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Florida’s Palm Beach County invests $700M in Israeli bonds, essentially using taxpayer money to fund genocide in Gaza State and local governments across the U.S. are being scrutinized for purchasing Israeli bonds at record-high levels, lured by government incentives and the possibility of hefty returns on their investments for purchasing Israeli debt. Israel needed to fund its war on Gaza, and state and local governments in the U.S. were only […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in India, where preliminary results from the world’s largest election suggest Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP party will have a reduced majority in Parliament. Meanwhile, the opposition alliance known by the acronym I-N-D-I-A, INDIA, and led by Rahul Gandhi’s centrist Congress Party, is doing better than expected. India’s seven-phase […]

U.K. nurses sue National Health Service for siding with transgender employee over allegations of sexual harassment in changing room A group of 26 nurses in the United Kingdom have filed a lawsuit against the National Health Service (NHS) for siding with a transgender employee who allegedly harassed female staff in the women's changing room. The lawsuit, which stems from the policy of the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, accused 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 Juan González. We turn now to El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele has been sworn in for a second term. The move has been widely denounced as illegitimate and a violation of El Salvador’s Constitution, which limits presidents to just one five-year […]

Nissan issues urgent “do not drive” warning covering 84,000 cars due to risk of Takata airbags EXPLODING during crash Nissan has released a memo advising owners of approximately 84,000 of their older vehicles to stop driving them due to the heightened risk of their Takata airbags exploding during a crash and releasing dangerous metal fragments. This urgent notice follows the death of a person in a Nissan vehicle due […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! We turn now to major election results out of Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum has made history as the country’s first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico. Sheinbaum is a climate scientist, former mayor of Mexico City. She’s a member of the ruling Morena party and a close ally of […]

France to announce official deployment of “military instructors” to Ukraine to help train Kyiv’s new recruits France is poised to announce the deployment of military instructors to Ukraine during an upcoming visit to Paris by Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Reuters. This move comes despite concerns from some allies and criticism from Russia. Zelensky, whose legal presidency ended on May 20, recently visited Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We end today’s show looking at Israel’s war on Gaza and its impact on Palestinian children. More than 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed over the past eight months, and Palestinian officials are warning over 3,500 children are at risk of death due to starvation. […]

Doomsday CEO Bob Nardelli says U.S. economy “ready to crack” If the United States economy was a giant fault line, then, well, the earthquake rumbling has already begun. According to Bob Nardelli, the former boss of Home Depot and Chrysler, the U.S. economy is "ready to crack" – and he should know, seeing as how he correctly predicted the retail apocalypse. Blaming much of the current troubles on President Biden, […]