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Democracy Now! 2024-05-13 Monday

• Headlines for May 13, 2024
• "The Plan Is Genocide": Palestine's U.K. Ambassador Decries Israel's Attack on Gaza & U.S. Complicity
• The Killing of Roger Fortson: Police Shoot Dead Black Airman After Entering Wrong Home
• NYPD Kills Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario After He Calls 911 for Help, as His Mom Pleads for His Life

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-10 Friday

• Headlines for May 10, 2024
• 12 Arrested Outside NYC's New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues
• "We Feel Unheard": Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met
• Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on '70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting "Uncommitted" in NJ
• Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine
• "Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors": Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-09 Thursday

• Headlines for May 09, 2024
• Aid Worker in Gaza: "To Say There's Not an Incursion in Rafah Right Now Is Patently False"
• Pulitzer Winner Nathan Thrall on Israel's "System of Domination" and Biden Pausing Bomb Shipment
• Indian PM Narendra Modi Runs on "Hatred and Demonization" of Muslims in World's Largest Election

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-08 Wednesday

• Headlines for May 08, 2024
• Meet Students at 4 Colleges Where Gaza Protests Win Concessions, Incl. Considering Israel Divestment
• 60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7
• Mistrial: Abu Ghraib Survivors Detail Torture in Case Against U.S. Military Contractor

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-07 Tuesday

• Headlines for May 07, 2024
• Fmr. Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: U.S. Pressure on Israel Is Key to Lasting Gaza Ceasefire
• Report from Rafah: Israel Seizes Border Crossing, Blocking Humanitarian Aid, as Ceasefire Talks Continue
• "Stop Weaponizing Antisemitism": Police "Body-Slam" Jewish Dartmouth Prof. at Campus Gaza Protest

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-06 Monday

• Headlines for May 06, 2024
• "Criminal Act": Israel Bans Al Jazeera, Largest Int'l News Org. in Gaza, Ahead of Rafah Invasion
• "They Are Starving," Says Doctor Back from Gaza; World Food Programme Warns North in "Full-Blown Famine"
• Revolt on Campus: Protests over Gaza Disrupt Graduation Ceremonies as Police Crack Down on Encampments

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In Virginia, a historic case against U.S. military contractor CACI brought by three Iraqi survivors of torture at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has ended in mistrial after the jury on Thursday failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The lawsuit against CACI — which was hired to provide interrogation services at Abu Ghraib — was first filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2008. Since then, CACI repeatedly attempted to have the case dismissed. Plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Asa’ad Zuba’e and Salah Al-Ejaili had accused CACI of conspiring to commit war crimes at Abu Ghraib. The three were subjected to sexual abuse and other forms of torture by interrogators, including electric shocks, exposure to extreme temperatures and death threats by their interrogators. We feature a 2014 Democracy Now! interview with Al-Ejaili and speak with Baher Azmy, attorney in the case and legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Azmy notes the men were able to tell their story in a U.S. court even though the jury was ultimately confused by a complicated legal question in the case. “We got historical testimony that makes clear, I think, CACI’s responsibility for these clients’ harms,” says Azmy.

Democracy Now! 2024-05-03 Friday

• Headlines for May 03, 2024
• "This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure": Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza
• "Dead on Arrival": Doctors Back from Gaza Describe Horrific Hospital Scenes, Decimated Health System

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Democracy Now! 2024-05-02 Thursday

• Headlines for May 02, 2024
• "People Could Have Died": Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest, Waited as Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment
• Former Brandeis President on Gaza Protests: Schools Must Protect Free Expression on Campus
• Amnesty Int'l: Biden Must Halt Weapon Sales to Israel After U.S. Arms Used to Kill Civilians in Gaza
• "Workers Have Power": Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine

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In Part 2 of our interview with human rights attorney and war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody, he says potential International Criminal Court charges of war crimes for high-ranking Israeli officials could include “the use of starvation as a tool of war, the power of the the hindering of humanitarian assistance in violation of the Geneva Conventions.” He also responds to the International Court of Justice’s rejection of a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt exporting arms to Israel. “A similar case on the United States, if it could be brought, would have a very different outcome,” Brody notes. He is the author of To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré.

Democracy Now! Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-04-30 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 30, 2024
• "We Don't Want to Trade in the Blood of Palestinians": Voices of Students & Profs at Columbia Protest
• In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover
• Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism & Silencing Dissent
• Months After Israel Killed Gaza Poet Refaat Alareer, His Daughter & Infant Grandson Die in Airstrike

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Climate activists blocked the entrances of the global headquarters of Citigroup in Manhattan last Wednesday to demand the bank stop financing coal, oil and gas companies. The protests came on the heels of a first-of-its-kind Earth Day hearing where environmental activists from around the world gathered in New York this week to condemn what they call Citigroup’s environmental racism. Citibank is the world’s second-largest funder of coal, oil and gas. For an update we speak with Olivia Bisa Tirko, President of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra nation in Peru, who joins us in studio while she is in New York City to participate in the week of action.

Democracy Now! 2024-04-29 Monday

• Headlines for April 29, 2024
• Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege
• Rabbi Alissa Wise & Israeli-Born Novelist Ayelet Waldman Arrested Trying to Bring Food to Gaza
• "Lyd": Palestinian & Jewish Directors of New Sci-Fi Doc on How 1948 Nakba Devastated Palestinian City

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-26 Friday

• Headlines for April 26, 2024
• Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment
• "People Are Going to Die": Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.
• "The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule": Author Ari Berman on America's Undemocratic System

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Democracy Now! 2024-04-25 Thursday

• Headlines for April 25, 2024
• Bodies Recovered at Mass Graves in Nasser Hospital Bear Signs of Torture, Mutilation & Execution
• Amnesty International: Global Breakdown of Int'l Law Amid Flagrant War Crimes in Gaza & Beyond
• Hundreds Arrested: Students Across U.S. Protest for Palestine as Campus Crackdown Intensifies

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Watch Part 2 of our interview with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey about recent United Auto Workers union victories, organizing in the South, threats to unions from the U.S. Supreme Court and how she hopes they respond by taking more risks. She talks in detail about strategies she has used to help workers win across the United States and worldwide, her time as student organizer in the campaign to divest from apartheid South Africa, and her health as she faces terminal cancer.

Watch Part 2 of our interview with investigative journalist James Bamford about his new article for The Nation, headlined “The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance.” He also discusses his other new report, “How US Intelligence and an American Company Feed Israel’s Killing Machine in Gaza.”

Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 23, 2024