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Iran has vowed to retaliate after Israel bombed the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria, killing at least seven people, including three senior Iranian commanders and at least four other Iranian officers. Among the dead is senior commander Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the highest-ranking Iranian military officer to be killed since the U.S. assassinated General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020. While Israel sees strikes on foreign soil as “part of their self-defense strategy,” Iran feels it must respond to this “breaching serious diplomatic norms,” says Akbar Shahid Ahmed, senior diplomatic correspondent for HuffPost, who reports the pace and audacity of Israel’s international attacks have escalated since October. “While Israel is receiving huge amounts of American support, while Gaza is suffering and Israel is pummeling that Strip, we now see them risking a two-front war, maybe a three-front war.”
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Democracy Now! speaks with an active-duty soldier in the U.S. Air Force on hunger strike to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Senior Airman Larry Hebert is on day three of his hunger strike outside the White House, where he has been holding a sign that reads “Active Duty Airman Refuses to Eat While Gaza Starves.” “It’s just completely wrong and immoral for civilians to be starved and bombed and targeted in any manner,” says Hebert. “I’m hoping that other active-duty members will be more public with their concern over the atrocities happening in Gaza.” Hebert was inspired by the actions of Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in February to demand a Gaza ceasefire. “What really infuriated me was the silence thereafter. … I don’t know a single member of our government or leaders in the military that really spoke on Aaron, even uttered his name,” says Hebert, who is now looking to leave the military after learning more about U.S. foreign policy. “I can’t see myself continuing service.”
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Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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On Sunday, tens of thousands rallied across Israel calling for the return of hostages and the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the largest nationwide protests since the October 7 attacks. From Tel Aviv, we’re joined by Oren Ziv, a reporter and photographer for +972 Magazine who has been covering the Israeli protests. Ziv says the majority of Israelis generally support the war on Gaza but are increasingly turning against Netanyahu’s far-right government, whose refusal to entertain a ceasefire is seen as an obstacle to the return of Israeli hostages.
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As Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, Palestinian Christians from the occupied West Bank were prevented from reaching Jerusalem for Good Friday to walk the Via Dolorosa, the path Jesus is said to have followed on the way to his crucifixion more than 2,000 years ago. Meanwhile, Jesus’s birthplace of Bethlehem is uncharacteristically empty of tourists this year as Israel’s assault on Gaza and crackdown on the West Bank escalate. “Nothing can wash the blood from your hands,” said the Reverend Munther Isaac at an Easter vigil for Gaza on Saturday, about Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Isaac is a Palestinian Christian theologian and the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. He joins Democracy Now! to discuss the history of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, Israel’s occupation of Bethlehem and its strangling of freedoms in the West Bank, U.S. Christians’ support of Israel and more.
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Israeli forces withdrew from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City today after a two-week raid that has left most of the medical complex in ruins. Since October, Gaza’s health sector has been completely decimated, leaving only a dozen hospitals partially functional as the entire medical infrastructure is relentlessly shelled, besieged and raided. We speak to British Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who spent over a month treating patients at Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli Baptist hospitals. He pays tribute to Dr. Ahmad Maqadmeh, a fellow surgeon who was found killed today alongside his mother at Al-Shifa. “I blame the Western journalists, who perpetuated the narrative that militarized the hospital as a justifiable and acceptable target,” says Abu-Sittah about Maqadmeh’s death. “This was a war Israel declared on Palestinian children,” he later concludes, “because Palestinian children represent the Palestinian tomorrow that is incompatible with the Zionist settler-colonial project.” Plus, we hear from a trauma surgeon currently volunteering at the European Hospital in Khan Younis. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa describes the scene at the hospital as a squalid shelter for thousands of refugees. “There’s no privacy, no dignity for any of these people,” he says.
