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We speak with U.S. Army Major Harrison Mann, the first military and intelligence officer to publicly resign over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Mann left his role at the Defense Intelligence Agency after a 13-year career, saying in a public letter explaining his resignation that “nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel … has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians.” Mann submitted his resignation on November 1, just over three weeks into Israel’s assault on Gaza, but his separation from the military became effective last week. “Even in the first weeks after October 7 … it was really clear that they were prepared to inflict huge numbers of civilian casualties,” Mann tells Democracy Now! “I understood that every day that I was going to go into the office, I was going to be contributing to the Israeli campaign.” Mann also explains how his Jewish background impacted his decision to resign, saying that while he was proud to wear the same uniform of soldiers who liberated Nazi concentration camps during World War II, it was “impossible” not to see echoes of the Holocaust in the devastation of Gaza. “Seeing photos of charred bodies and burnt corpses and starved, emaciated children that are from 2023, 2024, not the '40s, it's impossible not to make that connection,” says Mann. “The situations are not perfectly analogous, but the moral similarities were very clear to me.”
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More than eight months into Israel’s devastating assault on Gaza, the territory’s healthcare system is barely functioning, with the World Health Organization reporting this week that there have been 464 Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare system since October 7, affecting 101 health facilities. Gaza’s Health Ministry warns that the few remaining hospitals still partially functioning could completely shut down due to Israel’s near-total blockade of the territory, which is keeping out parts needed to maintain hospital diesel generators, as well as crucial medical supplies. Over 37,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, and nearly 85,000 Palestinians have been wounded. “The situation in Gaza … remains catastrophic,” says Dr. James Smith, an emergency medical doctor just back from Gaza, where he treated patients for nearly two months. “There are no fully functional hospitals any longer in Gaza and no health facilities that are able to absorb the sheer scale of need now.”
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Residents in all 27 countries of the European Union went to the polls this weekend to vote for the European Parliament, which resulted in a surge of support for far-right parties across much of the continent while many liberal and Green parties stumbled. Far-right parties did especially well in Italy, Germany and France, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call snap elections. Lawmakers in the European Parliament can veto and shape laws, though they cannot introduce them. They also set the EU’s budget and approve the selection of the European Commission president — a powerful role currently held by Ursula von der Leyen of the center-right European People’s Party, which remains the strongest bloc. For more on European politics, we speak with Mehreen Khan, the economics editor at The Times of London and a former Brussels and EU correspondent for the Financial Times. Khan says that while some observers celebrated the relative strength of mainstream conservative parties, that is more a reflection of how successful racist, nationalist parties have been in reshaping the continent’s politics, particularly on immigration. “These formerly center-right parties are now definitely occupying territory that we used to call that of the far right,” she says.
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Headlines for June 11, 2024; “Clear Shift” Toward the Far Right: Anti-Immigrant Nationalists Gain Ground Across Europe; Doctor Just Back from Gaza: The Health System Has Totally Collapsed Due to Israel’s Genocidal War; U.S. Jewish Army Intel Officer Quits over Gaza, Says “Impossible” Not to See Echoes of Holocaust
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- U.N. Security Council Approves U.S.-Backed Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
- 15-Year-Old Among Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces in West Bank Raid
- Federal Appeals Court Hears Lawsuit Accusing Top U.S. Officials of Complicity in Genocide
- Police Attack, Arrest UCLA Protesters as Students Continue to Pressure School over Israel Ties
- U.S. Jury Orders Chiquita to Pay $38 Million to Families of Colombians Killed by Paramilitary Group
- Belgian Prime Minister Resigns After Far-RIght Victory in EU Elections
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Agrees with Fundamentalist Ideas in Leaked Audio
- Trump Interviewed by NY Probation Officer; Giuliani Posts Bond in AZ Election Interference Case
- Jury Deliberations Begin in Hunter Biden Gun Trial
- Rev. James Lawson, Who Taught Nonviolence to Civil Rights Activists, Dies at 95
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Israelis celebrated the return of the four hostages in Saturday’s raid. The four hostages — Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv — were all in good medical condition. Just hours after the rescue, thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv and other cities to protest Netanyahu’s government and to call for a deal to free the remaining hostages. We speak to Ami Dar, an Israeli social entrepreneur based in New York, who supports the exchange of hostages and prisoners and a permanent ceasefire deal. “Let’s get all the hostages back, and if that means that every single detainee and prisoner, Palestinian, is freed, then so be it. Life comes first,” says Dar, the executive director of Idealist.org. We also hear more from Maoz Inon, an Israeli peace activist whose parents, Bilha and Yakovi Inon, were killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. “We are not going to compromise for anything less than a lasting peace,” he says.
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Four Israeli hostages have returned to their families after Israel’s deadly raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp that killed at least 274 Palestinians. All four hostages were in good medical condition. As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, families and supporters of many of the remaining hostages see the Israeli government’s refusal to negotiate for a ceasefire as a barrier to their loved ones’ safe return. “I already lost my parents, and I don’t want [anyone] to be in the position I am,” says Maoz Inon, whose parents were killed in the Hamas attack on October 7. Inon is a supporter of an “all for all” exchange, in which all surviving Israeli hostages would be returned to Israel in exchange for the release of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention before and after October 7. “It’s time for action to stop the war immediately, to make a deal — all hostages in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners — and start working to build a better future,” says Inon.
