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Democracy Now! Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Democracy Now! 2024-08-12 Monday

• Headlines for August 12, 2024
• "Pieces of People": Israeli Strike on Gaza School Kills 100+, Bodies Destroyed Beyond Recognition
• Leaked Project 2025 Training Videos Show Former Trump Officials Detailing Plans to Dismember Gov't
• 2024 Paris Olympics Highlights and Lowlights: From Hijab Bans to Social Cleansing to Boxing Gold
• Meet Fadi Deeb, Palestinian Paralympian from Gaza Who Lost 15 Relatives in Israeli Assault

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In Part 2 of our roundtable on the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, Paralympian athlete Fadi Deeb discusses being the only Palestinian member of the Olympic delegation from Gaza and how an Israeli airstrike just killed his best friend in a school bombing. We also speak with CBC Sports contributor Shireen Ahmed about how Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won the Olympic gold medal in a major victory for the athlete, who competed while facing a torrent of abuse, including from high-profile transphobic observers such as Donald Trump and author J.K. Rowling, who falsely claimed Khelif was a trans athlete and should be banned from competing. At the first-ever Olympic breakdancing competition of the games, a member of the Olympic Refugee Team from Afghanistan known as “b-girl Talash” was disqualified when she wore a cape that said “Free Afghan Women.” “It’s the suppression of athlete activism and voices that is so troubling, particularly with women, who are too often excluded and silenced in sport,” notes Ahmed. We are also joined by Dave Zirin, sports writer for The Nation, who discusses the “social cleansing” of unhoused people ahead of the games in Paris, and activism leading up to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Democracy Now! 2024-08-09 Friday

• Headlines for August 09, 2024
• "New Dawn" in Bangladesh? Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus Sworn In as PM After Student Protests
• "Uncommitted" Co-Chair Layla Elabed on Meeting Kamala Harris, Pressing VP for Arms Embargo on Israel
• NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-08 Thursday

• Headlines for August 08, 2024
• Tens of Thousands Rally Against Racism and Islamophobia in U.K. Following Days of Far-Right Rioting
• Israel Accused of Running "Torture Camps" as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner
• Famine in Sudan: Activist Marine Alneel Says International Community Must Act

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-07 Wednesday

• Headlines for August 07, 2024
• America's Politics Are Changing: How Tim Walz VP Pick Highlights Support for His Progressive Stances
• "Kamala Harris Is Different": Uncommitted Movement Welcomes Tim Walz Pick, Pushes for Gaza Ceasefire
• Jeremy Scahill on New Head of Hamas, Questions About Haniyeh Assassination & Iran Retaliation
• Democracy Now! Mourns the Passing of Education Director Simin Farkhondeh at 61

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-06 Tuesday

• Headlines for August 06, 2024
• Google Is a Monopoly: Judge Rules Against Tech Giant in Landmark Antitrust Case
• Update from Dhaka: As Bangladesh Overturns Authoritarian Rule, Protesters Demand Democratic Gov't
• Cori Bush vs. AIPAC: Squad Member in Tough Primary Race as Pro-Israel Lobby Spends $8M to Defeat Her
• "Historic": Black Farmers Celebrate $2 Billion Payout for USDA Discrimination, Still Seek Debt Relief
• It's Tim Walz: Kamala Harris Picks Minnesota Governor as Her Running Mate

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-05 Monday

• Headlines for August 05, 2024
• Uprising in Bangladesh: Student Protests Force Prime Minister to Resign & Flee to India, 100s Killed
• As Tension over Venezuelan Election Escalates, the Left Debates Who Won Contested Vote
• Did Egypt Give Trump a $10 Million Bribe? The FBI Was Investigating, Then AG Barr Closed Case
• "I'm So Sad for Our Country": 9/11 Victim's Sister Responds to Def. Sec. Austin Revoking Plea Deal

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Democracy Now! 2024-08-02 Friday

• Headlines for August 02, 2024
• "Simply Lying": Marc Lamont Hill Slams Trump's NABJ Interview, Attacks on VP Harris's Racial Identity
• Picking Shapiro as VP Would Remind Voters Kamala Harris Is Liberal, Not Progressive: Marc Lamont Hill
• Prisoner Swap with Russia "Offers a Possible Pathway" to Peace in Ukraine, Says Katrina vanden Heuvel

