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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 Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s military has killed at least two Palestinians in separate attacks. Israel claimed the men had […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: At the celebration, I had a chance to briefly speak with Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. AMY GOODMAN: The new mayor of New York City, the first Muslim mayor of New York. Your thoughts? REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO–CORTEZ: I […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Tuesday’s general elections saw Democrats post big wins across the United States. In California, voters passed Proposition 50, approving a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in the move to counter Texas’s redistricting […]

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. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84. He was a key architect of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and […]

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 spend the rest of the hour with two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who have a blockbuster new book out today. It’s called Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s […]

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. We end today’s show looking at Nigeria, as President Trump threatened this weekend to bomb Africa’s most populous country, also the largest oil producer in Africa. In a post on Truth Social […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed playwright, author and poet, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. You teach at NYU Abu Dhabi. You’re not in the United States. And looks like you can’t come here […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show looking at U.S.-China relations and President Trump’s threat to resume nuclear weapons testing. President Trump and President Xi Jinping met in South Korea and agreed to a one-year trade truce, but the trade deal was overshadowed […]

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 Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to look at U.S.-China trade relations, after President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year trade truce during their meeting in […]

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