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Israel’s weekend attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp that freed four Israeli hostages and killed at least 274 Palestinians and wounded nearly 700 was reportedly supported by the Biden administration, which provided intelligence to Israel ahead of the raid. “There’s no question that what unfolded in that operation was a massacre,” says Palestinian American political analyst Omar Baddar. “To look at a death toll of this scale and then to celebrate this kind of operation as some sort of success, you would basically have to openly say that the lives of Israelis are more valuable than the lives of Palestinians.” Baddar discusses the political and humanitarian impact of the raid and his outlook on ceasefire negotiations. “When push comes to shove, the Biden administration is unwilling to apply any meaningful pressure on Israel,” he says. “That dynamic is not going to lead to anything positive.”
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In one of the single bloodiest Israeli attacks in Gaza over the last eight months, at least 274 Palestinians were killed, including at least 64 children, and nearly 700 were wounded in a raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday that freed four Israelis held hostage in Gaza since October 7. “Children were shot dead. Elderly people were shot dead. Women were shot dead,” says Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri, who was at the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday. Speaking to us from outside the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah — one of the last remaining hospitals that are partially functioning in Gaza — al-Satarri says the death toll is rising by the minute, as wounded Palestinians aren’t able to receive the care they need. Al-Satarri also discusses the World Food Programme’s recent suspension of aid operations in Gaza City and Israel’s withholding of aid on the entire Gaza Strip.
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Democracy Now! Monday, June 10, 2024
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- Israel Kills 274 Gazans, Including 64 Children, in Attack on Nuseirat That Freed 4 Hostages
- Benny Gantz Quits Israeli War Cabinet as Protests Against Netanyahu Mount
- U.N. Adds Israel to "List of Shame" for Violating Children's Rights
- Mass Protests for Gaza Take Over Streets of D.C., London; Police Attack McGill Students in Montreal
- Macron Calls Snap Election After Suffering Blow as Far Right Dominates EU Vote in France
- Protesters Condemn Nationalism, Warn Against Climate Chaos as Europeans Vote for New Parliament
- MSF Recovers 12 Bodies Off Libyan Coast After Another Mediterranean Shipwreck
- Allied Democratic Forces Kill Nearly 60 People in Eastern Congo in Deadly Spate of Attacks
- Last Hospital in Sudan's El Fasher Closes as Deadly Attacks by RSF Kill Over 100 in Past Week
- Ugandan Activist Stephen Kwikiriza, Who Is Fighting EACOP, Released After Being Detained by Army
- Narendra Modi Sworn In for Third Term as Indian Prime Minister
- Clarence Thomas Discloses Details of Luxury Gifts from GOP Megadonor
- Biden Admin Waters Down Fuel Efficiency Standards in Blow to Climate Goals
- Native American Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier Faces High-Stakes Parole Hearing
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Democracy Now! speaks with the creators of a new arts campaign grounded in Black women’s stories. VOICES: a sacred sisterscape is an audio play directed by award-winning poet aja monet weaving together Black feminist poems and perspectives. “Art is an invitation to expand our participation in the world and the ways that we see the world,” says monet, who hopes the project inspires action beyond aesthetics. “Solidarity is about us being not just spectators, but actors in the reality of our lives.”
The project was created with V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against all women, gender-expansive people, girls and the Earth. “Rather than looking at Black women, we needed to put our headphones on and our masks … and do embodied listening,” says V, playwright of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day. “Through that, we begin to understand where we all connect, where we are all aligned.”
VOICES: a sacred sisterscape will be available for streaming June 11.
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As we enter the month of June, scorching temperatures are already making deadly heat waves around the world. Data confirmed last month was the hottest May on record, putting the Earth on a 12-month streak of record-breaking temperatures. On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization announced there is an 80% chance the average global temperature will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels for at least one of the next five years. “We’re going to see a more chaotic planet as the climate heats up,” says Jeff Goodell, a journalist covering the climate crisis. Goodell describes “the heat wave scenario that keeps climate scientists up at night”: a major power outage that could cut off air conditioning and cause thousands of deaths from extreme temperatures.
In Mexico, it’s already so hot that howler monkeys and parrots are falling dead from the trees. “What we’re experiencing right now goes beyond what is normal,” says Ruth Cerezo-Mota, climate researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “We have been saying this for many years now.”
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Israeli forces have illegally dropped white phosphorus munitions on densely populated residential areas in southern Lebanon, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. White phosphorus, which poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering, was dropped by Israel over at least 17 municipalities in Lebanon since October 2023. Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health says at least 173 people have been injured in the white phosphorus attacks, which have also caused hundreds of forest fires in Lebanon. “It can burn down to the bone and cause lifelong suffering,” says Ramzi Kaiss, a researcher at Human Rights Watch. “This widespread use is putting civilians at grave risk and also contributing to displacement.”
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Democracy Now! Friday, June 7, 2024
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- U.S. Munitions Used in Israeli Attack on UNRWA School in Gaza
- Netanyahu to Address Congress on July 24 Despite ICC Seeking His Arrest for War Crimes
- Israel Signs $3 Billion Deal to Buy 25 F-35 Stealth Fighter Jets from U.S.
- NAACP Calls on Biden to Halt Arms Shipments to Israel
- Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in Raid on Jenin
- Biden Meets Zelensky in France as U.S. Announces Plans to Send $225M to Ukraine
- Putin Threatens to Send Long-Range Missiles to Russia's Allies
- Appeals Court in Georgia Pauses Trump's Election Subversion Case
- Federal Judge Orders Steve Bannon to Report to Prison on July 1
- Over 100 Killed by RSF Fighters in Attack on Sudanese Village
- Samsung Workers in South Korea Go on Strike for First Time
- NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Slammed for Halting Congested Pricing Program in NYC
- The Hill Fires Briahna Joy Gray, Critic of Israel's War on Gaza
- Staff at Columbia Law Review Vote to Strike Amid Controversy on Legal Article About Nakba
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