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Affordability crisis grips Canada and U.S. as polls show overwhelming public distress over rising prices A new poll shows most Canadians feel the current cost of living is the worst they’ve ever experienced. Food prices are the primary and most universal source of financial stress. Housing costs are the second biggest […]

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 end today’s show looking at the devastating war in Sudan, the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the RSF, facing accusations of attempting to cover up its […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: President Trump has ordered a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the U.S. ramps up pressure on the government of Nicolás Maduro. The blockade comes amidst a major U.S. military buildup in 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, with Juan González. We turn now to Chile, looking at the election of José Antonio Kast, who’s set to become Chile’s most right-wing leader since the U.S.-backed […]

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. Friday is the deadline for the Department of Justice to release its investigative files into the dead financier and serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The deadline was set with […]

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. In a moment, we’re going to go to the Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Aram Roston, who wrote the piece, “’They’re trying to get rich […]

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 go now to a new investigation published by The Guardian. It’s headlined “’They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ […]

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. In a moment, we’re going to Providence, Rhode Island, to talk about the mass shooting at Brown University. But first, international pressure is mounting to urge Iran […]

A deadly mass shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine others injured on Saturday. One student, Mia Tretta, had survived a shooting in 2019 when she was shot in the stomach as a high school student. Her best friend was killed in the shooting, and she had selected Brown University for Rhode […]

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 […]