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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska for a high-stakes summit to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, we host a debate between two foreign policy thinkers about the war, its causes and how it could be brought to a conclusion.
John Mearsheimer is an international relations theorist at the University of Chicago, known for his realist perspective. He has long argued that Western policies are the main cause of the Ukraine crisis. “There’s overwhelming evidence that it was NATO expansion into Ukraine that drove this train,” says Mearsheimer.
Matt Duss is executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and the former foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders. He says that despite Western missteps, Russia is ultimately the main cause of the current war, which Putin started in 2022 with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “Putin has made clear that he has a pretty grandiose historical conception of what he sees as a kind of renewed Russian empire,” he says.
Both Mearsheimer and Duss say Ukraine’s war effort is flagging and that the best way out is to “make the best peace they can,” even if it means conceding territory to Russia.
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President Trump says his takeover of policing in Washington, D.C., will serve as an example of policies he hopes to enact in other major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. All the cities on his target list are led by Black mayors, and most have “sanctuary” policies limiting local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Responding to Trump’s threats, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson tells Democracy Now! that his city will not “cower or bend or be intimidated by these attempts to divide and conquer our communities.” He says that unlike Trump’s militarized approach, Chicago has been investing in mental health services, raising wages and building affordable housing as part of a larger campaign to improve quality of life. Contrary to Trump’s claims, violent crime is down in Chicago.
“We’re building the safest, most affordable big city in America, the most pro-worker city in America, and we’re doing it in a very collective way,” says Johnson.
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Democracy Now! Friday, August 15, 2025
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- Sewage Floods Gaza Hospital After Israeli Strike, as Childhood Malnutrition Soars
- Israeli Plan to Expand Settlements and "Bury" Palestinian State Draws International Condemnation
- Trump Predicts Ukraine's Zelensky Will Join Follow-Up Summit to Meeting with Russia's Putin
- Erik Prince Reaches Agreement with Haiti's Interim Gov't to Deploy Nearly 200 Mercenaries
- Texas Democrats Prepare to End Two-Week Walkout over GOP's Gerrymandered Maps
- California Democrats Rally in Support of Ballot Measure to Redraw Congressional Maps
- D.C. Leaders Reject Pam Bondi's Order Installing DEA Administrator as Chief of Police
- D.C. Police Submit to White House Demands They Assist Federal Immigration Agents
- D.C.'s Unhoused Residents Ordered to Leave Encampments or Face Fines and Jail Time
- Lawsuit Accuses ICE of Unlawfully Deporting U.S. Citizen Children, Including Boy with Cancer
- Florida Plans "Deportation Depot" to Operate Alongside "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE Jail
- ACLU Sues Michigan City and Officer for Brutalizing Black Man in Mental Health Crisis
- Global Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks Fail as U.S. and Other Oil Producers Reject Production Limits
- NYC Council Speaker Promises to Override Mayor's Veto of Bills Raising Delivery Workers' Wages
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was recently sentenced to 12 years of house arrest after he was found guilty of bribing imprisoned members of paramilitary groups to coax them into retracting damaging testimony exposing Uribe’s ties to U.S.-backed, right-wing paramilitary groups. Uribe was a staunch U.S. ally who ruled Colombia from 2002 to 2010, during which time there were thousands of extrajudicial killings of civilians, who were then purposely mislabeled as rebel fighters in what became known as the “false positives” scandal. “Álvaro Uribe is a very powerful figure. He is the leading figure of the far right in Colombia and, I would say, a leading figure of the far right in the Americas,” says leftist Colombian Senator Iván Cepeda. His own father, leading leftist politician Manuel Cepeda, was assassinated in 1994 by right-wing paramilitaries working with the government.
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As President Trump threatens to use U.S. special forces against drug cartels abroad, a new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, reveals some of the most secretive and elite special forces in the Army are heavily involved in narcotrafficking themselves. “There’s at least 14 cases that I’m tracking of Fort Bragg-trained soldiers who have been either arrested, apprehended or killed in the course of trafficking drugs in the last five years or so,” says author Seth Harp. The book also looks at “how U.S. military intervention often stimulates drug production,” including in Afghanistan, which he says became the biggest narco-state in the world during the 20-year U.S. occupation. “Most of the drug trafficking and drug production was being carried out and done by warlords, police chiefs, militia commanders, who were on the U.S. payroll in a corrupt structure,” says Harp.
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Democracy Now! Thursday, August 14, 2025
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- Israel Kills Over 100 Palestinians in a Day and Presses South Sudan to Resettle Gaza's Population
- Protests Worldwide Decry Israel's Assassination of Journalists
- New Zealand Parliament Ejects MP Who Called Out Colleagues' "Spineless" Inaction on Gaza
- "Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State": Israeli Minister Announces Plan for New Settlements
- U.N. Secretary-General Warns Israel over Sexual Violence Committed by Its Armed Forces
- Trump Warns Russia of "Severe Consequences" Unless Putin Agrees to Ukraine Ceasefire
- Trump Plans "Long-Term" Takeover of Washington, D.C., Police Department
- The New Yorker: Trump Family Has Made $3.4 Billion from Presidency
- U.N. Security Council Rejects RSF's Declaration of Rival Government in Sudan
- Peru's President Grants Blanket Amnesty to Police and Soldiers Accused of Human Rights Abuses
- Trump Administration Revokes Visas of Doctors Tied to Cuban Charity
- 27 Dead, Dozens Missing as Ships Carrying Asylum Seekers Sink Off Italian Coast
- Spain Asks for Help Battling Raging Wildfires
- 400 Die Amid Arizona Heat Wave; Melting Glacier Brings Floodwaters to Alaska's Capital
- 5 Chicago Officers Involved in Fatal Shooting of Dexter Reed Won't Face Charges
- Nations Struggle to Forge Plastic Pollution Treaty Amid Opposition by Chemical Industry and U.S.
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became wildly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and today has more than 16 million subscribers. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Accurso has used her social media reach to speak out for Palestinian children facing hunger, disease, injury and death. She has been hailed as the heir to Mister Rogers, the legendary PBS children’s entertainer who also used his position in families’ living rooms to speak out on social issues.
“I see all children as precious and equal. My deep care for children doesn’t stop at any border,” Accurso tells Democracy Now! in a wide-ranging interview.
We also speak with Tareq Hailat, director of the Treatment Abroad Program for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, who helped connect Accurso with a 3-year-old girl from Gaza named Rahaf who lost both her legs in an Israeli airstrike. Accurso and Rahaf filmed a video, in which they sing a dance together.
Hailat describes Accurso as “one of the most significant, if not the most significant, voices for Palestinian human rights” in the world. “Her advocacy has touched the hearts of people that never would have ever heard about Gaza or the Palestinian children, and that’s why her voice is so vital,” he says.
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