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We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.” That message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”
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We continue to look at the U.S. health insurance industry and how patients can fight back against their providers with advocate Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign. She says her advice for patients is to always appeal denials and to seek outside help when possible, including advocacy groups like hers and external review boards. She also stresses that much of the chaos of the U.S. health system is due to corporate greed. “Everyone has an incentive to charge more,” says Benjamin. “If we had Medicare for All, we wouldn’t be paying as much, and we would probably have much better health outcomes.”
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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson’s assassination has brought renewed attention to the practices of the health industry and especially UnitedHealth Group, which reported $22 billion in profits last year. For more, we speak with Kevin Dwyer, who has firsthand experience with UnitedHealthcare denying him lifesaving medication for cystic fibrosis. “The thought of getting this medication that could stop my decline was everything to me. And it was devastating when I got the denial,” says Dwyer, who only got approved after his case became a national news story. “It shouldn’t take this, but unfortunately it does,” says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and co-founder of the Health Care for All New York campaign.
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Thousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height of the holiday period to follow the law and bargain with those who have organized with the Teamsters union. The strike includes warehouse workers and drivers at seven distribution centers in some of Amazon’s largest markets, including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco; Teamsters have also set up picket lines at many other warehouses nationwide. “We’re engaging in a coordinated action to try to put the pressure on Amazon to stop breaking the law, come to the table,” says Connor Spence, president of Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1, which represents workers in New York. “This is an unfair labor practice strike over their refusal to bargain.” We also speak with Ronald Sewell, an Amazon associate in Georgia, who says workplace safety is a major driver of worker discontent, including insufficient access to water and overheating. “The danger is real. It’s not something that we’re making up,” says Sewell.
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Democracy Now! Friday, December 20, 2024
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- Israel's Genocide in Gaza Claims 77 Palestinian Lives Over Past Day
- Israeli Settlers Vandalize West Bank Mosque Amid Continuing Israeli Attacks Across Occupied Territory
- U.S. Officials in Damascus as Syrian Kurds Seek to Fend Off Possible Turkish Incursion
- Syrian Youth, Women Gather to Demand Respect for Human Rights from Incoming Gov't
- Striking Amazon Workers in NYC Met with Police Crackdown as Labor Action Spreads Across U.S.
- Starbucks Workers Launch Escalating Strike Action
- U.S. Gov't Inches Closer to Shutdown After House Rejects New, Trump-Endorsed Spending Bill
- Fulton County DA Fani Willis Barred from Georgia's Election Subversion Case Against Trump
- Luigi Mangione Faces Federal Murder Charges for Shooting Death of UnitedHealthcare CEO
- Another Member of NYC Mayor Eric Adams's Inner Circle Is Indicted
- Biden Sets Out Goal to Reduce Emissions by Up to 66% by 2035
- EPA, Energy Dept. Workers Condemn Biden Admin for Funding Bombs Over Climate Crisis
- Three WFP Workers Killed in Sudan Air Attack as Agency Warns 1.7 Million People Facing Famine
- Macron Met with Angry Crowds as He Toured Cyclone-Devastated Mayotte, Where Aid Has Been Scarce
- Crowd Crush at Nigerian School Fair Kills 35 Children
- Ecuador Successfully Completes Debt-for-Nature Swap as Part of Amazon Preservation Effort
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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“We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned mass grave in Syria, following the sudden fall of the authoritarian Assad family from power. More than 150,000 Syrians remain unaccounted for after being held in Assad’s prisons, and many are believed to be buried in mass graves. We speak to Zayadin about what’s been uncovered so far and the struggle to preserve evidence, particularly in the face of a new regime that has not prioritized tracking records of the Assad government’s crimes, and of Israel’s ongoing shelling of crucial sites. “Every minute that passes where there is inaction, where these documents, these sites are not being preserved, are not being secured, is just one more family possibly never knowing what happened to their loved ones,” she says.
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“When you’re in prison, the retaliation starts. … I don’t think my judge sentenced me to go through this.” The U.S. government has agreed to pay a record-breaking amount of nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits brought by 103 people who survived sexual abuse and assault at a federal women’s prison in California. The facility, FCI Dublin, was shuttered earlier this year. Its former warden is now himself imprisoned after being convicted of sexually abusing incarcerated people under his care. Aimee Chavira, who was formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin and is part of the class-action sexual abuse lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, says the settlement, while welcomed, “doesn’t change anything. No amount of money will change what was done to us and what did happen.” Community organizer Courtney Hanson helped advocate for survivors with the Dublin Prison Solidarity Coalition. She calls for “policy changes to ensure that this type of staff sexual abuse stops happening” in prisons across the country.
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Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of committing acts of extermination and genocide by deliberately restricting safe water for drinking and sanitation to the Gaza Strip. The report details how Israel has cut off water and blocked fuel, food and humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, and deliberately destroyed or damaged water and sanitation infrastructure and water repair materials. We speak to one of the report’s editors, Bill Van Esveld, the acting Israel and Palestine associate director at Human Rights Watch, who describes “a clear state policy of depriving people in Gaza of water,” that HRW is, for the first time in the current Israeli assault on Gaza, characterizing as a genocidal act.
