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“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by ...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line.
“This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line.
"This is decentralized violence, but it is also state-sponsored violence," Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says of settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/3/sari_bashi_israel_gaza_west_bank
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December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"This is decentralized violence, but it is also state-sponsored violence," Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says of settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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Six decades after his book "Unsafe at Any Speed" sparked a consumer safety revolution, Ralph Nader says the government is failing to crack down on corporate crime, fraud and abuse.
Ralph Nader on Trump, Reclaiming Congress, Fighting Big Money
As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the Democ...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Six decades after his book "Unsafe at Any Speed" sparked a consumer safety revolution, Ralph Nader says the government is failing to crack down on corporate crime, fraud and abuse.
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
Public broadcasters in Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Spain said Thursday they will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after the European Broadcasting Union refused to hold a vote on wh...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ireland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Participation
The family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the U.S. military strikes on boats at sea, alleging that Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was "murdered," says attorney Dan Kovalik.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/boat_strikes
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December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the U.S. military strikes on boats at sea, alleging that Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was "murdered," says attorney Dan Kovalik.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/boat_strikes
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12 Arrested as Striking Starbucks Workers Hold Sit-In Protest at Empire State Building
12 Arrested as Striking Starbucks Workers Hold Sit-In Protest at Empire State Building
In labor news, a dozen striking Starbucks workers were arrested in New York City Thursday as they blocked the doors to the Empire State Building, where Starbucks has a corporate office. Starbucks work...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
12 Arrested as Striking Starbucks Workers Hold Sit-In Protest at Empire State Building
Jaylani Hussein from CAIR Minnesota says Trump is attacking the Somali community because it is a trifecta of his favorite targets: Black people, immigrants and Muslims.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/minnesota
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December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Jaylani Hussein from CAIR Minnesota says Trump is attacking the Somali community because it is a trifecta of his favorite targets: Black people, immigrants and Muslims.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/minnesota
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Democratic Socialists Win Two Jersey City Council Seats in Groundbreaking Victories
Democratic Socialists Win Two Jersey City Council Seats in Groundbreaking Victories
In New Jersey, democratic socialists Joel Brooks and Jake Ephros have made history after winning election to the Jersey City Council. They’re the first socialists elected to public office in New Jerse...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Democratic Socialists Win Two Jersey City Council Seats in Groundbreaking Victories
"This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”
“Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”
Is the Trump administration's scapegoating of the Somali community driven in part by Islamophobia? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/mi...
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is the Trump administration's scapegoating of the Somali community driven in part by Islamophobia? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/mi...
Somali Americans speak out against Trump's racist, targeted rhetoric.
Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps
Federal authorities are carrying out intensified operations this week in Minnesota as President Donald Trump escalates his attacks on the Somali community in the state. The administration halted green...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Somali Americans speak out against Trump's racist, targeted rhetoric.
Journalist @ariberman.bsky.social slams the Supreme Court's ruling that approved a gerrymandered Texas congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/texas_redistricting
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December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Journalist @ariberman.bsky.social slams the Supreme Court's ruling that approved a gerrymandered Texas congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterms.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/texas_redistricting
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/texas_redistricting
What does Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown look like in Louisiana, already notorious as the "incarceration capital" of the world? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/ne...
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What does Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown look like in Louisiana, already notorious as the "incarceration capital" of the world? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/ne...
The Trump administration says it plans to make 5,000 immigration arrests over a two-month operation in New Orleans.
5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital”
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 f...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Trump administration says it plans to make 5,000 immigration arrests over a two-month operation in New Orleans.
With its greenlighting of Texas's racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court is further normalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering.
Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discrimina...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
With its greenlighting of Texas's racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court is further normalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering.
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year's midterm elections. @ariberman.bsky.social explains.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year's midterm elections. @ariberman.bsky.social explains.
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Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades
Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades
A new report by Amnesty International says that immigrants held at the ICE jail in Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a two-foot-high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time. The report also details “u...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades
ACLU Says ICE Violates Policy Against Jailing Pregnant People and Nursing Moms
ACLU Says ICE Violates Policy Against Jailing Pregnant People and Nursing Moms
Immigration advocates and lawyers contend that despite ICE’s policy that agents shouldn’t detain, arrest or hold pregnant, postpartum and nursing mothers, pregnant people are increasingly rounded up, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
ACLU Says ICE Violates Policy Against Jailing Pregnant People and Nursing Moms
Israeli Forces in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians in Latest Violation of October Ceasefire
Israeli Forces in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians in Latest Violation of October Ceasefire
Israeli forces have killed seven more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in Israel's latest violation of the ceasefire that was declared nearly two months ago. Among the dead are five members of a single family -- a middle-aged mother, father, their eldest ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Israeli Forces in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians in Latest Violation of October Ceasefire
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes spoke to advocates supporting newly-arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training.
West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes spoke to advocates supporting newly-arrived migrants and asylum seekers from West Africa with hot meals, legal advice and job training.
“This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It’s about cruelty.”
“Making America White Again”: Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids
Immigrant rights advocate Murad Awawdeh joins us to discuss Donald Trump’s nationwide anti-immigrant crackdown and how it’s manifested in Trump’s hometown of New York City, where hundreds of New Yorke...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“This has never been about vetting. This has never been about security and safety. It’s about cruelty.”