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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 5h
Eight decades after the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals, the Trump admin has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court, primarily over the tribunal’s pursuit of Israeli leaders for war crimes committed in Gaza. We speak with human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck.
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80 Years After Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Leads Assault on ICC & International Law: Wolfgang Kaleck
Eight decades after the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court, primarily over the tribunal’s pursuit...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6h
We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, "No Land to Stand On." It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targeted for arrest and deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Palestine campus advocacy at Columbia University.
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“No Land to Stand On”: Mahmoud Khalil on His Memoir, Palestine, Fighting Deportation & Suing Columbia
We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention. It details his 104 days of detention inside a Louisiana ICE jail after he was targete...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7h
Human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck represents the family of Patrice Lumumba, the first Congolese prime minister, who was assassinated in a U.S.- and Belgian-backed coup. “The liberal order was also the history of disorder in many parts of the world,” says Kaleck.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7h
“I was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, and then I had to flee the country at the age of 18 to Lebanon. And then I had also to leave Lebanon to come here to this country,” says Mahmoud Khalil in a conversation about his new memoir, “No Land to Stand On.”
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16h
Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s documentary "Winning Heart and Minds" looks at on how Western forces made the Afghan people vulnerable to physical and sexual violence during the war in Afghanistan.
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Afghans “Have Been the Victims” of U.S. Military, Taliban, Cartels & More for Decades: Nagieb Khaja
Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s most recent documentary, Winning Heart and Minds, is an investigation into what went wrong in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In th...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026
Has the Gaza ceasefire "ended up just buying more time for the genocide"?
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“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local autho...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026
Trump's new deal with Greenland permits the U.S. to build new military bases while falling short of his threats to annex the Danish territory. Here's what Greenlanders think about it.
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Greenland Deal: Trump Drops Threat to Annex Denmark Territory in Favor of Greater U.S. Military Role
After months of threatening to take over Greenland by force, President Trump last week signed a 10-page agreement with Greenland and Denmark that bolsters the U.S. military presence on the mineral-ric...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026
Danish Afghan filmmaker and journalist Nagieb Khaja joins us in Copenhagen to discuss his reporting on the U.S. military, the Taliban and U.S.-backed Afghan police forces during the war in Afghanistan.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 29/09/2026
Marwan Barghouti "has been established in our minds, in our collective memory, as the father of the Palestinian nation, as our own Nelson Mandela," says Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
A secret CIA contract with Steve Jobs in the late 1980s may have saved his career and laid the foundation for Apple's success in subsequent decades, according to journalist Sharon Weinberger. She confirmed the long-rumored relationship for her new book "Valley of Death."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
"It’s quite extraordinary the level of duplicity that was going on in order for us to keep selling Israel arms.”
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“Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons
A new documentary titled Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed reveals new details about the U.K. government’s internal response to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Presented by journalist Ramita Navai an...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of protesters are camped outside Madrid’s regional government headquarters demanding new tenant protections.
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Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis
The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
The new film "Britain's Gaza Secrets Exposed" documents how the U.K. government downplayed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. "It's quite extraordinary, the level of duplicity that was going on, in order for us to keep selling Israel arms," says executive producer @bendepear.bsky.social.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
"What we have is a lot of furious people." The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain's rising cost of living.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
Tech elites are “angry that they don't have free rein to enact the world they want to enact, and that includes areas like AI,” says @jacobsilverman.com, author of "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley."
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“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
How are African countries responding to the global AI buildup?
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“Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism
Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent. African ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
Climate activist Bill McKibben says much of the world's electricity needs are still going unmet, even as rich countries expand their energy footprints to power AI data centers.
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“Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis
Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben says he has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
"The real victims of this war on the press are members of the public."
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“War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage
News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated whe...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
When Paulo Freire began his public education programs in Brazil during the 1960s, 70% of people in parts of the country were illiterate. "And if you couldn't read and write, you could not vote," says Catherine Murphy, co-director of the new documentary "Reading the World."
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
Bill McKibben says the world has a new tool against the climate crisis: cheap solar and wind. "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz."
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Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant
World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It comes after months of climate-fueled extreme weather around the world, including ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration's aggressive policy toward Cuba is trying "to impose the will of the U.S. through asphyxiation and starvation," says top Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío.
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Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat
As the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to “asphyxiate the people of Cuba...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
We speak with journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, whose new book, "Crossing the Red Line," looks at how President Biden and top figures in his administration supported Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.
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“Crossing the Red Line”: Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Biden, His Advisers, Harris & Israel’s War in Gaza
We speak with journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, whose new book, Crossing the Red Line, looks at how President Joe Biden and top figures in his administration supported Israel’s brutal war in Gaza despite...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
At the U.N. this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the ICC and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. “It’s an absolute low point ... that President Trump has shown up here and attacked the international legal order,” says Varsha Gandikota of the Hague Group.
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The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC
At the United Nations this week, President Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the global tribunal. The United States earlier this yea...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a half-empty chamber at the United Nations on Thursday after dozens of delegations walked out in protest at the start of his speech. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, says Israel’s growing diplomatic isolation “needs to be translated into action."
