Democracy Now! Friday, January 3, 2025
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- "How to Hide a Genocide": Al-Haq Report Shows How Israel Hides Behind "Safe Zones"
- Doha Ceasefire Talks Set to Resume as UNSC Takes Up Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals
- 3,500 Children in Gaza Could Die of Malnutrition as Hunger Grips Besieged Territory
- Texas Veteran Who Killed 15 People on Bourbon Street Previously Planned to Harm Family
- Driver of Cybertruck That Exploded Outside Trump Hotel ID'd as U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger
- Fate of House Speaker Mike Johnson Uncertain as 119th Congress Is Sworn In
- Biden Awards Presidential Citizens Medal to Republican Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney
- Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC Net Neutrality Rules
- Biden to Block Nippon Steel's Takeover Bid of U.S. Steel
- China Sanctions U.S. Arms Makers as Xi Jinping Acknowledges "Uncertainties" of Trump Trade War
- Security Forces Block South Korean Police from Arresting Disgraced President Yoon Suk Yeol
- Dozens of Asylum Seekers Drown in Shipwrecks Near Tunisia and Libya Attempting to Reach Europe
- Biden to Designate Two New National Monuments in California
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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As we move into 2025, we look at how the world is cracking down on migrants and asylum seekers, and the dangers they face when trying to flee their countries due to persecution, economic conditions, the climate crisis and more. As Greek prosecutors open a murder investigation of “unknown perpetrators” following a damning exposé of the deadly crackdown on asylum seekers by the Greek coast guard, we revisit the BBC film, Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? The investigation revealed evidence the coast guard routinely abducted and abandoned asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea. The film found the Greek coast guard caused the deaths of dozens of migrants over a period of three years, including of nine asylum seekers who had reached Greek soil but were taken back out to sea and thrown overboard. “We really have no real clue about the true numbers of the people that are crossing [the Mediterranean Sea]. Many people don’t make it,” producer Lucile Smith told Democracy Now! in an interview last year, when the film was released. “And when people do arrive, they tend to disappear, because … if you are caught by the authorities in Greece, you will be most likely subjected to some very serious violence.”
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For our first live interview of 2025, we go to Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to get an update from Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, the head of Ain Media, a media company founded by her late husband, Roshdi Sarraj, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in October 2023. Aila describes worsening conditions in the winter rain and cold, and the complete hollowing out of infrastructure as Palestinians are struggling to survive. “Being here in Gaza means I’m doing a change,” she says about her “duty” to report. Her dedication to reporting on Israel’s now 15-month-long assault on Gaza was recently honored by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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For our first live interview of 2025, we go to Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip to get an update from Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, the head of Ain Media, a media company founded by her late husband, Roshdi Sarraj, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in October 2023. Aila describes worsening conditions in the winter rain and cold, and the complete hollowing out of infrastructure as Palestinians are struggling to survive. “Being here in Gaza means I’m doing a change,” she says about her “duty” to report. Her dedication to reporting on Israel’s now 15-month-long assault on Gaza was recently honored by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Democracy Now! 2025-01-02 Thursday
- Headlines for January 02, 2025
- "Exhausted": Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life & Death in Gaza, "Duty" to Report on Genocide
- "Dead Calm": BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown
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- Israeli Assault on Gaza Continues as Data Show 6% of Palestinians Have Fled or Been Killed
- Palestinian Authority Bans Al Jazeera in West Bank After Critical Coverage
- Biden Says Texan Who Killed 15 in New Orleans Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Before New Year's Assault
- One Dead, 7 Injured After Tesla Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas
- FBI Finds 150+ Pipe Bombs in Home of Far-Right Extremist Who Used Biden's Photo for Target Practice
- Pentagon Says It Targeted Houthis in U.S. Airstrikes That Followed Israeli Attacks on Yemen
- Russian Attack Kills 2 In Kyiv on New Year's Day as Ukraine Halts Flow of Russian Gas to Europe
- Russia Battles Massive Oil Spill Near Crimea
- Honduras May Cancel Military Cooperation with U.S. Unless Trump Cancels Mass Expulsion Plans
- Ivory Coast to Expel French Soldiers, Following Other Former French Colonies in Africa
- South Korea's Yoon Resists Arrest Warrant over Failed Martial Law Declaration
- Flight Data Recorder Recovered from South Korean Airline Crash That Killed 179
- North Carolina Governor Commutes Death Sentences of 15 Death Row Prisoners
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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 continue to discuss the new HBO Original film Surveilled and explore the film’s investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O’Neill. We focus on the influence of the Israeli military in the development of some of the most widely used versions of these surveillance technologies, which in many cases are first tested on Palestinians and used to enforce Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and on the potential expansion of domestic U.S. surveillance under a second Trump administration. Ever-increasing surveillance is “dangerous for democracy,” says Farrow. “We’re making and selling a weapon that is largely unregulated.” As O’Neill emphasizes, “We could all be caught up.”
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Is that a spy in your pocket? In a holiday special we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow and filmmaker Matthew O’Neill about Surveilled, their new HBO documentary looking at how high-tech surveillance spyware is threatening democracy across the globe. As part of the reporting for the documentary, Farrow traveled to Israel for a rare interview with a former employee of NSO Group, the Israeli software company that makes Pegasus. He warns that it’s not just “repressive governments” that abuse Pegasus and other surveillance technology, but also a growing number of democratic states like Greece, Poland and Spain. U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies under both the Biden and Trump administrations have also considered such spyware, although the extent to which these tools have been used is not fully known. “Surveillance technology has historically always been abused. Now the technology is more advanced and more frightening than ever, and more available than ever, so abuse is more possible,” says Farrow.
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Democracy Now! Wednesday, January 1, 2025
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International outrage is growing over Israel’s abduction of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jabaliya refugee camp, who was detained after Israeli forces raided and shut down the last major hospital in northern Gaza last week. A new United Nations report finds that Israeli strikes on and near hospitals in the Gaza Strip have “pushed the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse.” Displaced Palestinians throughout the territory are dying from the ongoing Israeli bombardment, as well as injuries, infections and diseases due to Israel’s restrictions on medical care and medical supplies. At least six babies have also died of hypothermia in recent days amid plunging winter temperatures. “Living conditions are just deplorable. They are not compatible with human life,” says Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who just left Gaza after volunteering there for a month. We also speak with trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who previously volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis. “It’s very likely that tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are going to die of the combination of malnutrition, displacement, exposure to the elements and hypothermia this winter,” says Sidhwa.
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Gaza is entering its second winter under attack from Israel, and talks to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas appear to have stalled yet again. For more on efforts to end the war and secure the release of captives on both sides, we speak with veteran Israeli negotiator Gershon Baskin, who has acted as a backchannel to Hamas leaders in the current and previous conflicts. “We need to put the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the agenda again and make sure this is the last war we fight,” says Baskin.
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Russian missile and drone attacks are continuing across Ukraine as the country already faces a cold, dark winter after Russia’s strikes destroyed about half of the country’s energy infrastructure. This comes as Russia and Ukraine completed a prisoner swap, repatriating more than 300 prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates ahead of the new year. The Biden administration, meanwhile, has approved billions more in military and economic assistance to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump returns to office with a pledge to curtail aid and end the war. Since Russia’s invasion nearly three years ago, Congress has approved $175 billion in total assistance to Ukraine. “Putin doesn’t want peace,” says Oleksandra Matviichuk, a leading Ukrainian human rights lawyer, who says Russia’s goal is to restore its empire by force. “Russian occupation means torture, rapes, enforced disappearances, denial of your own identity, forcible adoption of your children, filtration camps and mass graves,” she says.
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