives Matter Too: Jewish Scholar Judith Butler Condemns Israel’s “Genocide” in Gaza

Watch Part 2 of our interview with philosopher Judith Butler, one of dozens of Jewish American writers and artists who signed an open letter to President Biden calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Headlines for October 25, 2023; Amnesty International Finds “Damning Evidence of War Crimes” by Israel in Gaza; Death Toll Tops 6,500; “A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More; “We Need a Ceasefire”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on Gaza & Israel’s Dehumanization of Palestinians; Juan González: U.S. “Economic Warfare” Targeting Venezuela, Cuba & Nicaragua Fuels Migrant Crisis

Headlines for October 24, 2023; Palestinian American Journalist Rami Khouri on Israel’s Gaza Bombardment & Risk of a Regional War; Freed Hamas Hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, Says She Was “Treated Well” After Enduring “Hell”; Is Israel’s Endgame to Clear Out Gaza? Egypt Says No to Palestinian Refugees, Fearing New Nakba

Headlines for October 23, 2023; “Nowhere in Gaza Is Safe”: Palestinian Death Toll Tops 5,000 as Israel Rejects Calls for Ceasefire; Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Raji Sourani Describes Surviving Israel Bombing His Home in Gaza; Not in My Brother’s Name: Sibling of Peace Activist Killed by Hamas Demands Israel Stop Bombing Gaza

Headlines for October 20, 2023; “Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood; Israeli Journalist Amira Hass, Daughter of Holocaust Survivors, Calls for Gaza Ceasefire Now

Headlines for October 19, 2023; Annexation, Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide: Mustafa Barghouti Decries Israel’s Deadly Campaign in Gaza; Ceasefire Now! Rashida Tlaib, Naomi Klein Join Thousands in Jewish-Led D.C. Protest Against Gaza War; Israeli Journalist Amira Hass: How Can the World Stand By and Witness Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza?

Headlines for October 18, 2023; After Al-Ahli Hospital Blast Kills 500, Gaza Doctor Fears for His Life & Safety of His Patients; Rashid Khalidi on Biden’s “Israel-First Approach” & Growing Outrage over Gaza Across the Middle East; U.N. Rapporteur for Palestine: Gaza War Risks “Largest Instance of Ethnic Cleansing” in Mideast History; “Stop the War”: Israeli Peace Activist Whose Parents Were Killed in Hamas Attack Calls for Ceasefire

Headlines for October 17, 2023; “We Will Never Leave”: Human Rights Lawyer Raji Sourani in Gaza City Refuses to Be “Good Victim”; HRW Condemns Israel’s Collective Punishment on Gaza, Urges Biden to Help Restore Humanitarian Aid; “Step Back from the Brink”: Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy Decries Israel’s Actions in Gaza

Headlines for October 16, 2023; “Gaza Is Running Out of Life”: Human Rights Watch Sounds Alarm on Israel’s Collective Punishment; “A Textbook Case of Genocide”: Israeli Holocaust Scholar Raz Segal Decries Israel’s Assault on Gaza; Remembering Issam Abdallah, Reuters Journalist Killed Covering Israeli Missile Strikes in Lebanon; 12 Journalists, Mostly Palestinians in Gaza, Killed in “Deadliest Time for Journalists”

Headlines for October 13, 2023; A Second Nakba? Israel Orders 1.1 Million Palestinians to Evacuate Northern Gaza Amid Bombing & Siege; Former EU Envoy: Israel’s Forced Transfer of Palestinians in Gaza Would Be a War Crime; Seattle Rabbi David Basior Eulogizes Former Congregant Killed by Hamas, Says Occupation Must End; Noura Erakat: Western Leaders & Media Are Justifying Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign” Against Palestinians; Gaza’s Health System at a “Breaking Point” Amid Israeli Siege & Bombing

Headlines for October 12, 2023; Report from Gaza: Two Palestinians Describe “Horror” on 6th Day of Israel Bombing Besieged Enclave; Human Rights Lawyer Michael Sfard: “Israelis Must Maintain Their Humanity Even When Their Blood Boils”; Palestinian Journalist: Latest Violence Shatters Notion That Israeli Apartheid Is Sustainable

For more on U.S. policy in Ukraine and Israel, we host a discussion with CodePink’s Medea Benjamin and the Ukraine Solidarity Network’s Barbara Smith.