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We speak with Nashville historian and journalist Betsy Phillips about her new book, Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control. She spent nearly a decade trying to uncover the truth about three bombings in Nashville by segregationists in the civil rights era that all went unsolved: the Hattie Cotton School in 1957 as it was set to integrate; the Jewish Community Center in 1958, which had held integrated activities; and the home of leading civil rights lawyer and city councilmember Z. Alexander Looby in 1960. In the book, Phillips writes, “Just as Nashville was where Civil Rights icons like John Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began, Nashville is also where a network of racial terrorists began.” She discusses her revelations, how they moved Nashville’s mayor to ask police to reopen investigations into the attacks this month — around the same time neo-Nazis marched through the city’s downtown for the third time this year and yelled racist slurs at a group of Black children — and how she links these recent events to the three “unsolved” bombings.

Democracy Now! 2024-08-01 Thursday

• Headlines for August 01, 2024
• "A Perilous Moment" in Middle East: Iran Vows Revenge as Israel Expands Assassination Operations
• Israel's Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners Defended by Knesset Members, Far-Right Mobs
• Trump Questions If Kamala Harris Is Black in Hate-Filled Interview with Black Journalists at NABJ
• Money War: How the U.S. Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe, from Venezuela to Iran

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Democracy Now! 2024-07-30 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 30, 2024
• Biden Proposes Major SCOTUS Reforms, Including Ending Lifetime Appointments & Enforcing Ethics Code
• Ziklag Exposed: Secretive Christian Nationalist Network Tries to Purge Voters in Battleground States
• It's Not Just "Childless Cat Ladies": JD Vance Once Described Childless People as "Sociopathic"
• Venezuela: Maduro Claims Victory, Accuses Opposition of Coup Attempt Following Disputed Election

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Democracy Now! 2024-07-29 Monday

• Headlines for July 29, 2024
• JD Vance Calls Democrats "Childless Cat Ladies"; GOP Opposes Paid Leave, Universal Child Care
• "He's a Weirdo": Repro Rights Activist on JD Vance's History of Sexism & White Nationalism
• Politico's Ian Ward on the Thinkers and Groups Who Have Shaped JD Vance's Unusual Worldview
• "Militarism Isn't a Solution": Rami Khouri on Rocket Attack in Golan Heights, Israeli Vow of Revenge

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Democracy Now! 2024-07-24 Wednesday

• Headlines for July 24, 2024
• "Terrible Mistake": Leading Israelis Say Netanyahu's Invite to Address Congress Rewards Bad Behavior
• Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu's Address to Congress, 400 Arrested
• "Tragic Beyond Proportions": Attorney Ben Crump on Sonya Massey's Killing and Police Cover-Up
• "Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied": Video Shows Hotel Guards Kill D'Vontaye Mitchell, Yet No Arrests

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Democracy Now! 2024-07-23 Tuesday

• Headlines for July 23, 2024
• Uncommitted Movement Welcomes Biden's Decision to Step Aside Hoping Harris Will Change Course on Gaza
• Ex-Biden Staffer Who Quit over Gaza Says Kamala Harris Must "Chart a New Path" on Israel-Palestine
• "The Prescription Is Ceasefire": Israeli Public Health Leaders Sound Alarm over Polio in Gaza
• Bangladesh: 174 Killed, 2,500 Arrests in Student-Led Protests over Jobs, Inequality & Corruption

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Democracy Now! 2024-07-22 Monday

• Headlines for July 22, 2024
• "Beating Donald Trump Is Vital": Mehdi Hasan on Joe Biden Dropping Out, Kamala Harris, Gaza & More
• How to Pick Biden's Replacement? James Zogby & LaTosha Brown Debate Wisdom of an Open Convention
• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Remembered: Opposed Iraq War, Advocated for Juneteenth, Reparations & More
• ICJ Rules Israel's Occupation of West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza Is Illegal: Attorney Diana Buttu Explains

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