Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for December 20, 2024; Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices; UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Highlights Broken Health System; How to Appeal Insurance Denials, Abolish Medical Debt, and Fight for Medicare for All; “Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

Headlines for December 19, 2024; Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones’ Disappearances Under Assad Regime; “Extermination & Acts of Genocide”: Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water; “Rape Club” Prison in California: U.S. Gov’t to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse

Headlines for December 18, 2024; “Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law; Justice for Ayşenur Eygi: Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken Demanding Probe; Trump Escalates War on Press by Suing Des Moines Register Days After ABC Agreed to $15M Settlement

Headlines for December 17, 2024; “It Broke Him”: Mother Who Lost Son in “Kids for Cash” Scheme Slams Biden’s Clemency for Corrupt Judge; Astra Taylor: “It’s Still Not Too Late for Biden to Deliver Debt Relief”; Alex Gibney on “The Bibi Files,” Netanyahu’s Corruption Case & How Endless War Keeps Him in Power

Headlines for December 16, 2024; “Lawless”: Marwan Bishara on Israel Bombing Syria 800 Times & Expanding Occupation of Golan Heights; South Korea Impeaches President as Demands Grow for Democratic Reforms; Reporter Ken Klippenstein on Publishing Luigi Mangione Manifesto & Internal UnitedHealth PR Memos; Denied: ProPublica Exposes UnitedHealth Profiteering Off Limiting Care for Children with Autism

Headlines for December 13, 2024; Report from Damascus: Relief Mixed with Sadness. Syrians Search for Loved Ones in Prisons & Morgues; Fasting for Her Son’s Freedom, Mother of Jailed British Egyptian Activist Demands U.K. Pressure Egypt; Uhuru 3: Meet Black Liberation Leader Omali Yeshitela, 83. He Faces 5 Years in Prison on Dec. 16

Headlines for December 12, 2024; After Fall of Assad, “Struggle from Below” Needed to Build a Free & Democratic Syria; Another Winter of War: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Visiting Ukraine & Latest on Sudan, Gaza and Syria; The #MeToo Cabinet: Law Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer on Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Trump & Nominees

Headlines for December 11, 2024; Rep. Delia Ramirez: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are “Un-American, Unconstitutional & Undemocratic”; “Indefensible”: U.S. Continues Deporting Haitians Amid Political Instability, Massacres; “We Didn’t Get No Justice”: Jordan Neely’s Uncle Slams Daniel Penny’s Acquittal in NYC Subway Killing; Herman Whitfield’s Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead

Part 2 of our interview on how many responded to the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, by offering condolences while also expressing outrage over the state of healthcare in the United States with more than 100 million people now facing medical debt.

Headlines for December 10, 2024; “Politics Is Finally Possible”: After Surprise Fall of Assad in Protracted Civil War, What’s Next?; “Unleashed”: Report Details How Israeli Soldiers Brutalize West Bank Palestinians in Hebron; Deny, Defend, Depose: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Slaying Highlights Widespread Rage at Healthcare Industry

Headlines for December 09, 2024; “Assad Is Gone”: Writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Syria, His 16 Years in Prison & Wife’s Disappearance; Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is Grim”: Scholar Bassam Haddad; “Remarkable Moment”: After Fleeing Syria, “For Sama” Director Waad Al-Kateab Celebrates End of Assad

Headlines for December 06, 2024; Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support; “All That Remains”: As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan; Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM Ousted by Lawmakers