Headlines for October 11, 2023; Mustafa Barghouti: Israel’s Siege & Bombing of Gaza Are War Crimes. Is Ethnic Cleansing Next?; Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Should Lift Siege & Call Off Plans for Ground Invasion of Gaza; Can Peace in Ukraine Be Achieved Without War? Medea Benjamin & Barbara Smith Debate

Headlines for October 10, 2023; Refaat Alareer in Gaza: Israel’s “Barbaric” Bombardment Is Part of Ethnic Cleansing Campaign; Israeli Conscientious Objector Haggai Matar: Hamas Attack Reflects Israeli Violence in Palestine; Mohammed El-Kurd: How Much Palestinian Blood Will It Take to End Israel’s Occupation & Apartheid?; Univ. of MD Prof. Shibley Telhami to President Biden: Value Palestinian Life as Well as Israeli Life

Part 2 of our interview with Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami, about how Israel’s war on Palestinians after the Hamas attack could impact U.S. efforts to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, and more.

Headlines for October 09, 2023; “Dark Days”: Israeli Human Rights Leader Orly Noy on Israel’s War on Palestinians After Hamas Attack; “Do You Hear the Bombing?”: Gazan Human Rights Lawyer Raji Sourani Describes Israeli Siege of Gaza City; Hamas Killed His Friend, But Knesset Member Cassif Says End the Occupation Now, All “Pay the Price”; Historian Rashid Khalidi: Palestinians “Living Under Incredible Oppression, … It Had to Explode”

Headlines for October 06, 2023; Woman, Life, Freedom: Narges Mohammadi, Imprisoned Iranian Activist, Awarded 2023 Nobel Peace Prize; As Fraud Trial Gets Underway, Trump Tries to Provoke Judge to Jail Him: David Cay Johnston; Medical Students & Survivors Demand Columbia U. Notify All Patients of Jailed OB-GYN Sex Abuse Record; 300+ More Sex Abuse Survivors Sue Columbia U. & Jailed OB-GYN Robert Hadden; Kaiser Permanente Workers Give Update from Picket Line in Largest Healthcare Strike in History

Headlines for October 05, 2023; “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama”: How the Death of Abed’s 5-Year-Old Son Sheds Light on Life Under Israeli Apartheid

Headlines for October 04, 2023; Chaos in Congress: Rep. Ro Khanna on Historic Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy; Rep. Ro Khanna: It Is “Unfortunate” Gov. Newsom Didn’t Appoint Barbara Lee for Feinstein’s Seat; A New Occupation Force? Haitians Denounce U.N. Vote to Deploy U.S.-Backed, Kenyan-Led Troops

Headlines for October 03, 2023; “Crime Against Humanity”: Exiled from Diego Garcia for U.S. Military Base, Residents Demand to Return; Gunman Wearing MAGA Hat Shoots Indigenous Activist at New Mexico Protest over Conquistador Statue; Police Killings of Black & Brown People May Be Double Previous Estimates: La Raza Database Project

Part 2 of our interview with domestic violence survivor Tracy McCarter, about the grassroots campaign that won her freedom, and Jocelyn Simonson, author of Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Incarceration.

Headlines for October 02, 2023; Far-Right Republicans Look to Oust Speaker McCarthy After He Averts Government Shutdown; Gavin Newsom Taps Laphonza Butler to Fill Sen. Feinstein’s Seat, Rejecting Calls to Pick Barbara Lee; Survived & Punished: Meet Tracy McCarter, a Nurse Jailed, Then Cleared, for Stabbing Abusive Husband

Headlines for September 29, 2023; Fearing Ethnic Cleansing, 90,000 Armenians Flee Nagorno-Karabakh After Azerbaijan Military Blitz; Nazi Veteran Honored in Canada Was Part of Wave of Collaborators Harbored in West: Lev Golinkin; Top Cuban Diplomat Seeks Probe of D.C. Embassy Attack & End to “Unbearable” U.S. Sanctions

