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Democracy Now! is an hour-long independent American television, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.
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At least 59 people have died in ICE custody since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the highest number in more than a decade. Many deaths have been linked to medical neglect, including four of five recent deaths at California’s Adelanto Processing Center, according to a 2026 report by the state attorney general. Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines investigated deaths at the facility, which is operated by the private prison company GEO Group, in the new documentary Dying in Detention . “ GEO Group has made over a billion dollars in profits from immigration detention. They have given more than a million dollars … to help reelect Donald Trump,” says correspondent Natasha Del Toro. “That raises a lot of questions for us about the relationship between GEO and the federal government, and some of these conflicts of interest.”
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Brazilian voters are heading to the polls on Sunday for the presidential runoff between incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, with polls showing a tight race that will decide whether Brazil remains led by the left or joins the right-wing surge across Latin America. According to The Intercept Brasil , Bolsonaro’s campaign paid 600,000 Brazilian reais (about $119,000 USD ) to a U.S. company, Elytron, that specializes in election manipulation, including through online disinformation and “psychological warfare techniques” to undermine opponents. Reporter Laís Martins says that while it’s not clear whether or how the Bolsonaro campaign used Elytron’s services, it adds to suspicion of U.S. interference in the election, including Meta’s restrictions on President Lula’s social media profiles. “We’ve seen evidence pile up that something is not right, that this playing field is not equal,” says Martins.
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have both defended Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after his campaign released a TV ad that appears to accuse Democratic nominee Amy Acton of lying about being sexually abused as a child. Acton’s stepfather was indicted in 1978 on charges of sexually assaulting her when she was between 10 and 12 years old, though he fled before he could be convicted. Acton’s mother, who lost custody of her two children, sided with her husband and remained with him as a fugitive until his death in 2004. In the controversial campaign ad, the elderly Donna Arthur says her daughter Amy has “lied her entire life” and can’t be trusted as governor, which has been widely interpreted as casting doubt on what Acton has said about being abused as a minor. “Vivek Ramaswamy is now using that personal trauma as an effort to exploit what she went through and win this race,” says Abby Vesoulis, a reporter for Mother Jones . “He’s currently polling beneath Amy Acton, which shows, I think, that this ad is a desperate attempt to somehow pull off a victory despite poor odds.” Vesoulis says outrage over the ad, even among Republican voters, is tied to simmering anger about how the Trump administration has handled the Epstein files. She also discusses abuse allegations against Ohio Republican Congressmember Max Miller, who is running for reelection.
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Netanyahu Moves to Fully Lock Down West Bank Ahead of Israeli Elections, As Trump Threatens New Strikes, U.S. Ambassador Says Iran War Could Last Another Year, Study: European Heat Waves Killed 50,000 in 2026 as Toll of Climate Crisis Grows, French Student Union Denounces Macron Ban on “Illegitimate” Protests, Serbia: 150,000 Rally in Student-Led Protest Ahead of Sunday’s Election, Students Lead Protests in Indonesia over Economic Crisis & Forest Fires, Press Crackdown in Egypt: Mada Masr Editor Lina Attalah Referred to Trial, Elon Musk Invests $1 Billion in Skydance, Threatens Democratic Lawmakers, Book Claims Saudi and Emirati Leaders Set Up Secret Bank Accounts for Jared Kushner, NYT : Justice Department Investigates Ex- DHS Adviser Corey Lewandowski, Ecuador: Opposition Leader Arrested in Noboa’s Widening Crackdown on Left, Cuba Accuses U.S. of Threatening to Punish Nations Who Support U.N. Resolution Against Embargo, ICE Agents Filmed Trying to Rip Toddlers from Guatemalan Father’s Arms in Providence, Pentagon OKs Testing Heat Ray Weapon on Migrants Along U.S.-Mexico Border, DOJ Charges Virginia Senate Leader, Louise Lucas, Polling Firm Admits It Fabricated Polls
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A court in India on Wednesday ordered the release of two leaders of the Cockroach Janta Party, the youth-led movement that has led historic waves of protests in India since the summer. Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were detained amid massive protests last week after they scaled a barricade to enter a site popular for protest, unfurled the national flag and called for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Kumar oversaw the deletion of 130 million names from the voter rolls in India since June of last year. Opposition parties say those impacted are primarily Muslims and other minorities less likely to support the BJP , the Hindu nationalist ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “You have a deep and wide — an ideologically wide — historical culture of resistance in India,” says acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy. At the same time, the Modi government “has three things in its playbook: One is false-flag attacks, two is engineering communal riots, and the third is massive repression. And I don’t think we’ve seen its hand yet.”
