A group of American doctors who treated patients in Gaza held a press conference in Chicago on 8/20/24 to describe the suffering they saw among Palestinians injured & killed in Israel’s ongoing assault. Taking place during the Democratic National Convention, it was organized by the Uncommitted National Movement, which is pressuring Democrats to end blanket U.S. support for Israel. Dr. Ahmed Yousaf, who returned from Gaza just weeks earlier said, “When we got to the hospital, everything I saw on TikTok and Instagram and all the television, all the stuff that we had in alternative media … it was 100 times worse than I could have ever imagined.”

Donahue’s commitment to bringing major social & political issues to the public spanned decades. Listen to his 2013 interview on Democracy Now as well as his former producer Jeff Cohen speak about their challenges with MSNBC regarding the Iraq war.

A new investigation by +972 and Local Call can reveal that the Israeli army has in fact stored some intelligence information collected via the mass surveillance of Gaza’s population on servers managed by Amazon’s AWS. The investigation can also reveal that certain cloud providers supplied a wealth of AI capabilities and services to Israeli army units since the start of the Gaza war.

Amnesty International documents how the Israeli government is using an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. The findings are part of "Automated Apartheid," which reveals an ever-growing surveillance network of cameras in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and in East Jerusalem. Amnesty researcher Matt Mahmoudi, adds that the surveillance technology is part of an overall coercive structure used against Palestinians by Israel.

A judge has dismissed a seven-year $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA. Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products sued Greenpeace for defamation, part of a pattern of corporations attempting to use the legal process, known as SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits to intimidate, exhaust & censor activists. Deepa Padmanabha, deputy general counsel for Greenpeace USA, discusses the organization’s legal victory.

As JPMorgan’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being scrutinized in court, Whitney Webb reveals how the same powerful players who brought Epstein to prominence were largely responsible for the rise of JPMorgan CEO, Jamie Dimon.

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

Former Marine Intelligence Office & former Chief UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses the current crisis in Ukraine. He articulates many critical facts tragically omitted from mainstream media coverage as well as providing historical background and context for the decisions being made by the U.S., Russia, NATO and the European Union. In addition, he also provides insight into current U.S. provocations with China and Iran.
A definite must listen!

In a blow to climate activism, the Supreme Court severely limited the EPA's ability to place emission caps on power plants. West Virginia, along w/ several states & fossil fuel companies fought against the regulations imposed by the Obama-era Clean Air Act. Democracy Now looks at the 6-3 ruling by the court's conservative justices and it’s impact on vulnerable communities, particularly lower-income, Black and Brown residents who live close to coal-fired power plants, as well as the climate emergency more broadly.

“The Ransom,” a new series in The New York Times, details how France devastated Haiti’s economy by forcing Haiti to pay massive reparations … after enslaved Haitians rebelled, founding the world’s first Black republic in 1804. Historians Westenley Alcenat & Gerald Horne discuss the story of Haiti’s finances and how Haitian demands for reparations have been repeatedly shut down. Horne also requests The New York Times make the revelatory documents that the series cites accessible to other historians.

After a year of debate on the topic of natural immunity, there has been a new development. According to a letter from the CDC—which came as a response to a freedom of information request—the CDC admits to having no records of anyone in the entire country who got COVID-19, recovered, got reinfected, and then spread the virus to others.

The $3.5 trillion price tag that President Joe Biden proposed for his climate-heavy Build Back Better Act might seem enormous. But over the long term, it will be a pittance.

The biggest lesson from Tuesday’s election results is that too many people in America’s vast working middle class don’t believe Democrats are on their side. The best way of persuading them otherwise is to enact the social and economic package and infrastructure bill — and pay for it by taxing ultra-wealthy Americans who have never been wealthier yet don’t pay their fair share.

Two sources are communicating with House investigators and detailed a stunning series of allegations to Rolling Stone, including a promise of a “blanket pardon” from the Oval Office

Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms … Powell’s sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund … occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop. A Fed media relations spokesperson was not available for comment

Blockchain research firm Blockdata suggests that … of the 100 biggest banks by assets under management (AUM), 55 of them have investments in crypto or blockchain-related businesses, either directly or through subsidiaries.

Congress just missed one of its best shots at improving health when the Senate failed to advance a bill that would have raised the minimum wage to US$15 an hour. Study after study has linked higher income to better health.

“This situation is unjust. Any veteran or service member who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 forfeited their moral entitlement to privileged benefits at the expense of the people of the United States,” wrote Ruben Gallego, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

The cyberbreach at a plant in Oldsmar, Florida, which could have resulted in a mass poisoning, was a reminder of a disturbing reality: Despite a decade of warnings, thousands of water systems around the country are still at risk.

After receiving $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and had “statistically significant improvements” in emotional health, according to a study released Wednesday.

Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

Despite attempts to rein in police union contracts in New Jersey, costly provisions remain common, an unprecedented analysis by the Asbury Park Press and ProPublica found. The news outlets identified contract clauses throughout the state that protect officer payouts that cost the public hundreds of millions of dollars.

The ruminative documentary “All Light, Everywhere” explores how police body cams and aerial surveillance are bringing Big Brother to Baltimore.

vanka Trump and Jared Kushner disclosed receiving between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income in their final financial disclosure reports.

The Cuomo administration's failure to make public deaths of nursing home residents who perished in hospitals has for almost a year enraged local and national lawmakers who have accused the administration of hiding the true death toll to avoid accountability.

All the debates over ‘fintech,’ once you get beyond the scams and the hype, are really a debate about the future of money. The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability & unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.

Don't confuse the avowed concerns of these CEOs about democracy with democracy itself. They aren't answerable to democracy. At most, they're answerable to big shareholders and institutional investors who don't give a fig as long as profits keep rolling in.

Doses should be flowing. But instead, states are complaining of vaccine shortages. And Team Biden officials don’t know exactly what the holdup is.

Until 1968 the min wage not only kept pace w/ inflation, it rose w/ productivity growth. That means that as workers produced more goods/services min wage earners could buy more. The last 50+ yrs, the min wage hasn't even kept pace w/ inflation.

"He's a bottomless pit of need … he needs to replenish it every single day and would love it if he could just be in front of a geyser of attention if he could, [but] I think thimblefuls of attention won't be enough for him."