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Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a favorite of many progressives in the Democratic Party, to be her running mate in the 2024 presidential race. They are set to hold their first joint campaign rally this evening. We get analysis from John Nichols, The Nation’s national affairs correspondent.
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We look at the historic $2 billion payout by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to farmers who experienced systemic discrimination when applying to the USDA’s farm loan programs. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has documented how USDA administrators routinely denied loans to Black farmers and other farmers of color for many decades, contributing to a massive decline in the amount of Black-owned farms in the United States. “This is a very, very historic payout for Black farmers,” says John Boyd, a fourth-generation Black farmer and founder of the National Black Farmers Association, who notes the application to receive the payout was 40 pages long. He says the group is also still fighting for a related $5 billion debt relief program. “I want people to know this is a big win, and don’t never, ever give up. The arc of justice bends slow; it bends slower for Black people, but I never gave up.”
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We speak with The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel about the prisoner swap between Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday that saw the release of 24 people, with 16 prisoners in Russia traded for eight Russian nationals held in the U.S., Germany and elsewhere. It was the biggest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West since the Cold War era. Among those released are Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. marine Paul Whelan and Russian American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva. Vadim Krasikov, a convicted Russian assassin who was in German custody after the 2019 killing of a Chechen dissident in Berlin, was also released and sent back to Moscow. Vanden Heuvel says it was “an extraordinary swap” that could pave the way for more diplomacy to wind down the war in Ukraine. “Negotiations and diplomacy are not about capitulation. They're about improving the conditions of a world which is too militarized and at war.”
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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is reportedly at the top of the list of potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the White House. But many progressives have raised alarm about Shapiro’s record, including his support for corporate tax breaks and school vouchers, his relationship with oil and gas companies, and his demonization of pro-Palestinian protesters. “He’s been actively and vocally supportive of Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7 and prior,” says journalist Marc Lamont Hill in Philadelphia. “In every conceivable way, Josh Shapiro is not a progressive candidate.” He adds that while Shapiro’s choice as running mate would be “very frustrating,” it would also clarify the choices in the election and prevent people from projecting false hope onto Harris as many did with Barack Obama. “She very clearly is a liberal, but certainly not a progressive or a radical.”
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We speak with journalist Marc Lamont Hill amid Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks on the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris. The Republican presidential nominee was interviewed this week at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, where he claimed Harris “happened to turn Black” for political expediency, even though she has always been open about her Jamaican and Indian American parents and identifies as both Black and South Asian. Following backlash to his comments, Trump dug in and continued to attack Harris on social media for supposedly obscuring her heritage, while Trump’s running mate JD Vance, whose wife Usha is Indian American, defended the remarks. “I wish I could say I was shocked or disappointed. This is exactly what Donald Trump does,” says Hill, who is a member of the NABJ. “He demonstrated all the misogynistic and racist and patriarchal sensibilities that we would expect from Donald Trump. And, of course, he spent a lot of that time simply lying.”
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Headlines for August 02, 2024; “Simply Lying”: Marc Lamont Hill Slams Trump’s NABJ Interview, Attacks on VP Harris’s Racial Identity; Picking Shapiro as VP Would Remind Voters Kamala Harris Is Liberal, Not Progressive: Marc Lamont Hill; Prisoner Swap with Russia “Offers a Possible Pathway” to Peace in Ukraine, Says Katrina vanden Heuvel
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- Evan Gershkovich Arrives in U.S. with Other Freed Americans After Historic Prisoner Swap with Russia
- Mourners Gather for Ismail Haniyeh's Funeral in Doha Amid Questions over Fate of Ceasefire Talks
- "A Long History of Fabrications": Al Jazeera Blasts Israeli Claim Slain Reporter Worked for Hamas
- The Uncommitted Movement Calls on Democrats to Let Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Address DNC
- AIPAC Spending Millions to Unseat Progressive MO Congressmember Cori Bush
- Jewish Activists Descend on Atlas Air to Shine Light on Its Role in Gaza Genocide
- Famine Has Been Confirmed in Darfur's Zamzam Camp, After Months of Warnings
- Police Kill 2 People as Nigeria Erupts into Protests Against Poverty, Hunger
- U.S. Recognizes Venezuelan Opposition Candidate as Winner of Presidential Election
- Ex-Head of Honduras's Police Force Sentenced to 19 Years in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
- Beloved Texas Immigrant Rights Activist Eddie Canales Has Died
- 52-Year-Old Christopher Dunn Is Freed After More Than 3 Decades in Prison on a False Conviction
- South Carolina Rules Execution by Firing Squad Is Lawful
- Navajo Nation Bans Uranium, Radioactive Substances from Entering Its Land
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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We look at a new Washington Post investigation titled “Money War” that traces the effects of U.S. sanctions under the last four presidents: Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. According to the report, the U.S government has instituted, in some form or another, sanctions against a third of all other countries around the world, despite no clear evidence that they are effective in influencing target nations’ politics, and in fact may often entrench the power of ruling parties. We speak to Jeff Stein, one of the authors of the Post investigation, about its findings, including on the effects of sanctions in Venezuela and Iran.
