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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue to look at the fall of the Assad regime with activist and award-winning filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab. She was forcibly displaced from her hometown of Aleppo with her family in 2016. Her Oscar-nominated film For Sama, released in 2019, offered a […]

Ontario healthcare workers file CA$170M class action suit over province’s workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate A group of healthcare workers in Ontario who say their rights were infringed upon after refusing to go along with Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine mandates in the workplace have filed a CA$170 million ($121 million) class action lawsuit against the Ontario provincial government and its chief medical officer. The lawsuit was brought forth by the United […]

Donald Trump reportedly considers replacing Pete Hegseth with Ron DeSantis as defense secretary pick President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a potential replacement for Pete Hegseth, his initial pick for secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD), due to growing controversies and resistance from key GOP senators. In November, Trump picked Hegseth, a 44-year-old Army veteran and former Fox News host, to lead the […]

Texas judge blocks unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act that would have required all small businesses to hand over private ownership and financial details to the government A Texas federal judge has issued a preliminary block on the Corporate Transparency Act, which would require all American businesses to report information about their stakeholders to the Treasury Department, invalidating it within less than a month of its reporting deadline. The nationwide injunction […]

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has been ousted following a vote of no confidence. This came after a momentary alliance of convenience between the country's left-wing coalition and the conservatives. Following the results of France's snap legislative election this past summer, the liberal centrist government of President Emmanuel Macron was left governing with a minority presence in the National Assembly, with the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition having more seats, […]

Biden may grant PREEMPTIVE PARDONS to people who could be investigated and indicted under Trump Just days after outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter despite repeated claims that he would not do so, reports coming in from the White House are now indicating that, before he leaves, Biden may grant preemptive pardons for current and former public officials. Aides within the White House are reporting that they […]

An asteroid collided with Earth and burned up in the atmosphere this week, but the real headline here is how little warning we had when it happened. The incident took place on Tuesday over eastern Siberia, where residents saw a show of lights as the falling rock streaked over a river in Olyokminsk. Its bright flash was visible in the sky from hundreds of miles away. It is not yet […]

Europe is again on the brink of financial Armageddon. This time it may not step back How they laughed when Britain’s hard-won reputation for pragmatic and stable government descended into chaos in the aftermath of the vote for Brexit. (Article by Jeremy Warner republished from Telegraph.co.uk) How they gloated and delighted in saying “told you so” when Liz Truss threw caution to the wind and in an act of breath-taking […]

Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr prepping for battle against censors: “Censorship is about stopping ideas” Veteran Republican Brendan Carr, President-elect Trump's pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is eager to fight with the censors that for too long have discriminated against conservative voices online. In a recent interview with Fox News, Carr explained how he plans to hit the ground running the moment Trump is reinstalled into […]