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"Firestorm": MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & "America's New Age of Disaster"
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- "Firestorm": MS NOW's Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & "America's New Age of Disaster"
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- 10:48
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- 9 months ago
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We speak with journalist Jacob Soboroff about his new book and ongoing reporting about the Los Angeles fires one year ago, when destructive infernos razed entire neighborhoods, killing 30 people and displacing over 100,000 more. The book "Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster" provides a detailed look at how the fires unfolded, the emergency efforts and the political response. Soboroff, who grew up in the area, describes seeing the charred remains of his own childhood home while misinformation from Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other powerful figures was "pouring rhetorical fuel on the flames of the very real fire."
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- Trump's Plan to Seize Greenland Would "Militarize the Arctic," Trample Indigenous Rights
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- 18:22
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- 9 months ago
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Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it's considering "a range of options," including the use of military force. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the U.S. were to attack Greenland, it would spell the end of NATO.
"Greenland is not up for sale," says Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit activist and attorney, who says Indigenous Greenlanders want their independence from both the U.S. and Denmark.
We also speak with analyst Pavel Devyatkin, who says the U.S. is "acting like a rogue state" and enacting a policy of "pure imperialism."
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- "This Is Our Hemisphere": Report from Colombia on Trump's Escalating Threats to the Region
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- 16:07
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- 9 months ago
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Following his attack on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has escalated his threats against Colombia and claimed without evidence that President Gustavo Petro is involved in cocaine trafficking. Trump and others in his administration have also threatened military action against Cuba, Greenland, Iran and Mexico in recent days.
Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist with more than 40 years of involvement in grassroots political organizing, tells Democracy Now! that Trump's attacks on Petro are lies. The former guerrilla "has seized more cocaine than any other government in the past," says Rozental. "President Petro is not a drug trafficker. President Petro has been a victim of drug mafias and their allies."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 7, 2026
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- 10:36
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- 9 months ago
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- "He just can’t stop talking about the oil"
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- 1:04
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- 9 months ago
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- Mehdi Hasan explains why Trump's interest in Venezuela was never about drugs and always about oil.
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- "Donroe Doctrine": How Trump is bringing 19th-century imperial ambitions to Latin America
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- 1:39
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- 9 months ago
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- What is the "Donroe Doctrine"?
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 6, 2026
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- 13:02
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- 9 months ago
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- Can U.S. Oil Companies Really Take Over Venezuela's Industry?
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- 14:18
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- 9 months ago
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The share prices of U.S. oil companies surged following the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president, Nicolás Maduro. In public statements, Trump has been clear about his desire to reassert U.S. corporate control over Venezuela's nationalized oil industry. However, notes financial reporter David Uberti, it won't be so easy for Wall Street to make a profit. In addition to upgrading Venezuela's "decrepit" oil-producing infrastructure, oil companies must push for a greater share of the energy marketplace, just as oil’s popularity is on the decline. Uberti also discusses his reporting on the Trump family's business empire, which has generated at least $4 billion since Donald Trump's return to the White House.
0:00 - Chevron and Venezuela
4:15 - Trump family businesses
10:08 - AI data centers, nuclear fusion
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- "Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America
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- 10:13
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- 9 months ago
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We take a closer look at the Trump administration's Monroe Doctrine-based "Donroe Doctrine" — a tightening of U.S. control over the Americas amid weakening global hegemony and internal divisions within the governing MAGA coalition. "As has happened in the past, when the U.S. has faced resistance or defeat elsewhere in the world, they come back 'home' to the Western Hemisphere. They use Latin America as an imperial laboratory, as they have since almost the founding of the United States," explains Alexander Aviña, an associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. "It's just part of this long history of constant U.S. intervention in the region to prevent and not tolerate Latin American assertions of sovereignty and self-determination."
