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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. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to the acclaimed academic and writer Mahmood Mamdani, author of the new book Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the […]

U.S. Tightens Sanctions on Venezuela and Plans to Seize More Oil Tankers as Trump Threatens War Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Won't Rule Out Regime Change in Venezuela 12 Die in Gaza Strip Amid Winter Storm and Israeli Ceasefire Violations Health Insurance Costs Are Set to Explode After Republicans Reject Extended Tax Credits Hundreds Quarantined […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is upending immunization policies in the United States. CNN is reporting the Food and Drug Administration is considering putting a “black box” warning on […]

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 Gaza. Al Jazeera reports at least 12 Palestinians have died over the last day as a major winter storm devastates […]

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. As the Trump administration expands its immigration crackdown around the country, President Trump is making it easier for a select few to obtain a U.S. visa. Earlier this week, […]

Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday. We speak with Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who reiterated her call during the hearing for Noem to resign and announced that she would begin taking steps for […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Professor Mamdani, of course, it’s a matter of the most remarkable coincidence that this book, Slow Poison, was published just as your son was on the precipice of his electoral victory as mayor of New York City. You’d been […]

Palestinians were battered with rain and freezing temperatures overnight as winter storm Byron hit the Gaza Strip. Soaked tents and makeshift shelters flooded, causing some mattresses to float and improvised roofs to blow away. An 8-month-old baby girl, Rahaf Abu Jazar, died from hypothermia. Moureen Kaki, an aid worker living in Gaza, says conditions at […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Well, attorney Todd Pomerleau, we have one last question to ask you about another of your clients, Any Lucía López Belloza, this 19-year-old Babson College freshman, arrested last month at Boston airport when she was at the gate. She was […]

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated city bus to a white man. Historian and biographer Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious […]