Democracy Now – August 11, 2017
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Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Why Is U.S. Threatening War with North Korea Instead of Pushing for Negotiations? Andrew Bacevich: Trump’s Handling of N. Korea, His First National Security Crisis, is Very Troubling; Former DOJ Civil Rights Head: Jeff Sessions Is Implementing an Anti-Civil Rights Agenda.
Forget Russia. Is Provoking a Nuclear War with North Korea Grounds for Impeachment? Journalist Allan Nairn on Trump Administration’s Revolutionary Dismantling of U.S. Government; Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Urges Trump to Privatize Afghan War & Install Viceroy to Run Nation; A Rightist Revolution: Allan Nairn on Trump Admin’s Radical Agenda to Roll Back Social Progress. … Continued
Meet the Senior Federal Official Blowing the Whistle on Trump’s Suppression of Climate Science
Meet the Senior Federal Official Blowing the Whistle on Trump’s Suppression of Climate Science; Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama’s War on Leaks; Head of Bombed Minnesota Mosque Denounces Trump for Stoking Hate & Violence Against Somali Community.
Meet Houston’s Latino Police Chief Standing Up to Texas’s Anti-Immigrant “Show Me Your Papers” Law; As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures; Charlottesville VA Backs “Reparations” Fund for Black Residents & Votes to Sell Robert E. Lee Statue; Houston PD Chief: Trump’s Support of Police Brutality Reinforces View of Officers as … Continued
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” On Democracy Now! Today Esther Schor Biographer of Emma Lazarus author of This Poem The New Colossus at the base of the Statue … Continued
Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ’s Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended; “Cruel & Inhumane”: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Trump Push to Slash Legal Immigration; Trump Considers Prolonging Afghan War to Secure $1 Trillion in Untapped Mineral Deposits.
Explosive Lawsuit: White House & Fox Peddled Seth Rich Conspiracies to Distract from Russia Probe; Wray Confirmed as FBI Director as Questions Swirl over His Past Record & Close Ties to Big Business; Death at the Border: How CBP Agents Urged Mexican Teen to Drink the Liquid Meth That Killed Him; Yale Historian Timothy Snyder … Continued
As U.S. Sanctions Maduro and Hints at Regime Change, a Debate on Resolving the Crisis in Venezuela; Negotiations, Not War: Green Party’s Jill Stein Warns About U.S. Escalating Tension with N. Korea; Jill Stein on Trump as a “Grave Danger” & Why She was at 2015 Moscow Dinner with Putin & Flynn.
Retired Police Detective: Trump’s Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are “Treasonous”; “Billion-Dollar Mistake”: Democrats Neglect People of Color While Failing to Woo White Trump Voters; Is Trump Trying to Sabotage the Nuclear Deal to Lay Groundwork for War With Iran?