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Israel has vowed to retaliate against Hezbollah after blaming the Lebanese group for a rocket attack Sunday in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria that killed 12 children at a soccer field. Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the attack in the village of Majdal Shams, home to members of the Druze community, an Arab-speaking minority group. Israel claimed the victims were Israeli citizens, though many Druze in the area do not have Israeli citizenship and are in fact Syrian citizens. The deadly attack has further stoked fear of a wider regional war. Palestinian American journalist Rami Khouri says that while the rocket attack looks as though it could have been an accident, there is still risk of more violence. “The danger is always there that an accident could spark a bigger confrontation,” he says. “Militarism isn’t a solution. Militarism is part of the problem.”
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We speak with Politico reporter Ian Ward about JD Vance, who has become a lightning rod for controversy since being picked by former President Donald Trump to be his running mate. Ward spent months with Vance earlier this year for a profile about the freshman Ohio senator and his political evolution from a “Never Trump” Republican to one of the MAGA movement’s most prominent voices. He recently wrote a new piece about Vance headlined “The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview.”
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We speak with reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman about Ohio Senator JD Vance, whose history of sexist remarks has come under scrutiny since he was chosen to be Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Bracey Sherman says Vance’s attacks on women who do not have biological children and his promotion of a kind of “trad” lifestyle harkening back to 1950s norms show he is out of touch with modern families. “The short answer is he’s a weirdo. The longer answer is he’s a white supremacist and he’s a white nationalist,” Bracey Sherman says in explaining Vance’s ideology.
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Republican vice-presidential nominee Ohio Senator JD Vance has doubled down on his sexist remarks that Democrats are led by “childless cat ladies,” claiming the party is anti-family. He made the original comment on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in 2021. He has also previously suggested parents should be given more votes than childless people. “I just find the entire line of attack to be ridiculous and also unpopular,” says New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose, who notes that Republicans generally also oppose paid leave, universal child care and other policies that make it easier to have families. “There’s still this idea that if you are a woman, unless you bear children, you are somehow less than.”
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Headlines for July 29, 2024; JD Vance Calls Democrats “Childless Cat Ladies”; GOP Opposes Paid Leave, Universal Child Care; “He’s a Weirdo”: Repro Rights Activist on JD Vance’s History of Sexism & White Nationalism; Politico’s Ian Ward on the Thinkers and Groups Who Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview; “Militarism Isn’t a Solution”: Rami Khouri on Rocket Attack in Golan Heights, Israeli Vow of Revenge
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- Gaza: Israeli Strike on School Kills 30 Palestinians, Injures Over 100
- UNRWA: 86% of Gaza Strip Now Under Evacuation Orders from Israel
- Strike in Occupied Golan Heights Kills 12 Druze Children as Fears Grow of Regional War
- Pres. Nicolás Maduro Declared Winner of Venezuelan Election; Opposition Rejects Results
- U.S. to Establish New Military Command HQ in Japan to Counter China
- Internet Restored in Bangladesh After Deadly Student Protests as Demands for Accountability Mount
- New Report Reveals Extent of Rampant Sexual Violence by Warring Parties in Sudan
- "It'll Be Fixed": Trump Tells Christians "You Won't Have to Vote Anymore" If He Wins in November
- JD Vance Doubles Down on Claims Democrats Are "Anti-Family"
- Harris Raises Over $200M in a Week, Faces Pressure from 2 Megadonors to Fire FTC Chair Lina Khan
- Biden Calls for SCOTUS Overhaul, Incl. Term Limits, Ethics Codes and Barring Presidential Immunity
- Park Fire Rages On in California, Burning 550+ Square Miles and Becoming Largest Wildfire in U.S.
- NYPD Arrests 59 Climate Activists Outside Home of Citigroup CEO
- Virginia Police Clear Gaza Encampment Outside Blinken's Home
- At Olympic Opening, Palestinian Boxer Wears Shirt Showing Children Being Bombed
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Just hours before Friday’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of apparently coordinated arson attacks were reported on France’s high-speed rail network. No one has claimed responsibility yet. Before the games, protests highlighted the displacement of thousands of migrants, unhoused people and other vulnerable communities as “social cleansing.” We go to Paris for an update with Jules Boykoff, former professional soccer player, author and scholar focusing on the Olympic Games, and Paul Alauzy, Paris-based activist with the collective Revers de la Médaille (Other Side of the Medal). “We are not anti-Olympics,” says Alauzy. “You can support the games, but you need to know that they have a big social impact and they come with a cost. And they come with a cost of the lives of hundreds, thousands of people being mistreated.” We also discuss how Palestinian athletes are taking part in this year’s Olympics amid the Israeli war on Gaza, the health risks of competing during rising heat and COVID, the environmental impact of major sporting events and more.
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As Paris hosts today’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, we speak with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse, who carried the Olympic torch Sunday in Paris to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job. Assi lost her leg in the same Israeli attack that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, and says carrying the Olympic torch was a great opportunity to highlight the “atrocities” happening in the region. “There was all the indications that we are press and we were just doing our jobs,” Assi recalls of the attack. “We weren’t holding guns. We were holding cameras.”