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The growing controversy over AIPAC’s impact on U.S. politics is the subject of a new Zeteo documentary titled Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence . The film examines AIPAC’s history and its role in shaping U.S. policy toward Israel, and questions whether its activities warrant further scrutiny under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA . “It says that you have to register under this law if you are acting at the request of a foreign government,” says Dion Nissenbaum, the filmmaker behind Night Flower: Inside AIPAC’s Fight for Influence . “And we talked to numerous people who showed us several examples of how AIPAC is acting at the request of Israel.” Referencing the title of the film, Night Flower , Zeteo editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan says AIPAC “blossoms in the dark, shrivels in the light. We’re trying to put some sunlight onto AIPAC .”
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One of the most closely watched races in the midterm elections is in Michigan between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed is a former public health official who is campaigning on a platform of Medicare for All, ending military aid to Israel, and getting corporate money out of politics. Rogers is a former Republican congressman backed by President Trump. If elected, El-Sayed would become the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate. During Wednesday’s debate in Michigan, Rogers repeated the claim, without providing evidence, that El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed has repeatedly denied the accusation. “If Abdul El-Sayed wins, it will be a reminder that the left can win in a swing state like Michigan,” says Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief of Zeteo. “And it will be actually a moment to say, 'You know what? Americans rejected Islamophobia.'”
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U.S. and Israeli Militaries Draft Plans to Resume Strikes on Iran After Midterm Elections, Saudi Arabia Says Four People Are Killed as Houthis Attack Oil Field, King Fahd Airport, Russia Kills More Civilians in Ukraine as U.S. Envoy Witkoff Praises Putin as a “Humanitarian”, Nigeria Reports First Case of Ebola in Over a Decade, U.N. Says World Has Lost Chance to Limit Global Heating, U.K. Approves Plans to Extract Natural Gas from North Sea Deposit, Chemical Tank Leak in Ohio Forces Evacuations, Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Commissions Ugly Attack Ad Featuring Opponent’s Estranged Mother, Trump Travels to South Carolina to Boost GOP Senator Darline Graham, Supreme Court Bars Trump Administration from Denying Gender-Affirming Care to Prisoners, Majority of Websites on Internet Left Vulnerable After Critical Security Flaws Are Discovered, Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Fine, Police Violently Restrain Three People During Utah Data Center Protest
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We’re joined by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of the book End Times Fascism , for a wide-ranging conversation on the multitrillion-dollar global investment in artificial intelligence and its reverberating effects around the world. Klein recently spoke at the People’s AI Assembly, alongside other critics of the artificial intelligence industry, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan. “The resistance to AI is taking many forms, and it’s really a resistance to oligarch power, which is concentrated in the hands of these tech companies,” Klein tells Democracy Now! “After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself.” Taylor, a co-founder of the Debt Collective, warns that the “circular” debt financing of much of the AI economy is “a waste of resources that also endangers the public.” The AI buildout “is so intense, so frenetic and so redundant” that it risks causing a major economic crash akin to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, Taylor says. If that happens, she adds, “Naomi and I think we need to use this moment, just like during the Great Depression and the New Deal era, to demand a real renovation, transformation, of our public services.”
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Student-led anti-corruption and cost-of-living protests in Albania are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, among other demands. Hundreds of injuries and arrests have been reported amid a violent police crackdown, along with widespread damage to public and private property. The student demands are an outgrowth of the “Flamingo Revolution,” which erupted earlier this year in opposition to a luxury resort being developed on the ecologically sensitive Sazan Island. The planned resort is backed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, and has been fast-tracked by the Rama government. “Students find no future in Albania,” says Bora Mema, a founding member of the left-wing political party Lëvizja Bashkë, about the motivations behind the burgeoning pro-democracy movement. “Many of us have to migrate because the only development model that the government proposes is to clean the toilets of the rich and the mafia in luxurious resorts, like the one that Trump and Kushner and the national oligarchs and mafia in Albania are constructing.”