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“Grotesque”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech & Israel’s Impunity
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a half-empty chamber at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, after dozens of delegations walked out in protest at the start of his speec...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. Democracy Now! spoke with participants, including some congressional candidates and other prominent figures.
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“Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech
Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly. The sit-in, organized by Jewish V...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
“We understandably focus on the person of Netanyahu, but this goes so much deeper,” says former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, responding to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. on Thursday.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
“The policies that we've seen entrenched and frankly worsened and become more dangerous and deadly under Donald Trump were really established by Biden's team,” says @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social, author of "Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza.”
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
At the U.N. this week, Trump repeated his attacks on the International Criminal Court and urged other nations to pull out of the ICC. This is “an absolute low point, but [it] opens a clear opportunity for all of the other countries in the world to rise up,” says Varsha Gandikota of The Hague Group.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2026
Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens's new album is called "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers."
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Rhiannon Giddens: Full Interview & Performance of New Song, “Walk With Me”
Full interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-time Grammy-winning, multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, has just been released. She recently came i...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Costa Rican Immigrant with Diabetes Dies in ICE Custody After Missing Food, Insulin Shots
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Costa Rican Immigrant with Diabetes Dies in ICE Custody After Missing Food, Insulin Shots
In Louisiana, a 36-year-old immigrant from Costa Rica died last week inside the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield. According to ICE, Carlos Josué Marchena Marchena was declared dead after he was f...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Guatemalan Immigrant in Michigan Dies in Car Crash After Pursuit by ICE Agents
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Guatemalan Immigrant in Michigan Dies in Car Crash After Pursuit by ICE Agents
In Michigan, the Grand Rapids Police Department says a man died on Sunday after crashing his car into a tree while fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Guatemala’s consul general identi...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Ahead of Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations, hundreds of demonstrators led by Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in protest in New York City on Thursday, stopping traffic for over an hour just three blocks away from the U.N.’s headquarters. Over 100 protesters were arrested.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Navy Admits Eight Sailors Attempted Suicide Aboard Carrier Strike Group
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Navy Admits Eight Sailors Attempted Suicide Aboard Carrier Strike Group
The U.S. Navy has admitted that eight service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide during their lengthy Mideast deployment, when sailors spent 286 days at sea. Acting ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
See Amy Goodman at an upcoming screening of "Steal This Story, Please!" in London, U.K. More details: www.democracynow.org/events
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
Author Jacob Silverman discusses how tech elites like Peter Thiel and David Sacks are shaping the Trump administration’s approach to technology.
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“Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
“One of the features we see in … a lot of the billionaire tech elites is a real kind of anger,” says Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley. “They’r...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
“When we talk about colonialism historically, that involves the control of resources, the control of knowledge and the control of terms of exchange, and we see that in Africa when we talk about AI.”
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“Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism
Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent. African ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
AI agents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have gone rogue in recent months, hacking into other companies’ corporate systems and, in the case of OpenAI, into the portal of Australia’s public health insurance program.
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Should U.N. Help Set Global AI Rules? AI Tech Billionaires Address Security Council
Leaders of top artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, testified to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, urging nations to adopt international...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/09/2026
“There are costs to standing up, but there are greater costs to giving up.”
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Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa on Trump’s Media Ban, Regulating AI & the “Tech Coup in Plain Sight”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ordering the administration to restore their White House access for two weeks. CBS, Fox News and NBC had susp...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
“I don’t think people realize how contagious this virus is,” Dr. Paul Offit says of the measles outbreak on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s watch.
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“Secretary of Measlesland”: Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.’s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak
2026 is already the deadliest year for measles in the United States since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000. Four people died over the last month in Pennsylvania amid an ongoing outbreak in th...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
In the wake of devastating flash floods triggered by glacial collapse in the Himalayas, Nepal is demanding climate reparations from polluter countries as it embarks upon the grueling process of rebuilding.
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Nepali Activist at U.N. Rally Calls for Climate Justice After Deadly Glacier Floods Kill Thousands
In the wake of devastating flash floods triggered by glacial collapse in the Himalayas, Nepal is demanding climate reparations from polluter countries as it embarks upon the grueling process of rebuil...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a major foreign policy address at the historic Riverside Church in New York, denouncing the growth of the military-industrial complex while inequality continues to grow.
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Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech
On Monday, the South African delegation to the United Nations, in collaboration with Progressive International and the Hague Group, hosted an event in honor of the U.N. Charter at the historic Riversi...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
“This is probably a new low in U.N. history."
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“New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly
The annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opened this week in New York City. On its opening day, President Trump in his address to all 193 U.N. member states threatened to annihilate I...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
"You're just seeing a politicization of the science." Vaccine expert @pauloffit.bsky.social says the measles outbreak — with four deaths reported in Pennsylvania over the last month — is a grim sign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s impact as health secretary.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/09/2026
President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to "annihilate the Islamic Republic." Analyst Trita Parsi says that while Trump may think such language projects strength, the Iranians interpret it as "a sign of his desperation" to end the war he started.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026
"Reading the World" is a new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. We speak with one of its co-directors and a consulting producer.
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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