Democracy Now – July 4, 2017
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Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Disability Rights Activist Arrested for Protesting Trumpcare: We Won’t Be Silent While You Kill Us; “Inaction Means Death”: California Sees Groundswell of Support for Single-Payer Healthcare; Naomi Klein: The Worst Is Yet to Come with Trump, So We Must Be Ready for Shock Politics.
Historian: Republican Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America; Republicans Have Trifecta Control of 25 States & Need 6 More to Call for a Constitutional Convention; Trump Picks DAPL Lobbyist to Oversee EPA Water Safety in Same Week He Rolls Back Water Safeguards.
“America is on Trial”: Historian Ibram X. Kendi on the Failure to Convict Cops Who Kill Black People; Stamped from the Beginning: Ibram X. Kendi on the History of Racist Ideas in U.S.; D.C. Police Accused of Using “Rape as Punishment” Targeting Some Arrested During Trump Inauguration; Brazilian President Michel Temer Charged with Corruption, a … Continued
Indian PM Modi Was Once Banned from Entering U.S., Today He Meets Trump at White House; Arundhati Roy on the Rising Hindu Right in India, the Gujarat Massacre & Her Love of Eduardo Galeano; Jackson, Miss. Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba: I Plan to Build the “Most Radical City on the Planet.”
Republican Healthcare Bill Gives Tax Cuts to the Rich by Gutting Safety Net for Poor & Middle Class; By Defunding Planned Parenthood, Republicans Would Reduce Services That Make Abortion Unnecessary; Support Grows for Single-Payer Medicare-for-All Plan Instead of Massive Cuts to Healthcare; Is South Sudan Government Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing, Triggering Africa’s Biggest Refugee Crisis?
U.S. Tied to Torture in Network of Secret Yemen Prisons Run by UAE; As Yemen War Rages On, Saudi King Elevates the War’s Architect—His Own Son—to Be Crown Prince; From War to Cholera, Yemen Is Facing World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis; Austerity & Neglect Blamed as 79 Die in U.K. Apartment Fire Housing Immigrants & Low-Income … Continued
As Jon Ossoff Loses Georgia Special Election, Where Do Democrats Go from Here in Challenging GOP? Media Malpractice? As GOP Moves to Strip Healthcare from Millions, Press Remains Focused on Russia; Katrina vanden Heuvel Cautions Against Overreading into Ossoff’s Loss in Georgia Special Election; Can Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan Survive Trump? Inside One Family’s Fight to … Continued
Arundhati Roy on Returning to Fiction, Redefining Happiness & Writing about Worlds Ripped Apart; Arundhati Roy Reads from Her Acclaimed New Novel, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”; Acclaimed Novelist Arundhati Roy on Telling the Truth of the Atrocities in Kashmir Through Fiction; Arundhati Roy on Upcoming Meeting Between Indian PM Modi & Trump at White … Continued