Headlines for October 18, 2024; Tareq Baconi on Death of Hamas Chief Sinwar & Why Killing Palestinian Leaders Won’t Pacify Resistance; Gideon Levy: Death of Sinwar Won’t End Israel’s War While U.S. Gives Netanyahu Free Rein in Gaza; “I Could Be the Next Sha’ban”: 21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive
Headlines for October 17, 2024; “The Gaza Playbook”: Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon; Ex-State Dept. Official: Israel Is Starving Gaza Now. We Can’t Wait Another 30 Days to Take Action; “Itching for a War”: Biden Deploys U.S. Troops to Israel as Netanyahu Threatens Escalation with Iran
Headlines for October 16, 2024; Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse; Uncommitted Co-Founder Abbas Alawieh on U.S. Election & Family in Lebanon Fleeing Israeli Bombs; “Deportation First”: Trump and Harris Compete for Latinx Votes While Pushing Anti-Immigrant Policies
Headlines for October 15, 2024; Ex-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100 U.S. Troops to Israel; “Stop Profiting Off Genocide”: 200 Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Protest at NY Stock Exchange; “Union”: New Film Looks at Worker Organizers Who Took On Jeff Bezos & Unionized First Amazon Warehouse
Headlines for October 14, 2024; “Under Siege”: Hospital Director in N. Gaza Refuses to Leave Patients Amid Israeli Evacuation Orders; “Every Day Is a Breaking Point”: North Gaza Desperate for Medicine, Fuel, Food, Water & Shelter; “Surrender or Starve”: Israel Weighs Plan to Liquidate Northern Gaza as Siege on Jabaliya Intensifies; Israel Attacks U.N. Peacekeeping Forces as U.S. Sends 100 Troops Anticipating Conflict with Iran
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador with Nemonte Nenquimo, a Waorani leader in the Ecuadorian Amazon who just published a new memoir.
Headlines for October 11, 2024; “Death Is Everywhere”: Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza and Lebanon Condemns Israeli Attacks on Hospitals; Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize, Say Gaza Today Is Like Japan 80 Years Ago; “The Apprentice”: New Film Opens Despite Trump’s Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It
Headlines for October 10, 2024; 3.5 Million Left Without Power After Florida Hit by Second Climate-Fueled Deadly Hurricane in Weeks; Trump & GOP Push Misinformation on Hurricanes as Climate Crisis Intensifies Across Globe; “Complete Neglect”: Thousands Were Not Evacuated from Florida Jails & Prisons Ahead of Hurricane Milton; Radio Conciencia: Florida Community Station Aims to Keep Immigrant Farmworkers Safe During Hurricanes
Headlines for October 09, 2024; “The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Filmed by Israeli Troops Themselves; Motaz Azaiza, Acclaimed Journalist from Gaza, on Photographing War & Making “Art from the Pain”; “Catastrophic Category 5”: Report from West Florida on Hurricane Milton as Millions Evacuate
Headlines for October 08, 2024; “The Message”: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Power of Writing & Visiting Senegal, South Carolina, Palestine; Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth
Headlines for October 07, 2024; Israeli Peace Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on October 7. He’s Calling for an End to War & Occupation.; “The Path Forward”: Palestinian and Israeli Activists Working Toward Peace Featured in New Film; Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha: One Year After Oct. 7, U.S. Is Still Arming Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza; Report from Beirut: Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon, Displacing 1.2 Million
Headlines for October 04, 2024; What Is Israel’s Endgame in Lebanon? Airstrikes Intensify, Hospitals Overwhelmed, 1.2 Million Displaced; War in Lebanon “Giving More Space” for Israel to Continue Slaughter in Gaza: Journalist Akram al-Satarri; “Separated”: Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart, 1,300 Kids Still Alone
Headlines for October 03, 2024; “Don’t Do It”: Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a “New Middle East”; “Starving Gaza”: Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War; Six Factory Workers Feared Dead in Tennessee After Being Swept Away During Hurricane Helene
Headlines for October 02, 2024; Regional War Feared as Biden Backs Israel’s Threat to Retaliate After Iranian Missile Attack; In VP Debate, JD Vance Downplays Jan. 6 Insurrection & Refuses to Admit Trump Lost 2020 Election; As Hurricane Helene Death Toll Tops 166, Vance Casts Doubt on Climate Science & Carbon Emissions; Walz Decries Demonizing Immigrants After Trump & Vance Spread Lies About Haitians in Springfield, OH; JD Vance Tries to Hide His Hard-Line Anti-Abortion Record ...
Headlines for October 01, 2024; Fears Grow over Israeli Ground Invasion as Israel Orders Residents in 25 Lebanese Villages to Flee Homes; Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation; “I Pled Guilty to Journalism”: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Speaks Publicly for First Time Since Prison Release; “A Historic Moment”: A Look at AMLO’s Legacy as Claudia Sheinbaum Becomes Mexico’s First Female President...