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Ansar Allah Attacks Taiz as 250,000 Yemenis Displaced Since Fighting Erupted in July, Saudi Arabia Executes Bangladeshi Man and Woman in Mecca, Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Seven Palestinians, Brad Lander Detained by the IDF in the Occupied West Bank, Congressmember Tlaib Calls on DOJ to Arrest Israeli Military Commander Accused of Killing Hind Rajab, Russia Frees 74-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Imprisoned for Fighting as a Mercenary in Ukraine, France Plans Massive Surge in Police Forces for Protests Planned for This Weekend, Italian Government Deploys 500 Troops to Milan After Protests, Trump Tells Reporters Congressmember Ilhan Omar Could Go to Jail, L.A. Election Officials Say DOJ’s List of Alleged Noncitizen Voters Contains People Born in the U.S., Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Hinojosa Files Lawsuit for Emails Between Musk and Governor Abbott, NYT : Billionaire Received Pardon After Family Company Gave Alina Habba $50 Million Deal, ProPublica: Defense Contractor Made Campaign Cash-for-Contracts Deal with Late Sen. Graham and Rep. Clyburn
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As voters across the United States cast ballots on November 3, Californians are weighing whether to approve a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires in the state. The tax would apply to roughly 250 Californians who now hold an estimated $2.3 trillion in wealth. Supporters say the wealth tax could raise up to $100 billion, with about 90% going toward healthcare. The remaining funds would support education and food assistance programs. If Proposition 40 passes, it will mark the first time a government in the U.S. successfully taxes the wealth — rather than just the income — of the ultra-rich. “It’s past time that billionaires pay their fair share,” says Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, which is backing the initiative. We also speak with California Congressmember Ro Khanna, who criticizes fellow Democrats like Governor Gavin Newsom for opposing Proposition 40. “We can either be a Democratic Party that stands for the working class in the tradition of the New Deal, or we can continue to cater to the donor class,” says Khanna.
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We speak with the acclaimed South African human rights lawyer and international jurist Navi Pillay, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Pillay has been the United Nations high commissioner for human rights and a judge at both the International Criminal Court and at an international tribunal investigating the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Most recently, she led the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Hours after Pillay was announced as winner of the Nobel Prize, the United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against the International Criminal Court. “It’s extremely shocking to me, totally unacceptable, that the United States administration can today impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court,” says Pillay, speaking to Democracy Now! from The Hague. Navi Pillay is now 85 years old. She was born into an Indian Tamil family in apartheid South Africa in 1941. The first woman to start a law practice in Natal, South Africa, in 1967, Pillay began her legal career defending anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela, exposing torture, and helping establish key rights for prisoners on Robben Island. Mandela, as president, later appointed Pillay to the High Court of South Africa, making her the first woman of color on that bench.
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Finland to Purchase 1 Million Landmines as Russia Continues Attacks on Ukraine, Trump Lashes Out Against Zelensky: “It’s Time for Somebody Else to Negotiate on Behalf of Ukraine” , Drone Strike in Sudan Kills 80 People, Trump Stumps for Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, Continuing Tour of Deep Red States, CBS News Correspondent Apologizes for Partisan Post Targeting Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed, Drop Site News: Mike Rogers’s Wife Won Lucrative Contracts While Rogers Served as Intel Chair , Seventh Person Dies in ICE Custody in Texas, Mississippi Attorney General Rules Police Officer Justified in Fatal Shooting of Black Toddler, Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Appeals to the Supreme Court, Brazilian Protesters Rally Outside Meta Offices over Alleged Election Interference, Video Shows ICE Agents in Long Beach, California Brutalizing U.S. Citizen
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The prominent Guatemalan anti-corruption lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was fatally shot along with another man on Saturday at a sports center in Guatemala City. For years, Solórzano Foppa had been outspoken against Guatemala’s most powerful politicians, business leaders and companies. He was known for his anti-corruption work as head of the Criminal Investigations Directorate within the Public Prosecutor’s Office and later as head of Guatemala’s tax authority, when he helped prosecute dozens of powerful Guatemalan business figures. “In more recent years, he developed a social media presence, and he was forcefully denouncing corruption,” says Roman Gressier, a journalist based in Guatemala City. “We were thinking about [the killing of Solórzano Foppa] not only as an assassination, but also having a deep effect on freedom of expression.” “Juan Francisco was a young lawyer coming from a background of pro-democracy and revolutionary activists,” says Silvia Solórzano Foppa, Juan Francisco’s mother. Her son was 43 years old when he was killed.
