Democracy Now! 2024-03-08 Friday

• Headlines for March 08, 2024
• Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden's Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy
• Biden's SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-07 Thursday

• Headlines for March 07, 2024
• Israel's "Killing Machine": How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War
• Biden Admin Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza
• New Pakistan Gov't Marks Return of "Bourgeois Old Guard" as Jailed Imran Khan Looms Large

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Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa joins us for Part 2 of her interview from Cairo after two weeks in Gaza. She discusses the impact of “unlimited weaponry” supplied by the United States for Israel to bomb and starve civilians there. “Language is really inadequate and insufficient to capture the enormity of this moment,” says Abulhawa. “What I’ve seen is really a fraction of the totality of this horror.” She is the founder and co-director of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization, and the executive director of Palestine Writes Literature Festival.

Democracy Now! 2024-03-06 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 06, 2024
• Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback
• Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices
• What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-05 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 05, 2024
• Haiti: Ariel Henry's U.S.-Backed "Criminal Regime" Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police
• Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking
• "The Zone of Interest": Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & "Walls That Separate Us"

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We continue our conversation with Alabama-based writer and artist Abbey Crain, who had been receiving in vitro fertilization treatments for about two years when the state Supreme Court issued its controversial ruling that frozen embryos are “children,” opening both patients and medical providers to new legal risks. State lawmakers have since passed protections for IVF providers, but they have not challenged the underlying logic of the court ruling. Crain says IVF is coming under threat as part of a larger Republican assault on reproductive healthcare, warning people outside the state, in a recent Glamour article, that “you are not special and you are not safe” from similar restrictions.

Democracy Now! 2024-03-04 Monday

• Headlines for March 04, 2024
• Report from Rafah: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs
• "Alexei Navalny Taught Russia's Opposition How to Mobilize": Historian on Putin's "Dictatorship"
• "Enraging": Meet Abbey Crain, IVF Patient in Midst of Treatment Derailed by Alabama High Court

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Democracy Now! 2024-03-01 Friday

• Headlines for March 01, 2024
• "Just Being Racist": Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits
• The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-29 Thursday

• Headlines for February 29, 2024
• Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. "Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe" in Gaza
• Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into "Far-Right Legislature"
• Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-28 Wednesday

• Headlines for February 28, 2024
• "Uncommitted": Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden's Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary
• The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: U.S. Airman Self-Immolates Protesting U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-27 Tuesday

• Headlines for February 27, 2024
• Should U.S. Send More Weapons to Ukraine? A Debate on Funding & Ways to End Two-Year-Old War
• Ralph Nader at 90 on the "Genocidal War" in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-26 Monday

• Headlines for February 26, 2024
• As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed
• Gaza Ceasefire Could Save 75,000 from Death: Report from London School of Hygiene & Johns Hopkins
• U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Are "Anti-Palestinian at the Core," Chill First Amendment

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-23 Friday

• Headlines for February 23, 2024
• Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange's Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism
• "Governments Are Trying to Frighten Journalists": Fmr. Guardian Head Alan Rusbridger on Assange Case
• Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations

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We speak with civil rights attorney Ben Crump about a Houston woman shot five times by police after they mistook her for an intruder. Eboni Pouncy and her friend were asleep in the back of the friend’s apartment when they were woken up by two officers who began shooting through a window. The officers were responding to an alleged break-in after Pouncy’s friend broke a window to enter her apartment when she forgot her key. Newly released body-camera footage shows the shooting barrage. “It is clearly excessive. I mean, they shot over two dozen rounds,” says Crump, who asks why police officers “shoot first and ask questions later” when they encounter law-abiding African Americans who are armed. He compares the case to the police killing of Breonna Taylor in her apartment in 2020.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-22 Thursday

• Headlines for February 22, 2024
• Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling
• Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy

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In Part 2 of our interview with Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, she discusses in more detail this year’s African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, regional and economic tensions, and the neocolonial role of the United States, Russia and China on the continent.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-21 Wednesday

• Headlines for February 21, 2024
• "Political Prosecution": WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Faces Final U.K. Appeal to Avoid U.S. Extradition
• "Moral Failure": Democrats Rep. Khanna & Michigan State Rep. Aiyash Urge Biden to Change Gaza Policy
• Colonialism, Occupation & Apartheid: African Countries See "Shared Experiences" with Palestinians

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In Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Irfan Galaria, an American doctor just back from Gaza, he describes operating on patients while bombs were dropping around the hospital and says he saw many orphaned children.

Democracy Now! 2024-02-20 Tuesday

• Headlines for February 20, 2024
• "Borders on Pathological": Trump Must Pay $450 Million for Lying to Lenders in Fraud Case
• More Than 50 Countries Argue Before World Court Against Israeli Occupation of Palestine
• "What I Saw Wasn't War — It Was Annihilation," Says U.S. Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Hospital

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Democracy Now! 2024-02-19 Monday

• Headlines for February 19, 2024
• "Like Horror Movies": Forced to Evacuate Nasser Hospital, Surgeon Describes Israeli Raid & Arrests
• "3 Days of Hell": Israel Raids Nasser Hospital, Arrests Staff in Latest Assault on Gaza Medical System
• Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; "No Doubt" He Was Killed, Says Masha Gessen

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