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We speak to two doctors who are part of a group of 45 U.S. doctors, surgeons and nurses who have volunteered in Gaza since October 7 and wrote an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, demanding an immediate ceasefire and an international arms embargo of Israel. The group includes evidence of a much higher death toll than is usually cited: more than 92,000 people, which represents over 4% of Gaza’s population. The doctors write, “With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured, or both. Israel’s continued, repeated displacement of the malnourished and sick population of Gaza, half of whom are children, to areas with no running water or even toilets available is absolutely shocking.” The conditions in Gaza are “unacceptable,” and “people know this is wrong but no one is speaking up,” says Dr. Thalia Pachiyannakis, an obstetrician and gynecologist who volunteered at the Nasser Medical Complex. “We all saw evidence of a death toll that is certainly much higher than what is reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health,” adds Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon who volunteered at the European Hospital.
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Headlines for July 26, 2024; “Unspeakable”: Doctors Back from Gaza Say Death Toll “Much Higher,” Push Harris, Biden for Ceasefire; Meet the Journalist Who Lost Her Leg in Israeli Strike & Carried Olympic Torch for Slain Colleagues; Paris Olympics Slammed for “Social Cleansing,” Mass Displacement, Militarization & Greenwashing
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- WFP Makes More Cuts to Food Rations in Gaza as Israeli Attacks Increase Displacement Crisis
- Palestinian Detainees Tortured and Abused at Hands of Israeli Prison Authorities
- Netanyahu Meets with Biden and Harris After Address to Congress
- "He Never Should Have Been Allowed on U.S. Soil": Protesters Decry Netanyahu Meeting with Biden
- Kamala Harris Receives Obama, Pelosi Endorsements, Says She Is Ready to Debate Trump
- California Gov. Newsom Orders Evictions of Unhoused People in Wake of SCOTUS Ruling
- Sonya Massey's Killer Was Discharged from Military for "Misconduct," Had 6 Police Jobs Over 4 Years
- U.S. Authorities Arrest Two Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel
- Kenya's Ruto Appoints Opposition Members in New Cabinet in Bid to Appease Protesters
- Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro Campaigns for Third Term as President Ahead of Sunday's Election
- Vandals Sabotage French Rail Network on Eve of Paris Olympics
- "Extreme Heat Is the New Abnormal": U.N. Head Calls for Urgent Action as Planet Swelters
- Half of Alberta Tourist Town Is Destroyed by Fast-Moving Wildfire
- "Forever Chemicals" Increasingly Detected in Commonly Used Pesticides
- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Sued for Halting Traffic Congestion Pricing Plan
- American Federation of Teachers Prepares to Join General Strike on May Day 2028
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, many Democratic lawmakers skipped the speech and held an alternative event on Capitol Hill to promote peace. The panel discussion featured Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, Israeli and Palestinian peacemakers who have both lost family members to violence. Inon’s parents, Bilha and Yakovi Inon, were killed in the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. When Abu Sarah was a child, his teenage brother was arrested and held in Israeli prison for a year and died shortly after his release from internal injuries he suffered while being tortured in prison. Both Inon and Abu Sarah join Democracy Now! to talk about how they are hoping to use these tragedies to foster peace in Israel-Palestine.
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We speak with Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat about Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, in which he defended Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, lied repeatedly about the dire humanitarian conditions on the ground and refused to talk about how to reach a ceasefire to end the bloodshed. Although more than 100 Democrats skipped the speech, Erakat says the jubilant reaction from lawmakers in attendance showed U.S. leaders cheering “for what is essentially a war on children.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to defend the ongoing war on Gaza as thousands of people outside protested his appearance. The speech came two months after Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for committing war crimes in Gaza. Over 100 Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, skipped the speech, but those in attendance gave Netanyahu numerous standing ovations as he painted a distorted picture of what’s happening in Gaza, making no mention of efforts to reach a ceasefire or the more than 16,000 Palestinian children killed in Israel’s assault. Foreign policy analyst Phyllis Bennis says the speech was “horrifying,” but says it showed that “support for Israel has become a thoroughly partisan issue.” Bennis adds that peace activists in the U.S. have built a broad consensus against the war on Gaza and military support for Israel, and says Vice President Kamala Harris has an opportunity to chart a new path on Middle East policy as she runs for president.
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Headlines for July 25, 2024; Over 100 Lawmakers Skip Netanyahu’s Address to Congress Amid Protests over U.S. Support for War in Gaza; Noura Erakat: During Netanyahu Speech, U.S. Lawmakers Cheered “What Is Essentially a War on Children”; “The Only Answer Is Peace”: Israeli and Palestinian Activists Share Vision of Coexistence
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- U.S. Lawmakers Delivers Standing Ovations for War Criminal Netanyahu; 100+ Democrats Skip Speech
- Thousands of Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Israeli Genocide Outside Netanyahu Address
- "Everyone in Gaza Is Sick, Injured, or Both": U.S. Doctors Demand Biden Admin Stop Arming Israel
- "She Wanted to Bring Life Back to Our Home": Gazan Mourns Daughter Murdered at 9 Months Pregnant
- Biden Returns to D.C., Addresses Decision to Drop Reelection Bid and Back Harris for President
- Kamala Harris Vows to Restore Reproductive Rights Through Congress
- "Childless Cat Ladies with Miserable Lives": J.D. Vance Mocks Democratic Leaders in Resurfaced Tape
- At Least 25 Killed as Typhoon Gaemi Lashes Taiwan and the Philippines
- Climate Activists Disrupt Air Travel in Protests Demanding End to Fossil Fuels
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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