Headlines for September 28, 2023; “Donald Duck” & “Missing in Action”: GOP Rivals Criticize Trump for Skipping Another Debate; Ralph Nader: Why Is GOP Not Debating Corporate Crime Wave & the Weakening of Our Democratic Society?; David Dayen: Amazon & Google Antitrust Cases Highlight “Newfound Vigor” in D.C. to Fight Monopolies; Breaking the Menendez Cycle? Senator Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption, But Calls Grow for Resignation

Headlines for September 27, 2023; “Breaking Point”: Cities Struggle with Rise in Asylum Seekers; U.S. Foreign Policy Linked to Increase; Hispanic Heritage Month: Rep. Chuy García Remembers Pioneering Activists Rudy Lozano & Bert Corona; Making History, Biden Joins UAW Picket Line & Calls on Big 3 to Give Autoworkers “Significant Raise”

Headlines for September 26, 2023; Assassination on U.S. Soil: Orlando Letelier’s Son Seeks Justice for 1976 Bombing by Pinochet Regime; Red Scare at the Smithsonian? Battle Brews over Portrayal of Latino History in Planned New Museum

Headlines for September 25, 2023; Striking Hollywood Writers Reach Tentative Deal with Studios After 146 Days on Picket Line; Clarence Thomas & the Koch Network: ProPublica Reveals SCOTUS Justice Attended Fundraising Events; Sen. Bob Menendez Indicted in Case Revealing How Egypt Tried to Keep U.S. Military Aid Flowing

Colombian President Gustavo Petro joins Democracy Now! for an exclusive broadcast interview after his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he spoke of the need to end wars and stop the climate crisis.

Headlines for September 22, 2023; As Rupert Murdoch Resigns from His Right-Wing Media Empire, Will His Son Lachlan Be Even More Extreme?; Despite “Symbolic Rebukes” of Israel & Netanyahu, Will Biden’s Legacy Be Apartheid?; Rep. Ro Khanna on “Chaos” in House as Shutdown Nears, UAW Strike & Murder of Canadian Sikh Leader

Headlines for September 21, 2023; Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy; World Must Decarbonize Before “Point of No Return” on Climate Crisis: Colombian President Gustavo Petro; Lift the Blockade on Venezuela & Cuba: Colombian President Petro Warns U.S. Sanctions Are Driving Migration; Colombian President Gustavo Petro Denounces U.S. Intervention in Americas, from Chilean Coup to Drug War

Headlines for September 20, 2023; Assassination of Sikh Leader in Canada Highlights Modi’s Embrace of Authoritarianism in India & Abroad; Colombian President Gustavo Petro: Charges Against Julian Assange Are “Mockery of Freedom of Press”; Australian Senator Peter Whish-Wilson Calls on U.S. to End the “Totalitarian” Prosecution of Julian Assange; “I’m Not a Criminal… Enbridge Is”: Charges Tossed Against Winona LaDuke & Others for Pipeline Action

Headlines for September 19, 2023; U.S. & Iran Complete Prisoner Swap; Iranian Protesters Mark One Year Since Death of Mahsa Amini; Bombs for Bailouts: Pakistan Supplied Weapons to Ukraine in Return for U.S.-Brokered IMF Loan; Shutdown Showdown: Far-Right Lawmakers Battle with House Speaker McCarthy, Risking Gov’t Shutdown; “Stop Financing Fossil Fuels”: 149 Climate Activists Arrested Blocking NY Federal Reserve, Hit Banks

Headlines for September 18, 2023; The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis; “W​e Will Not Give Up”: AOC, Vanessa Nakate Lead Calls at Massive NY Climate Rally to End Fossil Fuels; Labor, Frontline & Youth Voices Call on Biden to Immediately Act to Prevent Climate Catastrophe

Headlines for September 15, 2023; UAW on Strike: In Historic Move, Auto Workers Target All Big Three Automakers at Once; 400 Climate Scientists Endorse Call to Halt Fossil Fuels Ahead of Major NYC Climate March; Meet Two NYU Sunrise Students Who Helped Push NYU To Divest From Fossil Fuels; Hunter Biden Is Indicted on Gun Charges as House GOP Launch Impeachment Inquiry into Joe Biden

Headlines for September 14, 2023; Naomi Klein on Her New Book “Doppelganger” & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite

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 September 11, 2023; Morocco: Earthquake Death Toll at 2,500; Criticism Grows over King’s Response to Humanitarian Crisis; “The Other 9/11”: Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende

