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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We end today’s show with the historic $2 billion payout by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Black farmers and other farmers of color who experienced discrimination when applying to the USDA’s farm loan programs. The payouts finally came two years after Congress funded them through […]

According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, $78 trillion is needed to achieve the "absurd" climate goal Net Zero by the year 2050. She gave this estimate during a July 27 speech delivered in the city of Belem in Brazil's northern Para state. Yellen noted that achieving Net Zero carbon emissions will require $3 trillion in annual global financing – amounting to a whopping $78 trillion by 2050. In line with […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. We have this late, breaking news. CNN is reporting that Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. We go right now to John Nichols, The Nation magazine’s national affairs correspondent, to respond to this breaking news and who Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is, the significance. […]

Dr. Rima Laibow urges the U.S. to GET OUT of the UN death machine Dr. Rima Laibow has called on the U.S. to get out of the United Nations (UN) death machine before it is too late. "The U.S. is the core of the death machine," she said during a recent appearance on "The Alex Jones Show" with guest host Maria Zeee. "Unfortunately, the U.S. was the core around […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with breaking news. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled to India after weeks of student-led protests. Bangladeshi’s army has announced an interim government will be formed to run Bangladesh. Earlier today, crowds stormed Hasina’s official residence in Dhaka to celebrate her ouster. Hasina had led Bangladesh since 2009. She […]

Neither was allowed to participate in the world championships for the female side of their sport last year, but two "trans women" boxers were just cleared to compete against real women at the 2024 Olympics in Paris after the International Olympics Committee (IOC) gave them the green light. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting of Taiwan are making headlines for qualifying to compete in this year's Olympics despite last […]

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 turn now to Venezuela, where tension is rising over the contested results of the presidential election that took place just over a week ago. The incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, who was declared the winner by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, has vowed to […]

German economy in DEATH SPIRAL after failed “green economic miracle” escapades Things are not looking good for Germany under the leadership of far-left "green" lunatics like Chancellor Olaf Scholz who promised a "green economic miracle" that never arrived. In the months leading up to the country's election season this fall, Germany's debt level reached a new all-time high of €2.45 trillion at the end of 2023, according to 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, as we turn now to a major investigation by The Washington Post into Donald Trump’s relationship with the Egyptian government, which reportedly tried to funnel $10 million in cash to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The cash weighed about 200 pounds when it was […]