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- "It's All About the Oil, Stupid!": Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro
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- 18:27
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- 9 months ago
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Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan outlines Donald Trump's "Donroe Doctrine," a throwback foreign policy exemplified by the Trump administration's shocking intervention in Venezuela. With his claims of U.S. sovereignty over nations in the Western Hemisphere, "Trump's basically saying, 'Well, this is ours, and China, Russia can have their spheres of influence.' And it is very 19th-century-esque. 'Let's divide up the world between the powers.'" This orientation is a major shift from U.S. foreign policy of recent decades, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when interventionist actions were framed around ideological motivations, explains Hasan. "They said it was WMDs. They said it was democracy. They said it was al-Qaeda. They at least pretended that it wasn't about the oil." Meanwhile, Trump is brazen about his aims to seize control of Venezuela's resources and demonstrate that "might is right."
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- What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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- 1:01
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- 9 months ago
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- Democracy Now! discusses the attack on Venezuela with Venezuelan American scholar Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history at Pomona College.
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- Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
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- 0:52
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- 9 months ago
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- "The whole premise of the international order is that we respect each other's border," says law professor David Cole.
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- What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
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- 19:30
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- 9 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/5/maduro_abduction_impact_on_latin_america
Democracy Now! discusses the attack on Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York University, and Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history at Pomona College.
2:31 Venezuela's oil industry
7:29 Delcy Rodríguez's possible role
10:12 Marco Rubio, Cuba & U.S. imperialism
17:22 María Corina Machado
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- Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela
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- 11:14
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- 9 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/5/maduro_abduction_is_illegal_david_cole
The Trump administration did not seek congressional authorization prior to attacking Venezuela, as is required by the Constitution. It also violated “probably the first principle of international law … that countries have to respect their neighbors, and they can’t simply invade a neighbor or any other sovereign nation because they don’t like the way they are running things there,” says law professor David Cole. The attack was clearly not a law enforcement operation, as the administration has claimed, but an “imperialist intervention,” says Cole, who notes President Trump’s comments on extracting oil from the region.
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- Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction
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- 12:13
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- 9 months ago
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Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/5/us_venezuela_trump_maduro
U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in a Saturday night raid. About 80 people were reportedly killed, including 32 Cubans. Democracy Now! speaks with Andreína Chávez, a Venezuelan reporter based in Caracas, who calls the strikes an “imperialist attack.”
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 5, 2026
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- 13:04
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- 9 months ago
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- Special Report on Venezuela: U.S. Abducts Maduro, Trump Says "We Are Going to Run" Oil-Rich Nation
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- 35:05
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- 9 months ago
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Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco.
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- Zohran Mamdani: I will govern as a democratic socialist
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- 1:56
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- 9 months ago
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- In his inaugural address as mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani vowed not to back away from his ambitious campaign promises. "I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."
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- AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from Mamdani Inauguration
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- 10:38
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- 9 months ago
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"We have chosen courage over fear. We have chosen prosperity for the many over spoils for the few," said Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her introduction to the historic inauguration of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor. We feature part of her remarks, along with poet Cornelius Eady, who performed his original poem "Proof" during the inauguration ceremony, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who began to cry as he addressed part of his speech to his younger self.
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- "I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration
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- 19:45
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- 9 months ago
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Zohran Mamdani hailed "a new era" for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progressives in the city and saw him defeat the political establishment in both the Democratic primary and the general election last year. Addressing thousands of supporters who braved freezing temperatures to attend the ceremony at City Hall, Mamdani vowed to "govern expansively and audaciously" for residents. "I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical," he said.
Mamdani was sworn in by Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who also spoke during the ceremony.
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- Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration
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- 7:44
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- 9 months ago
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Tens of thousands of New Yorkers braved freezing temperatures and police barricades to be part of Zohran Mamdani's inauguration as mayor on New Year's Day. _Democracy Now!_ spoke with many Mamdani supporters, including a high school student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, about what the day represented to them, their hopes for the new administration and how it could set a model for progressives across the country. "Organized people will always be more powerful than organized money," said Diana Moreno, a fellow democratic socialist who is running for Mamdani's vacant seat in the New York State Assembly.