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Democracy Now! 2024-12-19 Thursday
- Headlines for December 19, 2024
- "Rape Club" Prison in California: U.S. Gov't to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse
- "Extermination & Acts of Genocide": Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water
- Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones' Disappearances Under Assad Regime
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- Israeli's Attacks Continue Across Gaza Despite Talks of Nearing Ceasefire
- Twin Palestinian Sisters Killed by Israeli Attack as They Attempted to Leave Gaza
- Haaretz: Israeli Soldiers Arbitrarily Kill Palestinians, Then Declare Them Terrorists
- Israel Bombs Yemen, Killing at Least 9
- Senate Passes $895B Pentagon Bill, Includes Ban on Healthcare for Military Trans Family Members
- Government Shutdown Looms After House Republicans Reject Compromise Spending Deal
- GOP Introduces DOGE Act to Slash Billions from Social Programs
- House Ethics Committee to Release Report on Matt Gaetz's Sex Trafficking and Drug Use
- Trump Appoints Failed Senate Candidate and Ex-NFL Star Herschel Walker as U.S. Ambassador to Bahamas
- Gisèle Pelicot’s Ex-Husband Is Found Guilty of Mass Rape, Sentenced to 20 Years
- U.S. to Pay $116 Million to "Rape Club" Survivors at Federal Women's Prison in California
- Texas Father Fights to Reunite Family After ICE Deports Mother and Children to Mexico
- "We Just Do What the Israelis Want Us to Do": State Department Official Quits over U.S. Policy on Gaza
- Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Potential Ban on Social Media App TikTok
- Indiana Carries Out First Execution in 15 Years, Killing Joseph Corcoran
- Thousands of Amazon Workers Begin Strike for Union Recognition
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak with The Nation's Chris Lehmann about President-elect Donald Trump's escalating attacks on the press and how major media figures and institutions are “capitulating preemptively” to the pressure. ABC News recently settled a defamation suit brought by Trump by making a $15 million donation to his future presidential library, despite experts saying the case was easily winnable. Trump is also suing The Des Moines Register for publishing a poll before the election that showed him losing to Vice President Kamala Harris. “What’s happening is a very clear pattern in Trump’s public life,” says Lehmann. “This is a show of power.”
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We speak with the husband and sister of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old Turkish American activist killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in September, who have criticized the Biden administration for failing to independently investigate her death. The recent University of Washington graduate was fatally shot in the head after taking part in a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the town of Beita, which she attended as an international observer. Witnesses say she was shot by an Israeli sniper after the demonstration had already dispersed. Members of Eygi’s family spoke with Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this week but left the meeting with little hope the U.S. would hold Israel accountable. “Accountability starts with an investigation by the U.S. of the killing of one of its own citizens by an ally,” says Eygi’s husband Hamid Ali. “The answer to the question of why my wife is not getting justice is because Israel enjoys this level of impunity throughout its existence that no other country, no other state in the world enjoys.”
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A new lawsuit accuses the State Department of failing to ever sanction Israeli military units under the Leahy Law, which was passed in 1997 to prevent the United States from funding foreign military units credibly implicated in gross human rights violations. The case was brought by five Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and the United States and is supported by the human rights group DAWN. Former State Department official Charles Blaha, who served as director of the human rights office tasked with implementing the Leahy Law, says there is a mountain of evidence of Israel carrying out torture, extrajudicial killings, rape, enforced disappearances and other abuses. “Despite all that, the State Department has never once held any Israeli unit ineligible for assistance under the Leahy Law,” says Blaha, now a senior adviser at DAWN. We also speak with Palestinian American writer Ahmed Moor, one of the plaintiffs in the suit, who has family in Gaza and says the last year of genocide has made the lawsuit more urgent. “The conditions of basic life are not being met. Gaza is unlivable,” says Moor.
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Democracy Now! 2024-12-18 Wednesday
- Headlines for December 18, 2024
- "Obey the Law": Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law
- Justice for Ayşenur Eygi: Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken Demanding Probe
- Trump Escalates War on Press by Suing Des Moines Register Days After ABC Agreed to $15M Settlement
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- Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens of Palestinians Amid Signs of Breakthrough in Gaza Ceasefire Talks
- Israeli Forces Kill Two More Palestinians in Occupied West Bank
- U.N. Envoy Warns Syria's War "Has Not Ended" as Turkish-Backed Forces Challenge Kurdish Fighters
- Netanyahu Vows Israeli Forces Will Remain in Syria Indefinitely
- Haaretz: Israel and Saudi Arabia Reach Breakthrough in Talks to Normalize Ties
- Human Rights Groups Condemn FIFA's Selection of Saudi Arabia to Host 2034 World Cup
- U.S. to Transfer 3 More Prisoners from Guantánamo Bay
- Trump Sues Iowa Pollster and Des Moines Register for "Brazen Election Interference"
- Democrats Select Gerry Connolly Over AOC as Ranking Member of House Oversight Committee
- Macron to Visit Cyclone-Ravaged Mayotte Amid Anger over Slow Response to Crisis
- CNN Admits It Misidentified Assad Intelligence Officer as Freed Syrian Prisoner
- Manhattan DA Charges Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO Assassin with Murder and Terrorism
- Ocean Defender Paul Watson Freed from Prison as Denmark Rejects Japan's Extradition Bid
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