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We play excerpts from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s interview Wednesday with a panel of Black women journalists from the National Association of Black Journalists. In response to his interviewers’ questions about his record with Black Americans, Trump cast doubts on Kamala Harris’s racial identity, repeated his claims that immigrants are threatening “Black jobs,” and declared that he was the best president for the Black community since Abraham Lincoln. NABJ’s decision to host the Trump interview during its annual convention had sparked controversy within its ranks.
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Unrest continues to brew in Israel after a right-wing mob including members of the Knesset broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining nine soldiers who were under investigation for gang raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman facility. +972 Magazine's Oren Ziv, who was at one of the bases reporting on the events, says that the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the riots, and the apathy of the military police all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers' charges are “the face of the state,” expressing what are “mainstream” views in Israeli society. We also speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights attorney who has interviewed some of the torture victims and says the extent of their abuse is “appalling.” She calls Sde Teiman a “concentration camp” that the entirety of Israeli society and the international community are “complicit” in.
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“This is one of the most perilous moments in the [Middle East] region in years,” says Ali Vaez, director of the International Crisis Group Iran Project, after Israel’s assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in Tehran. Iranian retaliation against Israel appears imminent. “All bets are off,” warns Vaez, adding that Israel’s latest maneuver will put Americans “in harm’s way,” as Iran will no longer hold back fellow Axis of Resistance members, especially Islamic militias in Iraq and Syria, from launching attacks on U.S. military bases in the region. “It is disastrous for a superpower who cannot control, basically, a client state that is destabilizing the region,” Vaez explains. We also hear from Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu, who responds to Israel’s announcement that its July strike on al-Mawasi, an alleged safe zone in Gaza, killed Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif along with nearly a hundred civilians. Buttu argues it is Israel’s international impunity over the course of its campaign against Palestine that has led to this dangerous moment of escalation. “This is a monster that’s been unleashed,” she says. “This is going to spread, and this is exactly what Netanyahu wants.”
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Headlines for August 01, 2024; “A Perilous Moment” in Middle East: Iran Vows Revenge as Israel Expands Assassination Operations; Israel’s Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners Defended by Knesset Members, Far-Right Mobs; Trump Questions If Kamala Harris Is Black in Hate-Filled Interview with Black Journalists at NABJ; Money War: How the U.S. Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe, from Venezuela to Iran
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- Israel Confirms It Killed Hamas Military Commander in July as Regional Tensions Reach Boiling Point
- Israeli Strike Kills Celebrated Al Jazeera Reporters Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi
- Trump Accuses Harris of Denying Her Blackness, Attacks Black Women Reporters in Stunning Interview
- Kamala Harris Receives Backing of UAW, Several Progressive Climate Groups
- Election Denier Kari Lake Wins GOP Nom for U.S. Senate Seat, Will Face Rep. Ruben Gallego
- Sudanese Military Chief Defiant After Surviving Drone Attack
- Pres. Maduro Says He May Start New Revolution Amid Venezuelan Election Dispute
- Accused Plotters of 9/11 Attacks to Plead Guilty, Receive Life Sentences
- Reporter Evan Gershkovich, Ex-Marine Paul Whelan Released in Russia-U.S.Prisoner Swap
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Thursday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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