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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The Biden administration has launched a probe after highly classified U.S. intelligence documents were posted online showing Israel is taking steps to launch a retaliatory attack on Iran. One document came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the other from 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 the presidential election just two weeks away, we look at the richest man in the world, one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers, tech billionaire Elon […]

Israel Kills at Least 25 in Jabaliya U.N. Shelter as It Tightens Its Chokehold on Northern Gaza U.S. Ambassador to U.N. Claims U.S. Will Hold Israel Accountable If It Starves Palestinians Israel Expands Assault on Lebanon, Attacks Beqaa in East, Compounding Displacement Crisis U.S. Deploys B-2 Bombers to Launch Strikes in Yemen Kamala Harris Gives […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin today’s show in Lebanon. The United Nations says Israel’s war on Lebanon has displaced 1.2 million people, including 400,000 Lebanese children. Earlier today, the Israeli military attacked the Beqaa region in eastern Lebanon after ordering more people to […]

In election news, a federal judge has blocked Alabama’s voter roll purge that targeted over 3,000 people Alabama claimed were noncitizens and therefore ineligible to vote. The Justice Department successfully argued the voter purge came too close to the November 5 election and included naturalized citizens who are in fact able to vote. Meanwhile, Nebraska’s […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Khalil al-Hayya, has confirmed in a televised address that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces earlier this week. Al-Hayya could succeed Sinwar. This comes after Israel announced Thursday it […]

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. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting today with ministers and heads of security agencies at the military headquarters in Tel […]

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. Tributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha’ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Deir al-Balah early Monday […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Nermeen Shaikh in New York, with Amy Goodman in Washington, D.C. “Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map.” That’s the warning from Oxfam and 35 other humanitarian groups […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Nermeen Shaikh in New York, with Amy Goodman in Washington, D.C. We end today’s show looking at the rising risk of a broader regional war in the Middle East. […]