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As the official death toll in Gaza tops 45,000 and Israel’s wars throughout the Middle East continue, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in court for a long-awaited corruption trial, making him the country’s first sitting leader to face criminal charges. He is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases. For more on this extraordinary case, we speak with acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney, whose latest documentary The Bibi Files features leaked behind-the-scenes footage of police interrogations of Netanyahu, his wife and those accused of bribing him. The film has been banned in Israel, and Netanyahu even tried unsuccessfully to stop it from screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, but Gibney says it is being widely shared inside Israel through unofficial channels. “Strictly speaking, this is a film about corruption,” Gibney tells Democracy Now! “It starts with petty corruption — being bribed with gifts and cigars, champagne, jewelry — but then the ultimate corruption is how he’s tried to elude a reckoning for his misdeeds, and in so doing, he wraps himself in the mantle of prime minister and then wages endless war.”
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We speak with organizer Astra Taylor of the Debt Collective, which is urging President Joe Biden to cancel more student debt, including for older debtors, before the end of his term. According to the White House, the administration has approved $175 billion in student debt relief for nearly 5 million borrowers over the past four years, but advocates say Biden can still do more in his final weeks as president. “This is a Titanic moment for the Biden administration. They have crashed into the authoritarian iceberg of the Trump administration, and it is their duty to fill as many lifeboats as possible,” says Taylor. She faults the administration for insisting on a case-by-case approach to debt relief instead of canceling debt for larger swaths of debtors, including many with “ironclad claims,” urging the White House to use all the legal tools at its disposal.
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President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a corrupt former judge has sparked widespread outrage, including from members of his own party. Biden announced nearly 1,500 commutations and pardons last week in what the White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency from a president, but among those whose sentences were reduced is former Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan — one of two judges in the notorious “kids for cash” scandal. In 2011, Conahan was sentenced to 17.5 years for accepting nearly $3 million in kickbacks for sending 2,300 children, some as young as 8 years old, to for-profit prisons on false charges. His co-conspirator, former Judge Mark Ciavarella, remains in prison. We speak with filmmaker Robert May, director of the Kids for Cash documentary, and Sandy Fonzo, mother of Edward Kenzakoski, who was incarcerated as a teenager as part of the kickback scheme and later died by suicide. “It’s just reopening wounds that have never healed,” Fonzo says of the commutation. She describes her son as “strong” and “proud” before his time in detention, but says “he came out broken” and never fully recovered. “It stole his youth, his childhood.”
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Democracy Now! 2024-12-17 Tuesday
- Headlines for December 17, 2024
- "It Broke Him": Mother Who Lost Son in "Kids for Cash" Scheme Slams Biden's Clemency for Corrupt Judge
- Astra Taylor: "It's Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Debt Relief"
- Alex Gibney on "The Bibi Files," Netanyahu's Corruption Case & How Endless War Keeps Him in Power
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- Israeli Forces Attack Gaza "Safe Zone" and Again Assault Kamal Adwan Hospital
- Family Asks Blinken to Launch Independent Probe of Israel's Killing of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
- "Nobody Is Going to Silence Ireland": Irish PM Blasts Israel's Closure of Dublin Embassy
- U.S. Officials Warn Turkey Is Preparing Invasion of Syrian Kurdish Autonomous Region
- Rights Groups Warn Mass Graves in Syria Could Hold Over 100,000 Victims of Assad Family
- Kyiv Says It Killed Russian General Responsible for Chemical Weapons Attacks in Ukraine
- 15-Year-Old Girl Guns Down Student and Teacher Before Killing Herself at Madison School
- HRW: 1,360 Children Ripped from Their Families at Border Under Trump's 1st Term Were Never Reunited
- NY Judge Rejects Trump's Attempt to Throw Out Felony Conviction
- Justin Trudeau Faces Deepening Political Turmoil After Finance Minister Quits
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Loses No-Confidence Vote, Setting Up Early Elections
- Brazil Arrests Jair Bolsonaro's 2022 Running Mate as Coup Investigation Advances
- Amazon Workers in 3 Cities Could Be on Verge of Historic Strike
- "Uhuru 3" Receive 3 Years' Probation, Avoiding Prison, over "Russian Influence" Legal Saga
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Private healthcare companies are facing increased scrutiny following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson over what appears to be dissatisfaction with the company’s exploitative policies and frequent denials of care. Recent investigations from ProPublica and reporter Annie Waldman find that UnitedHealthcare is aggressively trying to limit mental health coverage and treatment for thousands of children with autism in its latest effort to cut costs and curtail care.