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Israeli settlers backed by IDF soldiers brutally assaulted Palestinian olive farmers in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday. Witnesses say dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs, sticks, slingshots and guns hurled rocks at Palestinian farmers, set olive trees ablaze and drove people from their fields. Veteran Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, a 64-year-old American, was documenting the attack when settlers began beating her. She suffered stab wounds, a broken rib, four broken vertebrae and a severe hand injury. Levine was wearing a clearly marked press vest and a helmet at the time of the attack. According to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, Israeli settlers have carried out at least 170 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since September 27, which marked the start of this year’s olive harvest. “It looked like they were killing her,” says independent American journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who witnessed the attack on Levine and helped intervene. “The Palestinian youth, the shabab , stepped up. They ran out ahead, and they started beating the settlers back by throwing stones at them, which is the only thing that allowed me to then run out front and grab Heidi.” As the journalists and Palestinians retreated into Abu Falah, “The Israeli military jeep that had been standing by the settlers who were attacking us then drives into the village itself, … and they start firing into crowds of Palestinian people.”
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in over 140 cities across France on Saturday, demanding relief from the high cost of living, more funding for public services and improvements to deteriorating schools, among other grievances. The demonstrations were the latest — and largest — in a series of protests that began in September with high schooler-led demonstrations against overcrowded classrooms and crumbling school infrastructure. Some cities saw property destruction, arson and theft on Saturday, with city halls and other symbols of the state coming under attack. Officials said nearly 1,000 police officers were injured and some 2,400 people were arrested. “What is frustrating to see is how little the police violence is addressed and talked about, which is really the main violence and the real violence today that is taking place in France,” says Rayyan Seriket, a member of the French student union. “We’re talking about shattered jaws, high schoolers and adolescents who have been blinded,” adds Harrison Stetler, an independent journalist and teacher based in Paris. This all comes as Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Rally party is leading in the polls six months ahead of France’s elections. “This situation is essentially what Marine Le Pen hopes for,” says Stetler.
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Hundreds of Thousands March in Over 140 Cities in France on Saturday, Millions of Protesters Participate in “No Kings” Demonstrations on Saturday in the U.S., Thousands March in Tunisia Against President Kaïs Saïed, Protests Continue to Roil Albania, as Demonstrators Call for Prime Minister to Resign, Brazil’s Lula Holds First and Only Debate with Flávio Bolsonaro Ahead of Presidential Runoff, Ukraine and Russia Trade Drone and Missile Strikes After Trump Waives Sanctions on Moscow, Israeli Settler Attack on Palestinian Olive Harvest Wounds Dozens, Including WaPo Photographer, Mass Funeral Held for 75 Palestinians Whose Remains Were Uncovered from Gaza Rubble, Trump Backs Netanyahu for Prime Minister Days Before Israeli Election, “There’s a Failure in the Leadership”: Widower Confronts JD Vance over Iran War Deaths, Houthis Strike Military Training Camp as UAE Joins Saudi-Led Attacks on Yemen, Guatemalan Anti-Corruption Lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa Is Murdered, Trump Administration Seeks to Denaturalize and Deport Rep. Ilhan Omar, Tom Homan Confirms, Katie Zacharia Ousted as Press Secretary After Just Five Days on the Job
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Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry , draws on the authors’ experiences at major tech companies to chronicle the rise and fall of the tech worker movement, its early victories, and the repression and slide to corporate control that followed. “Over the course of the 2010s, what we saw was that the tech industry wasn’t quite the industry that it had promised to its workers and to the public. Rather than making the world more open, more democratic, we saw it really be the culprit of misinformation,” says Tan, who was pushed out of Microsoft after raising objections to the company’s ties to fossil fuel companies. Silicon Valley’s slide to the right was influenced by corporate backlash to labor’s demands, explains Redwine, who was fired from Kickstarter for union organizing. She says she hopes to inspire a new generation of tech workers to organize “within these tech oligarchs’ own empires, to stand up and push back.”
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We’re joined by Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa as she shares the story of Estrella Diamantina González, an undocumented transgender woman and trafficking survivor from Mexico caught up in the United States’ criminal and immigration systems. This summer, after serving a nine-year sentence in a Texas men’s prison, Diamantina González was released, but she wasn’t free. She was immediately transferred to an immigration detention facility and then deported. Hinojosa, who has been reporting on Diamantina González’s ordeal for the last decade, followed her to Mexico in the new audio documentary “Estrella: Bittersweet Freedom for a 'Bad Mexican.'”
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