Headlines for September 08, 2023; Spain: Soccer Head Faces Sexual Assault Charge for World Cup Forced Kiss; Women Players Strike over Pay; Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion in Major Step Forward for Reproductive Rights in Latin America; Fulton County Jail: Shawndre Delmore Is 10th Person to Die at Notorious Facility So Far in 2023

On Thursday, climate activists with Extinction Rebellion delayed a semifinal match by 50 minutes between Coco Gauff and Karolína Muchová. Three activists stood up in the crowd and called for an end to fossil fuels. One protester glued their bare feet to the ground. Nineteen-year-old Gauff eventually won the match, sending her to the finals.

Headlines for September 07, 2023; Ukrainian & Russian Activists on How Putin’s War Emboldens “Authoritarian Forces” Around the World; Democratic Republic of Congo Faces “Worst Hunger Catastrophe” as Mineral Extraction Enriches the Few

Headlines for September 06, 2023; “A Political Prosecution”: 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia’s Republican AG; “Alarming”: Biden to Supply Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine Despite Contamination Risks; Kenyan Activist at Africa Climate Summit: Fund Green Transition on Continent & Phase Out Fossil Fuels

Headlines for September 05, 2023; Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate; “Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

“The Great Escape”: Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.; Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora on Coping with Trauma from Being Detained & Undocumented in U.S.

Headlines for September 01, 2023; Jan. 6: Proud Boys Lieutenant Joe Biggs, Who Warned of “Second Civil War,” Sentenced to 17 Years; Enbridge Is the Guilty Party, Not Me: Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action; Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright Warns the Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind; Biden Administration Sued as Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Are Detained Overseas Waiting for U.S. Entry

Headlines for August 31, 2023; Military Coup in Gabon Seen as Part of Broader Revolt Against France & Neo-Colonialism in Africa; Scientist Peter Kalmus: The Hurricanes, Floods & Fires of 2023 Are Just the Beginning of Climate Emergency; U.S. Aquifers Are Running Dry, Posing Major Threat to Drinking Water Supply

Headlines for August 30, 2023; Biden vs. Big Pharma: Medicare to Begin Negotiations to Lower Price of 10 Costly Drugs & Insulin; Progressive Dems Visit Latin America Seeking “New Path” After Decades of U.S. Interference; Texas Rep. Greg Casar Condemns Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Dangerous Stunts” at the Border; “Modern Form of Slavery”: Haitians at Dominican Sugar Plantations Work Under Inhumane Conditions

Headlines for August 29, 2023; As Mark Meadows Pushes for Federal Trial, Activists Say Attack on Voting Rights at Heart of Georgia Case; Judge in D.C. Sets Trump Trial for March 4 & Rejects Trump Lawyer’s Citation of Scottsboro Boys Case; “Hurricane of Racism”: Racial Terror in Jacksonville, from Recent Shooting to 1960 Ax Handle Saturday; Jacksonville Shooting: Rep. Maxwell Frost Blasts DeSantis for Pushing Bigotry & Ignoring Gun Violence

Headlines for August 28, 2023; Gary Younge on Jacksonville Shooting & Why America’s Gun Problem “Makes Its Racism More Lethal”; 60 Years After “I Have a Dream”: Gary Younge on MLK’s March on Washington & the Fight for Racial Justice; Family of Kenneth Chamberlain, Black Man Killed in 2011 by Police, Settles with City of White Plains

Headlines for August 25, 2023; Inmate P01135809: Trump Surrenders to Jail in Georgia, Booked on 13 Felony Counts; Are “Mugshots” Unethical? How Jailhouse Photos Undermine Defendants & Reinforce Systemic Bias; “Shameful”: Reelected Tenn. State Rep. Justin Jones on GOP Silencing of Critics on Gun Control

Headlines for August 24, 2023; Two Months After Mutiny in Russia, Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies in Plane Crash; 6 of 8 GOP Candidates Vow to Back Trump as Party’s Nominee Even If He Is Convicted; GOP Candidates Refuse to Say Climate Change Is Caused by Humans; Vivek Ramaswamy Calls It a “Hoax”; Should the U.S. Keep Funding War in Ukraine? Debate Reveals Deep Divisions Within Republican Party