Democracy Now! Wednesday, November 27, 2024
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- Israel Halts Assault on Lebanon as Ceasefire Takes Effect
- 2024 Becomes Deadliest Year for Humanitarian Aid Workers Due to Israel's Assault on Gaza
- Trump Taps Kevin Hassett, Who Crafted 2017 Tax Cuts for the Rich, to Lead National Economic Council
- Jay Bhattacharya, Who Argued Against COVID Interventions, Picked by Trump to Lead NIH
- Trump Nominates Jamieson Greer, Who Helped Wage Trade War with China, as U.S. Trade Representative
- Mexican President Blasts Trump's Pledge to Impose Tariffs, Warning Against Trade War
- Texas Offers Trump Land for Mass Deportation Camps
- Walmart Cancels Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives Amid Pressure from Republicans
- Supporters of Imran Khan Call Off March on Islamabad After Deadly Crackdown
- As Bird Flu Spreads on U.S. Factory Farms, CDC Confirms California Child Became Infected
- U.K. Lawmakers Vote in Favor of Strict Limits on Cigarettes and Vapes
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Wednesday 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!.
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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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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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Donald Trump has tapped a new loyalist to head the Department of Justice, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who served on his defense team during his first impeachment trial and now works at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute. Bondi previously dropped a probe into Trump University in 2013 after Trump’s family foundation donated $25,000 to her campaign. This comes after Trump’s first pick, former Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration Thursday amid a firestorm over allegations of sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old girl. “In Pam Bondi, Donald Trump has just the person he really wants: someone who will be a lapdog when it comes to wrongdoing by those people he likes and wants to insulate and protect, and a vicious attack dog for anybody Donald Trump wants to seek revenge against,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump for decades.
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The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would empower the Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems has provided material support to a terrorist organization. A broad coalition of civil society groups have opposed the bill, warning that it would give the Trump administration sweeping powers to crack down on political opponents. H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, passed the House 219 to 184 largely along party lines, with 15 Democrats supporting the Republican majority. “This bill is essentially a civil rights disaster,” says Darryl Li, an anthropologist, lawyer and legal scholar teaching at the University of Chicago. Li, who recently wrote a briefing paper on the anti-Palestinian origins of U.S. terrorism law, says “anti-Palestinian racism is one of the great bipartisan unifiers in Congress.”
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We speak with the celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza. Israel called it “an antisemitic decision,” and the Biden administration said it rejects the charges on the grounds that the ICC does not have jurisdiction. But many other countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands, have vowed to comply with the court’s decision, which obligates states party to the Rome Statute that established the court to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter their territory. Sourani, now in Cairo after fleeing Gaza when his house was bombed by Israel, applauds the ICC for withstanding intense pressure from Israel and the United States to carry out its mandate. “They feel they are fully immune, they are free to do whatever they can, they will never be held accountable, and why their appetite for crimes [is] growing like a snowball every day,” Sourani says of the Israeli government.
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Broadcasting from Baku, Azerbaijan, on the final official day of this year’s finance-themed United Nations climate summit, we look at how climate justice activists are outraged at how little money is being offered by the most polluting nations to countries most severely affected by climate change. We speak with Mohamed Adow, founding director of Power Shift Africa, and Claudio Angelo, head of international policy at the Brazilian Observatório do Clima (Climate Observatory), who describe the latest text as “a great swindle” and “totally unacceptable.”
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On the final official day of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, it is still unclear if this year’s United Nations climate summit will lead to an agreement before the end of the official conference or if talks will extend into the weekend. The COP29 presidency has released a draft text that calls for a $1.3 trillion in annual climate financing by 2035, but it only obligates rich countries to provide $250 billion of that total. Climate justice activists and members of civil society who held a protest at COP29 on Friday say that amount falls far short of what’s needed, demanding “trillions, not billions.” Democracy Now! was there.
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Democracy Now! Friday, November 22, 2024
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- COP29 Latest Draft Calls for $1.3T in Climate Funding, But Civil Society Orgs Say It Falls Far Short
- Israel's Genocide in Gaza Continues After ICC Arrest Warrants, with Attacks on Hospital, Shelters
- Israeli Airstrikes in Lebanon Level Beirut Building, Kill 2 More Paramedics
- Trump Taps Ex-Impeachment Lawyer, Ex-Florida AG Pam Bondi to Lead DOJ After Matt Gaetz Withdraws
- U.S. House Passes Bill Allowing Trump to Silence Critics, Label Nonprofits as Terror Groups
- Brazil's Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro Indicted over 2022 Coup Plot Against Rival Pres. Lula
- Kremlin Says It Fired New Hypersonic Missile, Not ICBM, in Attack on Dnipro, Ukraine
- 42 Shia Muslims Killed in Attack on Convoy in Pakistan's Northwest
- U.S. Prosecutors Indict India's Wealthiest Man, Gautam Adani, on Bribery Charges
- New York Union Members Join Climate Activists Calling for 15 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy
- Family and Supporters Demand Justice for Kansas City-Area Mother and Baby Killed by Police
- National Book Award Winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha Calls on Writers to Oppose Israeli's Genocide
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, civil society members held a People’s Plenary called “Pay Up, Stand Up: Finance Climate Action, Not Genocide” outside negotiation rooms in which U.N. member states attempted to hammer out a global climate finance deal. In the face of the conference’s restrictions on protest, civil society members unfurled the names of Palestinians who have been killed, reading out the names of those killed by Israel’s military aggression and calling for an end to ecocidal violence worldwide. We hear from three people who participated in the action, including Palestinian activist Jana Rashed and Sudanese activist Leena Eisa — both of whom call on nations to stop providing fuel for genocides being perpetrated against Palestinian, Lebanese and Sudanese people — and the plenary’s co-chair Lidy Nacpil, who calls the gathering a “celebration” of marginalized voices at the climate summit.
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We continue our look at COP29’s ongoing negotiations for an international climate finance agreement, which is still under contention as of Thursday morning due in large part to wealthy countries’ refusal to commit to a proposed monetary target on the financing of developing nations’ transition from fossil fuels. Countries that have already industrialized off the backs of fossil fuel exploitation have a “responsibility” to offset these “injustices,” according to Indian climate activist Harjeet Singh. “Developed countries are trying to pose themselves as climate leaders … but back home they’re expanding fossil fuels,” says Singh. “The core of the issue remains finance. Unless money is put on the table, the transitioning away from fossil fuels is not going to be a reality in developing countries.”
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