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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: The Washington Post is reporting Israel is planning to launch retaliatory strikes against Iran within the next three weeks, ahead of the U.S. election. Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli military and security sites on October 1st. At the time, Iran said the strikes were retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail […]

New York high schoolers to stage WALKOUTS in protest of ballot measure that will allow trans athletes to participate in girls’ sports High school students across New York are planning to walk out of their classrooms on Oct. 24 in protest of a ballot measure that would allow transgender athletes to participate in girls' sporting events. New York's Proposal 1, also known as the "Equal Rights Amendment," would add […]

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 Juan González. Protests over the U.S. arming Israel are continuing. On Monday morning, more than 200 Jewish activists and their allies were arrested as they blocked entrances to the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. The protesters were calling for an […]

Rare RAIN DELUGE in Sahara Desert creating green, blue oases on land that had long been just sand Large swaths of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa are turning blue and green following a rare rain deluge that swept through the drought-stricken region in recent days. Reports indicate that the normally dry, arid and brown landscape is now brimming with blue lagoons filled with water, trees and other signs […]

The new documentary film Union, premiering this week, follows Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island as they formed the first-ever U.S. Amazon union in 2022. Co-directed by Stephen Maing and Brett Story, the film follows “the invisible working class” as they face an uphill battle against the notoriously anti-labor corporation, says Maing, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss the film. We also speak with Amazon Labor […]

Whatifalthist, a young commentator (younger than me!) is one of the best geopolitics commentators out there today. He has publicly said he thinks this election cycle will result in a US Civil War, most likely this year… But very likely in the fallout years, same way the election of Abraham Lincoln in Nov 1860 took until April of 1861 for Fort Sumter to be fired upon. (Article republished from Anarchonomicon.com) I’m […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Gaza, where Israeli warplanes bombed a tent encampment on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah earlier this morning. At least four Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, as the bombing set off a massive fire in an area packed with tents housing displaced people who had sought safety […]

“We f—-d it up:” Biden admits Obama failed when he didn’t prevent Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 Veteran investigative journalist Bob Woodward has recently reported that President Joe Biden is blaming former President Barack Obama over the current conflict in Ukraine, claiming that Obama's administration did nothing to prevent Russia from annexing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Woodward wrote about this and other experiences in his upcoming book […]

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 Israel is intensifying its siege on northern Gaza, Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Friday five of its staff members were trapped in Jabaliya. One of its members reported about 20 people were killed in an airstrike on Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital. […]