Democracy Now! 2025-08-13 Wednesday

Headlines for August 12, 2025; Trump’s Takeover: ACLU on Federalizing D.C. Police & Deploying 800 National Guard; “Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover; Trump’s New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise ... Show More

Headlines for August 11, 2025; “Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza; “This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps; “They Will Be Held Accountable”: California AG ... Show More

Headlines for August 08, 2025; Gaza Takeover: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s “Indefinite, Genocidal Military Campaign”; “They Poisoned the World”: The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS, “Forever Chemicals”; Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want “Accountability & Justi ... Show More

Donald Trump tells thousands of supporters at a pre-inauguration rally that he will impose severe limits on immigration on his first day in office. His swearing-in at noon has been moved indoors due to the extreme cold. Hamas has released three Israeli hostages and Israel release ... Show More

Tommy and Ben discuss how Trump’s insane plan to ethnically cleanse and “own” the Gaza strip is destabilizing governments in Egypt and Jordan, and why Trump keeps undermining the Gaza ceasefire deal he helped broker. They also discuss new whistleblower allegations about Trump’s p ... Show More

Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s inauguration, the tech oligarchy that was on display, foreign leaders in attendance, some of the most damaging and far-reaching executive orders from pulling out of the Paris Climate agreement to designating Mexican cartels terrorist organizations, a ... Show More

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the alleged mastermind behind the October 7 attack that killed 1,200 people, was killed in Gaza during an Israel Defense Force raid. A 52-page report details significant failures by the Secret Service in the July assassination attempt on former Presiden ... Show More

Donald Trump deployed the US military to repress protesters in Los Angeles, California, as people flooded the streets to denounce the abuse of immigrants by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Ben Norton discusses how the oppressive tactics used by the empire eventually re ... Show More

The world prepares for President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda. Israel sends planes to Amsterdam to collect soccer fans injured in overnight violence, which officials have described as antisemitic. Black Americans take stock of an election result that sent shockwaves ... Show More

The Trump administration has deported alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from the U.S. despite a court order forbidding it from doing so. The United States says it will keep attacking Yemen's Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, after the biggest military operation in th ... Show More

A federal judge has paused President Donald Trump's attempt to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal aid, minutes before it was due to take effect. At least seven people have died after a stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in northern India. Trump's top homeland ... Show More

Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a "dictator", deepening a feud between the two leaders. Hamas has handed over the bodies of the two youngest captives taken in their October 7, 2023 attack. The judge in Brazil who is overseeing the coup plot c ... Show More

A.M. Edition for August 1. Israel’s military determines it killed Mohammed Deif in an airstrike last month, the most senior Hamas military leader it has eliminated in more than nine months of fighting in Gaza. Plus, Trump’s allies launch a $20 million push to reach young male vot ... Show More