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Democracy Now! recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more.
See Part 1 of our conversation with Türk, including his response to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.
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A federal judge in New Hampshire has issued a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States since February 20. In a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of immigrant parents, the ACLU argued that the order would leave children born to undocumented parents “effectively stateless.” We speak to ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt about the case, which he calls “cruel” and without merit, as well as new evidence that the Trump administration is lying about its power over people it has expelled to the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT.
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Rescue teams in central Texas are still searching for about 160 people who went missing in the catastrophic flash floods on July 4. The official death toll has climbed to at least 121 victims. State policymakers are now in the spotlight, as questions swirl around Texas’s lack of emergency precautions and the climate denialism of Republican political leaders. “Many of those lost lives could have been saved if links in our disaster response chain hadn’t been broken,” says Monica Medina, a former official at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal administration that, among other tasks, monitors extreme weather. NOAA has been hit by major cuts to funding and staffing under Trump, despite the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters from climate change. Medina is among many climate and policy experts sounding the alarm on the defunding of NOAA and other meteorological and disaster preparedness services. “We are firing the people. We’re stopping taking in the data. We’re ending the research. We’re turning off the satellites. We’re doing everything we possibly can to put our heads in the sand in the midst of what is increasingly dangerous weather.”
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Part 2 of Democracy Now!’s conversation with Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. She was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration, shortly after publishing a report on corporations supporting what she calls Israel’s “economy of genocide.”
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Democracy Now! Friday, July 11, 2025
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- U.N.: Israel Has Killed 800 Palestinians Seeking Aid in Gaza, Many at U.S. "Aid" Operation GHF
- Israel Kills 16 Palestinians, Including 8 Children, Waiting for Nutritional Supplements
- Gaza Doctors Using Incubators for Four Babies at Once Amid Israel's Blockade
- Trump Ramps Up Tariff Threat on Canada as Brazil Vows to Impose Reciprocal 50% Tariff on U.S.
- U.S. Judge Blocks Trump's Birthright Ban, Allows Class-Action Lawsuit to Proceed
- Protesters Confront Feds in Camarillo, CA, as Agents Target Farmworkers
- CPJ Calls for Release of Journalist Mario Guevara
- Trump Admin Withdraws Head Start Services for Undocumented Children
- Gutting of State Department Resumes Following SCOTUS Ruling
- Kristi Noem Blames FEMA for "Slow" Response in Texas — FEMA Says Delay Caused by Noem Rule
- Texas Flood Death Toll Reaches 121; 160 People Still Missing
- Texas Dems Slam Gov. Abbott Gerrymander Attempt in Wake of Flooding Disaster
- 4 Million People Could Perish in HIV-Related Deaths in Next Four Years Due to U.S. Aid Cuts
- U.S. Cuts Aid to Somalia But Continues to Bomb It
- "Illegal and Inhumane": Rights Groups Condemn Greece for Halting Processing of Asylum Claims
- Iranian Lawyer Says 100 Transgender Prisoners Died in Israeli Bombing of Evin Prison
- CUNY Targets Pro-Palestinian Students and Staff in Latest Crackdown
- Grok to Be Installed in Teslas Days After "MechaHitler" Scandal
- Video Game Actors Sign New Contract After Yearlong Strike
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Full interview with U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The conversation touched on Gaza, immigration policy in the United States, climate change around the world, the global fight to preserve human rights and more.
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Democracy Now! Thursday, July 10, 2025
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As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism. “One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley,” says Hao. “The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that’s scientifically grounded.”
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In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao, in an extended interview.
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We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. The late actor James Earl Jones read the historic address during a performance of Voices of a People’s History of the United States, which was co-edited by Howard Zinn.
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Democracy Now! Friday, July 4, 2025
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