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- Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit
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- 5:39
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- 9 months ago
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New York City started 2026 with a new mayor, as democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani made history when he was sworn in as the city's first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born leader, as well as the youngest in over a century. Ahead of a public ceremony on New Year's Day that drew tens of thousands of people in the freezing cold, Mamdani was privately sworn in at midnight by New York Attorney General Tish James in a small ceremony held at a decommissioned subway station below City Hall. He took his oath using two Qur'ans, including one that belonged to his grandfather. Andrew Epstein, one of Mamdani's closest advisers, spoke with Democracy Now! about the significance of the private ceremony and how it connected the new mayor to the history of the city he now leads.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 2, 2026
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- 13:05
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- 9 months ago
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- “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
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- 56:16
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- 9 months ago
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In a New Year holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao in an extended interview.
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- "The Blue Road to Trump Hell": Norm Solomon on "How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy"
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- 12:05
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- 9 months ago
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A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party's official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction's "Democratic Autopsy" looks at how factors like "service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, out-of-control militarism [and] disconnection from the base of the working class" contributed to declining support for the party's platform and candidates. "If you don't examine real history, then you're in a cycle that repeats the same problems," says Norman Solomon, director of RootsAction, who joins Democracy Now! to discuss his organization's findings.
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- "Mayor for the Masses": Can Democratic Socialists Behind Zohran Mamdani Keep Up Their Momentum?
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- 10:52
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- 9 months ago
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New York City is preparing to welcome Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, into office as mayor. Ahead of the highly anticipated inauguration, we sit down with NYC-DSA's co-chair Grace Mausser to discuss the goals of the incoming administration and next steps for the volunteer-powered campaign apparatus that helped propel Mamdani to City Hall. "Just getting a mayor into office, while impressive and very exciting, is not enough," says Mausser. "The reason we rallied behind Zohran is because he is committed to building our project."
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- "One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors": NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza
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- 9:36
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- 9 months ago
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Israel is set to suspend the operating licenses of Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and dozens of other humanitarian aid groups in Gaza and the West Bank over alleged ties to Hamas, preventing international aid workers from entering Gaza and carrying out critical, lifesaving operations. Citing the groups' supposed support for the "delegitimization of Israel," the move is "arbitrary and highly politicized," explains Shaina Low, communications adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the impacted groups. "This is just one more step to push out principled humanitarian actors, particularly those that speak out on behalf of the people who we're there to serve, call for accountability for rights violations and violations of international law."
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- U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump "Wants the Oil" as Grassroots Resist "Economic Asphyxiation"
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- 11:58
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- 9 months ago
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As the Trump administration escalates its military campaign against Venezuela, we speak to Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez about the latest developments. Responding to the U.S. military's drone strikes on small boats and seizures of oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, Chávez says U.S. claims of pursuing fentanyl traffickers lack evidence and are "pretext" for an attempt "to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy" and wrest control of the country's state-owned oil reserves. In the face of U.S. aggression, says Chávez, "Venezuelan communes and Venezuelan popular organizations in general have responded to Trump's claims that he owns the Venezuelan oil with a very strong response, saying that they're going to defend sovereignty, that they're going to defend Venezuela's self-determination."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 31, 2025
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- 11:16
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- 9 months ago
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- Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Journalists Gideon Levy and Rami Khouri discuss the work of acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, who died at the age of 72 on Christmas Eve.
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- Trump Backs Netanyahu’s Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
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- 1:11
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- 9 months ago
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- We speak to journalist Rami Khouri about President Trump’s meeting Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump supported Israel’s threats to launch new attacks on Iran.
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- Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
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- 9:38
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- 9 months ago
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Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. "We've done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs," says Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York and member of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team. She discusses how premiums will work, how to seek help, what to watch for in alternative plans, and more.
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- Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults
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- 8:15
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- 9 months ago
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Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven't been able to make their payments for at least nine months. "It's cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we're sure that we can run it in a compliant manner," says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hardship, Barnard suggests "immediately [contesting] when they get a notice of wage seizure." She lays out what is at stake, options for those facing default, and more.
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- Trump Backs Netanyahu's "Colonial" Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond
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- 25:06
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- 9 months ago
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0:00 - Rami Khouri on Trump & Netanyahu's meeting at Mar-a-Lago
6:48 - Netanyahu's ICC arrest warrant
8:57 - Gideon Levy on Trump & Netanyahu's meeting at Mar-a-Lago
12:52 - Israel's recognition of Somaliland
15:01 - Gideon Levy on the late filmmaker Mohammad Bakri
19:58 - Israel's approval of new West Bank settlements
22:49 - Rami Khouri on the late filmmaker Mohammad Bakri
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 30, 2025
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- 12:16
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- 9 months ago
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- Did Trump's CBP head cover up a murder in 2010?
