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2 days ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Samantha Borek |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen.
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4 days ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Protests are unfolding as agents arrest undocumented people at courthouses, workplaces and on the way to school. By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! Published June 3, 2025 Protests over ICE raids are continuing across the United States as agents arrest immigrants at courthouses, from their workplaces, on the way to school and more.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
We speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa after she got extraordinary access to an ICE detention center in Colorado, where she interviewed the immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra. The undocumented mother of four was arrested by federal agents in Denver in March after she successfully fought multiple deportation efforts since 2009, including when she took sanctuary in a Denver church with her children in 2017.
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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state’s “heartbeat law.” By Amy Goodman & Juan González , DemocracyNow! Published May 27, 2025 Image Credit: WXIA A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor and the elderly and the youth of our country,” says Barber, citing the bill’s cuts to essential social services like Medicaid and paralleling those cuts to the government’s funding of defense and deportation initiatives.
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2 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
A damning new report reveals how Israel is systematically making Gaza unlivable. The independent news outlet +972 Magazine has spoken to Israeli soldiers who describe how they have been using bulldozers and explosives to intentionally flatten Gaza. In the southern city of Rafah, 73% of buildings are completely destroyed, with only about 4% of the infrastructure remaining undamaged.
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3 weeks ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Amid President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, we continue our interview with DAWN’s Sarah Leah Whitson and HuffPost’s Akbar Shahid Ahmed about Trump’s acceptance of a luxury plane gifted to him by the Qatari government, nuclear negotiations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, a less cooperative relationship with Israel and more. TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Akbar, I wanted to follow that up on Iran.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Dozens of people have been killed in the worst fighting between India and Pakistan in more than two decades. India attacked nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir early Wednesday, killing at least 26 people, including a child. Pakistan described the attacks as an act of war and responded by shelling areas controlled by India.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Donald Trump has raised nearly a billion dollars from his various cryptocurrency schemes, says researcher Molly White. “He is really allowing for bribery and the types of corruption that we’ve never seen in the American presidency,” White says. She lays out how the Trump family profits from cryptocurrency while directly influencing policy and regulations, encouraging the transfer of wealth to the industry despite its “enormous risk of fraud and collapse.”TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript.
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1 month ago | 
truthout.org | Amy Goodman |Jocelyn Martinez-Rosales |Juan Gonzalez |Juan González
Tech writer and critic Paris Marx discusses the first 100 days of the second Trump administration and the influence of billionaire Elon Musk at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which has slashed government programs and the civil service.