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Investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein joins us to discuss the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson as he walked to a shareholders conference in New York City earlier this month, and his accused killer, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione. Thompson’s vigilante-inflected death has inflamed public discourse over the predatory practices of the private healthcare industry. “People working these call centers are themselves upset at having to deny claims,” says Klippenstein. Last week, he published what is believed to be Mangione’s “manifesto,” which details Mangione’s anger at the industry and his motivation for the killing. Meanwhile, healthcare companies appear to be scrambling to protect their public reputation. “I speculate that it is the absence of discourse around our healthcare system that fed into the rage we’re seeing now,” adds Klippenstein. “To miss that as part of this story is just malpractice.”
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The South Korean National Assembly voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, 10 days after his ill-fated attempt to declare martial law in the country. Yoon had falsely accused political rivals of North Korean sympathies in his declaration, invoking previous eras of military dictatorship on the Korean Peninsula in the years following its partition. For more on what to expect from the upcoming judicial vote over Yoon’s removal, we speak to Korean activist Dae-Han Song. Yoon’s waning popular support is not promising for his political future and has reignited public appetite for democratic reforms, explains Song.
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Israel is continuing to bomb Syria a week after longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israeli forces have launched over 800 strikes on Syria over the past week. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has approved a plan to expand illegal settlements in the occupied Golan Heights. “Israel is setting new precedents in the Middle East,” says Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara. “It’s acting so lawlessly against Syria, as a rogue state basically.” Bishara also discusses Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the Syria strategy of other actors in the region, including neighboring U.S. allies that had previously attempted to normalize relations with Assad and extremist groups that have formed partially in response to U.S. aggression.
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Democracy Now! Monday, December 16, 2024
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- Israel Continues to Bomb Syria, Pushes Ahead with Plan to Invade and Settle More of Golan Heights
- Israel Kills Khaled Nabhan, Palestinian Man Who Mourned His Granddaughter Reem: "Soul of My Soul"
- Israel Kills 3 More Reporters Incl. Mohammed Balousha, Who Exposed Killing of ICU Babies at Al-Nasr
- Jenin Residents Demonstrate Against Deadly Palestinian Authority Raids
- Georgian Dream Lawmakers Appoint Far-Right Mikheil Kavelashvili as President
- Tropical Cyclone Chido Rips Through Mayotte, Thousands Feared Dead
- Drone Strike Kills at Least 9 at El Fasher's Main Hospital in Darfur
- South Korea Impeaches President Yoon Suk Yeol After Failed Martial Law Attempt
- Trump & Vance Attend Military Football Game with Cabinet Picks, Ex-Marine Who Killed Subway Performer
- "Another News Outlet Chooses Obedience": ABC News Settles Defamation Suit with $15M Trump Donation
- Biden's Clemency Order Includes "Kids-for-Cash" Judge, Doctor Who Watered Down Cancer Drugs
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Three activists with the Uhuru Movement will be sentenced by a Florida judge Monday as part of a legal saga that began when the FBI raided the group in 2022, accusing the antiwar Black liberation group of working as Russian agents. The “Uhuru 3” are Omali Yeshitela, chair of the African People’s Socialist Party, and white solidarity activists Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel. A jury acquitted them in September of acting as illegal agents of the Russian government, but convicted them on the lesser charge of conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government — something they reject. The activists face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine but plan to appeal the ruling. Yeshitela spoke with Democracy Now! ahead of the sentencing hearing and called it “ridiculous” that prosecutors suggested the movement’s antiwar position was inspired by Russia. “The Black liberation movement in this country has historically been opposed to those wars, and that’s been a strategic problem for the United States,” Yeshitela said. “It’s a thought crime that they have convicted us for, and we fought it all along, and we continue to fight that.”
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Laila Soueif is on the 75th day of a hunger strike calling for the U.K. government to push for the release of her son, jailed Egyptian British author and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Charged with spreading false news, Alaa remains imprisoned in Egypt despite having completed his sentence in September. Human rights group say he has been subjected to torture, beatings and horrific treatment while in prison. “Since neither government appears to do anything about political prisoners except when there is a crisis, I’m hoping to create a crisis,” says Soueif, who vows to reunite her son and grandchild, 13-year-old Khaled. “Alaa has missed all of his childhood. They need to be together, and until that happens, I’m not going to go back on my word. I’m on hunger strike until either I collapse or that happens.”
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