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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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As the Trump administration is expected to release investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein later this week, a recent New York Times investigation delves into one of the biggest mysteries about the deceased sexual predator: how the college dropout with no financial training rose through the world of finance and amassed his wealth, which enabled his abuse and insulated him from scrutiny for decades.
David Enrich, deputy investigations editor at The New York Times and lead author of the report, headlined “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich,” says Epstein’s early success in business was due to a series of lucky breaks, lies and scams that nevertheless convinced sophisticated investors and business titans to give him their money.
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As the Trump administration is expected to release investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein later this week, a recent New York Times investigation delves into one of the biggest mysteries about the deceased sexual predator: how the college dropout with no financial training rose through the world of finance and amassed his wealth, which enabled his abuse and insulated him from scrutiny for decades.
David Enrich, deputy investigations editor at The New York Times and lead author of the report, headlined “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich,” says Epstein’s early success in business was due to a series of lucky breaks, lies and scams that nevertheless convinced sophisticated investors and business titans to give him their money.
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José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff against Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party who served as labor minister under outgoing President Gabriel Boric. Kast has openly praised former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II. Kast campaigned on fighting crime and carrying out mass deportations of immigrants.
“It is a political and ethical earthquake,” says acclaimed Chilean American writer Ariel Dorfman, who served as a cultural adviser to socialist President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. He pins much of the blame for Kast’s rise on an “uninspired left” that has lost its way since the end of dictatorship and “turned its back on the troubles of the people.”
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José Antonio Kast has won Chile’s presidential election, with the far-right leader getting about 58% of the vote in Sunday’s runoff against Jeannette Jara, a member of the Communist Party who served as labor minister under outgoing President Gabriel Boric. Kast has openly praised former U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet and is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II. Kast campaigned on fighting crime and carrying out mass deportations of immigrants.
“It is a political and ethical earthquake,” says acclaimed Chilean American writer Ariel Dorfman, who served as a cultural adviser to socialist President Salvador Allende from 1970 to 1973. He pins much of the blame for Kast’s rise on an “uninspired left” that has lost its way since the end of dictatorship and “turned its back on the troubles of the people.”
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President Trump has ordered what he called a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the United States escalates pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region and days after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. Since September, the U.S. military has carried out at least 25 airstrikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific near Venezuela, killing at least 95 people.
The administration’s actions against Venezuela signal “the total renunciation of liberal internationalism” and further abandonment of “a world governed by common laws,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Yale University professor Greg Grandin. This comes as Latin America is on a “knife’s edge between the left and the right,” with the Trump administration eager to boost its authoritarian allies across the region, says Grandin.
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Democracy Now! 2025-12-17 Wednesday
- Headlines for December 17, 2025
- A Path to WWIII? Greg Grandin on Venezuela, Trump's "Madman Doctrine" & More
- Chile's Trump? Ariel Dorfman on the Election of Pinochet Admirer José Antonio Kast
- How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates His "Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons"
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The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
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- Trump Orders Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers Entering and Leaving Venezuela
- ICC Rejects Israel's Bid to Block War Crimes Probe in Gaza
- First Funerals Held Today for Victims of Bondi Beach Massacre
- Manhunt Still Underway for Brown University Shooting Suspect
- MIT Professor Fatally Shot in His Home
- Trump's Chief of Staff Wiles Says He Has an "Alcoholic's Personality" in Explosive Vanity Fair Interview
- Speaker Johnson Says He Will Not Call for a Vote to Extend Healthcare Subsidies
- Trump Expands Travel Ban to 20 More Countries
- NYT: Trump Admin Transfers 22 Cuban Immigrants to Guantánamo
- Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
- M23 Rebel Group Announces Exit from Key Town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Toxic Air Pollution Forces Schools in India to Cancel In-Person Classes and Employees to Work from Home
- Greeks Protest Against Low Wages as Parliament Approves New Budget
- Warner Bros Rejects Paramount's $108 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid
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Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters – HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters – HD MP4.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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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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At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. “People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation for The Guardian US looks at how the company behind the notorious Florida immigration detention jail nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace.
Roston also discusses his reporting on the CIA’s involvement in U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean. “It plays this key role in picking the targets that are chosen by the military for destruction.”
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New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s because, there, government plays a much larger role in creating and even owning affordable housing.”
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The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life, “my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger … because we are the only country where this happens, and … the only country that has more guns than people.”
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Democracy Now! 2025-12-16 Tuesday
- Headlines for December 16, 2025
- "We're Angry": Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
- Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in "New Gilded Age"
- From "Alligator Alcatraz" to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
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- Pentagon Says It Blew Up Three More Alleged Drug Boats as Trump Declares Fentanyl a WMD
- Palestinians in Gaza Face Flooded Tents and Collapsed Buildings from Winter Storm
- Australia's Prime Minister Says Bondi Beach Gunmen Were Inspired by ISIS
- Social Media Sites Amplify False Accusations Against Man Who Shares Bondi Beach Attacker's Name
- Manhunt for Brown University Gunman Enters Fourth Day
- Trump Loyalist Announces First Indictment of Left-Wing Activists After Trump's Antifa Order
- Veterans Administration to Cut Another 35,000 Healthcare Jobs
- Former CDC Leaders Who Criticized RFK Jr. Will Lead New California Public Health Agency
- Trump Sues BBC for $10 Billion over Edits to Jan. 6 Speech
- Trump Blames "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for Killing of Rob and Michele Reiner
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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