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Democracy Now! 2024-04-01 Monday
- Headlines for April 01, 2024
- "Genocidal Machine": Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel's Destruction of Gaza's Hospitals
- "Dying Slowly While the World Is Watching": Bethlehem Reverend on Israel's War on Palestinian Christians
- Israeli Protesters Accuse Netanyahu of Delaying Hostage Deal for His Own Political Survival
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- Israel Ends Siege on Al-Shifa Hospital After Killing More Than 400 Palestinians
- Israeli Airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Kills Four; Injured Include Seven Journalists
- Israel Creates "Kill Zones" in Gaza Where Soldiers Are Ordered to Shoot and Kill Everyone
- Biden Admin Authorizes Billions of Dollars in New Bombs & Fighter Jets for Israel
- Mass Protests in Israel Call for Ceasefire & Removal of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Palestinian Land Day Protests Held Across Globe
- Smith College Students Continue Occupation Calling for School to Divest From Weapons Manufacturers
- Pope Francis Repeats Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
- Rep. Walberg (R-MI) Calls for Gaza to Be Bombed "Like Nagasaki and Hiroshima"
- Blast Injures Three U.N. Military Observers & Translator in Lebanon
- Trump Posts Video of a Hogtied Biden, Continues to Verbally Attack New York Judge's Daughter
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Suffers Major Blow as Turkish Cities Vote for Opposition Party Mayors
- Peruvian Police Raid President Dina Boluarte's Home Amid "Rolexgate" Investigation
- Transgender Day of Visibility Sees Rallies, Celebrations, and GOP Attacks
- Eight Chinese Migrants Found Dead on Mexican Beach After Boat Capsizes
- California Fast-Food Workers Are Now Making at Least $20/Hour
- Louis Gossett Jr., First Black Actor to Win Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Dies at 87
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Monday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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Republicans are on a “crusade” against responsible investing, says Andrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit group As You Sow that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy. His group was subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this week as Republicans probe whether investments that take into account environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns violate antitrust laws. Republicans have introduced bills in dozens of states across the U.S. to limit state bodies from working with banks and other financial firms that take things like climate change into consideration in their investments. ESG is “a framework for assessing risk,” Behar says. “Basic good business says you want to assess and address risk, and that’s what they’re trying to suppress.”
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As the death toll in Gaza tops 32,600, we speak with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah near the Egyptian border, now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. He says Israel’s continued obstruction of aid into the territory is a “man-made and preventable” crisis of hunger and acute malnutrition that could be ended if Israel just opened access to more aid trucks, especially in northern Gaza, where desperate people could be reached in as little as 10 minutes. “When I’m on the street, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food, we need food,'” Elder tells Democracy Now! “They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?” He also reiterates UNICEF’s call for a full ceasefire and warns against Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah, which he describes as “a city of children.”
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Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the largest one-night fundraiser in presidential campaign history on Thursday. The event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City included numerous celebrities and featured President Biden alongside former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, raising a record $25 million for Biden’s reelection campaign. The main event was an onstage conversation with the three U.S. presidents moderated by late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert, but people began disrupting it just 10 minutes into their conversation, as Biden was talking, with protesters calling on the president to stop arming Israel and to enforce a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters were also massed outside the venue to protest the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. We play voices from inside and outside the event.
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Search and rescue teams have recovered the bodies of two men from the Patapsco River following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, but four others remain missing and are presumed dead. All six victims were immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, part of a road crew that was filling potholes on the bridge when a cargo ship ran into one of the bridge supports, causing the entire structure to drop into the water. “The construction workers are absolutely essential,” says Gustavo Torres, executive director of the immigrant rights group CASA, which counted two of the victims as members. “Immigrants face higher injury and death rates … than nonimmigrants, and they are significantly less likely to have insurance.” He says the disaster has highlighted the difficult, often dangerous work done by immigrants in communities across the United States, and calls on political leaders to stop dehumanizing rhetoric. “What we need right now is comprehensive immigration reform. We don’t need more attacks against the immigrant community.”
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Democracy Now! 2024-03-29 Friday
- Headlines for March 29, 2024
- Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse
- Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War
- "Like Lying in a Coffin": UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza's Children
- ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing
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Democracy Now! 2024-03-29 Friday
- Headlines for March 29, 2024
- Building Bridges, Not Walls: Immigrant Communities Honor Six Workers Killed in Key Bridge Collapse
- Protesters Disrupt Record $25 Million Biden Fundraiser in NYC as Thousands March Against Gaza War
- "Like Lying in a Coffin": UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza's Children
- ESG Funds Under Attack: Why Republicans Are Targeting Socially Responsible Investing
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- ICJ Orders Israel to Allow "Unhindered" Aid into Gaza in New Order as Starvation Deaths Mount
- Reports: Israeli Airstrikes on Hezbollah Targets in Syria Kill 40 People, Including Civilians
- Hebrew University Reinstates Palestinian Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Following Outcry
- "Let Gaza Live!": Activists Disrupt Glitzy Biden Fundraiser with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton
- Activist Vivien Sansour Highlights Destruction of Gaza's Soil, Trees Since War
- South Carolina, Florida Will Vote in Racially Gerrymandered Districts in November
- Texas Acquits Crystal Mason, Who Faced 5-Year Sentence, Legal Nightmare for Voting Error
- Biden Administration Restores Endangered Species Act Protections Stripped by Trump
- FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years for Defrauding Customers
- Judge Dismisses Elon Musk Lawsuit Against Center for Countering Digital Hate
- Colombia Expels Argentine Diplomats After Far-Right President Javier Milei Insults Leftist Leaders
- Outrage After Saudi Arabia Named as Chair of U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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