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At least nine Palestinians were killed overnight as Israel’s military carried out its largest raid on the occupied West Bank in two decades. Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers, fighter jets and drones, launched simultaneous raids on Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reports Jenin’s three main hospitals were besieged, with Israeli soldiers barring ambulances from transporting the wounded. Other witnesses described Israeli bulldozers destroying roads, […]

Brent crude oil prices soar above $81 as Libya shuts down oil production and exports Libya's eastern government has announced its intention to shut down oil production and exports, causing a cascading effect on the oil market and driving up the price of Brent crude oil past the $81 per barrel mark on Monday morning, Aug. 26. Libya is still divided following a six-year-long civil war that ended with the […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: At least nine Palestinians have been killed and 11 injured as the Israeli military launches its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades, with hundreds of troops, backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers, fighter jets and drones, launching simultaneous raids on the northern cities of Jenin and Tulkarm. In Jenin, Israeli forces […]

LIZARD CHATTER: Nancy Pelosi literally says her “reptilian, cold-blooded” strategies will help Kamala Harris win election, flip House back to Democrats In an interview with PBS at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Nancy Pelosi revealed that she plans to secure a White House win for Kamala Harris and turn the House of Representatives back to Democrat control using her own "discreet, reptilian, cold-blooded" strategies. The 84-year-old career politician made […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We look now at how voting rules in key battleground states could impact the November election results, especially in Georgia, where the laws are Republican-led and backed by former President Trump, who is now running for reelection. This week, the […]

Liberal research paper explores how to manipulate Americans into eating less red meat A new liberal study from the University of Southern California explores how language might be used to influence Americans to eat less red meat. The findings, published in the journal Climatic Change on Aug. 12, suggest that changing how people talk about food could impact dietary choices, especially in the context of "climate change." The research team, composed of three professors […]

Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing accusations he is using his office to suppress Latino voters in the state. The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the country’s oldest Latino civil rights group, is calling on the Justice Department to investigate Paxton over a series of police raids on the homes of LULAC members, state lawmakers and other community leaders in the San Antonio area last week. […]

Iraqi Kurdish migrant convicted of attempted murder after pushing man onto train tracks in London An Iraqi Kurdish migrant in the United Kingdom with a history of criminal offenses has been found guilty of attempted murder after pushing a 61-year-old postman in front of a London Underground train. In February, Brwa Shorsh, 24, who had been living on the streets of London since arriving in the U.K. in 2019, […]

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