Headlines for September 30, 2024; Israeli Assassination of Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah “Shocked All of Lebanon.” What Happens Next?; Gideon Levy: “Israel’s Barbaric Glee over Nasrallah’s Assassination Is a New Low for Israeli Society”; Trita Parsi on Israel’s Nasrallah Assassination and Why Netanyahu Still Wants War with Iran; Fossil-Fueled Climate Change Left Out of Media Coverage of Hurricane Helene: Scientist Peter Kalmus
Headlines for September 27, 2024; “Crisis of Faith”: Calls Grow for NYC Mayor Adams to Resign After Historic Indictment; Report from Beirut: Israel Is “Targeting Everyone” in Bombing Campaign, Killing 700+ in Just Days; How CNN , ADL & Others Amplified Smear Against Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Criticizing Campus Prosecutions
Headlines for September 26, 2024; NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted as Calls Grow for Him to Resign Amid Multiple Federal Corruption Probes; “Hell Is Breaking Loose in Lebanon”: Israel Rejects Ceasefire Proposal as U.N. Chief Calls for Peace; U.S. Gov’t Agencies Found Israel Was Blocking Gaza Aid. Blinken Ignored Them to Keep Weapons Flowing
Headlines for September 25, 2024; “Lebanese Civilians Are Paying the Price”: Israeli Strikes Kill Nearly 600, Displace Tens of Thousands; Green Pres. & VP Candidates Jill Stein, Butch Ware on Gaza & Fighting “Two Zombie Political Parties”; “Fuerza Mexicana”: Juan González on Chicago’s Mexican Community & How It Saved the City from Decline
Headlines for September 24, 2024; “Absolutely Terrifying”: Israel’s War Comes to Lebanon, Setting Record-Breaking Single-Day Death Toll; Climate Activists Shut Down Citibank HQ in NYC , Demand Halt to Fossil Fuel Investments; NYC Climate Week: Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo on the Need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty; Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of Supreme Court; Victim’s Family, Prosecutor Don’t Want Him to Die...
Headlines for September 23, 2024; Israel Bombs Lebanon After Blowing Up Pagers in “Act of Mass Mutilation.” Is Ground Invasion Next?; “Israel Has No Right”: Al Jazeera Managing Editor Slams Israel’s Raid & Closing of West Bank Bureau; MAGA -Allied Georgia Election Board Votes to Hand-Count Ballots: Move Could Throw National Election
Headlines for September 20, 2024; “Declaration of War”: Hezbollah Girds for Israeli Invasion of Lebanon After Mobile Device Attacks; No Endorsement: Uncommitted Mvmt. Won’t Back Harris, Trump or Third Party as U.S. Keeps Arming Israel; “Homegrown”: Film Embeds with Proud Boys, Trump Supporters, Before, During & After Insurrection
Headlines for September 19, 2024; Lebanon: 37 Dead, 3,400+ Injured in Wave of Explosions in Electronic Devices Booby-Trapped by Israel; Arab American Leader Responds After GOP Senator Says at Hearing, “You Should Hide Your Head in a Bag”; Standing at Gaza Border Felt Like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni
Headlines for September 18, 2024; Israel Blamed as Pager Explosions in Lebanon Kill 12 & Injure 2,800; Hezbollah Vows to Respond; Georgia’s Deadly Abortion Ban: The Tragic Deaths of Two Black Women, Candi Miller & Amber Thurman
Democracy Now! Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Headlines for September 17, 2024; U.N. Experts Accuse Israel of “Starvation Campaign” in Gaza & Demand End to Western Complicity; “Erasing History”: Yale Prof. Jason Stanley on Why Fascists Attack Education & Critical Inquiry; “Borderland: The Line Within”: New Film on Who Profits from Deportations & Border-Industrial Complex
Headlines for September 16, 2024; “People Are Afraid”: Haitians in U.S. Face Hate, Threats as Trump and Vance Spread Racist Lies; “Netanyahu Wants Open-Ended War”: Palestinian Journalist & Fmr. Israeli Negotiator on Gaza Ceasefire
Headlines for September 13, 2024; War in Sudan: Both Sides Accused of Crimes Against Humanity as Foreign Weapons Flood the Country; Imprisoned for 50 Years: Amnesty Calls for Leonard Peltier’s Freedom as He Turns 80 Behind Bars; Uhuru 3 Found Guilty of Conspiracy, Acquitted of Foreign Agents Charge in Landmark Trial; “How We Do Freedom”: V (Eve Ensler) on Fighting Fascism Through Community
Headlines for September 12, 2024; “Another Appalling Year” of Violence Against Land Defenders as Nearly 200 Killed Worldwide in 2023; “On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests & Jail Terms; “By the Fire We Carry”: Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty
Headlines for September 11, 2024; “They’re Eating the Dogs”: Trump Touts Anti-Migrant Conspiracy Theory in Debate with Kamala Harris; “Dystopian Vision”: Carol Anderson on Trump’s Election Denial & Racist Fearmongering; Will Harris Take on Corporate Greed? Ralph Nader & Joe Stiglitz on Debate, Trump’s Tariffs & More; Kamala Harris Highlights “Trump Abortion Bans” Across U.S., Vows to Restore Roe v. Wade