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- The new HBO documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant "beaten to death" by U.S. border agents in 2010.
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- Palestine Action activists jailed in U.K. continue their hunger strike
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- 2:12
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- 9 months ago
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- Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention.
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- Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump's Current Border Commissioner
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- 13:06
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- 9 months ago
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An HBO documentary, Critical Incident: Death at the Border, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in U.S. custody at the border. His 2010 death occurred under the watch of Rodney Scott, the man who now heads Customs and Border Protection under President Trump. At the time, Scott was deputy chief of the San Diego sector of the Border Patrol.
"Anastasio was tortured and beaten to death in public," says director Rick Rowley. "It was a killing and a cover-up that went absolutely to the top of the organization and implicated the entire chain of command."
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- Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks
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- 14:23
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- 9 months ago
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SUMMARY:
Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention. The activists remain imprisoned as they await trial over charges linked to their work with Palestine Action, which the British government has banned under its Terrorism Act over direct action protests against Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Several of the activists who began their hunger strike in early November are now in "a critical stage" and facing grave health risks or death, according to Dr. James Smith, a doctor supporting the hunger strikers. "This is an extremely critical moment, and, frankly speaking, it defies comprehension that members of the government have refused even to meet with the hunger strikers in an attempt to resolve this situation."
We also speak with Francesca Nadin, a spokesperson ...
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- What's Behind Trump's Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?
- Runtime
- 12:07
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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President Trump says the U.S. strikes in Nigeria on Christmas Day were aimed at ISIS fighters and part of a campaign to stop a supposed anti-Christian "genocide" in the country. But residents of the area say there is no recorded history of anti-Christian terrorism, and organizations monitoring violence in the region say there is no evidence to suggest that Christians are killed more than Muslims and other religious groups in Nigeria. This comes as a suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside a mosque in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Day, killing five worshipers and injuring 35 more.
"Nigeria has a very serious problem of insecurity that affects a wide range of Nigerians, especially those who live in the more remote parts of the country," but violence impacts "Muslims more so than Christians," says Yinka Adegoke, Africa editor of Semafor. Adegoke says Trump's religious framing has more to do w...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 29, 2025
- Runtime
- 15:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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- Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC’s Next Mayor
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani speaks with Democracy Now! about the rise of his son, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
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- Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- We speak with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late.
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- Arundhati Roy on New Memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me," Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S.
- Runtime
- 43:47
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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In this holiday special, we speak to the acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy on her new memoir, "Mother Mary Comes to Me." The book focuses on her mother Mary Roy and how Arundhati was shaped by her, both as a source of terror and of inspiration.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
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- Title
- Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting
- Runtime
- 12:27
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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The legendary journalist Bill Moyers died in June at the age of 91. Moyers, whose long career included helping found the Peace Corps and serving as press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, was an award-winning champion of public television and independent media.
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- Title
- Did Kristi Noem stage photos at CECOT?
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Alexa Koenig’s research on human rights violations at CECOT was to be featured on “60 Minutes."
She says it was "incredibly disappointing" to learn that her and her students' work for the show would be shelved when CBS News pulled the segment.
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- How Israel uses homegrown extremism to steal Palestinian land
- Runtime
- 1:25
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel describes being ambushed by Israeli settlers in October, on the first day of the olive harvest in the West Bank.
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- A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz
- Runtime
- 58:09
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
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His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz, the movie that inspired Wicked. Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Harburg was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of his life. We speak with Harburg’s son, Ernie Harburg, about the music and politics of his father. Then we take an in-depth look at The Wizard of Oz, and hear a medley of Harburg’s Broadway songs and the politics of the times in which they were created.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Mon...
- Title
- Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
- Runtime
- 1:07
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest.
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- Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors’ Fight for Accountability
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- As the DOJ releases the largest batch of files yet on the federal investigation into Epstein, we look at some of the most significant revelations with investigative journalist Vicky Ward.
