Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now! Friday, November 29, 2024

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance; “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 November 27, 2024; “Fragile” Ceasefire Begins in Lebanon After Israel Launched More Devastating Attacks; “Israel Wants Wars”: Gideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza & Gov’t Sanctions Against Haaretz; Amid Anti-Trans Wave, Chase Strangio to Make History as First Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court; Pakistani Forces in Islamabad Crush Protesters Demanding Freedom for Jailed Ex-PM Imran Khan

Headlines for November 26, 2024; War Crimes in Lebanon: Human Rights Watch Says Israel Used U.S. Arms to Kill 3 Journalists; Leonard Peltier: Amnesty Int’l Calls on Biden to Free Indigenous Leader “Before It’s Too Late”; Amnesty: Before Trump’s Term, Biden Must Change Policies on Asylum, Gitmo, Death Penalty, Gaza & More; “I Am Ready, Warden”: New Film on TX Death Row Prisoner John Ramirez Examines Redemption & Vengeance

Headlines for November 25, 2024; U.N. Climate Summit Ends with a “Bad Deal” as Rich, Polluting Nations Refuse $1 Trillion Finance Plan; After 2023 Ethnic Cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, Why Did Azerbaijan Get to Host COP29?; Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought for OMB: Wants to Fire Civil Servants, Deploy Military

Headlines for November 22, 2024; “Trillions, Not Billions”: Climate Activists Protest as COP29 Closes in on a “Bad Deal”; “A Great Swindle”: Activists Slam Draft Climate Plan Reducing How Much Rich Polluting Countries Owe; “A Great Day for Justice”: Palestinian Lawyer Raji Sourani on ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant; House Approves “Nonprofit Killer” Bill, Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act; Who Is Pam Bondi? Trump Loyalist Tapped for AG Dropped Probe into Trump University After His $25K Donation

We speak with the celebrated Palestinian human rights lawyer Raji Sourani after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

Headlines for November 21, 2024; Wanted for War Crimes: ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant over Gaza; Despite White House Pressure, 19 U.S. Senators Back Bernie Sanders’s Bills to Block Arms Sales to Israel; “Pay Up!”: At COP29, Poor Countries Demand $1 Trillion a Year in Climate Finance; “They’re Expanding Fossil Fuels”: Indian Activist Harjeet Singh on Rich Countries’ Hypocrisy at COP29; Defund Genocide: Activists at COP29 Link Climate Fight to Militarism, Gaza, Lebanon & Sudan

Headlines for November 20, 2024; Colombian Environment Min. Susana Muhamad on Trump, Banning Coal to Israel & Phasing Out Fossil Fuels; The Chase: Democracy Now! Asks Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister–When Will Jailed Reporters & Activists Be Freed?; Azerbaijani Journalist Speaks from Exile After Six Colleagues Jailed Ahead of Climate Talks; Trump Nominates Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon as Education Secretary Amid Push to Abolish Dept. of Ed.; Dr. Mehmet Oz Wants to Privatize Medicare. Trump Just Picked the TV Star to Head Medicare Agency

Headlines for November 19, 2024; Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov’t Is Using COP29 as Chance to “Enrich the Regime”; Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft to Embrace Nuclear Power; Nuclear Revival? Diné Activist Warns Against New Uranium Mining as AI, Bitcoin Energy Needs Soar

Headlines for November 18, 2024; Live from COP29: Climate Justice Activists Demand Action as Trump’s Return Looms Over U.N. Summit; “The Finance COP”: Activists at U.N. Climate Talks Push Rich Countries to Pay for Green Transition; Crackdown in Azerbaijan: COP29 Host Country Arrests Climate Activists & Journalists Ahead of Talks; Trump Picks Climate-Denying Oil & Gas Magnate as Energy Sec. He Once Drank Fracking Fluid on Live TV

Headlines for November 15, 2024; “He Will Make America Sick”: Trump Picks Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Head HHS; A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts; Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza