Democracy Now! 2024-09-27 Friday

Headlines for October 04, 2024; What Is Israel’s Endgame in Lebanon? Airstrikes Intensify, Hospitals Overwhelmed, 1.2 Million Displaced; War in Lebanon “Giving More Space” for Israel to Continue Slaughter in Gaza: Journalist Akram al-Satarri; “Separated”: Film Shows How Trump Tore Immigrant Families Apart, 1,300 Kids Still Alone

Headlines for October 03, 2024; “Don’t Do It”: Lebanese Lawyer Warns Israel Against Using War to Create a “New Middle East”; “Starving Gaza”: Al Jazeera Film Shows U.S. Keeps Arming Israel as It Uses Hunger as a Weapon of War; Six Factory Workers Feared Dead in Tennessee After Being Swept Away During Hurricane Helene

We look at how Hurricane Helene is impacting election preparation in Republican-leaning hard-hit areas of the battleground state of North Carolina, where some roads are impassable and mail service is suspended.

Headlines for October 02, 2024; Regional War Feared as Biden Backs Israel’s Threat to Retaliate After Iranian Missile Attack; In VP Debate, JD Vance Downplays Jan. 6 Insurrection & Refuses to Admit Trump Lost 2020 Election; As Hurricane Helene Death Toll Tops 166, Vance Casts Doubt on Climate Science & Carbon Emissions; Walz Decries Demonizing Immigrants After Trump & Vance Spread Lies About Haitians in Springfield, OH; JD Vance Tries to Hide His Hard-Line Anti-Abortion Record by Coopting Democratic Talking Points

Headlines for October 01, 2024; Fears Grow over Israeli Ground Invasion as Israel Orders Residents in 25 Lebanese Villages to Flee Homes; Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation; “I Pled Guilty to Journalism”: WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Speaks Publicly for First Time Since Prison Release; “A Historic Moment”: A Look at AMLO’s Legacy as Claudia Sheinbaum Becomes Mexico’s First Female President

Headlines for September 30, 2024; Israeli Assassination of Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah “Shocked All of Lebanon.” What Happens Next?; Gideon Levy: “Israel’s Barbaric Glee over Nasrallah’s Assassination Is a New Low for Israeli Society”; Trita Parsi on Israel’s Nasrallah Assassination and Why Netanyahu Still Wants War with Iran; Fossil-Fueled Climate Change Left Out of Media Coverage of Hurricane Helene: Scientist Peter Kalmus

Headlines for September 27, 2024; “Crisis of Faith”: Calls Grow for NYC Mayor Adams to Resign After Historic Indictment; Report from Beirut: Israel Is “Targeting Everyone” in Bombing Campaign, Killing 700+ in Just Days; How CNN, ADL & Others Amplified Smear Against Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Criticizing Campus Prosecutions

Headlines for September 26, 2024; NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted as Calls Grow for Him to Resign Amid Multiple Federal Corruption Probes; “Hell Is Breaking Loose in Lebanon”: Israel Rejects Ceasefire Proposal as U.N. Chief Calls for Peace; U.S. Gov’t Agencies Found Israel Was Blocking Gaza Aid. Blinken Ignored Them to Keep Weapons Flowing

Headlines for September 25, 2024; “Lebanese Civilians Are Paying the Price”: Israeli Strikes Kill Nearly 600, Displace Tens of Thousands; Green Pres. & VP Candidates Jill Stein, Butch Ware on Gaza & Fighting “Two Zombie Political Parties”; “Fuerza Mexicana”: Juan González on Chicago’s Mexican Community & How It Saved the City from Decline

Headlines for September 24, 2024; “Absolutely Terrifying”: Israel’s War Comes to Lebanon, Setting Record-Breaking Single-Day Death Toll; Climate Activists Shut Down Citibank HQ in NYC, Demand Halt to Fossil Fuel Investments; NYC Climate Week: Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo on the Need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty; Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of Supreme Court; Victim’s Family, Prosecutor Don’t Want Him to Die