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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. We end today’s show with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, author of numerous books, including On Freedom and, before that, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Professor Snyder published On Tyranny in February of 2017, just a month after Donald […]

Lawmakers tell Apple and Google: Prepare to delist TikTok from app stores as ByteDance’s January deadline to divest nears Top House Select CCP Committee members have instructed the CEOs of Apple and Google to prepare for the potential removal of TikTok from their app stores ahead of a critical Jan. 19, 2025, deadline. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has until Jan. 19, 2025 – or April 19, if the ban gets an […]

Israeli's Attacks Continue Across Gaza Despite Talks of Nearing CeasefireTwin Palestinian Sisters Killed by Israeli Attack as They Attempted to Leave GazaHaaretz: Israeli Soldiers Arbitrarily Kill Palestinians, Then Declare Them TerroristsIsrael Bombs Yemen, Killing at Least 9Senate Passes $895B Pentagon Bill, Includes Ban on Healthcare for Military Trans Family MembersGovernment Shutdown Looms After House Republicans Reject Compromise Spending DealGOP Introduces DOGE Act to Slash Billions from Social ProgramsHouse Ethics Committee […]

We are all familiar by now with the various efforts that are underway to govern what we are allowed to say, and share, online. But this is a much bigger problem than is commonly perceived – it goes far beyond the ‘mere’ suppression of misinformation or disinformation, as misguided and dangerous as that effort is. What it represents is in fact a problematisation of information as such. Increasingly, those who govern […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to a grim reality that Syrians are facing after the toppling of the Assad regime: the discovery of mass graves across the country. According to the International Commission on Missing Persons, more than 150,000 Syrians remain unaccounted for after being held in Assad’s prisons. Many are believed to be buried in mass graves. […]

Biden’s Education Department has allocated more than $1 billion in grants to public schools to promote DEI PROGRAMS The Biden administration’s Department of Education has allocated more than $1 billion to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) grants across 42 states and Washington, D.C., since 2021. DEI grant money is used largely to fund consultants and administrative training programs, often at the expense of direct student benefits. There are concerns about the […]

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, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: In a major new report, Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing acts of extermination and genocide by deliberately restricting safe water for drinking and sanitation to the Gaza Strip. Tirana Hassan, the executive director at Human […]

Journalist Lara Logan gives impassioned speech, exposing the Blood Sport of Information Warfare Speaking from personal conviction and experience, Lara Logan warns of the escalating threat to free speech and press freedom. The journalist highlights the weaponization of technology in information warfare. Logan criticizes the cancel culture and censorship enabled by nonpartisan watchdogs. She calls out media institutions for failing to uphold core journalistic principles. Logan stresses the need for unity among journalists […]

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, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: The U.S. government has agreed to pay nearly $116 million to settle lawsuits brought by 103 women who survived sexual abuse and assault at a federal prison in Dublin, California, which was shuttered earlier this year. The facility, […]